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By 1789 Dunkirk had fourteen vessels in the trade sailing to Brazil, Walvis Bay, and other areas of the South Atlantic to hunt sperm and right whales.
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By the mid-19th century, Bayonne had declined somewhat with the centralisation of power to Paris and to the new département capital, non-Basque Pau, after the 1789 French Revolution, and with Wellington's bombardment.
By 1789, they owned one-third of the plantation property and one-quarter of the slaves of Saint-Domingue.
By 1789, the population had reached 60, 000 inhabitants, and Versailles was now the seventh or eighth-largest city of France, and one of the largest cities of Europe.
By the end of 1789 he had also begun to study under the topographical draughtsman Thomas Malton, whom Turner would later call " My real master ".
By 1789 difficulties in obtaining genuinely Irish recruits had led to German and other foreigners making up the bulk of the rank and file.
By 1789 they were the most important element of the local administration of the kingdom.
By 1789, however, his business had failed.
By 1789 St David's Cathedral was suffering from structural problems, the west front was leaning forward by one foot, Nash was called in to survey the structure and develop a plan to save the building, his solution completed in 1791 was to demolish the upper part of the facade and rebuild it with two large but inelegant flying buttresses.
By 1789, the Cromford Estate was back in the ownership of the Arkwrights, who actively influenced its structure and construction.
By the 1770s, the original log church became inadequate to the needs of the community, as is made clear in this 1789 public plea.
By 1789 Sag Harbor had " had more tons of square-rigged vessels engaged in commerce than even New York City.
By 1789, settlement had spread north to the area where the Cats Creek enters the Muskingum River.
By 1789, the population of Stege had climbed to 791 with 7, 000 people on the island.
By 1789, they owned one-third of the plantation property and one-quarter of the slaves of Saint-Domingue.
By 1789, Manuel Lisa was trading on the Mississippi River in New Madrid, Missouri ; the next recorded mention of Manuel Lisa was again in New Madrid, after he had returned from trading along the Wabash River.
By 1789, the new Constitution of the United States authorized Congress to create a navy, but during George Washington's first term ( 1787 – 1793 ) little was done to rearm the navy.
By early 1789, the government of the State of Franklin had collapsed entirely and the territory was firmly back under the control of North Carolina.
By 1789, there were 43, including five held by princes of the blood ( Orléans, Condé, Bourbon, Enghien, and Conti ), ( Penthièvre ) ( who was the son of a legitimized prince, the Count of Toulouse, also a pair de France ), and 37 other lay peers, ranking from the Duchy of Uzès, created in 1572, to the Duchy of Aubigny, created in 1787.
By June, when continued impasses lead to further deterioration in relations, the Estates-General was reconstituted first as the National Assembly ( June 17, 1789 ) seeking a solution for the realm independent of the king's management of the meetings of the Estates General which occasionally continued to meet.
By 1789, he was a captain in the Esterhazy Regiment of Hussars.
* Biographical Dictionary of the United States Secretaries of the Treasury, 1789 – 1995 By Bernard S. Katz, C. Daniel Vencill, Greenwood Press
By 1789, France was hurtling toward revolt as the result of bankruptcy brought on by the country's support of the American Revolution and high food prices due to drought, all of which was exacerbated by propagandists whose central object of scorn and ridicule was Queen Marie Antoinette.
* The First Tet Offensive of 1789 By Spencer C. Tucker
By 1789, US officials realized that, in the words of Secretary of War Henry Knox, " the Indians are especially tenacious of their lands, and generally do not relinquish their right, excepting on the principle of a specific consideration, expressly given for the purchase of the same.
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* March 23 – Anglo-Spanish War ( 1654 – 1660 ): By the Treaty of Paris, France and England form an alliance against Spain ; England will receive Dunkirk.
By the spring of 1944 Rommel had made great progress, but since he believed that the invasion would come somewhere between Dunkirk and the mouth of the Somme, much of his work was directed at strengthening the wrong area.
By May 31 the Allied forces were isolated in Dunkirk on the north coast.
By late May, following the evacuation of British forces from Dunkirk, France, in Operation Dynamo, the Royal Navy was in immediate need of ships, especially as they were now fighting the Battle of the Atlantic in which German U-boats threatened Britain's supplies of food and other resources essential to the war effort.
By the time of the Viking settlements on this coast, Dunkirk was developing on the dunes, offshore across the estuarine marsh from Bergues.
By the start of the Second World War Ritchie had risen to the rank of brigadier, and was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk.
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By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.
By 1898, rustling losses had been driven down to the lowest level ever seen in Wyoming.
By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.
By the time Lilian had been graduated from public school, her parents were doing quite well.
) By the time the streetcar pulled away, he had fallen in love with Paula.
By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.
By the age of six young Johnny indicated that he had the call.
By September 1940 the Suite had developed into a collection of six songs, `` four spirituals, a dream, and a lullaby ''.
By now he had become Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the Order of Merit.
By both standards Thomas had the right to be proud.
By June 19, 1788, he had presented himself to its Commander in Chief, the Governor of the Southern Provinces, the Director of the War College -- The Prince.
By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.
By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.
By this time Woodruff had accurately measured Pike as a man of great personal pride, a man who would fly into a towering rage if his integrity were questioned, and who would be anxious to avenge himself.
By 1834 the art of oratory had reached a very high level in the United States as a literary form.
By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.
By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.
By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.
By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.
By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.
By 800 social and cultural security had been achieved, at least on a simple plane ; ;
By this time large numbers of the audience had left the hall.
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