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- Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
13: ...from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brigade from capture.
14: ...al law]], and quickly restored order. He resigned from the army in March 1779 on account of ill health...
18: ...fe were married for twelve years, until her death from [[cancer]].
20: ...umel. When she realized her fortune was dwindling from her husband's land speculation, they separated ...
24: ...n]]. He served in the [[New_York_State_Assembly]] from [[1784]] to [[1785]], but Burr became seriously... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...in [[Norway]], or [[Philippe P鴡in|P鴡in]] in [[France]].
9: ...etts]] eager for action, and requested permission from the Massachusetts [[Committee of Safety (Americ...
10: ...ck on [[May 10]], [[1775]], Ticonderoga was taken from the 22 British troops that held it and who were...
12: ...ston]] of the Massachusetts militia and a boyhood friend of Allen, delivered the letter announcing the...
15: ...until all American forces were forced to withdraw from Canada in June of 1776. - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
2: ...|right|thumb|240px|Left: original [[paddlewheel]] from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. Right:...
19: ...France]], by [[1774]] the Marquis [[Claude de Jouffroy]] and colleagues had made a working steamboat t...
21: ...River]], but then patent disputes dissuaded Fitch from continuing.
23: ...hile, [[Patrick Miller of Dalswinton]], near [[Dumfries]], [[Scotland]], had developed double-hulled b...
25: ...777]] at the age of 12, visited [[Britain]] and [[France]] where he built and tested an experimental s... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
1: ...een Colonies]] and later of the [[United States]] from [[1774]] to [[1789]], a period that included th...
4: ...ommon opposition to Britain grew. It lasted only from [[September 5]], 1774, to [[October 26]], 1774,...
8: ...sed to receive it). [[Silas Deane]] was sent to [[France]] as an [[ambassador]] of the United States. ...
19: *Dec. 20, 1776- Mar. 4, 1777 [[Baltimore, Maryland]]
20: *Mar. 5, 1777- Sept. 18- 1777 Philadelphia - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
10: ...t a time, were generally reluctant to go very far from home, and would often come and go as they saw f...
15: ...f these ever set foot in America. The war was far from Britain's greatest concern at the time. [[Loyal...
19: ...cisive, though disastrous for the French economy. France's standing army at the time is estimated to h...
23: ...lack slaves used the war as a chance to escape to freedom.
31: ...regiment]]s of British regulars (about 4,000 men) from his headquarters in Boston, but the countryside... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ...valuate the potential interference of British and French-Canadian hunters and trappers who were alread...
5: ...ieutenant]] at the time, but Lewis concealed this from the men and shared the leadership of the expedi...
7: ...rd. [[Sacagawea]] and her [[Shoshone]] tribe came from further west. Not only did Lewis and Clark feel...
10: ...he men prepared for the trip home by boiling salt from the ocean, hunting elk and other wildlife. Most...
16: .... Without these calm meetings, the white settlers from the East would have stormed the Indian Country ... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
7: ...mation of the [[Cathay Company]] to send [[Martin Frobisher]] back to the New World for more gold
11: ...oleonic)|Italian Republic]], with [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] as president, becomes the [[Kingdo...
14: *[[1886]] - [[Carrollton Massacre]]: 20 [[African American]]s are killed in [[Mississippi]].
21: ...y opened by President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
22: *[[1948]] - [[Benelux]], [[France]], and the [[United Kingdom]] sign the [[Trea... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
7: ...Again [[Catherine de Medici]] and [[Charles IX of France]] make substantial concessions to the [[Hugue...
8: *[[1708]] - [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] lands at the [[Firth of Fort...
17: *1889 - The free [[Woolwich Ferry]] officially opens in east [[L...
19: ...New York]] for a post-presidency [[safari]] in [[Africa]]. The trip is sponsored by the [[Smithsonian ...
