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  • anonymously in the feuilleton of Le Temps, and appeared separately as Le Siège de Paris, journal d’un officier de marine (1871). Returning to Cochin-China...
    247 bytes (578 words) - 02:19, 25 November 2016
  • see that Monsieur le chevalier is again at Les Touches this evening." "Don't say anything about those visits before Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel," cried the...
    16 KB (2,783 words) - 07:24, 5 January 2013
  • History (edit. of 1860), iv. 393, v. 320; Chevalier's Hist. de la Marine française sous le Consulat et l'Empire, pp. 320, 394; Foster's Peerage, s.n. ‘Hotham...
    304 bytes (980 words) - 21:41, 27 December 2020
  • afterwards sank into the deepest ignominy. He had been an officer in the marines, but was dismissed from the service under discreditable circumstances....
    319 bytes (648 words) - 05:46, 28 December 2020
  • constant services with Mr. Hawkey, I feel that every ​officer, seaman, and marine, has a claim to my warmest praises * * * * * *. Lieutenant Charles Allen...
    534 bytes (1,438 words) - 12:48, 21 February 2024
  • indecent. For the exhibition of "La Demi Douzaine," the little group of artists among whom he exhibits his marine work, Huard has done an excellent poster....
    454 bytes (1,877 words) - 15:33, 5 February 2024
  • Avant-propos to this new edition, "none is more celebrated than the work 'Les Pensées,' and French literature possesses no artist more consummate than...
    637 bytes (2,312 words) - 22:29, 16 June 2023
  • his prison cell at Bedford; Robinson Crusoe was a pseudo-history from the pen of one of the first great English realists; Gulliver's Travels was a political...
    575 bytes (2,921 words) - 13:18, 29 September 2018
  • seamanlike of the forces opposed to it. Authorities.—Chevalier, Histoire de la marine française sous la première République (Paris, 1886); James’s Naval History...
    255 bytes (1,487 words) - 12:43, 13 September 2023
  • Paris, where a new office, Director of Optics for the Marine—d'optique au service de la Marine—with a salary of 8,000 francs, was created for him. He...
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  • the gallant Captain Pownall, 4 seamen and 1 marine were killed in the action, and 16 seamen and 4 marines wounded. The enemy’s ship was the Stanislaus...
    529 bytes (7,716 words) - 12:30, 21 February 2024
  • to the rank of Lieutenant; and we subsequently find him serving on board le Bourdelois of 24 guns, commanded by his old shipmate, the present Captain...
    511 bytes (6,824 words) - 12:34, 21 February 2024
  • pen′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. penned.—adj. Pen′-and-ink′, written, literary: executed with pen and ink, as a drawing.—ns. Pen′-case, a holder for a pen or...
    88 KB (12,858 words) - 12:43, 11 July 2022
  • the Channel Fleet, shows its white teeth, and away! but it is not for its marine interest only, shared with many other places, that Slapton is celebrated...
    436 bytes (1,199 words) - 18:47, 3 April 2019
  • R597310. Venus--position 01. By Giovanni Bologna & Stoldo Lorenzi. Add. ti: Marine nymph--position 01. © 18Feb47; H459. The Frick Collection (PWH); 10Feb75;...
    482 bytes (5,781 words) - 03:41, 8 February 2022
  • great practical utility which he had patented in 1808) for buoys and for marine freight generally. In 1811 at Hayle Foundry he built for Sir Christopher...
    325 bytes (3,694 words) - 02:53, 14 November 2021
  • saline deposit from salt-marshes; Sea′-muss′el, a marine bivalve; Sea′-need′le, the garfish; Sea′-nett′le, any of the stinging species of acalephæ; Sea′-nurse...
    92 KB (13,195 words) - 12:44, 11 July 2022
  • footing on the wall. These (a boatswain’s-mate of the Undaunted, and a marine) were furiously attacked by 40 French soldiers: the sailor was overpowered...
    509 bytes (17,537 words) - 12:38, 21 February 2024
  • practical school of natural science, especially devoted to the study of marine zoology. Unfortunately he did not long survive the establishment of this...
    355 bytes (2,321 words) - 19:56, 13 September 2017
  • ​ ​ PAGE FROM FLINDERS' COPY OF HIS MEMORIAL TO THE FRENCH MINISTER OF MARINE (WRITTEN IN ILE-DE-FRANCE). (Melbourne Public Library.) ​I walked out to...
    338 bytes (3,187 words) - 22:50, 17 February 2011
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