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Jeffery Amherst Baron Amherst Jeffery Amherst Baron Amherst
Jeffery Amherst Amherst, Baron , 1717-97, British army officer. He served in the War of the Austrian Succession and in the early part of the Seven Years War . In 1758 he was sent to America as a major general to lead the Louisburg campaign in the last of the French and Indian Wars . The capture... Read more
Consilience Consilience
CONSILIENCE. "Consilience of inductions" is a phrase that was invented by the nineteenth-century English historian and philosopher of science William Whewell (1794–1866; pronounced "Hule"), and introduced in his Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840). Whewell was trying to capture.... Read more
Capture of Montreal Capture of Montreal
MONTREAL, CAPTURE OF (1760) MONTREAL, CAPTURE OF (1760). The spirits of the French had been raised by the success of François Gaston de Lé Read more
Hulagu Khan Hulagu Khan
Hulagu Khan , 1217-65, Mongol conqueror, grandson of Jenghiz Khan. His brother Mangu, grand khan of the Mongols, directed him to quell a revolt in Persia. In 1256, in the course of his successful campaign, his forces virtually exterminated the powerful Assassin sect. Moving west to enlarge his... Read more
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TRIBUTE TRIBUTE. Thomas Jefferson's new administration faced a crisis regarding the Barbary pirate nations of North Africa. For years, European nations and the United States had paid tribute, or ransom, to these rogue nations to ensure protection of commercial vessels and keep sailors from being... Read more
Camillus Camillus
Camillus (Marcus Furius Camillus) , d. 365? BC, Roman hero. He was a patrician who, the Roman historians say, was elected dictator five times (396, 390, 386, 368, 367 BC) and on each occasion won a signal victory. He captured Veii, saved Rome from the Gauls, defeated the Aequi and Volscians, took... Read more
privateering privateering
privateering former usage of war permitting privately owned and operated war vessels (privateers) under commission of a belligerent government to capture enemy shipping. Private ownership distinguished the privateer from an ordinary warship; letters of marque and reprisal (commission issued by a... Read more
Balikpapan Balikpapan
Balikpapan, Dutch oil port situated in the south-east corner of Dutch Borneo (see Netherlands East Indies) which was occupied by the Japanese in February 1942. The 7th Australian Division, supported by Australian, Dutch, and US air and naval units, launched an amphibious assault against it on 1... Read more

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