38: ...nflict of [[2003 invasion of Iraq|Operation Iraqi Freedom]] - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Iodine (11416 bytes)
139: '''Iodine''' (from the Gr. ''Iodes'', meaning "violet"), is a [[ch...
142: ...with [[starch]] solution is characteristic of the free element.
154: ... in a nuclear disaster area. KI prevents the body from absorbing the radioactive iodine produced at th...
160: ...owder was in great demand. Saltpeter was isolated from seaweed washed up on the coasts of [[Normandy]]...
162: ...bstance to a meeting of the Imperial Institute of France. On [[December 6]] Gay-Lussac announced that ... - Oxygen (9039 bytes)
37: ...] and [[bacteria]]). The atmospheric abundance of free oxygen in later geological epochs and up to the...
42: ...spiration in animals. The word ''oxygen'' derives from two words in [[Greek language|Greek]], ''oxys''...
44: .... Liquid O<sub>2</sub> is usually obtained by the fractional distillation of liquid air. Both liquid a...
57: ...blished his findings in [[1775]] and Scheele in [[1777]]; consequently Priestley is usually given the cr...
75: Oxygen derivatives are prone to form [[free radicals]], especially in metabolic processes. ... - William Henry Harrison (11790 bytes)
18: ...esentative]] and [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Ohio]]. Harrison first gained national fame a...
23: ...to the [[Continental Congress]] ([[1774]]–[[1777]]), signed the [[United States Declaration of Ind...
25: ...to successfully command an army on the [[American frontier]]. Harrison participated in Wayne's decisiv...
27: ...ent in the Northwest Territory. Harrison resigned from Congress to become governor of the newly formed...
29: ...ve American leaders. Tensions, always high on the frontier, became much greater after the [[1809]] [[T... - Spotted Hyena (3840 bytes)
12: ...n Christian Polycarp Erxleben|Erxleben]] | date = 1777}}
14: ...d, results in them having crusty white droppings (from all the bone meal). The hyena's distinctive lau...
16: ...he [[matriline]]s (the group of females descended from a single mother) that endure for generations.
23: ...ey can become very tame, and Europeans living in Africa have sometimes successfully made [[pet]]s of t... - Culture of Jersey (13844 bytes)
1: ...luences, to which have been added cultural trends from immigrant communities such as the [[Brittany|Br...
7: ...ce names are in J�rriais, and [[French language|French]] and [[English language| English]] place nam...
11: ...me purposes, is a [[minority language]]. The last French language newspaper closed in [[1959]].
17:
21: ...Jersey, but little indigenous literature survives from before the [[18th century]]. - Bobcats (4586 bytes)
12: ...ristian Daniel von Schreber|Schreber]] | date = [[1777]]}}
15: ...at the shoulder. The male Bobcat typically weighs from [[1 E1 kg|11–16 kg (24–35 lb)]] and...
20: ... today than in colonial times. They have vanished from parts of the midwest where most suitable habita...
41: ...n). Bobcat tracks can generally be distinguished from feral or house cat tracks by their size (feral ... - Marmosets (3943 bytes)
10: ...Christian Polycarp Erxleben|Erxleben]] | date = [[1777]]}}
20: ...r canopy of forest trees, and feeding on insects, fruit and leaves. They have long lower [[incisor]]s...
29: ...-headed Marmoset]], ''Callithrix (Callithrix) geoffroyi'' - 13 colonies (4411 bytes)
6: ...ish North American possessions—the former [[French colony]] of [[Quebec]] and the colonies of [[...
10: ...isted the colonies in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows (the division into t...
29: ...*</nowiki>Vermont was an independent country from 1777 until it became the 14th state in 1791. Today it ... - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
137: *[[John Fries' Rebellion]] (1799)
153: *[[Franklin County War]] (Idaho, 1866–1872)
175: *[[Francis Marion]] (1780–1782)
203: *[[Green Mountain Boys]] (1777–1791)
204: *[[State of Franklin]] (~1784–~1790)
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