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Armand Louis de Gontaut

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Armand Louis de Gontaut, Duc de Lauzun, later duc de Biron, and usually referred to by historians of the French Revolution simply as Biron (13 April 174731 December 1793) was a French soldier and politician, known for the part he played in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars. [1]

56 relations: Aimée de Coigny, Army of Italy (France), Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle, Army of the Interior, Army of the Rhine (1791–1801), Auguste Marie Henri Picot de Dampierre, Étienne Deprez-Crassier, Battle of Saorgio, Battle of Saorgio (1793), Battle of Tournay (1792), Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville, Biron, Charles Aimé de Royrand, Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine, Charles James Fox, Charles-Armand de Gontaut, duc de Biron, Clairval, Demonstration of 20 June 1792, Duke of Lauzun, Edmund Burke, Eustache Charles d'Aoust, French frigate Résolue (1778), Gaspard Jean-Baptiste Brunet, Gontaut, Hôtel Biron, History of Trumbull, Connecticut, HMS Lively (1756), Izabela Czartoryska, Jedediah Huntington, Johann Peter Beaulieu, Lauzun, Lebanon, Connecticut, List of colonial governors of Senegal, List of French generals of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, List of French peers, List of French-language authors, List of members of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789, List of military leaders in the American Revolutionary War, List of rulers of Monaco, Louis Antoine de Gontaut, Louis Philippe I, Louis XVI and the Legislative Assembly, Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert, Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne, Maximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix, Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, P Street Bridge, The Lady and the Duke, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, USS Duc de Lauzun (1782), ..., War in the Vendée, War Office (Lebanon, Connecticut), Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route, Yorktown campaign, 1747 in France, 5th Hussar Regiment (France). Expand index (6 more) »

Aimée de Coigny

Aimée de Coigny (12 October 1769 – 17 January 1820) was a French noblewoman who was known as a great beauty and was imprisoned during the French Revolution.

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Army of Italy (France)

The Army of Italy (Armée d'Italie) was a field army of the French Army stationed on the Italian border and used for operations in Italy itself.

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Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle

The Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle (Armée des côtes de La Rochelle) was an army of the French Revolution which was created on 30 April 1793 and responsible for defending a region from the mouth of the Loire River south to the Gironde.

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Army of the Interior

The Army of the Interior (Armée de l'Intérieur) was a name given to two field armies of the French Revolutionary Army.

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Army of the Rhine (1791–1801)

The Army of the Rhine (Armée du Rhin) was formed in December 1791, for the purpose of bringing the French Revolution to the German states along the Rhine River.

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Auguste Marie Henri Picot de Dampierre

Auguste Marie Henri Picot de Dampierre (19 August 1756 – 9 May 1793), styled the Marquis de Dampierre and usually known as Dampierre, was a French general during the time of the French Revolution.

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Étienne Deprez-Crassier

Jean Étienne Philibert de Prez de Crassier or Étienne Desprez-Crassier (18 January 1733 – 6 July 1803) was a French politician and army commander in the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Battle of Saorgio

The Battle of Saorgio was fought from 24 to 28 April 1794 between a French First Republic army commanded by Pierre Jadart Dumerbion and the armies of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont and the Habsburg Monarchy led by Joseph Nikolaus De Vins.

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Battle of Saorgio (1793)

The First Battle of Saorgio (8–12 June 1793) saw a Republican French army commanded by Gaspard Jean-Baptiste Brunet attack the armies of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont and Habsburg Austria led by Joseph Nikolaus De Vins.

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Battle of Tournay (1792)

The Battle of Tournay (1792) was a conflict between the Archduchy of Austria and the Kingdom of France during the War of the First Coalition.

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Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville

Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville, Duchess of Gramont (18 November 1729 Lunéville - 17 April 1794 Paris) was a French salonnière and bibliophile.

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Biron

Biron may refer to.

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Charles Aimé de Royrand

Charles Aimé de Royrand (14 March 1726 – 5 December 1793) became a Vendean leader in the War in the Vendée, a revolt against the French Revolution.

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Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine

General Charles Edward Jennings Saul De Kilmaine (19 October 1751 – 11 December 1799), sometimes romanticized as Brave Kilmaine, was an Irish soldier and revolutionary who served France in the eighteenth century.

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Charles James Fox

Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.

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Charles-Armand de Gontaut, duc de Biron

Charles Armand de Gontaut, duc de Biron (5 August 1663 — 23 July 1756), great-grandson of Armand de Gontout-Biron, was a French military leader who served with distinction under Louis XIV and Louis XV, and was made a Marshal of France by the latter.

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Clairval

Clairval, real name Jean-Baptiste Guignard, (27 April 1735, Étampes – 1795, Paris) was an 18th-century French operatic singer (tenor), comedian and librettist.

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Demonstration of 20 June 1792

The Demonstration of 20 June 1792 (Journée du 20 juin 1792) was the last peaceful attempt made by the people of Paris to persuade King Louis XVI of France to abandon his current policy and attempt to follow what they believed to be a more empathetic approach to governing.

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Duke of Lauzun

The title of Duc de Lauzun was a French peerage created in 1692 for Antoine Nompar de Caumont under influence of Mary of Modena.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (12 January 17309 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.

