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By 1913, Ferdinand Lot could begin an article subtitled `` La Conquete De La Grande-Bretagne par Les Saxons '' with the words, `` Il est difficile aujourd'hui d'entretenir des illusions sur la valeur du recit traditionnel de la conquete de la Grande-Bretagne.
* 1668 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general ( d. 1741 )
De la Colonie, with his Grenadiers Rouge regiment, together with the Cologne Guards who were brigaded with them, was now ordered forward from his post south of Ramillies to support the faltering counter-attack on the village.
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Nicolas de Condorcet was especially noted for his advocacy, in his articles published in the Journal de la Société de 1789, and by publishing De l ' admission des femmes au droit de cité (" For the Admission to the Rights of Citizenship For Women ") in 1790.
" De la Barra and the Congress therefore decided to send troops under Victoriano Huerta to suppress Zapata's troops.
Madero wrote to De la Barra, saying that Huerta's actions were unjustified and recommending that Zapata's demands be met.
Représentation de la terreur dans l ’ œuvre allemande de Fritz Lang ( 1919-1933 / 1959-1960 )", un article de Nicole Brenez extrait de De la Figure en général et du Corps en particulier ( 1998 ).
* The original version of his article " The Production of Security " ( 1849 ), which was entitled in French: " De la production de la sécurité ".
* Gustave de Molinari, De la production de la sécurité ( 1849 )
Vannoccio Biringuccio, born in 1480, was a member of the guild Fraternita di Santa Barbara but broke with the tradition of secrecy by setting down everything he knew in a book titled De la pirotechnia, written in vernacular.
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The first of these was printed as De l ' Histoire de la poésie ( 1830 ), and was practically the first introduction of the French public to the Scandinavian and German epics.
* De l ' espèce et de la classification en zoologie on classification ( Trans.
* 1427 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
His De l ' elevation de la foy et de l ' abaissement de la raison en la creance des mysteres de la religion ( 1641 ) gave him early a high place as a metaphysician.

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When geologist Henry De la Beche painted Duria Antiquior, the first widely circulated pictorial representation of a scene from prehistoric life derived from fossil reconstructions, he based it largely on fossils Anning had found, and sold prints of it for her benefit.
Sketch of Mary Anning at work by Henry De la Beche
Henry De la Beche and Anning became friends as teenagers following his move to Lyme, and he, Mary, and sometimes Mary's brother Joseph, went fossil-hunting together.
De la Beche and Anning kept in touch as he became one of Britain's leading geologists.
Her friend the geologist Henry De la Beche assisted her by commissioning Georg Scharf to make a lithographic print based on De la Beche's watercolour painting, Duria Antiquior, portraying life in prehistoric Dorset that was largely based on fossils Anning had found.
De la Beche sold copies of the print to his fellow geologists and other wealthy friends and donated the proceeds to her.
After her death, Henry De la Beche, president of the Geological Society, wrote a eulogy that he read to a meeting of the society and published in its quarterly transactions, the first such eulogy given for a woman.
In 1821 William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche, both members of the Geological Society of London, collaborated on a paper that analysed in detail the specimens found by Anning and others.
William Conybeare named it Plesiosaurus ( near lizard ) because he thought it more like modern reptiles than the ichthyosaur had been, and he described it in the same 1821 paper he co-authored with Henry De la Beche on ichthyosaur anatomy.
The geologist Henry De la Beche painted the influential watercolour Duria Antiquior in 1830 based largely on fossils found by Anning.
In the early 19th century, the paleontology of the formation was studied intensively by Hugh Miller, Henry Thomas De la Beche, Roderick Murchison, and Adam Sedgwick -- Sedgwick's interpretation was the one that placed it in the Devonian: in fact it was he who coined the name of that period.
In 1855 Murchison was appointed director-general of the British Geological Survey and director of the Royal School of Mines and the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street, London, in succession to Sir Henry De la Beche, who had been the first to hold these offices.
Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche FRS ( 10 February 1796 – 13 April 1855 ) was an English geologist and palaeontologist who helped pioneer early geological survey methods.
De la Beche spent his early life living with his mother in Lyme Regis, where he acquired a love for geology through his friendship with Mary Anning.
This formed the starting point of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, which was officially recognized in 1835, when De la Beche was appointed director.
De la Beche appealed to the authorities to provide a larger structure and to widen the whole scope of the scientific establishment of which he was the head.
De la Beche published numerous memoirs on English geology in the Transactions of the Geological Society of London, as well as in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey, notably the Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset ( 1839 ).
Duria Antiquior-A more Ancient Dorset is a watercolor painted in 1830 by the geologist Henry De la Beche based on fossils found by Mary Anning
De la Beche was the principal antagonist of Roderick Murchison and Adam Sedgwick in what has been labeled The Great Devonian Controversy.
After his death students at the Royal College of Mines and other institutions competed for the bursary of the De la Beche medal.
The medal was in fact the second imprint, of a medal De la Beche had originally had engraved and struck for the slaves he inherited from his father on the plantation in Jamaica on his return to Lyme Regis in 1825.
A great supporter of the work and importance of Mary Anning, of Lyme Regis, De la Beche drew a sketch, in 1830, entitled Duria Antiquior-A More Ancient Dorset, which showed Mary Anning's finds: ( three types of Ichthyosaur, a Plesiosaur and Dimorphodon ).
De la Beche assisted Anning, who was having financial difficulties, by having a lithographic print made from his watercolour, and donating the proceeds from the sale of the prints to her.

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