Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin [SEP] military rank
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Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin


Baron Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin (13 October 1768 – 23 April 1839) was a rear admiral of the French navy and later a Baron. He commanded numerous naval expeditions and battles with the British Navy as well as exploratory voyages in the Indian Ocean and the South Seas. Hamelin was born in Honfleur, Calvados, France. At age 17, Hamelin embarked on a trade ship belonging to his uncle as a young marine to learn sailing. In April 1786, he was a crew member of the ship "Asie" of
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Action of 18 November 1809. On his return trip, he seized several more British ships, until he encountered HMS "Ceylon" on 17–18 September 1810. "Ceylon" was captured, but the next day a British frigate squadron seized both "Ceylon" and "Vénus". On returning to France in February 1811 Hamelin was presented to Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, and made a "Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur", created a Baron of Empire, raised to the rank of rear-admiral and named
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commander of a division of the squadron under the orders of Admiral Édouard Thomas Burgues de Missiessy. In April 1818 he moved to Toulon as general major of the navy, a post that he occupied until 18 May 1822. In early 1823, he was bestowed the rank of "Grand Officer de la Légion d'Honneur". In 1832 Baron Hamelin was appointed Inspector General of Marine Crews, and in 1833 he was named Director of Marine Cartography. He retired shortly after, and died in Paris. His nephew was Admiral François Alphonse
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the expedition's two-year visit to the Great South land. A party of Hamelin's men discovered a plate, left by Willem de Vlamingh in 1697, which had in turn replaced an earlier plate left by Dirk Hartog in 1616. Hamelin's men initially removed the plate but it was returned on his orders and left intact until a later visit by Louis de Freycinet in 1818. De Freycinet was on Hamelin's 1801 crew. On his return to France, Hamelin was promoted to "captaine de vaisseau" (captain
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Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin


Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin (2 September 1796 – 10 January 1864), French admiral, was born in Pont-l'Évêque, Normandy. He went to sea in 1806 as cabin boy with his uncle, Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, on the frigate "Vénus". The "Vénus" was part of the French squadron in the Indian Ocean, and young Hamelin had an opportunity of seeing much active service. She, in company with another and a smaller vessel, captured the English frigate "Ceylon" in 1810, but
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Hamelin Bay, Western Australia


Hamelin Bay is a bay and a locality on the south-west coast of Western Australia between Cape Leeuwin and Cape Naturaliste. It is named after French explorer Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin who sailed through the area in about 1801. It is south of Cape Freycinet. To the north, the beach leads to the "Boranup Sand Patch" and further to the mouth of the Margaret River, while south leads to Cape Leeuwin. The nearest locality to the east is Karridale on the Margaret River to Augusta road. It was also
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1795, in which HMS "Berwick" was captured. He took part in the Action of 7 October 1795, in which Rear-Admiral de Richery's squadron met with a British convoy bound for Smyrna, taking 30 out of 31 merchant ships, and retaking the 74 gun "Censeur". On 21 November 1796, Hamelin was promoted to "capitaine de frégate" (commander) and took a commission as first officer of "Révolution". He took part in the Irish Rebellion. Hamelin subsequently took command of the
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Hartog Plate


Land, and afterwards bound for Batavia. In 1801, the French captain of the "Naturaliste" Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, second in command of an expedition led by Nicolas Baudin in the "Geographe" entered Shark Bay and sent a party ashore. The party found Vlamingh's plate, even though it was half buried in the sand, as the post had rotted away with the ravages of the weather. When they took the plate to the ship, Hamelin ordered it to be returned, believing its removal would be tantamount
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the merchant marine which was destined for the coast of Angola on a ten-month campaign. He then proceeded to Cherbourg on board the "Triton" as a helmsman. In July 1788, Hamelin returned to Honfleur, where he embarked as a midshipman on the ship "Jeune Mina" and campaigns on several other vessels. He was conscripted by the French Revolutionary Government for the French Revolutionary Wars and in 1792, quit commercial sailing and joined the Navy. In August 1792 he was a quartermaster aboard the vessel "Entreprenant"
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"Fraternité" for three months, after which took command of "Précieuse", part of a squadron under Admiral Eustache Bruix. He then embarked as second-in-command on the "Formidable". From 1 October 1800 to 23 June 1803, Hamelin captained the bomb ship "Naturaliste", along with Captain Nicolas Baudin on "Géographe", on a scientific expedition exploring the South Seas. This voyage was intended as a scientific exploration of New Holland and the charting of the as yet unknown southern coastline. There
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which was a part of a naval division under Rear Admiral Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville. Tréville's division joined together with another squadron of Admiral Truguet and took part in operations against Oneglia, Cagliari, and Nice. In August 1793 Hamelin was named midshipman of the frigate "Proserpine", with which he took over the Dutch frigate "Vigilante" and part of the convoy she was escorting. He was promoted to lieutenant in August 1795, and on "Minerve", took part in the Action of 7 March
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), and oversaw the weaponry of the large fleet intended for the invasion of England. In July 1806, Hamelin took command of the frigate "Vénus" from Le Havre. He set sail for Isle de France (now Mauritius), seizing four ships along the way. In March 1809, "Vénus" entered Port Napoléon (formerly Port-Louis, Isle de France). On 26 April, after orders from the general captain of Mauritius to leave, he sailed off, having under his command "Vénus"
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Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis


