Merchant Still a child, he was admitted as a junior clerk to Maître Blondel, a notary in Thoissey. Who could then have predicted his epic destiny? And yet the notary, a good man, advises Marchand to get involved. Did he catch in his young clerk one of his anxious looks of a lion cub in a cage? w
Léon Gambetta (April 2, 1838 in Cahors - December 31, 1882 in Ville-dAvray) was a French politician. He mainly distinguished himself as a national defender during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, and as a reformer during his government in 1881. His dynamic policy came up against financial lobbies an
On June 16, 1871, amid general enthusiasm, the victorious Prussian army made a triumphant entry into Berlin. A few days later, exactly June 29 - Thiers and Mac-Mahon attended a military review at Longchamp; 120,000 well-equipped men marched past in quick time.But in Berlin, the Prussians were not h
François Achille Bazaine (Versailles, February 13, 1811 - Madrid, 23 September, 1888), Marshal of France. He served in Algeria, Crimea and Mexico, but he remained famous above all for having failed in his task as Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Rhine and for having thus contributed to the Fren
FACHODA Kodok today. City located on the upper course of the Nile, in the Sudan. Its forced evacuation by the Marchand mission in 1898 profoundly deteriorated Franco-British relations. , reached Fashoda on July 10, 1898. The following month, Lord Kitchener, who went up the Nile with more than 2,000
William Barret Travis, born August 1, 1809 – died March 6, 1836 (aged 26), commanded the armies of Texas at the Battle of Fort Alamo during the Texas Revolution against the Republic of Mexico. Youth Born in Saluda County, South Carolina, he is the eldest of eleven children. He was born on August 1
Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836), nicknamed the Father of Texas, led the second colonization of this region of the current United States by bringing in American migrants, while Texas belonged to Mexico. He gave his name to the current capital of Texas, Austin, but also to
The Siege of Fort-Alamo (February to March 1836) is l major event in the Revolutionary War of the Republic of Texas and a symbol of desperate resistance, as well as a great moment in the expansion of the United States in the 19th century. The subject of several films more or less close to historica
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, born February 21, 1794 in Xalapa, the current capital of the state of Veracruz and died June 21, 1876 in Mexico City, was a Mexican soldier and politician who exercised eleven times the presidency of Mexico. He was nicknamed The
Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American statesman, politician, and military man. Born in Virginia, he is one of the main figures in the history of Texas. He was successively President of the Republic of Texas, United States Senator after Texas joined the Union, and finally Go
James Bowie (April 10, 1796 – March 6, 1836), nicknamed Jim Bowie, was an American pioneer and soldier who took part in the Texas Revolution and died at Fort Alamo. Bowie is also known for the style of knife he carried, which is now known as the Bowie knife. Stories about his personality have made h
David Crockett (David de Crocketagne, born August 17, 1786 in Greene County - died March 6, 1836 at the Siege of Fort-Alamo). A representative of the state of Tennessee, of which he was a native, he became a popular hero in the history of the United States. He is often referred to as Davy Crockett.
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States. He was elected for two terms from 1829 to 1837. He was the military governor of Florida (1821), commander of the American forces during the battle of New Orleans (1815) and the man at the base of the era J
The Texas Revolution took place from October 2, 1835 to April 21, 1836. It opposed Mexico and Texas (or Tejas), part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. Context A map of Mexico between 1835-1846. In pink, the regions undergoing autonomist movements. The animosity of the Texas settlers of Ame
Sioux Current population 150,000+ (2005) Location United States, Canada Language(s) English, Sioux The word Sioux means: 1. a major linguistic group in central and southeastern North America. This group is subdivided into two subgroups, the now extinct Catobas and the Sioux (who themselves have
The Seminoles are a Native American people of North America. They now reside in Florida, where they are from, and Oklahoma. The Seminole nation emerged in the 18th century; it was made up of Indians from the present-day states of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, most often from the Creek
The Pawnees (or Paneassa, Pari, Pariki) are a tribe of Native Americans from Nebraska and Kansas (USA). The traditional French name for this tribe, allies of the French, is the Panis. Their language, Pawnee, is one of the Caddoan languages. History In the 18th century, they allied with the French
The Kanienkehá:ka, better known as the Mohawks (also called Mohawks in French), are one of the six great Iroquois nations, which are, from east to west:the Tuscaroras, the Senecas, the Oneiouts, Onondagas, Cayugas and Mohawks. Etymology Mohawks whose meaning is man-eater in the language of their he
The Lakotas (or Lakhota or, better:Lak’ota), are a Native American tribe better known in French as the Sioux. They are a group of seven tribes (the Great Sioux Nation). The Lakotas live in North Dakota and South Dakota (USA). The seven Lakota branches are:Brulé, Oglala, Sans Arcs, Hunkpapa, Mnikowo
Around 1500, the Mohawk chief, Hiwatta, immortalized by the poet Longfellow, created the League of Iroquois, better known as the Five Civilized Nations, which first grouped the Mohawks, Cayuses, Oneidas, Onondagas and Senecas. , all of whom lived in what is now New York State. The Tuscaroras came to
The Edict of Nantes, signed by Henri IV in 1598, offers Protestants freedom of worship, freedom of conscience and puts France on the path of tolerance. It also marks the end of the wars of religion. But, under Louis XIII, a rebellion of the Protestants of Béarn, who refuse to authorize the Catholic
In 1735 the Crimean Tatars, allies of the Turks, made yet another devastating raid on the lands of the Russian Empire. This was the reason for the declaration of war by the Russians against the Tatars and Turks. In 1739 the war had passed through several stages. In 1739, the Russian army of the Germ
Although the most famous natural disaster in the Aegean Sea was probably the brutal eruption of the Tera volcano in the middle of the second millennium BC, as a result of which the island of Santorini has remained and whose effects are theorized to have caused a tsunami large enough to arrive in Egy
The Battle of Borowa Gora was a series of skirmishes that took place on the hill range of the same name in the greater area of Locs (Wuts in Polish) in central Poland, west of Piotruków Trybunaski. This battle is one of the standouts in history as the attackers were so overwhelmingly superior i