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  • being obtained from armistice commission or of escort to be provided for "Dunkerque" as this might give away our source. It would be sufficient for him to...
    410 bytes (119 words) - 22:12, 26 June 2016
  • was frequently, in 1804-5, in action with the enemy’s flotilla between Dunkerque, Calais, and Boulogne. On one occasion he captured two armed schuyts;...
    209 bytes (323 words) - 01:45, 6 September 2021
  • ship (he had attained the rating of Midshipman) he was wrecked between Dunkerque and Gravelines 29 March, 1802. Joining next, in March, 1803, the Conqueror...
    197 bytes (188 words) - 14:07, 6 September 2021
  • where, in Feb. 1812, he was taken prisoner in a prize and carried into Dunkerque. In Feb. 1814, having effected his escape while in the custody of a gendarme...
    195 bytes (248 words) - 18:05, 6 September 2021
  • island of Rhio, in the strait of Singapore. In the Diana, before proceeding to the Walcheren, he had charge of the French coast from Dunkerque to Fécamp....
    212 bytes (275 words) - 02:58, 6 September 2021
  • Midshipman, on the North American and Home stations, until wrecked between Dunkerque and Gravelines 29 March, 1802. He served next, from Dec. 1803 until Aug...
    198 bytes (240 words) - 16:37, 6 September 2021
  • the coast of North America, he witnessed, 8 July, 1800, the capture, in Dunkerque Roads, of the French 40-gun frigate Désirée. On next joining the Polyphemus...
    194 bytes (284 words) - 12:13, 6 September 2021
  • 8218381911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 8 — Dunkirk (France) ​DUNKIRK (Fr. Dunkerque), a seaport of northern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department...
    333 bytes (885 words) - 22:22, 18 January 2022
  • he witnessed, in the Andromeda, an attack made on a French squadron in Dunkerque Roads 7 July, 1800, and was present, we believe, in the Desirée in the...
    187 bytes (357 words) - 10:39, 6 September 2021
  • Edw. Buller. He was then employed for several months at the blockade of Dunkerque in the Atalante sloop, Capt. Anselm John Griffiths; on leaving which vessel...
    197 bytes (347 words) - 11:35, 6 September 2021
  • Lamiraux-Lalande, the chief of a provincial operatic company, was born at Dunkerque in 1798. Having been taught music by her father, she soon developed a...
    364 bytes (434 words) - 09:14, 29 December 2020
  • Owen, for the purpose of escorting the Duke and Duchess of Clarence from Dunkerque to England. He has been on half-pay since 1820. Lieut. Muriel married...
    201 bytes (370 words) - 12:25, 6 September 2021
  • Capt. Henry Inman, was present in an attack made on a French squadron in Dunkerque Roads, 7 July, 1800. After serving for two years with Capts. Inman and...
    199 bytes (345 words) - 04:52, 6 September 2021
  • studies he was appointed 'juge' successively at Douai, Bergues, Hazebrouck, Dunkerque, and Lille. He died Jan. 10, 1876 [App. p.601 "12"]. He was a member of...
    390 bytes (381 words) - 02:47, 29 December 2020
  • in manuscript. while acting as judge at Bergues, Hazebrouck, Cambrai, Dunkerque, and Lille successively, he pursued studies and made researches which...
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  • Cabot Lodge", in Scribner's Magazine, Feb 1910 Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort, 1915 (war) (start transcription) "In Argonne," Scribner's...
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  • of two excellent pieces of prose narration, the Histoire du siége de Dunkerque (1649) and the unfinished Conspiration de Walstein (1651). The Walstein...
    241 bytes (421 words) - 22:40, 19 January 2022
  • the Archer sloop, Capt. Slaughter, while stationed in April, 1814, off Dunkerque, received on board a deputation from that town charged with an invitation...
    236 bytes (1,112 words) - 05:03, 7 July 2022
  • same month. He had previously, on 26 Feb. 1811, taken, close in with Dunkerque, a French national armed vessel carrying 2 long 12-pounders with small...
    236 bytes (471 words) - 04:57, 7 July 2022
  • Gabriel Lucien ​MICHEL, Dieudonné Gabriel Lucien, French missionary, b. in Dunkerque in 1605; d. in Quebec, Canada, in 1669. He professed with the Recollets...
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