Latour, the artillery of Louis Tirlet and the engineers under Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie took up positions before Cádiz from mid-July. Forced to use several naval divisions for surveillance of Spain's Atlantic and Mediterranean ports and coasts (held by the Constitutionalists), the French navy was able to spare only a small squadron of 10 ships under Counter-Admiral Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin to blockade the city. That proved too small a force for Hamelin to succeed in this mission and so on 27 August he was replaced by counter
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, the frigate "Manche", the brig "Entreprenant", and the schooner "Créole". He visited Foulpointe on the east coast of Madagascar. Besieged by natives, he moved on the Bay of Bengal, entered Saint George's channel in the Nicobar Islands, seized several British ships, sank a great number of boats sent out by the British, and on 18 November 1809, seized the British settlement of Tappanouti. On the return voyage to Mauritius, he captured three large East India Trading Company ships in the
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Baudin expedition to Australia


expedition, someone who was ultimately to have a highly significant influence on its outcomes, was the 25-year-old assistant zoologist François Péron. Captains: Nicolas Thomas Baudin (1754–1803) ("Géographe") and Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin (1768–1839) ("Naturaliste"). Surgeon-Physician and naturalist: Pierre François Keraudren (1769–1858) (Le Géographe)(Preparations not on board) Sub-lieutenants Louis de Freycinet and, his older brother, Henri-Louis de Freycinet Sailors: Hyacinthe de Bougainville, midshipman second-class,
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were no instructions from the French government to claim any land in the name of France. This expedition returned to France the largest collection of plants animals and seeds from New Holland and Timor that Europe had ever seen,including two short-legged emus from King Island who lived out their days in Josephine's garden. Baudin did not believe in the imperialistic ideas that prevailed at the time that lands that were already occupied should be claimed by any other nation, and he wrote letters to this effect. No aborigine was harmed during
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Jean-Félix Tchicaya


On December 7, 1945, after a second round, Jean-Félix Tchicaya was elected member of the assembly, edging out Jean-Hilaire Aubame, Jacques Opangault, Issembé and François-Moussa Simon. In 1946, Jean-Félix Tchicaya, slayer of Colonialism at the French National Assembly, where he sits throughout the 4th Republic, founded his party the CPP (Congolese Progressive Party), Congolese section of the African Democratic Rally, close to the French Communist Party, with young executives such as Emmanuel Damongo-Dadet,
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was charted and there were extensive interactions with the Tasmanians. The expedition then began surveying the south coast of Australia but then Captain Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin in the "Naturaliste" decided to make for Port Jackson as he was running short of food and water, and in need of anchors. Meanwhile, Baudin in the "Géographe" continued westward, meeting with Matthew Flinders at Encounter Bay. Flinders informed Baudin of his discovery of Kangaroo Island, St. Vincent’s and Spencer’s Gulfs. Baudin sailed on to the Nuyts Archipelago,
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Garden Island (Western Australia)


Captain S. Volckertszoon, the "Elburg" under Captain J. Peereboom and the "Emeloort" under Captain A. Joncke. However, it was outlined on the charts of the "Southland", which were published after Willem de Vlamingh visited the region in 1697. Jacques Felix Emmanuel, Baron Hamelin was the Captain of the "Naturaliste", one of three French ships that visited in 1801 to 1803. He named the island "Ile Buache" after Jean Nicolas Buache, a marine cartographer in Paris. The island was renamed "
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Barbizon school


-François Daubigny; other members included Jules Dupré, Constant Troyon, Charles Jacque, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Pierre Emmanuel Damoye, Charles Olivier de Penne, Henri Harpignies, Paul-Emmanuel Péraire, Gabriel-Hippolyte Lebas, Albert Charpin, Félix Ziem, François-Louis Français, Émile van Marcke, and Alexandre Defaux. Millet extended the idea from landscape to figures — peasant figures, scenes of peasant life, and work in the fields. In "The Gleaners" (1857), for example, Millet portrays three peasant
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west coast, then across the Great Australian Bight, reaching Tasmania on 13 January 1802. They charted the whole length of Tasmania's east coast and there were extensive interactions with the Indigenous Tasmanians, with whom they had peaceful relationships. They notably produced precious ethnological studies of Indigenous Tasmanians. The expedition then began surveying the south coast of Australia, but then Captain Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin in "Naturaliste" decided to make for Port Jackson (Sydney) as he was running short of food and water, and in need of anchors
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Invasion of Isle de France


surrender eliminated the last French territory in the Indian Ocean and among the military equipment captured were five French Navy frigates and 209 heavy cannon. Isle de France was retained by Britain at the end of the war under the name of Mauritius and remained part of the British Empire until 1968. The operation was the culmination of two years of conflict over the island and the neighbouring Île Bourbon between frigate squadrons commanded by Josias Rowley and Jacques Hamelin. Hamelin repeatedly raided British trade convoys and Rowley responded with amphibious assaults on French harbours, but
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Salomon Hamelin


Salomon Hamelin (April 6, 1810 – September 10, 1893) was a political figure in Manitoba. He served in the Legislative Council of Manitoba from 1871 to 1876. He was the son of Jacques Hamelin and Angelique Tourengeau. In 1831, he married Isabella Vandale. Hamelin ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in 1878, losing to Joseph Royal. He died in Sainte Rose du Lac at the age of 83. His grandson Joseph Hamelin served in the Manitoba legislative assembly. The singer Ray St.
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First marshal of the empire


