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On 21 April Comte d ' Estrées set off in the direction of Mons with a force of cavalry, while Du Chayla, pursuing a different route, set out with the intention of uniting with d ' Estrées in the vicinity of that town.
Here, a reserve corps was formed under Hanoverian General Moltke, and detached towards Leuze where 50 French squadrons under Du Chayla were stationed as a corps of observation.
He served on the Du Chayla as a midshipman, taking part in the campaign in Morocco which led to the Treaty of Fez, in 1912.

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Across the road is the kitchen, and waiters bearing great trays of dishes dodge traffic as nimbly as their French colleagues at the restaurant in the Place Du Tertre in Paris.
Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.
Competitors came to receive higher percentage of General Motors business in later years, but it is `` likely '' that this trend stemmed `` at least in part '' from the needs of General Motors outstripping Du Pont's capacity.
At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.
Counsel for Du Pont indicated a preference for the submission of detailed plans by both sides at an early date.
Its high impact strength, even at low temperatures, resists chipping, cracking, and crazing, according to Du Pont.
A massive investigation of the characteristics of in-migrants and prospective out-migrants in Ruanda-Urundi is being carried on by J. J. Maquet, former Director of the Social Science branch of IRSAC, now a professor at l'Universite Officielle Du Congo Belge et Du Ruanda-Urundi.
For many years the Northwest Company had its southern headquarters at Prairie Du Chien on the Mississippi River, some 300 miles southeast of present-day St. Paul, Minnesota.
In September 1817 at Fort Daer ( Pembina ) Dickson met the noble lord whom, with the help of a band of Sioux, he escorted to Prairie Du Chien.
In 1819 grasshoppers again destroyed the crop at `` the Forks '' ( Fort Douglas ) and in December 1819, twenty men left Fort Daer for the most northerly American outpost at Prairie Du Chien.
Hercules L. Dousman, fur trader and merchant at Prairie Du Chien, contracted to supply Selkirk's people with some 300 head of cattle, and Alexis Bailly and Francois Labothe were hired as drovers.
They would attempt to bring supplies from St. Louis or Prairie Du Chien at `` great expense as well as danger ''.
However the dismasted Tonnant, Commodore Du Petit Thouars now dead from his wounds and thrown overboard at his own request, was unable to make the required speed and was driven ashore by its crew, while Timoléon was too far south to escape with Villeneuve and in attempting to join the survivors had also grounded on the shoal.
Another time, a Du Pont executive made a visit to see him at Columbia.
militissa ), Du Cange notes that still in his day ( 17th c .), the female canons of the canonical monastery of St. Gertrude in Nivelles ( Brabant ), after a probation of 3 years, are made knights ( militissae ) at the altar, by a ( male ) knight called in for that purpose, who gives them the accolade with a sword and pronounces the usual words.
Du Pont was living in the United States at the time and had close ties to Jefferson as well as the prominent politicians in France.
This shortage of natural rubber prompted the chemists at American companies such as Du Pont and Standard Oil, and researchers at Harvard University, to strive to develop factory-made alternatives-artificial rubber for all uses, including vehicle tires, tank tracks, gaskets, hoses, medical supplies and rain clothing.
In 1991, at the age of twelve, Robyn recorded the theme song for the Swedish television show Lilla Sportspegeln, named Du kan alltid bli nummer ett (" You can always be number one ").
Along with Du Bois, he partly organized the " Negro exhibition " at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where photos, taken by his friend Frances Benjamin Johnston, of Hampton Institute's black students were displayed.
* Washington & Du Bois at C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History
In June 2007, " Not the Messiah ( He's a Very Naughty Boy )", a comic oratorio by Idle and John Du Prez premiered at the inaugural Luminato arts festival in Toronto.

