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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Jacob Jones
Commodore Jacob Jones (March 1768 - August 3, 1850) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France, the War of 1812 and the Barbary Wars.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Jacques Cartier
A French explorer who claimed the region of the St. Lawrence River for France.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: James Madison
James Madison, a Republican with partiality towards France during the War of 1812.-E. Benjamin Andrews, 1895
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Johnston Blakeley
Johnston Blakeley also spelled Johnston Blakely (October 1781 - October 1814) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Franklin Medallion
Franklin was a celebrity in Paris even before his arrival in 1777, and medallions from the faience pottery at Chaumont (owned by Franklin's host, Donatien LeRay de Chaumont) were among the earliest portraits of him made in France.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Victor Hugo
A French poet, human rights activist, and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Victor Rocheport
A journalist and statesman, born in Paris, France, Jan. 30, 1830. After attaining a liberal education, he engaged with the Paris "Figaro" as a writer of dramatic and art criticism, and later became a memeber of the editorial staff.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Aqueduct
The Pont du Gard near Nimes (ancient Nemausus) in southern France. Built by the emperor Antoninus Pius. The bridge spans two hilltops nearly a thousand feet apart. It carries an aqueduct with three tiers of massive stone arches at a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Temple
The best preserved of Roman temples. Located at Nimes in southern France, where it is known as La Maison Carree (the square house"). The structure is now used as a museum of antiquities."-Webster, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier (1491 - September 1, 1557) claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first who described and mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Louis Pasteur
A chemist and biologist, born in dole, department of Jura, France, Dec. 27, 1822; died Sept. 28, 1895. He is known most famously for his demonstrations supporting the germ theory of disease and his vaccinations, most notably the first...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert La Salle
A celebrated explorer, born in Rouen, France, Nov. 22, 1643; assassinated March 19, 1687. In 1669 he emigrated to Canada, and soon after entered upon a number of remarkable expeditions of discovery. He visited the Illinois River, Lake...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: St. Patrick
St. Patrick appears to have been a native of Boulogne, in France, and to have been born about the year 387, A.D. In his sixteenth year, he was made captive in a marauding expedition, conducted by Nial of the Nine Hostages. - Goodrich, 1844
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Vae Victis!
William I, in the garb of an ancient Germanic chieftain, rides his charger over the body of prostate France. The Crown Prince, Bismarck, and other leaders appear in the background."-Webster, 1920p
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: Jean Baptiste Donatien De Vimeur, Count De Rochambeau
(1725-1807) In charge of the French army that joined the Continental Army and fought in the American Revolution. When he returned to France he commanded the army of the North in the French Revolution.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Conrad Alexandre Gerard
Conrad Alexandre Gerard de Rayneval (12 December 1729-16 April 1790), also known as Conrad Alexandre Gerard, was a French diplomat, born at Masevaux in upper Alsace (now Haut-Rhin). He is best known as the first French diplomatic...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Georges Danton
A leading figure of the French Revolution, as well as the first President of the Committee of Public Safety in France.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: George Bryan Brummell
Beau Brummell, ne George Bryan Brummell (7 June 1778, London, England - 30 March 1840, Caen, France), was the arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England and a friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV. He established the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Jean Marchand
A french soldier born in Thoissey, France, Nov. 22, 1863. He joined the army in 1883, but attended the military school of St. Maixent most of the time till 1887. He then went to West Africa for the purpose of aiding in exploring the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Major Robert Anderson
Major Robert Anderson, the commander of Fort Sumter at the time of its fall, was born in Kentucky in the year 1805, and graduated at West Point in 1825. He was actively engaged through the Mexican War, and was severely wounded at Molino...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Samuel De Champlain
Samuel de Champlain, "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, geographer, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, ethnologist, diplomat, chronicler, and the founder of Quebec City on July 3, 1608, of which he was the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edward Iii
Edward III was one of the most successful English kings of medieval times. His fifty-year reign began when his father, Edward II of England killed. Edwards reign was marked by an expansion of English territory through wars in Scotland...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charles I
Charles I (1625-1649) was a far abler ruler than his father. He was a man of greater courage and more dignity of character, but he had been trained from infancy in the belief of his divine right to fule, and he chose ministers who...