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Napoleon III style


Palace in London (1851), Parisian architects began to use cast-iron frames and walls of glass in their buildings. The most dramatic use of iron and glass was in the new central market of Paris, Les Halles (1853–1870), an ensemble of huge iron and glass pavilions designed by Victor Baltard (1805–1874) and Félix-Emmanuel Callet (1792-1854). Jacques-Ignace Hittorff also made extensive use of iron and glass in the interior of the new Gare du Nord train station (1842–1865),
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Bracha L. Ettinger


other) directed from the beginning to the (m)Other and the outside, not to the self. Ettinger invented the Matrixial Trans-subjectivity theory, or simply "The Matrixial", with concepts like border linking, borderspacing, martial borderspace, copoiesis, wit(h)messing and co/in-habit(u)ation. Ettinger is a Freudian and Lacanian scholar and follows the late Jacques Lacan, Emmanuel Levinas, Object relations theory and Gilles Deleuze/Félix Guattari. Ettinger articulated a feminine-maternal (and feminine-prematernal) dimension, space, function
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Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen


to be holding "entertainments" – "tableaux vivants" of pupils from the best Parisian schools – in his house at 18 Avenue de Friedland. One of the first alleged "victims" was Eduardo (Bruno) de Warren (1886-1957), brother of Hamelin. Jacques and Hamelin were arrested on charges of inciting minors to commit debauchery. d'Adelswärd-Fersen was arrested on 9 July by Octave Hamard, chief of the Paris police and his deputy Blot by order of Charles de Valles, pretrial judge. The order
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Félix de Azara


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Paul Rivière


and millions of French francs were so routed to the French resistance. He also organized the transfer of numerous personalities and agents between France and London: General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Vincent Auriol, Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, François de Menthon, Henri Frenay, Daniel Mayer, Christian Pineau, Lucie and Raymond Aubrac. He joined the military service in 1947 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was Inspector General of the French Armed Forces, then he was
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Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen


Emmanuel Felix de Wimpffen (Freiherr von Wimpffen) (13 September 1811, in Laon – 26 February 1884) was a French soldier and general of Austrian descent. Entering the army from the military school of Saint-Cyr, he saw considerable active service in Algeria, and in 1840 became captain; in 1847 "chef de bataillon". He first earned marked distinction in the Crimean War as colonel of a Turco-Persian regiment, and his conduct at the storm of the Mamelon won him the grade of general of brigade
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Félix Malloum


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Jacques-Félix Sincennes


Jacques-Félix Sincennes (January 7, 1818 – February 20, 1876) was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He was born Jacques-Félix Saincennes in Deschambault, Lower Canada in 1818, of Acadian descent. The original spelling of the family name was Saint-Seine. He apprenticed with his father as a pilot on the Saint Lawrence River. In 1839, he was hired as a purser on a steamer on the river. He established a steamship service on the Richelieu River, with himself as captain, in
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Pierre-Charles-Louis Baudin


in the Social Science and Law division, where with Pierre Daunou, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, Philippe-Antoine Merlin Douai, Emmanuel de Pastoret, Jean-François Champagne, Jean Philippe Coulon Garran, Julien Félix Jean Bigot de Préameneu, etc. In 1799, when France threatened to fall into a full neo-Jacobin mode, he opposed the Carousel Club and the indictment of directors returned the 30 Prairial ( 18 June 1799 ), Merlin de Douai, Treilhard and La Réveillère Lepeaux. He also served in various committees
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One Rank, One Pension


and 85 Indian Military Academy; and officers from the 14 Army Education Course; and twenty five officers and their families came from Jaipur. The movement continues to gain momentum, and perceptible increase in support and participation by former high-ranking officers of the armed forces, from Lt generals, Admirals, air marshals, Group Captains, and Colonels. Old veterans included Sep Ram Kishan, 93 years, Armoured Corp veteran of World War II; Sep Ram Bharose Yadav, 85 years, a blind veteran of 72 Medium Artillery;
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Invasion of Isle de France


in 1808, it was decided to send a strong frigate squadron to the Ocean under the command of Jacques Hamelin to augment the forces available on the island bases of Île Bonaparte and Isle de France and raid British shipping in the region. Hamelin was an able commander and between May 1809 and July 1810 his ships captured seven East Indiamen and a large number of small merchant ships and warships. The British response to Hamelin's deployment was provided by Admiral Albemarle Bertie, who collected a squadron of ships from those available at the Cape
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Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot


Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot (18 September 1804 – 29 January 1883) was a French military physician and surgeon. He was the son of orientalist Jean Jacques Emmanuel Sédillot (1777–1832), and an older brother to historian Louis-Pierre-Eugène Sédillot. Born in Paris, he studied surgery under Alexis Boyer and Philibert Joseph Roux. In 1836 he became professor of operative surgery at Val-de-Grâce, followed by a professorship at Strasbourg five years later. Sedillot was a pioneer of urethrotomic and gastrotomic operations, and known
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Victor Emmanuel III of Italy


as the 1930s newsreel images of King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Elena evoked applause, sometimes cheering, when played in cinemas, in contrast to the hostile silence shown toward images of Fascist leaders. On 30 March 1938, the Italian Parliament established the rank of First Marshal of the Empire for Victor Emmanuel and Mussolini. This new rank was the highest rank in the Italian military. His equivalence with Mussolini was seen by the king as offensive and a clear sign that the ultimate goal of the fascist was to get rid of him.
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Jacques Tati


Playtime" (1967) ranked 43rd in the 2012 "Sight & Sound" critics' poll of the greatest films ever made. As David Bellos puts it, "Tati, from "l'Ecole des facteurs" to "Playtime", is the epitome of what an "auteur" is (in film theory) supposed to be: the controlling mind behind a vision of the world on film". Jacques Tati was of Russian, Dutch, and Italian ancestry. His father, George Emmanuel Tatischeff, born in 1875 in
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coin set in it, was unearthed. No trace of an annexation document has yet been found. In 1801 the island was visited by a French expedition aboard the "Naturaliste" led by Captain Emmanuel Hamelin. This expedition found de Vlamingh's plate almost buried in the sand, its post having rotted away. The Captain ordered that it be re-erected in its original position. In 1818 the "Uranie" with French explorer Louis de Freycinet, who had been an officer in Hamelin's 1801 crew, sent a boat
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Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux


Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux (1815–1884) was a French artist. He was born in Paris, France, studied art at the studio of Léon Cogniet, and first exhibited his work at the Paris Salon of 1833. One of his best-known works was a depiction of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, painted in the form of a cyclorama, a type of large panoramic painting on the inside of a cylindrical platform designed to provide a viewer standing in the middle of the cylinder with a 360°
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Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen


joining the military, he traveled extensively and settled down as a writer. He published "Chansons Légères" (1900) and "Hymnaire d'Adonis" (1902) and other poems and novels. In 1902 he holidayed in Venice, where he associated with the novelist Jean Lorrain. On his return to Paris, he published his novel, "Notre Dame des mers mortes". In 1903 d'Adelsward and his friend, Albert François (Hamelin) de Warren (1881-1928), brother of Rene de Warren, were rumoured
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Émile Jouguet


Jacques Charles Émile Jouguet (5 January 1871, Bessèges (Gard) – 2 April 1943, Montpellier) was a French engineer and scientist, whose name is attached to the Chapman–Jouguet condition. He was the son of Félix Jouguet (1831–1887), mining engineer and mayor of Bessèges. A graduate of l'École polytechnique (ranked third in the class of 1889) and of the l'École des mines de Paris (ranked first in the class of 1895), he worked as an engineer in the Corps des mines from 1895
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Félix Callet


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Jacques Philippe Bonnaud


was promoted to brigadier on 10 September 1779 and quartermaster ("fourrier") on 10 November the same year. He participated in the expedition to Geneva in June 1782. He was elevated in rank to "maréchal de logis" on 21 September 1784, "maréchal de logis chef" on 1 July 1788 and adjutant on 1 February 1789. On 18 December 1791 when Emmanuel Grouchy was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 12th Chasseurs à Cheval, its colonel was Jacques-François Menou. Bonnaud became a lieutenant in the regiment on
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Félix Fuchs


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Marquis of Feria


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Battle of Grand Port


a serious attempt to disrupt British trade in the region, ordering five large modern frigates to sail to Isle de France under Commodore Jacques Hamelin. Four of these ships broke through the British blockade of the French coast, arriving in the Indian Ocean in the spring of 1809, where Hamelin dispersed them into the Bay of Bengal with orders to intercept, attack and capture or destroy the heavily armed but extremely valuable convoys of East Indiamen. The first French success came at the end of the spring, when the frigate "Caroline"
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Action of 18 November 1809


The Action of 18 November 1809 was the most significant engagement of a six-month cruise by a French frigate squadron in the Indian Ocean during the Napoleonic Wars. The French commander, Commodore Jacques Hamelin, raided across the Bay of Bengal with his squadron and achieved local superiority, capturing numerous merchant ships and minor warships. On 18 November 1809, three ships of Hamelin's squadron encountered a convoy of India-bound East Indiamen, mainly carrying recruits for the Indian Army, then administered by the Honourable East India Company (HEIC
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Battle of Grand Port


French squadron from Port Napoleon under Commodore Jacques Hamelin. The British defeat was the worst the Royal Navy suffered during the entire war, and it left the Indian Ocean and its vital trade convoys exposed to attack from Hamelin's frigates. In response, the British authorities sought to reinforce the squadron on Île Bourbon under Josias Rowley by ordering all available ships to the region, but this piecemeal reinforcement resulted in a series of desperate actions as individual British ships were attacked by the more powerful and confident French squadron. In December 1810 an
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Drôle de Félix


Drôle de Félix (literally meaning "Comedy of Félix" or "Amazing Félix"; also known as (The) Adventures of Felix) is a 2000 French film, a road movie written and directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. It stars Sami Bouajila as the title character. Félix, a young gay man of Arab descent, living in Dieppe, is currently unemployed and HIV positive. While cleaning out the apartment of his recent deceased mother, he discovers that the father he never knew is living in Marseilles.
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Emmanuelle Arsan


Jacques and Marayat decided to settle down in France for a much quieter life. An Iranian friend offered the couple a plot of land in the south of the country, near the commune of Callas, in the Var. It was in this woodland domain they constructed their retirement place, "Chantelouve d’Emmanuelle", an isolated single-storey house built around a vast patio. Louis-Jacques continued with his writing, happy to correspond with "Emmanuelle"'s fans under his pen name Emmanuelle Arsan, while Marayat, her dreams
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Invasion of Île Bonaparte


The Invasion of Île Bonaparte was an amphibious operation in 1810 that formed an important part of the British campaign to blockade and capture the French Indian Ocean territories of Île Bonaparte (now Réunion) and Isle de France (now Mauritius) during the Napoleonic Wars. These islands formed a fortified base for a French frigate squadron under Commodore Jacques Hamelin to raid British convoys of East Indiamen travelling between Britain and British India. Hamelin's ships had destroyed two convoys the previous year despite the attention of a squadron of Royal Navy ships under Commodore
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Flight officer


