o (Sedan, 1611 - Salzbach, Baden, 1675.) Marshal of France. Youngest son of the previous and of Elisabeth of Nassau, he was brought up in Protestantism.He started his career in his fifteenth year under the guidance of his uncles Maurice and Henri de Nassau. It was in 1630 that Louis XIII called him
Slave Coast , in 18th and 19th century history, the stretch of coast of the Gulfs of Guinea in Africa, roughly Volta flux west to Lagos in modern Nigeria or alternatively in the Niger Delta extends across Africa the East (in todays republics Togo , Benin and Nigeria). Al
The victory over Nazi Germany was the symbol of the alliance between the USSR and the United Kingdom. The Yalta and Potsdam conferences set up a tripartite and then quadripartite occupation with France and Germany. The status of Berlin is emblematic in this respect:although at the heart of the zone
Following the attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the United States Navys Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the subsequent US declaration of war against Japan, the government of Franklin D. Roosevelt decreed the transfer and internment of Japanese residents in the US – inclu