Biographies : 4
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BiographyADDINGTON, Henry
Fact file Born London, 30 May, 1757, died Richmond (Surrey, England) 15 February, 1844 MP for Devizes 1784-1805 Created Viscount Sidmouth in 1805 Speaker in the House of Commons 1789-1801 Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1801-04 Lord President of the Council 1805 Lord Privy Seal 1806 Lord President of the Council 1806-7 and […]
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BiographyAlexander I
(1777-1825), Russian Tsar 1801-1825 Alexander I was born in St. Petersburg on 23 December, 1777 and died at Taganrog on 1 December, 1825. He was the son of Paul I and Sophie of Württemberg (Maria Feodorovna), and the grandson of Catherine II. He was handsome – he had the classic profile of his grandmother – […]
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BiographyAUGEREAU, Pierre-François-Charles
French soldier, a fruiterer's son, who earned a reputation as a reliable and doughty divisional commander on the Pyrenean front, on the Rhine and during the Italian campaigns of 1796-97, receiving Napoleon's public praise for his performance at Castiglione in 1796. One of the original Marshalate created in 1804, he commanded the camp at Brest […]
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BiographyAZARA, Don José Nicolás de
Don José Nicolás de Azara, Marquis of Nibbiano, doctor of law, politician and diplomat, was born on 5 December 1730 at Barbuñales (Aragón). He was a brilliant student of law and letters at Huesca and later at Salamanca. Civil servant at the Secretariat of State (Secretaría de Estado), he received the Croix de Chevalier of the […]