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  • returned to Mount Vernon and in 1785-1786 spent a great deal of effort ... since he refused to separate families. In 1786, the earliest completed census ...
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  • In 1786 he married Elizabeth Savage, daughter of Thomas Savage, owner of the Silk Hope Plantation near Savannah, Georgia. They had three children: ...
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  • After the war Cornwallis returned to Britain, and in 1786, he was appointed governor-general and commander in chief in India. He instituted land ...
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  • Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1742 – June 19, 1786) was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war ...
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  • by the American astronomer David Rittenhouse in 1786. Ritterhouse, however, did not draw any conclusions from his discovery. Fraunhofer published his ...
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  • Cowper and Mary Unwin moved to Weston in 1786 and shortly before this Cowper became close with his cousin Harriet (Theodora's sister), now ...
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  • General's authority were made in 1786, presumably by Lord Sydney ... measures to reduce smuggling and fraud. In 1786, he instituted a sinking fund ...
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  • *Marlborough House, Brighton (1786) *Mellerstain House, Kelso, Scottish Borders (1760-1768) *Mistley Towers *Northumberland House, London, alterations ...
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  • noble Salawat Yulayev, but suffered defeat. In 1786, the Bashkirs achieved tax-free status; and in 1798 Russia formed an irregular Bashkir army from ...
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  • In 1786, in the middle of this period of maturation, Goethe took his ... of the leaf; during his Italian journey (1786-1788), in July of 1787, he ...
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  • for poor children in Old Brentford in 1786. She and two of the ministers ... and adults, such as The Servant’s Friend (1786–1787), which was meant to ...
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  • Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Freiherr von Weber (November 18, 1786 – June 5, 1826) was a German composer. Carl Maria von Weber's work, especially ...
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  • such as the Paris symphonies (1785–1786) and the original orchestral ... * Symphony No. 82, "The Bear" (1786) * Symphony No. 88 (1787) ...
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  • (First Metaphysical Principles of Natural Science, 1786) and also in his famous, Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason, 1783). ...
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  • him and even inserted in his own words. In 1786, Mrs. Price died. They had ... Correspondence of Richard Price: February 1786–February 1791. Duke University ...
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  • Jakob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm were born in 1785 and 1786, respectively, in Hanau near Frankfurt in Hesse. They were educated ...
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  • with his only child, his beloved daughter, who in 1786, married the ambassador of Sweden and became Madame de Staël. But neither Necker nor his wife ...
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  • the Gospel. At a ministers' meeting in 1786, Carey raised the question ... *1786 Called to the ministry at Olney, August 10 *1792 Pamphlet "An ...
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  • *John Hancock (November 23, 1785– May 29, 1786) *Nathaniel Gorham (June 6, 1786– November 5, 1786) *Arthur St. Clair ...
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  • Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was published in 1786). Their visit to the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides took place when pacification after the Jacobite ...
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