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Riviera (France)
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James I (Aragon)
James I (James the Conqueror), 1208-76, king of Aragón and count of Barcelona (1213-76), son and successor of Peter II. After a minority was disturbed by private wars among the nobles, James soon consolidated royal power and tried to create a new nobility dependent on him. He seized the... Read more |
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Roger de Mortimer 1st earl of March
Roger de Mortimer, 1st earl of March 1287?-1330, English nobleman. He inherited (c.1304) the vast estates and the title of his father, Edmund, 7th baron of Wigmore. Appointed lieutenant of Ireland in 1316, he was instrumental in securing the defeat of Edward Bruce and thus was able to consolidate... Read more |
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Rouen
Rouen a port on the River Seine in NW France, chief town of Haute-Normandie. Rouen was in English possession from the time of the Norman Conquest until captured by the French in 1204, and again 1419–49; in 1431 Joan of Arc was tried and burnt at the stake there.... Read more |
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Somme
Somme , department (1990 pop. 548,300), N France, in Picardy, on the English Channel. Amiens is the capital.... Read more |
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Tour de France
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Battle of Sandwich
Sandwich, battle of, 1217. After suffering considerable losses at the battle of Lincoln (May 1217), Prince Louis of France sent home for further reinforcements in his bid to become king of England. King Henry III's regency council realized that it was imperative to prevent these troops landing... Read more |
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Louis Pierre edouard Bignon
France For the fighting in France, see France, fall of, after this entry; for details of the activities of the Free French,see de Gaulle.1. IntroductionThe declaration of war against Germany at 1700 on 3 September 1939 by the government of Edouard Daladier was received by the French with a... Read more |
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Edward III
Edward III 1312-77, king of England (1327-77), son of Edward II and Isabella . Early Life He was made earl of Chester in 1320 and duke of Aquitaine in 1325 and accompanied his mother to France in 1325. He returned to England with Isabella and Roger de Mortimer , 1st earl of March, on their... Read more |
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What a Bloody cheek!(Column)
...He'd already tried to seize Dublin Castle and...Holland when the plot failed, leaving his coconspirators...he gathered three English anti-monarchist...which they'd tried to file in half...mercenary soldier in France. Blood, ... |
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The politics of possession: the ownership of the world's cultural icons.(Essay)
...with him to France, and, that...remained in France. It became...location in France, and its purchase...character, half-English, conveyed...Kunsthistorische Museum to seize art while the Czechs tried for years ... |
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What the French really did for America.(BOOKS)
...conflict with France. The British...for America, France reveals her real...were eager to seize the Ohio Valley...Louisiana, and some tried to establish their...particularly France, England and...the French king failed in his ... |
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CYCLING: Obree's gold pedal on bike made from a washing machine; GREATEST...
...with the authorities who tried to ban his revolutionary...wrong. Graeme narrowly failed in his first attempt...make sure I didn't seize up and 15 minutes into...even knocked the Tour de France off the front page of...track used earlier by the ... |
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Battle of the Bulge: 50th anniversary. (Originated from Knight-Ridder...
...pushed the Germans out of France, and all the way to...too risky _ that if it failed, it would speed Germany...Antwerp. If Hitler could seize Antwerp, he would rob...them anyway. Then we tried to pick off their infantry...Germans had sent in 150 ... |