. Flight officer was a United States Army Air Forces rank used during World War II, from 1942 to 1945; the rank being created on Sep 10, 1942 On 5 November 1942 military glider pilots were commissioned flight officers after the completion of their training. The new rank insignia was nicknamed "the blue pickle". The rank is equivalent to Warrant Officer Junior Grade (WOJG) which is today's Warrant Officer (NATO grade: W-1). Enlisted and aviation cadet trainees who successfully passed air qualification training were appointed as
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Jacques Tati


birth of George Emmanuel. As a child George Emmanuel experienced turbulent times, such as being forcibly removed from France and taken to Russia to live. In 1883 his mother brought him back to France where they settled on the estate of Le Pecq, near Saint-Germain-en-Laye on the outskirts of Paris. In 1903, Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff married the Dutch-Italian Marcelle Claire van Hoof (d. 1968). Together they had two children, Natalie (b. 1905) and Jacques. Claire's Dutch father
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Highest military ranks


", but junior to "wonsu". The Spanish rank "mariscal presidente de los ejércitos" (English: "marshal president of the armies") was a rank given by the Paraguayan Congress to Francisco Solano López at the beginning of the Paraguayan War. It is equivalent to the rank of grand marshal. López remains the only Paraguayan that was ranked as a marshal during his lifetime and also the only one with the title "mariscal presidente de los ejércitos". José Félix Estigarribia posthumously received the rank of field marshal
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Belgian Brazilians


Leme; his descendants came to São Vicente in the beginning of the colonization of Brazil), and probably Jacques Félix (it is likely that his father was also named Jacques Félix, nicknamed "the Flemish", who was from Flanders and established himself in Santos in the early 16th century). All these settlers and their relatives had huge descent, spreading throughout the southern and central parts of Brazil. Today it is still common to find these surnames (Leme, Taques etc.) in the interior of São Paulo state
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Félix-Jacques Moulin


Félix-Jacques Antoine Moulin (27 March 1802 – 12 December 1875) was a French photographer. In 1849, Moulin opened a photographer's studio at 31 bis rue du Faubourg Montmartre and started producing daguerreotypes of young girls aged 14 to 16. In 1851, Moulin's work was confiscated, and he was sentenced to one month imprisonment for the "obscene" character of his works, "so obscene that even to pronounce the titles (...) would violate public morality" according to court records. After his release,
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Félix Duban


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Lia Félix


Lia Félix (6 July 1830, Saumur - 15 January 1908, Paris) was a French actress. She was the fifth of six children of Jacques Félix and Esther Thérèse Hayer, all of whom became actors, and a 9-year younger sister and pupil of the great Rachel Félix. She had hardly been given any trial when, by chance, she was called on to create the leading woman's part in Lamartine's "Toussaint Louverture" at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 6 April 1848. The play
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Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly


and Emmanuel (baptised at Nancy on 24 January 1777), took the name Mensdorff from a community in the county of Roussy, Luxembourg. The brothers entered military service against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and Albert was killed in battle. At the start of the War of the Fifth Coalition Emmanuel held the rank of major. On 13 April 1809 he was wounded while leading a company of the 8th Jäger in action near Amberg. By 23 April he had recovered enough to partake in the cavalry battles at the start of the
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Fashoda Incident


off the Nile’s water supply and forcing the British out. These ideas were highly impractical, but they succeeded in alarming many British officials. A French force of only 120 "tirailleurs" plus 12 French officers, non-commissioned officers and support staff—Captain Marcel Joseph Germain, Captain Albert Baratier, Captain Charles Mangin, Captain Victor Emmanuel Largeau, Lieutenant Félix Fouqué, teacher Dyé, doctor Jules Emily Major, Warrant Officer De Prat, Sergeant George Dat, Sergeant Bernard, Sergeant Venail and the military interpreter Landerouin—set
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Marc-André Hamelin


Solo or Chamber Ensemble for his Liszt Piano Sonata album. His first marriage was to soprano Jody Karin Applebaum. He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his second wife Cathy Fuller, pianist and WGBH classical music broadcaster. Writing in "The New Yorker" in 2000, senior critic Alex Ross pronounced: ‘Hamelin’s legend will grow—right now there is no one like him.’ Later in 2010, Ross added that Hamelin is ranked highly by piano connoisseurs, and "is admired for his monstrously brilliant technique
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Félix Buhot


Félix Hilaire Buhot (July 9, 1847 - April 26, 1898) was a French painter and illustrator. Among the most original prints made in France during the last quarter of the nineteenth century are those by Félix Buhot. Along with artists like Charles Jacque, Louis Monziès and Félix Bracquemond, he is credited with reviving seventeenth-century etching techniques in late nineteenth-century art. However, he was highly experimental and regularly employed technical variables and regularly combined multiple processes to produce a single print. He used traditional techniques of
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Félix Sanz Roldán


Félix Sanz Roldán is a Spanish Army officer. He has the rank of General of the Army and from 2009 to 2019, he served as the Director the National Intelligence Center, the main Spanish intelligence agency. Previously, he served as Chief of the Defence Staff (JEMAD) of the Spanish Armed Forces between 2004 and 2008. Sanz Roldán entered the General Military Academy, with the XXI Promotion of 1962, being promoted to Lieutenant in 1966. As a Lieutenant, he served in the Recruitment Instruction Battalion nº1 in El-
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Louis-Félix Guinement de Kéralio


was put in sole charge of the regiment's manoeuvres and exercises, and in 1755 he was made captain. At the start of the Seven Years' War onwards he was retired from the ranks after being wounded when the regiment was encamped in observation at Calais in 1756 and retired to his birthplace of Valence. On 25 February 1758 he was made deputy-director of studies and professor of tactics at the royal military school in Paris. On 31 July 1759 Louis Félix was made aide-major there and then promoted to major
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Emmanuel de Merode


