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  1. Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
    26: ... the 1790s when about 1.5 million Frenchmen were enlisted. In total, about 2.8 million Frenchmen fough...
    28: ...ome countries, deliberate exaggeration to ensure enlistment targets were met. Despite this there clear...
    45: ...d of the French Army of Italy. It took Bonaparte only a month to defeat Piedmont and push its Austrian...
    47: ... Campo Formio]]. The United Kingdom remained the only power still at war with France by 1797.
    51: ... in 1799, when Bonaparte assumed power, he found only 60,000 francs in the national treasury).
  2. List of chemists (10401 bytes)
    30: *[[Henry Cavendish]], (1731-1810), Bristish scientist
    156: *[[Henri Victor Regnault]] (1810-1878), [[France|French]] chemist and [[Physics|ph...
    174: *[[Wendell Meredith Stanley]], (1904-1971), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [...
  3. Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
    4: It is estimated that at its height between [[1810]] and [[1850]], nearly 100,000 people escaped ens...
    23: Messages often were encoded so that only those active in the Railroad would fully underst...
    33: ...within the constellation [[Ursa Major]] that commonly was called then, as it is today, the "Big Dipper...
    73: ... Of the 20,000 who emigrated to [[Upper Canada]] only 20% returned to the United States.<sup>2</sup>
    75: ... United States, a large number of black refugees enlisted in the Union Army and, while some later retu...
  4. List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
    62: *[[Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] (1763 -1810)
    123: *[[Paul Granlund]] (1925 - 2003)
    199: *[[Clark Mills (sculptor)|Clark Mills]] (1810-83)
  5. Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
    3: ...'' ([[August 26]], [[1740]] &#150; [[June 26]], [[1810]]) and '''Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier''' ([[Jan...
    5: ...the fire, slapping it with all their might. That only got them more burnt, so they were scarred from t...
    20: ...rothers ever flew in a balloon himself, and then only once.
  6. African American (19830 bytes)
    6: ...frican American'' as originally coined refers to only those descended from a relative handful of black...
    10: ...Northeast and 18.7 percent in the Midwest, while only 8.9 percent lived in the western states. Almost ...
    33: ...lar English]] (AAVE) is a dialect of English commonly spoken by African Americans.
    43: ...fier&mdash;a term they themselves had repudiated only two decades earlier&mdash;a term often associate...
    56: ..., therefore, subject to being barred from whites-only railway carriages.
  7. Charles Babbage (13539 bytes)
    10: ...t [[Trinity College]], [[Cambridge]] in October [[1810]]. He had read extensively in [[Leibniz]], [[Lagr...
    16: ...land Place, London. They had eight children, but only three lived to adulthood. Charles' father, his w...
    57: ...ld stretch to 25 feet long. Babbage constructed only small test parts for his new engine; a full engi...
    62: ...ep. It was a marvel of mechanical engineering. Unlike the Analytical Engine that he continually twea...
    76: He only once endeavored to enter public life, when, in [...
  8. Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
    5: ...lark as "Captain" ([http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/v02.appendix.a.html]).
    7: ...r [[Shoshone]] tribe came from further west. Not only did Lewis and Clark feel that she could aid them...
    74: *Interpreter [[George Drouillard]] (? &ndash; 1810), civilian
    77: ...t" diplomatic innovation to defuse hostility and enlist the support of exotic tribes, scientific obser...
    86: ...he complete text of the Lewis and Clark Journals online], University of Nebraska-Lincoln (in progress)
  9. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
    404: *[[Ernst Kummer|Ernst Eduard Kummer]] (Germany, [[1810]] - [[1893]]
    443: *[[Ernst Leonard Lindel? (Finland, [[1870]] - [[1946]])
    528: *[[Rolf Nevanlinna]] (Finland, [[1895]] - [[1980]])
    555: *[[Paul Painlev靝 (France, [[1863]] - [[1933]])
  10. Rail transport (15539 bytes)
    9: ..., the rails distribute the weight of the train evenly, allowing significantly greater loads per [[axle...
    22: ...lly aesthetic constructions, but they won't work unless they are given an appropriate system on which ...
    30: ...a limited amount of traffic and are consequently only used on [[branch line]]s.
    55: ...a]] was the first permanent railroad, opened in [[1810]], and the [[Granite Railroad]] in [[1826]] may h...
    134: [[nl:Spoorweg]]
  11. Harp (23216 bytes)
    2: ... (sometimes [[copper]]-wound), [[gut]] (more commonly used than nylon), or [[wire]].
