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  • Category:Public Bonaparte, Napoleon [[Image:Napoleon Bonaparte.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Napoleon in His Study by Jacques-Louis David (1812)]] ...
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  • Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) (April 20, 1808 – January 9, 1873) was ...
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  • The Battle of the Pyramids was a battle fought on July 21, 1798 between the French army in Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte and local Mamluk forces ...
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  • Joséphine de Beauharnais (nee Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) (June 23, 1763 – May 29, 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte ...
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  • The Dukedom of Wellington, derived from Wellington in Somerset, England is a hereditary title and the senior Dukedom in the Peerage of the United ...
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  • Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (February 26, 1725 – October 2, 1804) was a French inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical ...
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  • Denis-Auguste Affre (September 27, 1793– June 27, 1848), archbishop of Paris from 1840, was born at Saint Rome, in the department of Tarn. ...
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  • Porphyry is a variety of igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic ...
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  • Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (February 18, 1745 – March 5, 1827) was an Italian physicist who revolutionized science and ...
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  • A Mamluk (Arabic: مملوك (singular), مماليك (plural), "owned"; also transliterated mameluk, mameluke, or mamluke) was a slave ...
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  • Frederick I of Prussia (July 11, 1657 – February 25, 1713) of the Hohenzollern dynasty was elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and the first ...
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  • In Judaism, a Sanhedrin (Hebrew: סנהדרין; Greek: συνέδριον, meaning "sitting together" or "council") is an ...
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  • Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (March 21, 1768 – May 16, 1830) was a French mathematician, physicist and government administrator during the ...
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  • Jacques-Louis David (August 30, 1748 – December 29, 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style. In the 1780s his ...
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  • Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living ...
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  • The Suez Canal (Arabic: قناة السويس, Qanā al-Suways), is a large, artificial maritime canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula. ...
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  • Israel Jacobson (October 17, 1768 - September 14, 1828, Berlin) was a German-Jewish financier and philanthropist often considered as one of the ...
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  • The Légion d'honneur or Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honour) is a French order established ...
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  • Richard Whately (February 1, 1787 – October 8, 1863) was an English logician, educator, social reformer, economist and theological writer, ...
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  • Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mondarte Villaseñor (May 8, 1753 – July 30, 1811), also known as Cura Hidalgo ...
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  • The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought during Napoleon Bonaparte's imperial rule over France (1805–1815). They ...
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  • Category:Public Bonaparte, Napoleon [[Image:Napoleon Bonaparte.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Napoleon in His Study by Jacques-Louis David (1812)]] ...
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  • Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) (April 20, 1808 – January 9, 1873) was ...
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  • The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising (Russian: Восстание декабристов) was staged in Imperial Russia by army officers ...
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  • Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte (September 29, 1758 – October 21, 1805) was a British admiral famous for his ...
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  • category:Image wanted "The Hedgehog and the Fox" is the title of an essay by Isaiah Berlin, regarding the Russian author Leo Tolstoy ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Gall, Franz Joseph [[Image:Franz_Joseph_Gall.jpg|thumb|right|Franz Joseph Gall]] ...
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  • Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. It stressed strong ...
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  • Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting of the island of Saint ...
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  • Melchiorre Gioja (September 10, 1767 - January 2, 1829), was an Italian philosopher, political economist, and statistician who played an important ...
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  • Louis-Antoine, comte de Bougainville (November 12, 1729 - August 31, 1811) was a French navigator and military commander. He was also a marked ...
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  • Gustav II Adolf (December 9, 1594 – November 6, 1632) (Gustav II Adolphus, widely known in English by the Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus ...
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  • Francisco José de Paula Santander y Omaña (April 2, 1792 - May 6, 1840) was one of the military and political leaders during Colombia's ...
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  • Tuscany ( Toscana ) is a region in west-central Italy on the shores of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas. It has an area of 22990|km2|sqmi ...
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  • The Battle of Austerlitz (also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors) was a major engagement in the Napoleonic Wars, when Napoleon's ...
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  • Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic ...
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  • The French invasion of Russia (also known as the Russian Campaign) in 1812 was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. The campaign reduced the ...
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  • The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Belgium, was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States ...
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  • The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte's last battle. His defeat put a final end to his rule as Emperor ...
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  • The French Revolutionary Wars ( Guerres de la Révolution française ) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 ...
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  • Sun Zi (Chinese: 孫, 子, Sūn Zǐ; Wade-Giles: Sun Tzu) (c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵, 法) ...
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  • The Battle of Borodino ( Бородинская битва Borodinskaja bitva, Bataille de la Moskowa ), fought on September 7, 1812, was the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Christies South Kensington.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Christie's auction house ...
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  • Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (/ˌtælɪrænd ˈpɛrɪɡɔːr/, French: [ʃaʁl mɔʁis də tal(ɛ)ʁɑ̃ peʁiɡɔʁ, – moʁ-]; ...
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  • Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September ...
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  • Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern (April ...
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  • Carl Philipp Gottfried von Note regarding personal names: von is a title prefix denoting some sort of (former) nobility, translated as of. It ...
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  • The Battle of Trafalgar (/trə'fælɡər/, formerly /træfəl'ɡɑr/), fought on October 21, 1805, was part of the War of the Third ...
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  • Category:Economists List, Friedrich [[image:Friedrich List 1838.jpg|right|200px]] Georg Friedrich List (August 6, 1789 – November 30, 1846) ...
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  • Anacreon (Greek: Ἀνακρέων ) (born c. 570 B.C.E.) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his songs, hymns, and personable poems celebrating ...
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  • Joseph-Louis Lagrange, (January 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813) was an Italian who made major contributions to mathematics and physics. One of the ...
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  • Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870), was a French writer, best known for the numerous ...
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