August 2, 1766 saw the birth of Saint-Pierre de Louis Delgrès, a mixed-race free black who would serve in the French army and fight the British in 1794, before becoming the leader of the unsuccessful resistance in Guadeloupe against General Richepance, whom Napoleon had sent to restore slavery to that colony.

One, by Sen. Louis Crump of San Saba, would aid more than 17,000 retailers who pay a group of miscellaneous excise taxes by eliminating the requirement that each return be notarized.

Speakers at a Tipoff Club dinner dealt lavish praise to a group of St. Louis University players who, in the words of Coach John Benington, `` had more confidence in themselves than I did ''.

The criteria adopted for many of the mental disorders were taken from the Research Diagnostic Criteria ( RDC ) and Feighner Criteria, which had just been developed by a group of research-orientated psychiatrists based primarily at Washington University in St. Louis and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Louis Jordan, the first innovator of this style, featured an upright bass in his group, the Tympany Five.

Many individuals closely associated with Breton, notably Louis Aragon, left his group to work more closely with the Communists.

" In 1985 Louis Farrakhan invited white supremacist Tom Metzger, leader of the White Aryan Resistance ( a neo-Nazi white power group ), to attend a NOI gathering.

Dynastic group portrait of Louis XIV ( seated ) with his son Louis, Dauphin of France ( 1661 – 1711 ) | le Grand Dauphin ( to the left ), his grandson Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy | Louis, Duke of Burgundy ( to the right ), his great-grandson the duc d ' Anjou, later Louis XV, and Madame de Ventadour, his governess, who commissioned this painting some years later ; busts of Henry IV of France | Henry IV and Louis XIII of France | Louis XIII in the background.

Among these were several of the mob-affiliated hitmen belonging to the murder-for-hire group Murder, Inc., which was headed up by major mob leaders Louis " Lepke " Buchalter and Albert Anastasia.

Starting off playing at a club called Kingsbury's in Madison, Illinois, within a year Turner had built up a full gig schedule, establishing his group as one of the most highly rated on the St. Louis club circuit, vying for popularity with their main competition, Sir John's Trio featuring Chuck Berry.

In East St. Louis, his group played Kingsbury's, Club Manhattan and The Sportsman.

Louis Henry Sullivan ( September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924 ) was an American architect, and has been called the " father of skyscrapers " and " father of modernism " He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.

On September 11, 1792, while Louis XVI and his family were confined in the Palais des Tuileries near the Place de la Concorde during the early stages of the French Revolution, a group of thieves broke into the Garde-Meuble ( Royal Storehouse ) and stole most of the Crown Jewels during a five-day looting spree.

A group of writers became associated with him: Philippe Soupault, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, René Crevel, Michel Leiris, Benjamin Péret, Antonin Artaud, and Robert Desnos.

George and Louis Johnson later joined Billy Preston's band, and wrote Music in My Life and The Kids and Me for him before leaving his group in 1973.

They started doing separate ventures ; Louis Johnson played bass on Michael Jackson's Thriller and recorded a gospel music album in 1981 with his own group Passage, which included his then-wife Valerie Johnson and former Brothers Johnson percussionist / singer, Richard Heath.

A further step was the 1770 paper Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations by the French-Italian mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange, in his method of Lagrange resolvents, where he analyzed Cardano and Ferrarri's solution of cubics and quartics by considering them in terms of permutations of the roots, which yielded an auxiliary polynomial of lower degree, providing a unified understanding of the solutions and laying the groundwork for group theory and Galois theory.

The King's council, an informal group of ministers that advised Louis XVIII, was dissolved and replaced by a tighter knit privy council, the " Ministère de Roi ".

In 1786 Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, led a group of scientists and artists on a voyage of exploration ordered by Louis XVI and were welcomed in Monterey.

* 1848 – Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers right.

Meanwhile, a new threat arose from abroad: Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Frederick William II of Prussia, and the King's brother Charles-Philippe, comte d ' Artois, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which considered the cause of Louis XVI as their own, demanded his absolute liberty and implied an invasion of France on his behalf if the revolutionary authorities refused its conditions.

When the Brunswick Manifesto of July 1792 once more threatened the French population with Austrian ( Imperial ) and Prussian attacks, Louis XVI was suspected of treason and taken along with his family from the Tuileries Palace in August 1792 by insurgents supported by a new revolutionary Paris Commune.

As ambassador, Monroe secured the release of Thomas Paine in revolutionary France after his arrest for opposition to the execution of Louis XVI.

This was the time of Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser, and the victories of Mao Zedong in China and Fidel Castro in Cuba, as well as the events of May 1968 led to increased interest in revolutionary ideology, especially by the New Left.

The guillotine ( called the " National Razor ") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité ( Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ), and Madame Roland, as well as many others, such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade.

In the Declaration of January 27, 1925, for example, members of the Paris-based Bureau of Surrealist Research ( including André Breton, Louis Aragon, and, Antonin Artaud, as well as some two dozen others ) declared their affinity for revolutionary politics.

* August 25 – Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Just, French revolutionary ( d. 1794 )

* November 6 – Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans, French noble and revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1747 )

In response to Goodall's revolutionary findings, Louis Leakey wrote, " We must now redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as human!

Again this failed, so Louis convoked the Assembly of Notables in 1787 to discuss a revolutionary new fiscal reform proposed by Calonne.

The empty pedestal in front of him had supported a statue of his grandfather, Louis XV of France | Louis XV, now torn down during one of the many revolutionary riots.

