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unusual facts about ''Entrance of the Russian troops in Tiflis on November 26, 1799''. A painting by Franz Roubaud



Alban Butler

, i.e. by his nephew Charles Butler (London, 1799); and Joseph Gillow's Bibliographical Dictionary of English Catholics, vol.

Alloa

According to Alfred Barnard, the Victorian historian of British distilling and brewing, the distillery was founded as a malt distillery by John Bald in 1799.

Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe

Fearing a possible renewal of the Terror, he became an active member of the plot for the overthrow of the Directory in November 1799.

Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero y Santayana

Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero y Santayana (May 8, 1729 – May 14, 1799) was a Spanish Lieutenant General best known for repelling Admiral Nelson's attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1797.

Bas v. Tingy

Justice Samuel Chase took a separate approach to the same conclusion, noting that in a perfect war "...operations are restricted and regulated by the jus belli, forming a part of the law of nations," but in an imperfect war "its extent and operation depend on our municipal laws." With Congress authorizing hostilities, this was an imperfect war against France, making them the enemy and validating the 1799 law.

Benjamin Silliman

He studied law with Simeon Baldwin from 1798 to 1799 and became a tutor at Yale from 1799 to 1802.

Canton of Linth

The brief tenure of office of the cantonal heads Joachim Heer (1798), Johann Jakob Heussi (1798–99), Felix Christoph Cajetan Fuchs (1799), Niklaus Heer (1799–1802) and Franz Josef Büeler (1802–03) reflected the military and political turmoil plaguing the region, which was under French occupation from 1799, during the War of the Second Coalition, with serious effects on the local economy.

Charlotte Murchison

This was the first of many field trips with eminent geologists including Mary Anning (1799–1847).

Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode

He died at Queen Square, Westminster, on 5 April 1799, and was buried on 13 April near his mother, in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey.

De Güemes

Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo (1740-1799), Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain

Duchess Amelia of Württemberg

Amalie Therese Louise Wilhelmina Philippine of Württemberg (June 28, 1799, Wolany – November 28, 1848, Altenburg) was a Duchess of Württemberg and an ancestor of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Sofía of Spain and five Kings of Greece.

Elizabeth Billington

At Milan she was received with much favour by the Joséphine de Beauharnais, and here she met a young Frenchman, M. Felissent, to whom she was married in 1799.

Elzéard Auguste Cousin de Dommartin

Elzéard Auguste Cousin de Dommartin (26 May 1768, Dommartin-le-Franc – 9 August 1799, Rosetta) became a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars, fought in Italy under Napoleon Bonaparte, and commanded the artillery division of the Armée d'Orient during the French invasion of Egypt in 1798.

Francis Wrangham

He married at Bridlington, on 7 April 1799, Agnes, fifth daughter of Colonel Ralph Creyke of Marton in Yorkshire.

Frederik Otto Scheel

He served as county governor of Stavanger Amt from 1785 to 1799, and is particularly remembered for his contribution to road construction in the district.

Frenchmans Cap

The origin of the name is a mystery but is attributed to its appearance from some angles as looking like a Frenchman's cap, notably the Liberty cap worn during the French Revolution (1789–1799).

Geoffrey Bruun

He was the author of several books on European history, including Europe and the French Imperium, 1799–1814, published in 1938; Europe in Evolution, (1945) and Europe and America Since 1492 (1954), as well as a biography of Georges Clemenceau, the French statesman, published in 1943.

George Bowyer

Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet (1739–1799), British naval officer and MP for Queenborough

Giovanni Bertati

La forza delle donne (music by Pasquale Anfossi, also under the title Il trionfo delle donne, 1778; music by Bernardo Ottani under the title Le amazzoni, 1784; music by Peter von Winter under the title Ogus ossia Il trionfo del bel sesso; music by Giuseppe Nicolini under the title Ogus ossia Il trionfo del bel sesso, 1799)

Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas

Recalled to his native country when Bonaparte became First Consul (1799), Dumas took over the organisation of the "Army of Reserve" at Dijon.

Harriet Raikes

Harriet Raikes was the daughter of Thomas Raikes the Younger, a merchant and banker in London, and the granddaughter of Thomas Raikes the Elder, also merchant and banker in London and Governor of the Bank of England from 1797 to 1799.

Henry Melville

Henry Melville (1799-1873) was an Australian author and journalist best remembered for writing the play The Bushrangers.

Henry Thomas Colebrooke

He was sent to Nagpur in 1799 on a special mission, and on his return was made a judge of the new court of appeal, over which he afterwards presided.

Ingeborg Akeleye

Daughter of Jens Werner Akeleye (d. 1772) and Martha Bruun (d. 1797), she married Herman Løvenskiold (1739–1799) in Copenhagen in 1763.

Isaac Corry

Finally in 1799 he was appointed Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer and a Lord High Treasurer of Ireland in place of Sir John Parnell, who quarrelled violently with Pitt over the projected union, which he categorically refused to support.

James Gillespie

He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1776 and served first in the North Carolina House of Commons (1779–1783), then in the North Carolina Senate (1784–1786), before being elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 4th and 5th U.S. Congresses (March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1799) and later to the 8th United States Congress (March 4, 1803 - January 11, 1805).

