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5 unusual facts about Bateau


Adams' Rangers

Either late in the Burgoyne campaign or early 1778, Adams' Company absorbed a body of men that served in the Bateaux service under Jeptha Hawley of Arlington.

Bateau

The town of Ronceverte, West Virginia, commemorates the logging and batteau industry with an annual outdoor theatre, Riders of the Flood, where the spring rains sent harvested timbers down the Greenbrier River for the sawmills.

West Virginia author W. E. Blackhurst used "bateau" in his books of Pocahontas County and the Greenbrier River.

Lytton Smith

Additionally, Smith's poetry has appeared in a number of prominent literary journals and magazines such as The Atlantic, Bateau, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, and many others.

McAlpin's Corps

the batteau service and defending supply lines during the campaign.


1960–61 Winter General Strike

Also the Dardenne brothers, with for instance Lorsque le bateau de Léon M. descendit la Meuse pour la première fois (1979), Thierry Michel with Hiver 60 Chronique des saisons d'acier etc.

Bateau Mouche

The small draught of the Bateau-Mouche allows an itinerary that traditional boats cannot follow: the entrance of the Lachine Canal, Habitat 67, St Mary’s current, Mount Royal, Montreal Clock Tower, Jacques Cartier Bridge, La Ronde (Amusement Park), Le Moyne Channel, Montreal Biosphère

Le Bateau-Lavoir

While residing in the Bateau-Lavoir Picasso painted one of his most noted works, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, considered by art historians as a proto-Cubist painting (the precursor of a movement that became known as Cubism in 1911).

Mid-Atlantic Freight

23 October 2002 - Mid-Atlantic Freight Cessna 208B Cargomaster I, on a flight between Mobile and Montgomery in Alabama, crashed after an uncontrolled descent into Big Bateau Bay, 8 km from Spanish Fort, Alabama.

Moïse Kisling

For a short time he lived in the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre, and in 1911–12 spent nearly a year at Céret.


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