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  Articles - Venezuela   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Antonio José de Sucre, who won many battles for Bolivar, was to become his natural successor until he was murdered.
The Lake Maracaibo region comprehends the lowlands near the Gulf of Venezuela.
Venezuela is one of the seventeen megadiverse countries, for the great number of animal and vegetable species that habitate there.
www.sewing-center.com /articles/Venezuela   (2283 words)

  
 The New World
It was on the shore of T'aho Chi, in later generations, that the Chinese were to build a great fortress as a border outpost against incursions of the roving Hsohsonê and P'aiyüt'a.
These came to an end with the defeat of the Aztecs in the Battle of Tenochtitlan (1718): the Aztec emperor Cuitláhuac Moctezuma was brought in chains to the court of K'ang-hsi in Peking, where he was received and feted as a vassal of the Dragon Throne.
The Chinese managed to annex the fragmented states of the Maya by negotiation, and the Maya kingdom of the Yucatec peacefully except for the pitched battle of Mayapán.
www.paulburgess.org /colon.html   (4932 words)

  
 CORNWALLIS - LoveToKnow Article on CORNWALLIS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The force he engaged was the fleet carrying the troops of Rochambeau to North America, and was too strong for his squadron of two small liners, two fifty-gun ships and a frigate.
Coro is the commercial centre for an extensive district on the E. side of Lake Maracaibo and the Gulf of Venezuela, which exports large quantities of goat-skins, an excellent quality of tobacco, and some coffee, cacao, castor beans, timber and dyewoods.
Coro was also made the chief factory of the Welsers, the German banking house to which Charles V. mortgaged this part of his colonial possessions, and it was the starting-point for i~nany exploring and colonizing expeditions into the interior.
www.1911ency.org /C/CO/CORNWALLIS.htm   (1266 words)

  
 1914 in History
August 22 Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny and Virton
September 15 Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I
September 18 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
www.brainyhistory.com /years/1914.html   (3357 words)

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