Prince Emmanuel Werner Marie Ghislain de Merode (born 5 May 1970) has been the director of the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 2008. Emmanuel was born in North Africa, at Carthage, Tunisia. He is the second son of Charles, the Prince de Merode, and of his wife, born Princess Hedwige de Ligne. His parents belong to two of Belgium's historically most ancient and influential families, the Merodes and the House of Ligne. He descends patrilineally from Félix,
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Jacques-Pierre-Louis Puthod


Jacques-Pierre-Louis-Marie-Joseph Puthod, Viscount, (born 28 September 1769 in Bâgé-le-Châtel, died 31 March 1837 in Libourne) was a French soldier of the French Revolutionary Wars who rose to the rank of General and who subsequently took part to the Napoleonic Wars, rising to the top military rank of General of Division. Puthod enlisted as a volunteer in the "Couronne-Infanterie" regiment in 1785, during the Ancien Régime, rising to rank of Sub-Lieutenant in the "
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1975 Chadian coup d'état


PPT), for the army commander; but much more important and decisive in undermining his support among the military was, in 1973, to be the arrest of the Army Chief of Staff, General Félix Malloum, for an alleged coup plot (the so-called Black Sheep Plot). Also the Generals Jacques Doumro and Negue Djogo, and other officers, were arrested between 1971 and 1975 on similar charges, the latter on March 23, 1975. It was in this atmosphere of tension that Tombalbaye proceeded to yet another
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Pied Piper of Hamelin


of the children to mass psychogenic illness in the form of dancing mania. Dancing mania outbreaks occurred during the 13th century, including one in 1237 in which a large group of children travelled from Erfurt to Arnstadt (about 20 km), jumping and dancing all the way, in marked similarity to the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, which originated at around the same time. Others have suggested that the children left Hamelin to be part of a pilgrimage, a military campaign, or even a new Children's crusade (
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Louis Félix Étienne, marquis de Turgot


Louis Félix Étienne, marquis de Turgot (26 September 1796, Falaise, Calvados – 2 October 1866, Versailles) was a French diplomat and politician. He was the son of Étienne-François Turgot (1721–1789), marquis de Soumont; his great-uncle was Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune; his great grandfather was Michel-Étienne Turgot. He married Louise Mouton de Lobau, in 1830, daughter of Georges Mouton, comte Lobau. He had children Jacques-Louis Turgot, who married Tecla de Montaignac
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Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen


stated the suspicion of indecent behaviour with minors and offending the public decency. He was brought to La Santé Prison after arrest. The newspapers and magazines published alleged details of Jacques' and Hamelin orgies, which they called 'Messes Noires' (Black Masses) in their homes twice a week, with youngsters from the upper classes, mostly recruited from the Lycée Carnot, and Chaptal, Condorcet, Janson-deSailly and Saint-Joseph-des-Tuileries schools. According to Peyrefitte, the scandal started with a failed blackmail attempt
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Félix O'Neill


Félix O'Neill (c. 1800 – c. 1870) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 24 July 1854 to August 1856. He was a Spanish military officer with the rank of Coronel. He is well remembered for producing, on 20 August 1856, his 20-point edict titled "Disposiciones Acordadas Por la Municipalidad de Esta Villa, que deben observarse en caso de ser invadida esta Poblacion por la epidemia del Colera-morbo" (Dispositions Agreed Upon by the Municipal Government of this Village, to be observed in the event our
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Highest military ranks


of the Empire, entitled to a high-standing position at the court and to the presidency of an electoral college. The Italian rank of "first marshal of the Empire" was granted in 1938 to Benito Mussolini and King Victor Emmanuel III, who remain the only holders, as the rank (and the Italian Empire) was abolished after World War II. The Japanese rank of "dai-gensui" ("grand marshal") was held by the Emperor of Japan in his capacity as commander-in-chief
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Félix Lévitan


Félix Lévitan (12 October 1911 in Paris – 18 February 2007 in Cannes), a sports journalist, was the third organiser of the Tour de France, a role he shared for much of the time with Jacques Goddet. Lévitan is credited with looking after the financial side of the Tour while Goddet concentrated on the sporting aspect, but in the end Lévitan was fired while Goddet simply retired. Félix Lévitan was born in the 13th arrondissement of Paris eight years after Maurice Garin won the first edition of the race he would eventually
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Albert Pierrepoint


his name had been announced to the press by General Sir Bernard Montgomery. When he flew to Germany, he was followed across the airfield by the press, which he described as being "as unwelcome as a lynch mob". He was given the honorary military rank of lieutenant colonel and, on 13 December, he first executed the women individually, then the men two at a time. Pierrepoint travelled several times to Hamelin, and between December 1948 and October 1949 he executed 226 people, often over 10 a day,
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John Steed


their bios begin to diverge), training with the Coldstream Guards and then transferring to the Intelligence Corps. He spent the early part of his war service posted at RAF Camp 472 Hamelin, which was a jumping-off point for British spies on the continent. He received the Military Cross for single-handedly taking a German machine-gun post. Before leaving the British Army to join "The Ministry" in 1945, Steed achieved the rank of Major. He maintained a modest mews flat in London during the 1960s (
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Lachute


of the Argenteuil Seigneury. He built a sawmill and gave land for the construction of churches, helping to attract new settlers to Argenteuil. In 1825, Thomas Barron became the first judge, then the first mayor of Lachute. The Lachute post office was established in 1835. From 1870 to 1880 Lachute went through another period of expansion, including economic and social development: the railway linking Montreal and Ottawa was built through the centre of the small town. Industries were established: Félix Hamelin and Thomas Henry Ayers established a wool mill
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Sauvage (film)


