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3 days ago · The 1794–95 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between August 25, 1794 (New Hampshire), and September 5, 1795 . Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 4th United States Congress convened on December 7, 1795.
3 days ago · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the ...
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2 days ago · Napoleon was born on Corsica shortly after the island’s cession to France by the Genoese. He was the fourth, and second surviving, child of Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer, and his wife, Letizia Ramolino. His father’s family, of ancient Tuscan nobility, had emigrated to Corsica in the 16th century. Carlo Buonaparte had married the beautiful and ...
- Who was Napoleon?Napoleon I, also called Napoléon Bonaparte, was a French military general and statesman. Napoleon played a key role in the French Revolution (1789–...
- How did Napoleon become emperor of France?Napoleon first seized political power in a coup d’état in 1799. The coup resulted in the replacement of the extant governing body—a five-member Dir...
- What did Napoleon accomplish?Napoleon served as first consul of France from 1799 to 1804. In that time, Napoleon reformed the French educational system, developed a civil code...
- What happened to Napoleon?After a series of military defeats in 1812–13, Napoleon was forced to abdicate the French throne on April 6, 1814. Napoleon returned to power in ea...
- Was Napoleon short?No! “Le Petit Caporal” wasn’t petite—at least not by 19th-century standards. The estimated average height of a French man in 1820 was 5 feet 4 inch...
3 days ago · Doane's Administrators (1795), and again in Ware v. Hylton (1796), ruled on the federal government's powers prior to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution in 1788. It said that Congress exercised powers derived from the people, expressly conferred through the medium of state conventions or legislatures, and, once exercised, those powers were ...
4 days ago · He and his descendants would go on to face several conflicts to gradually expand and transform a small kingdom into the nation of France. 987–996 Hugh Capet. 996–1031 Robert II (the Pious) 1031–1060 Henry I. 1060–1108 Philip I. 1108–1137 Louis VI (the Fat) 1137–1180 Louis VII (the Young) 1180–1223 Philip II Augustus.
4 days ago · Leopold von Ranke (born Dec. 21, 1795, Wiehe, Thuringia, Saxony [Germany]—died May 23, 1886, Berlin) was a leading German historian of the 19th century, whose scholarly method and way of teaching (he was the first to establish a historical seminar) had a great influence on Western historiography. He was ennobled (with the addition of von to ...
2 days ago · January 1, 1795 London Forum. CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY. 'Are Britons, for the blessings of a Free Constitution, principally indebted to King John, for signing Magna Carta, to Harry VIII, for freeing them from the dominion of the Pope, or to James II for abdicating the Throne?'. Morning Chronicle.
