12 résultats pour "cornwall"
- Cornwallis, Charles
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TRUMBULL John : Capitulation de Lord Cornwallis à Yorktown
TRUMBULL John Capitulation de Lord Cornwallis à Yorktown Né à Lebanon, 1756 Mort à New York, 1843 C'est le 19 octobre 1781 que la garnison an glaise de Yorktown, commandée par Lord Cornwallis et assiégée par les Français de Rochambeau et les Américains de Washington, fit sa reddition. Cet épisode, qui mit pratique ment fin à la guerre d'Indépendance des États Unis, est retracé avec une dignité un peu em phatique par John Tr...
- Cornwallis Charles, 1738-1805, né à Londres, général anglais.
- Bligh (William) Amiral anglais (Tyntam, Cornwall, 1754 - Londres, 1817).
- Barnes (Djuna) Romancière américaine (Cornwall-on-Hudson, 1892 - New York, 1982).
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BRETONNE (litlérature).
en lan gue bretonne car, de tout temps, la Bretagne a été plurilingue. On y a parlé latin avec le vieux celtiq ue, le roman avec le vieux breton ; on y parle aujourd'hui français, breton et parfois g�o. A l'époque gallo-romaine, les villes prati quaie nt le latin, tandis que les campagnes restaient fidèles à la langue celtique. Or, du 1v• au VII' s .. la pé nin sul e armoricaine a reçu un afflux d'imm i grants bretons du pays de Galles, du Cornwall...
- Barnes Djuna, 1892-1982, née à Cornwall on the Hudson (New York), femme de lettres américaine.
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United Kingdom - country.
B Natural Regions and Topography The island of Great Britain can be divided into two major natural regions—the highland zone and the lowland zone. The highland zone is an area of high hills andmountains in the north and west. The lowland zone in the south and east consists mostly of rolling plains. The zones are divided by an imaginary line running throughEngland from the River Exe on the southwest coast to the mouth of the River Tees on the northeast coast. The lowland zone has a milder climat...
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British Empire .
B1 The Seven Years’ War During the Seven Years’ War in Europe (1756-1763), Britain made large imperial gains at the expense of France. The North American segment of the Seven Years’ Warwas known as the French and Indian War. It was launched by the British against French possessions in North America in 1754, and in 1758 the British captured theFrench fortress of Louisbourg, which gave them access to French territory in the St. Lawrence Valley. In the following year Québec was captured, marking t...
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Chapitre 14
EXPÉDITIONS À LA RECHERCHE DE FRANKLIN
Le mercredi 23 mai,
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American Revolution.
C1 The South Southern agriculture was founded on the cultivation of tobacco, wheat, and corn in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, and of rice and indigo (a blue dye) in SouthCarolina and Georgia. There was a large demand for these crops in Europe. These crops were cultivated with the help of black slaves imported from Africa. The whiteplanter class in the South was the most powerful, both politically and economically. C2 The North Wheat was the main cash crop of the mid-Atlantic colonies...
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American Revolution - U.
C1 The South Southern agriculture was founded on the cultivation of tobacco, wheat, and corn in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, and of rice and indigo (a blue dye) in SouthCarolina and Georgia. There was a large demand for these crops in Europe. These crops were cultivated with the help of black slaves imported from Africa. The whiteplanter class in the South was the most powerful, both politically and economically. C2 The North Wheat was the main cash crop of the mid-Atlantic colonies...