    26: ...ented by [[Sebastien Erard|S颡stien Erard]] in [[1810]]. Earlier pedal harps had a single-action mechan...
    33: ...-Flat, F, C, G, D, A, E, and B can be reached by only changing lever positions, rather than re-tuning ...
    48: ...ist. The phosphor bronze and brass are most commonly used. Steel tends to be very abrasive to the na...
    52: ... with more than one row of strings. A harp with only one row of strings is called a '''single-course ...
  12. Aztec (38742 bytes)
    9: ...someone who comes from [[Aztlán]]", a place commonly believed to be located in northern Mexico or the...
    14: In 1810 [[Alexander von Humboldt]] originated the modern ...
    22: ...ean empires, it was ethnically very diverse, but unlike most European empires, it was more a system of...
    27: ...ered economically under the Aztec conqueror, and only at first. This increase in the overall welfare w...
    59: ...nochtitlan itself had an estimated population of only 80,000 to 120,000 at that time. It is possible ...
  13. Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
    5: ...lemagne]], Emperor of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], enlarged Probus' hostel and added a library to it. Un...
    27: Although they had only a small number of ships, they nevertheless quick...
    43: ...being generated by the Russian Grand Priory until 1810. This was partly reflected in the government of ...
    46: ...tes|United States of America]]. However, it was only recognized by the Sovereign Military Order of Ma...
    66: ...e granted with [[extraterritoriality]]. However, unlike [[Vatican City]], SMOM has no sovereign territ...
  14. War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
    58: ...ar of 1812 ended in a [[stalemate]] and is often only dimly remembered, the war had many effects on th...
    86: ...olicy of [[impressment]] was supposed to reclaim only British subjects, between 1806 and 1812 about 6,...
    90: ...ceable, the Non-Intercourse Act was replaced in [[1810]] by [[Macon's Bill Number 2]]. This lifted all e...
    99: ...as weak and inexperienced. The army consisted of only 7,000 men and small state militias. The paper st...
    108: ... Navy]], which was not yet twenty years old, had only twenty-two commissioned vessels, the largest of ...
  15. Jacob Broom (291 bytes)
    1: ...' ([[October 17]], [[1752]]&ndash;[[April 25]], [[1810]]) was a delegate to the [[United States|U.S.]] [...
  16. Chlorine (10751 bytes)
    44: ...] dissolves 3.10 liters of chlorine and at 30 ?C only 1.77 liters.
    58: ...ined [[oxygen]]. Chlorine was given its name in [[1810]] by [[Humphry Davy]], who insisted that it was i...
    61: In nature chlorine is found only as the [[chloride ion]]. Chlorides make up much...
    63: ...soluble in water, so solid chlorides are usually only found in abundance in dry climates, or deep unde...
    73: ...sotopes with mass numbers ranging from 32 to 40. Only three of these isotopes occur naturally: stable ...
  17. Mercury (element) (24761 bytes)
    101: | 1810 kJ/mol
    177: ...silvery, [[transition metal]], mercury is one of only two elements that are [[liquid]] at room tempera...
    210: ...cal symbols for the metal (left). Mercury is the only metal for which the alchemical planetary name be...
    274: ...y emit it in dry air. [http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev29-12/text/environ.htm#trees] Plant and...
  18. Tellurium (8984 bytes)
    65: | 1261 K (1810 ?F)
    179: ...urium is corrosive to copper, [[iron]], and [[stainless steel]].
    182: ... action of [[sulfuric acid]]. When added to [[stainless steel]] and [[copper]] it makes these metals m...
    214: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/52.html Los Alamos National Laborato...
  19. Samuel F. B. Morse (8859 bytes)
    3: '''Samuel Finley Breese Morse''' ([[April 27]], [[1791]] &ndash;...
    9: ...ay]]. He earned money by painting portraits. In [[1810]], he graduated from Yale University. Morse later...
    11: ...that same year, Morse's wife, Lucretia, died suddenly. She was buried before he returned to New Haven.
    21: ...ttery and a simple electromagnet. This prototype only worked over short distances of about 40ft or les...
    52: ...ttp://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/MORSE_BIO.html Samuel Finley Breese Morse]: 1791 - 1872''". Adventures in Cy...
  20. Arthur Middleton (2124 bytes)
    3: ...[Mary Izard]] settled at [[Middleton Place]]. Keenly interested in Carolina politics, Arthur Middleto...
    7: ...ics. He was elected Governor of South Carolina ([[1810]]-[[1812]]), U.S. Representative ([[1815]]-[[1819...

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