Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Ajaccio" ¶ 18
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Paoli and sent
Paoli was convicted in absentia, a warrant was sent for his arrest ( which could not be served ) and Napoleon was dispatched to Corsica as Inspector-general of Artillery to take the citadel of Ajaccio from the royalists, who had held it since 1789.
The British heard rumors that Wayne was in the area, and General Howe sent out spies who reported his location near the Paoli Tavern in September 19.
They were then redirected to Corsica, a French-owned island, where British troops had been sent to join with Corsicans under Pasquale Paoli.
Paoli sent him to Rome to negotiate with Pope Clement XIII in 1766.
As deputy to the National Convention, Saliceti became a Montagnard and on 15 January 1793 voted for the death of King Louis XVI, and was sent to Corsica on mission to oversee Pasquale Paoli and enforce the Reign of Terror ; however, he was compelled to withdraw to Provence, where he took part in repressing the revolts at Marseille and Toulon.

Paoli and him
Napoleon earned the hatred of the Paolists by pretending to support Paoli and then turning against him ( payment, one supposes, for Sardinia ).
Before the end of the 19th century and while Paoli was still in his twenties, he went on a tour of Europe that earned him both popular acclaim, and imperial honors from princes, kings, and emperors.
When Paoli was young, his parents would often take him to operas at Ponce's La Perla Theater located a block away from Paoli's residence.
The Czar of Russia Nicholas II was present during one of the performances and after inviting Paoli to perform at the Royal winter palace, awarded Paoli The Cross of St. Mauricio medal and bestowed upon him the title Cammer Sanger ( Chamber Singer ).
People were there to see him fail ; I saw some guys with tomatoes and rotten eggs, ready to throw them as soon as Paoli made his first mistake.
I always dreamed to sing with Paoli, but I don't think my voice was good or strong enough to sing with him.
As early as 1904, Paoli was awarded The Cross of St. Mauricio medal by the Czar of Russia Nicholas II, and Maria Cristina de Habsburgo, Queen of Spain, declared Paoli Cantante de Camara de la Corte ( Chamber Singer of the Court ) and gave him La Gran Cruz de Isabel la Catolica ( The Cross of Isabella the Catholic ), while Carlos de Braganza, Prince of Portugal, named him Caballero Comendador del Cristo de Portugal y Cantante de Camara.

Paoli and on
Paoli returning in 1790 after 21 years kissed the soil on which he stood.
Wayne was born on January 1, 1745, in a log cabin on his family's Waynesborough estate, in Paoli, Pennsylvania.
U. S. Route 150 crosses Orange County, entering from Martin County to the west ; it passes just to the north of West Baden Springs and on through Paoli, continuing somewhat to the southeast and passing into Washington County and Hardinsburg to the east.
The New Washington Middle / High School Band has not had a contest win since 1978, but on September 19, 2009 the New Washington Marching Band and Guard won the Paoli Invitational in Class A.
Dressed as Federal troops, they crossed the Ohio River on horseback a few miles downstream from Leavenworth, then struck out for Paoli, pretending to be in pursuit of Union deserters.
Orange County Courthouse ( Indiana ) | Orange County Courthouse on the square in Paoli
East Goshen Township owns a park located on Paoli Pike.
The town is bordered by Paoli Pike on the south, Sugartown Road on the west, the Willistown Township on the east, and the East Whiteland Township on the north.
Malvern Borough is between Paoli on the east, and Immaculata University and Exton on the west.
It is also a train stop on the SEPTA Paoli / Thorndale Line.
Paoli was on the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, which was later absorbed into the Lincoln Highway, and became U. S. 30 still later.
For generations, Paoli was the western terminus of Pennsylvania Railroad commuter trains coming from Philadelphia on the Main Line.
Station-to-station, a trip from Paoli to downtown Philadelphia on the Paoli / Thorndale Line takes approximately 45 minutes.
Thorndale sits along the SEPTA Paoli / Thorndale Line and is currently the last station on that line.
Historically, the Chester Transportation Center was, like the Paoli station on the Paoli / Thorndale Line, both a commuter and intercity stop on the former Pennsylvania Railroad's New York-Washington route.

Paoli and Sardinia
Returning from Sardinia Napoleon with his family and all his supporters were instrumental in getting Paoli denounced at the National Convention in Paris in 1793.

Paoli and ordered
In 1760, General Pasquale Paoli ordered the necklace to be removed from the head and the blindfold raised.
Her father also opposed this relationship and ordered her to stop writing to Paoli.

Paoli and by
1, No. 2, July 1970, A Charlton Publication ) attributes this song to Susan Heather ( a pseudonym used by Marian B. Yarneall ), ( c ) 1952, 1965 by Mamy Music Corp out of Paoli, Pa. Later references show copyrights held by Gaylord Program Services, Inc. out of Nashville, TN, but this may be because Gaylord holds the copyrights for " Hee Haw.
Paoli is a former Quaker town that played a role in the Underground Railroad by transporting enslaved people from the South to Canada.
Wayne was so named by early railroad workers from Pennsylvania who adopted town names from the railways there, including Wayne, Paoli, Ardmore, and Wynnewood.
The former main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, currently owned and operated by Amtrak and also used by SEPTA, whose Paoli / Thorndale Line regional rail service, passes through, though no stations are located in the township.
The town of Paoli grew around an inn kept in 1769 by Joshua Evans, whose father bought from William Penn in 1719 near the current site of the Paoli Post Office.
The section of Paoli in Willistown Township is served by Great Valley School District.
Commuters traveling by rail within Southeastern Pennsylvania use the Paoli station, although most local trains serving Paoli now terminate in Malvern, one stop to the west.
Development in the township was sparked in the 19th century by construction and advertisement of the " Main Line " railroad service, which terminated in Paoli, which straddles the western border of the township.
In the US, however, " Time Alone Will Tell ", Francis ' cover version of San Remo's 1967 winning entry " Non pensare a me " which had been presented by Iva Zanicchi and Gino Paoli, peaked at # 94 on Billboard's Hot 100 and at # 14 on Billboard's AC charts.
In the 1950s, Haverford was the first institution in America to teach modern laboratory biology ( molecular biology ) to undergraduates ; within the department of physics is the only National Academy of Sciences member to currently teach at a liberal arts college ; The school is connected to center city Philadelphia by the Paoli / Thorndale Line commuter rail system and Norristown High Speed Line ( R100 ).
Delayed due to protests on campus caused by student concern over the Vietnam War, the machine was moved to Burroughs Corporation's Paoli Research Center in Paoli, Pennsylvania.
He was the eldest of six children born to Tommaso Bigordi by his first wife Antonia di ser Paolo Paoli ; of these, only Domenico and his brothers and collaborators Davide and Benedetto survived childhood.
On his safe return to Corsica he was warmly received by Pasquale Paoli, but found himself in opposition to the Bonaparte brothers who belonged to a different Corsican clan ( and one he detested ) who were now veering towards the Jacobin party.
Hood then turned to the occupation of Corsica, which he had been invited to take in the name of the King of Britain by Pasquale Paoli, who had been leader of the Corsican Republic before it was subjugated by the French in 1769.

0.264 seconds.