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Vaubois and wrote
On 24 November 1796, Bonaparte wrote of him, " Vaubois is a brave man.

Vaubois and being
Modesty is being wined and dined by René Vaubois, head of the French Deuxième Bureau ( the French Intelligence Service ), on a floating restaurant on the Seine.

Vaubois and with
A slightly reinforced Vaubois clung to a strong position with about 8, 000 troops, keeping Davidovich's 14, 000 soldiers bottled up in the Adige valley.
During the Arcola campaign, Vaubois defended Trento with a 10, 500-man division.
Paul Davidovich's Austrian corps proved to be unexpectedly strong and fell upon Vaubois with 18, 000 men.
The following day, Pigot and Captain George Martin, RN, negotiated terms of surrender with General Vaubois and contre-amiral Villeneuve.
The advanced posts of General Vaubois have come up with the Austrian division which defends the Tyrol, and made one hundred and ten prisoners "
René Vaubois ' car has been wired with explosives.

Vaubois and last
However, she was the last ship to re-supply Vaubois and his men.

Vaubois and .
Within a week Bonaparte had resupplied his ships, and on 19 June his fleet departed for Alexandria in the direction of Crete, leaving 4, 000 men at Valletta under General Claude-Henri Vaubois to ensure French control of the islands.
The Maltese people rebelled, and the French garrison of General Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois retreated into Valletta.
Eventually, General Vaubois, the commander of the French forces, surrendered to the British forces, represented by Captain George Martin and Major General Henry Pigot.
Under the rule of General Vaubois civil marriages were introduced to Malta, and all non-Maltese clergymen and women were ordered to leave the Islands.
Davidovich scored a victory against Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois at Calliano and menaced Verona from the north.
Leaving Vaubois ' battered division to contain Davidovich, Bonaparte massed every available man and tried to turn Alvinczi's left flank by crossing the Adige.
That day Davidovich routed Vaubois, but it was too late.
Bonaparte deployed a 10, 500-man division under General of Division Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois at Lavis to watch Davidovich.
The ruse was so successful that Bonaparte ordered Vaubois to advance and defeat his opponent so that he could shift 3, 000 troops to help fight Alvinczi.
On 2 November, Vaubois attacked Davidovich near Cembra, inflicting 1, 116 casualties before retiring.
The next day, Vaubois pulled back to Calliano.
Davidovich attacked Vaubois at the Battle of Calliano on 6 November but was repulsed after hard fighting.
After holding out all day, French morale collapsed in the late afternoon and Vaubois ' men fled the battlefield in a panic.
Between 2 and 7 November, Vaubois ' division suffered 4, 400 killed, wounded, and missing and lost six artillery pieces.
After Alvinczi sent him a mistaken report that Masséna was reinforcing Vaubois, Davidovich became very cautious.
On 17 November, Davidovich finally attacked Vaubois at Rivoli.
Vaubois pulled back toward Peschiera del Garda while Davidovich pursued as far as Castelnuovo del Garda.
Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois ( 1 October 1748, Ville-sous-la-Ferté, Aube – 5 November 1839 ) was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
On 20 August 1808 he was created Comte de Belgrand de Vaubois.
In a series of skirmishes, Vaubois was driven out of Trento and pushed back to Calliano where his command was defeated on 7 November.
Bonaparte arrived to stabilize the situation but the French army commander left Vaubois to do the best he could while Bonaparte attacked the main Austrian army at Arcola.
The French won the three-day battle of Arcola on 17 November, the same day that Davidovich beat Vaubois again at Rivoli Veronese.

wrote and Mindful
Mindful of Bradman's big scores for Bowral, the association wrote to him, requesting his attendance at a practice session in Sydney.
Isaac Asimov apparently had in mind this story when he wrote "... That Thou Art Mindful of Him ",, since Asimov's title is from the same Bible verse, and two of Asimov's robots debate the same subject.

wrote and being
'' Private Jenkins Lloyd Jones of the Wisconsin Light Artillery wrote in his diary: `` I strolled among the Alabamans on the right, found some of the greenest specimens of humanity I think in the universe, their ignorance being little less than the slave they despise with as imperfect a dialect.
Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.
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The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that Xerxes sought his harem after being defeated in the Greco-Persian Wars.
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" There can be found no fact that is true or existent, or any true proposition ," he wrote, " without there being a sufficient reason for its being so and not otherwise, although we cannot know these reasons in most cases.
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Aldous Huxley wrote that Poe's writing " falls into vulgarity " by being " too poetical "— the equivalent of wearing a diamond ring on every finger.
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Deciding to author a book on the subject, he wrote Keris and Other Malay Weapons, being encouraged to do so by anthropologist friends ; it would subsequently edited into a readable form by Betty Lumsden Milne and published by the Singapore-based Progressive Publishing Company in 1936.
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When Kemp became Dole's running mate in 1996, they appeared on the cover of the August 19, 1996 issue of Time magazine, but the pair barely edged out a story on the reported discovery of extraterrestrial life on Mars, which was so close to being the cover story that Time inset it on the cover and wrote about how difficult the decision was.

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