Unfortunately the removal of the child suited the plans of the comte de Provence, now Louis XVIII, as well as it suited those of the revolutionary government.

The new revolutionary government erected the guillotine in the square, and it was here that King Louis XVI was executed on 21 January 1793.

The empty pedestal in front of him had supported a statue of his grandfather, Louis XV of France | Louis XV, torn down during one of the many revolutionary riots.

Fox thought of revolutionary France as the lesser of two evils, and emphasised the role of traditional despots in perverting the course of the revolution: he argued that Louis XVI and the French aristocracy had brought their fates upon themselves by abusing the constitution of 1791 and that the coalition of European autocrats, which was currently dispatching its armies against France's borders, had driven the revolutionary government to desperate and bloody measures by exciting a profound national crisis.

On 21 January the revolutionary government executed Louis XVI after a trial.

Cassini was chosen to head the northern expedition but, as a royalist, he refused to serve under the revolutionary government after the arrest of King Louis XVI on his Flight to Varennes.

Louis XVI's indecision on how to deal with revolutionary demands was one of the causes of the forcible transfer of the royal family from the Palace of Versailles to the Tuileries in Paris on October 6, 1789 after Versailles had been attacked by an angry mob.

In November, proof of Louis XVI's secret dealings with the deceased revolutionary politician, Mirabeau, and of his counterrevolutionary intrigues with foreigners was found in a secret cupboard in the Tuileries.

In the letter William Louis discusses the use of ranks by soldiers of Imperial Rome as discussed in Aelian's Tactica.

It failed but in August 1840, Prince Louis Napoleon tried another coup at Boulogne with hired soldiers.

During Louis ' captivity, Turanshah was overthrown by his Mamluk soldiers, led by the general Aybak, who then released Louis in May in return for Damietta and a large ransom.

The celebrated march of 1781 to Yorktown, Virginia that ended with the defeat of the British at the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake began in Newport, Rhode Island under the joint command of General George Washington who led American troops and the Comte de Rochambeau who led French soldiers sent by King Louis XVI.

Napoleon then accused Louis of putting Dutch interests above those of France, and removed most of the French forces in Holland for the coming war in the east, leaving only about 9, 000 garrison soldiers in the country.

Louis XIV initiated the project by an order dated 24 November 1670, as a home and hospital for aged and unwell soldiers: the name is a shortened form of hôpital des invalides.

Louis was driven out of the Dauphiné by Charles VII's soldiers in 1456, leaving the region to fall back into disorder.

Louis Philippe saw the first exchanges of fire of the Revolutionary Wars at Boussu and Quaragnon and a few days later fought at Quiévrain near Jemappes, where he was instrumental in rallying a unit of retreating soldiers.

The next day, Dumouriez again tried to rally soldiers against the Convention ; however, he found that the artillery had declared for the Republic, leaving him and Louis Philippe with no choice but to go into exile.

The assignment had helped Churchill develop a breadth of experience that other mere soldiers were never to achieve, yet because of the duplicitous dealings of Charles II's secret negotiations with Louis XIV ( Charles had no intention of waging war against France ), the mission ultimately proved abortive.

Free French Air Force Corporal Louis ' Louie ' LeBeau ( Robert Clary ) was a Master chef and notoriously patriotic Frenchman, often referring to Nazis and Germans ' generally ' as " pigs ", and specifically as " Boche " or " dirty Boche ", which was traditionally meant to be considered an insult to WWI and WWII German soldiers.

Gravano installed Louis " Big Lou " Vallario, Frank Fappiano, and Michael " Mikey Scars " DiLeonardo as his day-to-day soldiers in the construction rackets.

The margrave of Baden-Baden, Louis William ( died 1707 ), figured prominently among the soldiers who resisted the aggressions of France.

The movement's contemporaries, such as the King Louis XVI, located the effectiveness of the revolutionary movement not " in the force and bayonets of soldiers, guns, cannons and shells but by the marks of political power " ( Schama ; 1989 ; 279 ).

Due to sudden transfer of Java and Sumatera from General Douglas MacArthur's American-dominated Southwest Pacific Area to Lord Louis Mountbatten's British-dominated Southeast Asian Command, the first Allied soldiers ( 1st Battalion of Seaforth Highlanders ) only arrived in Jakarta on late September 1945.

Pike left Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri on July 15 with a detachment of 20 soldiers and 50 Osage hostages, freed for return to their people.

An intimate of the king, a finished courtier and leader of society and a man of great personal gallantry, Villeroy was marked out for advancement in the army, which he loved, but where career soldiers had always a juster appreciation of his incapacity than Louis.

The years between 1668 and 1672, says Camille Rousset, " were years of preparation, when Lionne was labouring with all his might to find allies, Colbert to find money, and Louvois soldiers for Louis ".

Concini had to be eliminated because he was perceived by Louis XIII as a menace-a powerful politician, having a personal army of 7, 000 soldiers and important supporters and contacts among the aristocrats of France.

There, the soldiers were presented as glorious heroes to Louis XIV, a monarch well known for his eye toward personal adornment.

Louis XIV however authorised preparations through which the number of soldiers grew to 82, 000 by the start of the war.

Some historians believe that the name was given as travelers and soldiers from the 19th century, traveled from Port Louis and Grand Port ( Mahébourg ) to refill their pipes in Curepipe.

Through the arrangements of Phaulkon, the Siamese kingdom came into close diplomatic relations with the court of Louis XIV and French soldiers and missionaries filled the Siamese aristocracy and defense.