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Eustache Charles d'Aoust

Eustache Charles Joseph d'Aoust (27 February 1763, Douai – 2 July 1794, Paris) was a general officer during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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French frigate Résolue (1778)

Résolue was an ''Iphigénie''-class 32-gun frigate of the French Navy.

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Gaspard Jean-Baptiste Brunet

Gaspard Jean-Baptiste Brunet (14 June 1734 – 15 November 1793) commanded the French Army of Italy during the French Revolutionary Wars and was executed during the Reign of Terror.

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Gontaut

Gontaut may refer to.

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Hôtel Biron

The Hôtel Biron is an hôtel particulier in the rue de Varenne, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, that was built from 1727 to 1732 to the designs of the architect Jean Aubert.

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History of Trumbull, Connecticut

Trumbull, a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States, was originally home to the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation, and was colonized by the English during the Great Migration of the 1630s as a part of the coastal settlement of Stratford.

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HMS Lively (1756)

HMS Lively was a 20-gun post ship of the Royal Navy, launched in 1756.

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Izabela Czartoryska

Princess Izabela Dorota Czartoryska (née Fleming; 3 March 1746 – 15 July 1835) was a Polish noblewoman, writer, and art collector who is widely regarded as a very prominent figure of the Enlightenment in Poland.

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Jedediah Huntington

Jedediah (or Jedidiah) Huntington (4 August 1743 – 25 September 1818), was an American general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

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Johann Peter Beaulieu

Johann Peter de Beaulieu, also Jean Pierre de Beaulieu (born 26 October 1725 in Lathuy, Brabant, Belgium– died 22 December 1819), was a Walloon military officer.

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Lauzun

Lauzun is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France.

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Lebanon, Connecticut

Lebanon is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States.

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List of colonial governors of Senegal

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List of French generals of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

The list includes the general officers in the French service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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List of French peers

They were probably, at the time of the old Frankish monarchy, the great princes and vassals who were called to appoint the successor of the king among the eligible princes to the crown.

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List of French-language authors

Chronological list of French language authors (regardless of nationality), by date of birth.

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List of members of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789

This list aims to display alphabetically the 1,145 titular deputies (291 deputies of the clergy, 270 of the nobility and 584 of the Third Estate-commoners) elected to the Estates-General of 1789, which became the National Assembly on 17 June 1789 and the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July 1789; as well as the alternate delegates who sat.

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List of military leaders in the American Revolutionary War

Many military leaders played a role in the American Revolutionary War.

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List of rulers of Monaco

The following is a list of rulers of Monaco.

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Louis Antoine de Gontaut

Louis Antoine de Gontaut-Biron, duc de Biron (1700–1788) was Duke of Biron and a French military leader who served with distinction under Louis XV, and was made a Marshal of France in 1757.

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Louis Philippe I

Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 as the leader of the Orléanist party.

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Louis XVI and the Legislative Assembly

The French Revolution was a period in the history of France covering the years 1789 to 1799, in which republicans overthrew the Bourbon monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church in France perforce underwent radical restructuring.

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Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert

Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert de Fontenille (8 March 1736, La Chapelle-en-Juger, near Saint-Lô, Manche – 18 April 1794, Puigcerdà) was a French general of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne

Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne (Marie Sophie Charlotte; 20 December 1729, Paris – 6 September 1763.) was a French noblewoman and member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne.

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Maximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix

Maximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix, born Charles-Pierre-Maximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix (13 June 1736, in Paris – 23 June 1810, in Bourbonne-les-Bains), was a noted French financier and politician.

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Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe

The following is the list of the names of the 660 persons inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris.

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P Street Bridge

The P Street Bridge or Lauzun's Legion Bridge is a concrete arch bridge that conveys P Street across Rock Creek and Rock Creek Park between the Georgetown and Dupont Circle neighborhoods of Northwest Washington, D.C. The first bridge at this site was constructed in 1855 and was replaced in 1935 by the current structure.

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The Lady and the Duke

The Lady and the Duke (L'Anglaise et le Duc) is a 2001 feature film by French director Éric Rohmer.

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Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (also known as Alexandre Dumas; 25 March 1762 – 26 February 1806) was a general in Revolutionary France and the highest-ranking man of mixed African descent ever in a European army.

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USS Duc de Lauzun (1782)

USS Duc de Lauzun was an armed transport vessel of 20 guns that served the Continental Navy from 1782 when she was bought until 1783 when she was sold in France.

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War in the Vendée

The War in the Vendée (1793; Guerre de Vendée) was an uprising in the Vendée region of France during the French Revolution.

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War Office (Lebanon, Connecticut)

The War Office, also once known as the Capt.

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Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

The Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route (W3R) is a 680 mile-long (1,094 km) series of roads used by the Continental Army under the command of George Washington and the Expédition Particulière under the command of Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau during their 1781 march from Newport, Rhode Island to Yorktown, Virginia, United States.

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Yorktown campaign

The Yorktown or Virginia campaign was a series of military maneuvers and battles during the American Revolutionary War that culminated in the decisive Siege of Yorktown in October 1781.

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1747 in France

Events from the year 1747 in France.

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5th Hussar Regiment (France)

The 5th Hussar Regiment (5e régiment de hussards or 5e RH) was a French Hussar regiment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Louis_de_Gontaut

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