Sauvage (English: "Wild") is a 2018 French drama film, directed by Camille Vidal-Naquet and produced by Emmanuel Giraud and Marie Sonne-Jensen. It stars Félix Maritaud in the lead role, Eric Bernard, Nicolas Dibla and Philippe Ohrel. Léo (Félix Maritaud) is a male prostitute who uses drugs whilst longing for love. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 88% based on 26 reviews, and an average rating of 7.66. The website's critical consensus
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Roger Delage


of the works of Charles Koechlin (1975). Delage contributed to musical journals in France and Britain, beginning in 1963. Among his subjects were "Chabrier et Wagner" and "Correspondance inédite entre Emmanuel Chabrier et Félix Mottl" ("Revue de Musicologie"); "Manet et Chabrier" ("Revue de l'art"); "En Alsace" ("La Nouvelle Revue des Deux Mondes"); "Emmanuel Chabrier in Germany" and "Ravel and Chabrier" ("The Musical Quarterly") and
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Jacques Tati


, a friend of van Gogh, whose clients included Toulouse-Lautrec, was the owner of a prestigious picture-framing company near the Place Vendôme in Paris, and he brought Georges-Emmanuel into the family business. Subsequently, Georges-Emmanuel became the director of the company Cadres Van Hoof, and the Tatischeff family enjoyed a relatively high standard of living. Jacques Tatischeff appears to have been an indifferent student, yet excelled in the sports of tennis and horse riding. He left school in 1923 at the age of 16
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Manuel Torres Félix


the Operation Sinaloa, the Mexican military located a safe house owned by Torres Félix, where they confiscated several firearms, narcotics, radio communications equipment, and an armored vehicle. The Mexican military also found a photo of Torres Félix accompanied by Misael Torres Urrea, nicknamed "El M2", his nephew and son of Javier Torres Félix. Torres Félix was placed on the most-wanted drug traffickers list under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act by the U.S. government on 1 June 2011, along with Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza (a.k.a.
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Georgi Emmanuel


the cavalry in July 1828, during the Russo-Turkish War (1828-29). In 1829 he organised and led the first Russian scientific expedition to Mount Elbrus, for which he was made a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. George Arsenyevich Manuilović (hence Emmanuel) was born in Vršac, a Serbian town in the Banat Military Frontier of the Habsburg Monarchy where from early age he participated in actions against the Turks in the Siege of Belgrade (1789) in the ranks of the Serbian "Frei-Corps
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Emmanuel Damongo-Dadet


and "Panorama Congolais" in 1962. Emmanuel Damongo-Dadet was also a prefect in the colonial administration during the time Félix Eboué was the governor-general of the French Equatorial Africa (FEA). In 1945, he entered politics joining the Congolese Progressive Party (PPC) that dominated the Congolese politics for years, and was elected councillor-representative in the Middle Congo territorial assembly in 1946. It was also a year later through the territorial assembly that he was elected to become the representative in the French Union assembly.
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Emmanuel Damongo-Dadet


In 1949, he abandoned the PPC long after it became a branch of Félix Houphouët-Boigny's party, the African Democratic Rally (RDA). As a result, he lost both seats in the elections to the Middle-Congo territorial assembly and the French Union assembly in 1952 and 1953. Before re-emerging and forming his short lived political party, the Congolese Democratic Front (FDC) in 1955, Emmanuel Damongo-Dadet embarked on a career in broadcasting occupying the position of Chief of the African broadcasts of the
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Jacques Pâris de Bollardière


Jacques enrolled at the Military Academy of Saint-Cyr; he graduated in 1930 and due to insubordination, it was only with the rank of sergeant. (Saint-Cyr cadets normally graduate as commissioned officers, with the rank of sous-lieutenant). He disliked the authoritarianism he encountered at Saint-Cyr: he later considered this attitude to be key to his decision to join the French Resistance whilst many of his former classmates served Vichy France. He was quickly promoted to sous-lieutenant and to lieutenant in 1932.
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Grands corps de l'État


graduates of the École nationale d'administration (ENA). They are more closely connected with politics than the technical "grands corps" (listed below) are. François Hollande and Jacques Chirac were both members of the Cour des comptes, and Emmanuel Macron, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Michel Rocard were both members of the Inspection des finances. The technical "grands corps" mainly recruit (more than 2/3 by decree) from among graduates of the École polytechnique. Their ranks are also open to alumni of the Écoles normales supérieures, or
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Emmanuelle Arsan


novel was sometimes hinted to be quasi-autobiographical, it was later revealed that the actual author was her husband Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane. Several more novels were published under the Emmanuelle Arsan pseudonym. Between 1974 and 1976, Arsan and her husband, in association with Just Jaeckin, published the erotic magazine "Emmanuelle, le magazine du plaisir" ("Emmanuelle, the pleasure magazine") in France, contributing photographs and text. Following the success of the eponymous 1974 film adaptation of her novel, directed by Just
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Georgi Emmanuel


). Emmanuel then took part at the Battle of Leipzig on 16-18 October and distinguished himself by capturing two generals, including Jacques Lauriston, 17 officers and 400 soldiers. However, Emmanuel was not awarded for this action because of disagreements on tactics with the famed Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. He was soon transferred to Lieutenant General Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest's 8th Corps and fought at the Battle of Reims, where he covered the retreat of the Russian troops. He took part in the Battle of
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Emmanuelle


