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François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (French: [fʁɑ̃swa dɔminik tusɛ̃ luvɛʁtyʁ], English: / ˌ l uː v ər ˈ tj ʊər /) [2] also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda (20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Eighteen months later, Révolutionnaire fought and captured the French frigate Unité at the action of 12 April 1796, and remained in the Royal Navy throughout the following 21 years of warfare. [11] The arrival of Révolutionnaire in Britain caused a stir among naval architects as the frigate was significantly larger than those produced in ...
A Vietnam War-era P-38 can opener, with a U.S. penny shown for size comparison.. The P-38 (larger variant known as the P-51) is a small can opener that was issued with canned United States military rations from its introduction in 1942 to the end of canned ration issuance in the 1980s. [1]
French Republican Calendar of 1794, drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt. The French Republican calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and ...
March 21: Establishment of Revolutionary Surveillance Committees (Comités de surveillance révolutionnaire) in all communes and their sections. March 27: General Dumouriez denounces revolutionary anarchy. March 30: The Convention orders Dumouriez to return to Paris, and sends four commissaires and Pierre de Ruel, the Minister of War, to arrest ...
The Tribunal, from La Démagogie en 1793 à Paris by Dauban (H. Plon; 1868). The Revolutionary Tribunal (French: Tribunal révolutionnaire; unofficially Popular Tribunal) [1] was a court instituted by the National Convention during the French Revolution for the trial of political offenders.
Révolution nationale propaganda poster promoting the personality cult of Philippe Pétain, 1942 Vichy poster comparing the security of a house built on the principles of the National Revolution with the insecurity of one based on "laziness", "demagogy" and "internationalism"
The Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (French: Parti ouvrier socialiste révolutionnaire, POSR) was a French socialist political party founded by Jean Allemane in 1890 [1] and dissolved in 1901. It is indirectly one of the founding factions of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), which was founded in 1905.