Ney was promoted to général de brigade in August 1796, and commanded cavalry on the German fronts.

He commanded a mixed cavalry-infantry brigade in Anton Sztaray's division at the Battle of Würzburg on 3 September 1796.

* The Persian Expedition of 1796, commanded by Catherine the Great

Indeed, whilst Nelson was ashore during the siege of Porto Ferrajo, Berry commanded the ship in such a way as to make him the subject of his captain's ' fullest approbation ', and he received the rank of Commander on 12 November 1796.

Glengarry commanded his regiment in Guernsey until August 1796, when he resigned.

In 1795, he commanded one of the two squadrons carrying troops for the Quiberon expedition and in 1796 his frigate squadron off Brest is said to have captured or destroyed 220 vessels.

In 1796, Dumanoir commanded a division under Admiral Bouvet during the Expédition d ' Irlande, with his flag on Révolution.

Sir Robert Pigot ( 1720 – 1796 ), who succeeded to the baronetcy, commanded his regiment ( the 38th ) at the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War.

Described in the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia papers of 1796 as a “ two-story wooden structure w / addition & a cellar floored in stone w / kitchen ”, Violet Bank originally fit an almost canonized two-over-two centre hall plan typical of the late colonial Tidewater Virginia.

The population figures for York from 1796 to 1834 include people living in the surrounding areas of the town centre:

In 1796 Alwernia is mentioned as being a ( small ) commercial and administrative centre.

After the British took over the country from the Dutch in the year 1796, they preserved the Fort unchanged, and used it as the administrative centre of Galle.

By the end of the eighteenth century the church was said to be in disrepair, and in 1825 James Haughton Langston ( 1796 – 1863 ), who had the living of Churchill & Sarsden, and who owned the Sarsden estate and most of Churchill, built a new one higher up the hill in what had become the centre of the village.

So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony — New Brunswick — was created in 1784 ; followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada ( French Canada ) along the St. Lawrence River and Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital settled by 1796 in York, in present-day Toronto.

He soon attracted the special attention of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him a general of division in December 1796, and repeatedly selected him for the command of important detachments.

During service with the Army of the Alps, he was promoted to general of brigade in September 1793 and to general of division in 1796.

For a short while, after the alliance between France and Spain had been concluded, in 1795, Lángara co-operated with Napoléon Bonaparte during his Italian campaign of 1796, and sailed from Cádiz with nineteen ships of the line and ten frigates, brushing aside Rear-Admiral Man's division which Jervis had posted to watch Cádiz, and passed into the Mediterranean Sea.

At the head of a division he took part in the celebrated campaigns of 1795-1797, and in 1796 covered Major-General Jean Moreau's right when that general invaded Bavaria.

He afterwards served for some time with the army of the Eastern Pyrenees, and in the Italian campaign of 1796 – 1799 he so acquitted himself at Mondovì, Rovereto and Mantua that he was promoted to be general of the division.

In 1796 he took part in the Expédition d ' Irlande as a chief of division, leading a 3-ship of the line and 4-frigate squadron, with his flag on Nestor.

In 1796, as chief of all Austrian forces on the Rhine, Charles out-generaled Jean-Baptiste Jourdan at Amberg and Würzburg, and forced Jean Victor Marie Moreau to withdraw across the Rhine, and followed these victories with others at Zürich, Ostrach, Stockach, and Messkirch in 1799.

Preachers from Guernsey visited regularly, and in 1796, land was donated by Jean Vaudin, leader of the Methodist community in Sark, for the construction of a chapel, which Jean de Quetteville dedicated in 1797.

In 1796 Jean Pierre Chouteau, a French trader from St. Louis, established the first trading post in 1796 at the junction of the Grand / Neosho River and Saline Creek for business with the Osage.

It was first used by Jean Paul in the novel Siebenkäs ( 1796 ), and explained by a footnote.

On 24 August 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, the city and its environs were the locale of a major battle at which 35, 000 French, under the command of Jean Baptiste Jourdan fought with 40, 000 under the command of Archduke Charles ; the French suffered significantly more losses in this Austrian victory.

In 1796, Jourdan and Jean Victor Marie Moreau's invasion of Germany ended in disaster and Marceau's men covered Jourdan's retreat over the Rhine.

In 1796, he joined the Army of the Rhine, under the command of Jean Victor Moreau.

While these writers were all more or less academic, and appealed to the cultured few, four poets of the people addressed a far wider public: Verdi ( 1779 – 1820 ), of Bordeaux, who wrote comic and satirical pieces ; Jean Reboul ( 1796 – 1864 ), the baker of Nîmes, who never surpassed his first effort, L ' Ange à l ' enfant ( 1828 ); Victor Gelu ( 1806-188 ~), relentless and brutal, but undeniably powerful of his kind ( Fenian ci Grouman ; dix chansons provençales, 1840 ); and, greatest of them all, the true and acknowledged forerunner of the felibres, Jacques Jasmin, whose poems, both lyrical and narrative, continue to find favour with men of the highest culture and literary attainments, as with the villagers for whom they were primarily intended.

* 19 June 1796 – 19 July 1796: Jean Étienne Marie Portalis

* 19 July 1796 – 18 August 1796: Jean Dussaulx

Other important names in its historical development were Jean Zuléma Amussat ( 1796 – 1856 ), Auguste Nélaton ( 1807 – 1873 ), Henry Thompson ( 1820 – 1904 ) and William Cheselden ( 1688 – 1752 ).

* was a 16-gun sloop-of-war, originally the French corvette Jean Bart, captured in 1795 in the English Channel by HMS Cerberus and HMS Santa Margarita, and wrecked in 1796.

Jean Zuléma Amussat ( 21 November 1796 – 13 May 1856 ) was a French surgeon.

Key French polygenists of this period included the naturalist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent and Louis-Antoine Desmoulins ( 1796 – 1828 ), a student of Georges Cuvier.

In 1796, the group headed by Clermont ( Claremore ) and Pawhuska settled near Jean Pierre Chouteau's trading post on the Verdigris River in Indian Territory

The main square of the town is the Place Abbatucci, named after the Corsican-born French general Jean Charles Abbatucci who unsuccessfully defended it in 1796 against the Austrians and died here.

Jean Baptiste Madou ( 3 February 1796 – 31 March 1877 ), was a Belgian painter and lithographer.

Conflict between the British and the black Caribs continued until 1796, when General Abercrombie crushed a revolt fomented by the French radical Victor Hugues.

* June 6 – Victor Maitre, French aristocrat ( d. 1796 )

# Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia ( 1726 – 1796 ); married Infanta Maria Antonietta of Spain and had issue.

Victor Amadeus III ( Vittorio Amadeo Maria ; 26 June 1726 – 16 October 1796 ) was King of Sardinia from 1773 until his death.

* Victor Amadeus III: 1773 – 1796

* Sardinia: Charles Emmanuel IV ( 1796 – 1802 ), Victor Emmanuel I ( 1802 – 1821 )

* Victor ( 1796 – 1864 )

* Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia ( 1726 – 1796 ) grandson of the above

In 1796 the celebrated French General, Victor Collot, who was traveling through the Mississippi Valley, supposedly gathering material for a book on the fauna and flora of the region, stopped off to visit Bore.

Other notable people who stopped in Cassano include Napoleon in 1796 and 1807, and King Victor Emmanuel II and Emperor Napoleon III in 1859, just before the Battle of Solferino.