The producer of another Arsan/Rollet-Andriane film "Laure," Ovidio Assonitis, claimed that all books published under the nom-de-plume Emmanuelle Arsan were written by her husband Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane rather than by Marayat . The first Emmanuelle film was the 1974 French theatrical feature "Emmanuelle" starring Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel (1952–2012) in the title role. She came to be the actress best identified with the role. This film pushed the boundaries of what was then acceptable on screen, with sex
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Félix de Blochausen


Baron Félix de Blochausen (5 March 1834 – 15 November 1915), was a Luxembourgish politician. An Orangist, he was the sixth Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for ten years, from 26 December 1874 until 20 February 1885. From 14 December 1866 to 3 December 1867 he was Director-General (Minister) for the Interior in the government of Victor de Tornaco. From 1872 to 1873 he was President of the Chamber of Deputies. On 26 December 1874, after Emmanuel Servais' resignation, de Blochausen was appointed
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Georgi Emmanuel


lieutenant in 1794. But Emmanuel soon found the Austrians reluctant to commit resources to the Serbian cause (war of independence). Dissatisfied with his prospects he resigned in late 1796 and sought military employment elsewhere. He arrived in Moscow in April 1797 and applied to Emperor Paul I of Russia, who immediately accepted his services. The same day, he enlisted in the Life Guard Hussar Regiment with a rank of lieutenant. The next year, he became staff rotmistrz (or rittmeister) and in 1799, was promoted to rotmistrz,
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Pierre Louis-Dreyfus


Dreyfus & Cie., eventually becoming a partner. He was recalled in August 1939 and served as a lieutenant in the 2nd Dragoon Regiment. He served two rotations in Luxembourg and France before again being discharged after the French capitulation. In 1941, along with his friends, Emile Laffon, Jacques Bounin and Emmanuel d'Astier, he came into contact with and joined the French Resistance. Having extensive military training, Louis-Dreyfus was assigned responsibility for coordinating the resistance groups in the south of France. He was forced to flee France
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Siege of Hamelin


Prenzlau. That is, the officers were to be paroled while the rank and file became prisoners of war. Two differing accounts exist of the surrender, which occurred on 22 November. In one version, when the Prussian troops found out about the capitulation, they mutinied. The soldiers burst into the wine-shops and soon became drunk. They rioted through the streets, robbing and shooting at the people of Hamelin and one another. The officers demanded that the soldiers be sent home instead of being treated as prisoners of war
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Jacques Canetti


, Félix Leclerc, and Juliette Greco, and served as an artistic testing ground for potential recording artists of interest to Canetti. He built up in parallel a catalogue of "chanson" recordings for the Philips label, in addition to work for Polydor, and also the Fontana label. In 1963, Canetti left Philips and founded his own production company, "Les productions Jacques Canetti", and record label, Disques Canetti, which featured such artists as Jeanne Moreau, Jacques Higelin, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, and Boris
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Charles III, Duke of Parma


In 1841, at age eighteen, Ferdinando Carlo was sent to the Military School of Turin. He received a commission in the Piedmontese army with the rank of Captain in the Novara Cavalry. However, after one year of service, he returned home on bad terms with King Charles Albert of Sardinia and even more so with the king's son, Victor Emmanuel who had spent a lot of time with him. Victor Emmanuel wrote: " Ferdinando of Lucca left here last summer rather angry with me and he has not let me
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Jacques MacDonald


France Jacques MacDonald on the Outer Hebridean island of South Uist, the familial home of MacDonald. MacDonald had visited South Uist in 1825 in order to find out more about his family roots. Of him, the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911 says: MacDonald had none of that military genius that distinguished Davout, Masséna and Lannes, nor of that military science conspicuous in Marmont and St Cyr, but nevertheless his campaign in Switzerland gives him a rank far superior to such mere generals of division as Oudinot and Dupont. This capacity for independent
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Manuel Piar


to begin the liberation of that province. At the beginning of 1817 he laid siege to the city of Angostura. On April 11 his forces achieved a major victory over those commanded by Spanish General Miguel de la Torre at the Battle of San Félix. A month later Piar was promoted to the rank of General-in-Chief. At this time, following his military victories, Piar came into conflict with his higher-ranking white "criollo" superiors, including Simón Bolívar. This friction eventually resulted in Bolívar stripping Piar
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Harris R. Oke


(Service) Battalion with the Royal Fusiliers, where he led a platoon in a counter-attack on river-craft that resulted in the surrender of two steamers and a gunboat, and saved the column a large number of casualties. For this service, he was awarded a Bar to the Military Cross. Oke relinquished his commission on completion of service with the Royal Scots Infantry on 11 December 1919, retaining the rank of lieutenant. Altogether, Oke was injured three times in combat (Aug 1917, Sep 1917, and
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Kurt Schmidt


with his family to the German town of Hamelin. When he moved to Hamelin he was commander of "Infanterie-Regiment 74". He took part in the invasion of Poland in September 1939. In about November 1940, he became commander of Luxembourg. Schmidt was the commander of the 702nd Infantry Division in Norway from September 1941 to September 1943. During his time in Norway he was promoted to "Generalleutnant", the highest rank he would hold. Generalleutnant Kurt Schmidt died on March 3, 1945 in Aalsmeer whilst commander
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Charles Jacque


farm life. In addition to painting, Jacque was also famous for his etchings and engravings. He, along with Félix Bracquemond and Felix Buhot, is credited with the nineteenth-century revival of seventeenth-century techniques. He began his career as an engraver around 1841 by publishing a series of etchings with Louis Marvy. He followed this work with a series of engravings based on the works of Adriaen van Ostade, after which he began to create original engravings / artworks. Charles Baudelaire said of him, "Mr. Jacque’s
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