James Losh

He was the first chairman of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway and the vice President of the The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1799 to 1833.

James Turner

In 1798, Turner was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons; he served there from 1799 to 1800, and served in the North Carolina Senate from 1801 to 1802.

James Whitley Deans Dundas

He took part in the Napoleonic Wars, first as a junior officer when he took part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in Autumn 1799 and later as a commander when he was in action at Copenhagen Dockyard shortly after the capture of that City in August 1807.

Jane McCrea

In Philadelphia in 1799 Ricketts' Circus performed "The Death of Miss McCrea", a pantomime co-written by John Durang.

Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy

André Jean Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy (1 January 1799, Saint-Sauveur - 25 June 1857, Paris) was a French physician and entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera (flies) and to some extent of the Coleoptera (beetles).

Jean-Gilles Filhol de Camas

Promoted to Commander on 21 March 1796, he was appointed to the Zélé, but suspended on 2 October 1797 for his relations to one of the deportees of the Coup of 18 Fructidor; he was reinstated on 14 December 1799 after his superiors protested.

Joseph Anderson

Joseph Inslee Anderson (November 5, 1757 – April 17, 1837) was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1799 to 1815, and later as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury.

Keadeen

Dwyer McAllister's cottage is at the northern base of Keadeen at Derrynamuck, where Michael Dwyer, the 1798 rebellion United Irishmen leader, escaped from the British soldier's siege on Sam McAllister cottage in December 1799 up the slopes of the mountain.

Lemuel Williams

Williams was elected as a Federalist to the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1799 to March 3, 1805, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1806.

Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant

Doulcet was subsequently elected to the French Directory's Council of Five Hundred, but was suspected of Royalist sympathies, and had to spend some time in retirement between anti-monarchist coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) and the establishment of the Consulate (the 18 Brumaire coup of 9 November 1799).

Luigi Gabrielli

Born in Naples to a family originally from Gubbio, Luigi was the son of Antonio Gabrielli, a nobleman of progressive ideas who in 1799 had supported the Parthenopean Republic against the Bourbon kings.

Maria Versfelt

She was known for her love affairs: in 1795–1799, she had an affair with French General Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763–1813), and in (1800–1815) with General Michel Ney (1769–1815).

Mary Bruce, Countess of Elgin

Following a short stint in London the couple left England on 3 September 1799 so that Bruce could take up his Ambassadorial position; sailing from Portsmouth on the HMS Phaeton.

Nağaybäk

Here, they founded a chain of villages named after the battles of Napoleonic Wars, including present-day Parizh, named after the Battle of Paris, Fershampenuaz (after the Battle of Fère-Champenoise), Kassel (after engagements near Kassel in Hesse), Trebiy (after the Battle of Trebbia) etc.

Nicholas Lawless, 1st Baron Cloncurry

Lord Cloncurry died at Maretimo, Blackrock, County Dublin, in August 1799, aged 63, and was succeeded in his titles by his son, Valentine.

Publication of Domesday Book

In March 1767 Charles Morton (1716–1799), a librarian at the British Museum, was put in charge of the scheme; a fact which caused resentment towards him from Abraham Farley, a deputy chamberlain of the Exchequer who for many years had controlled access to Domesday Book in its repository at the Chapter House, Westminster, and furthermore had been involved in the recent Parliament Rolls printing operation.

Riverdale Park, Maryland

Riversdale was given to their daughter, Rosalie, who married George Calvert, the grandson of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, in 1799.

Seringapatam medal

The Seringapatam medal (Sri Ranga Pattana - ಶ್ರೀರಂಗಪಟ್ಟಣ), commissioned by the East India Company in 1801, was a Conrad Heinrich-designed military medal distributed to those soldiers who contributed to the British victory in the 1799 Battle of Seringapatam against the armies of Tipu Sultan, ruler of the southern India in the Kingdom of Mysore.

Sir John Hippisley, 1st Baronet

In 1799 the plight of The Cardinal Duke of York, the last representative in the male line of the Royal House of Stuart, was brought to Hippisley's attention by Dr. Stefano Cardinal Borgia.

Sisters of Divine Charity

The Sisters of Divine Charity were founded at Besançon, in 1799, by a Vincentian Sister, and modelled on the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul.

Stewart baronets

He was Attorney-General for Ireland from 1799 to 1803 and represented County Tyrone in the British House of Commons.

Von Görschen

He was a successful commander during the War of the First Coalition in the region of Piemont 1797 and also during the War of the Second Coalition around Taufers (South Tyrol) and Susch (Engadin) in 1799 against Napoleon Bonaparte’s army.

William Blackledge

Born in Craven County, North Carolina (his birthdate remains unknown), Blackledge was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons from 1797 to 1799 before being elected to the 8th United States Congress in 1802.

William Johnstone Hope

In 1799, the Kent was Duncan's flagship in supporting the Anglo-Russian invasion of the Batavian Republic, with Hope being present at the surrender of the Dutch fleet in Texel to the Royal Navy.


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