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He also ( controversially, nowadays ) likens the Doasyoulikes to the natives of Africa, by mentioning that one of the gorillas shot by Du Chaillu " remembered that his ancestors had once been men, and tried to say, ' Am I not a man and a brother?
Obviously, this was not a good reason and Chiang was enraged when Du presented his view, because Chiang interpreted such reason would imply that all of the nationalists were corrupted, and only the communists were clean, not mentioning the fact that Du's wife was once a communist herself.
At the Staff Office Henry and Du Paty, understanding at once the wishes of Boisdeffre and of Gonse, resolved to join forces with Esterhazy.
Du Prez composed the score for the film and would work once more with Modern Romance ( band ) member, David Jaymes, who acted as music supervisor, having since ventured into the management side of the business.
Du Bartas ' poems went rapidly out of fashion as the 17th century, characterised by a tight and precise style, reacted against its somewhat wordy and expansive-and at times unintentionally pathetic-verse, and Du Bartas has never regained the popularity he once enjoyed.
The Bakken's present director David Rhees once identified the most significant holdings as works by Jean Antoine Nollet, Benjamin Franklin, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Luigi Galvani, Giovanni Aldini, Alessandro Volta, Guillame Benjamin Amand Duchenne, and Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond and the journals Annalen der Physik, the Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society and Zeitschrift für Physik.

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In late 726, after Du left his office, Sulu attacked, causing much damage, and Sulu withdrew only after he heard that Du had been made chancellor.

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Because of the authentic homogeneity of his early Nationalistic materials, and his flair for orchestrations -- his brilliant Petruchka, his savage Sacre Du Printemps, his incisive Les Noces -- the world kept hoping that he could recapture the historical direction for which his native talents were predisposed.
Spamalot features a book and lyrics by Eric Idle, music by Idle and John Du Prez, direction by Mike Nichols, and choreography by Casey Nicholaw.
Thus, Du Bois-Reymond's work lay chiefly in the direction of animal electricity, yet he carried his inquiries — such as could be studied by physical methods — into other parts of physiology, more especially into the phenomena of diffusion, though he published little or nothing concerning the results at which he arrived.

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The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.
This, however, did not bar finding that Du Pont had become pre-eminent as a supplier of automotive fabrics and finishes to General Motors ; ;
Du Pont, he said, had proposed disenfranchisement of its General Motors stock along with other restrictions on the Du Pont - General Motors relationship.
The Government, deeming these suggestions inadequate, had urged that any judgment include divestiture of Du Pont's shares of General Motors.
Although Captain Du Petit Thouars had lost both legs and an arm he remained in command, insisting on having the tricolour nailed to the mast to prevent it from being struck and giving orders from his position propped up on deck in a bucket of wheat.
De Fer in turn had copied images that were first printed in books by Louis Hennepin, published in 1697, and François Du Creux, in 1664.
There had also been other instances of disobedience prior to this, according to the official Du Parcq report into the incident such as a model prisoner attacking a popular guard with a razor blade and rough treatment of a prisoner being removed to solitary.
" These utterances were sometimes accompanied by the gift of interpretation exercised, in Du Bois ' experience, by the same person who had spoken in tongues.
The following year, in preparation for the Salon de la Section d ' Or, Metzinger and Gleizes wrote and published Du " Cubisme " in an effort to dispel the confusion raging around the word, and as a major defence of Cubism ( which had caused a public scandal following the 1911 Salon des Indépendants and the 1912 Salon d ' Automne in Paris ).
The fact that the 1912 exhibition had been curated to show the successive stages through which Cubism had transited, and that Du " Cubisme " had been published for the occasion, indicates the artists ' intention of making their work comprehensible to a wide audience ( art critics, art collectors, art dealers and the general public ).
The centrality of a father in this novel matches Balzac's own position – not only as mentor to his troubled young secretary, Jules Sandeau, but also the fact that he had ( most likely ) fathered a child, Marie-Caroline, with his otherwise-married lover, Maria Du Fresnay.
In ancient China there was Sunshu Ao ( 6th century BC ), Ximen Bao ( 5th century BC ), Du Shi ( circa 31 AD ), Zhang Heng ( 78-139 AD ), and Ma Jun ( 200-265 AD ), while medieval China had Su Song ( 1020-1101 AD ) and Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ).
The Eye of Providence had been a well-known classical symbol of the deity since at least the Renaissance, which Du Simitiere was familiar with.
Of the four men whose ideas were adopted, neither Charles Thomson, Pierre Du Simitière nor William Barton were Masons and, while Francis Hopkinson has been alleged to have had Masonic connections, there is no firm evidence to support the claim.
The song was already published in several song books and sung with " Du gamla, Du friska ", but a priest who had known Dybeck got the opportunity to tell the singer most associated with the song, opera singer Carl Fredrik Lundqvist, about the change in the year 1900.

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