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  Claude de Forbin - LoveToKnow 1911
CLAUDE DE FORBIN (1656-1733), French naval commander, was born in Provence, of a family of high standing, in 1656.
Forbin was wounded at the battle of La Hogue, and greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Lagos.
Forbin was now beginning to be weighed down with the infirmities of age and the toils of service, and in 1710 he retired to a country house near Marseilles.
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 Claude de Forbin - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Chevalier (later Count) Claude de Forbin (August 6 1656 - March 4 1733) was a French naval commander.
He became governor of Bangkok and a general in the Siamese army, and left Siam shortly before King Narai fell ill and was deposed by a Coup d'état.
Claude de Forbin was born in the village Gardanne in the Provence, as a member of a family established in Marseilles in the 14th century.
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 comte de Claude Forbin - Encyclopedia.com
Claude Forbin, comte de, 1656-1733, French naval commander.
He fought in the Antilles (1680) and in Abraham Duquesne's Algerian campaign (1682-83) and from 1685 to 1687 was grand admiral and generalissimo of the king of Siam.
Forbin distinguished himself in the War of the Grand Alliance and the War of the Spanish Succession.
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 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He became governor of Bangkok and a general in the Siamese army, and left Siam shortly before King Narai fell ill and was deposed by a Coup d'état.
Claude de Forbin was born in the village Gardanne in the Provence, as a member of a family established in Marseilles in the 14th century.
There, he killed the chevalier de Gourdon in a duel, and was sentenced to death by the Parliament of Aix; he managed to obtain a grace and joined the Navy under his brother's identity.
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 Claude de Forbin Information
Chevalier (later Count) Claude de Forbin-Gardanne (August 6 1656 - March 4 1733) was a French naval commander.
He became governor of Bangkok and a general in the Siamese army, and left Siam shortly before King Narai fell ill and was deposed by a Coup d'état.
There, he killed the chevalier de Gourdon in a duel, and was sentenced to death by the Parliement of Ai; he managed to obtain a grace and joined the Navy under his brother's identity.
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 CLAUDE DE FORBIN (1656... - Article en ligne de l'information environ CLAUDE DE FORBIN (1656...
MAISON (de mesuage Anglo-Français, probablement une corruption de mesuage, menage, mansionaticuni populaire de Lat., de mansio, d'où mod.
PRINCIPAL (de la racine d'Aryan dans laquelle apparaît "peuvent" et "pourraient," et le magnus de Lat., grands)
LEÇON (par le lecon de vue du lectio de Lat., lisant; legere, pour lire)
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 Claude
Claude has long been a favorite in France, after St. Claude of Besançon, a 7th century saint who became popular in the 12th century.
Claude was introduced to England upper crust in the 16th century by the Hamilton family, through their French relations.
In the United States, Claude was initially used rarely, and usually by French-speaking immigrants and their descendants.
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 Abraham Duquesne — FactMonster.com
As commander of the new French fleet, he distinguished himself in the third of the Dutch Wars, engaging Admiral De Ruyter in the Lipari Islands, and sharing in the victory of Palermo (1676).
Although a Protestant, he was created marquis (1681) and was exempted from proscription when the Edict of Nantes was revoked (1685).
Forbin, Claude, comte de - Forbin, Claude, comte de Forbin, Claude, comte de, 1656–1733, French naval commander.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography
In 1702 he sailed on the fireship Éclair and distinguished himself under Claude de Forbin in the operations in the Adriatic, where he commanded a sloop, then a felucca, with which he took several prizes and participated in the capture of the town of Aquileia (Italy).
In June 1751 Philippe-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire was sent to the Six Nations to renew the peace treaties concluded in the time of their ancestors with Governor Callière*, and François Lefebvre Duplessis Faber negotiated with the Ottawas and endeavoured to prevent them from trading with the English.
He asked for and obtained the dispatch of recruits whom he mixed in with the experienced soldiers to bring company strengths up to 50; he created a company of gunners, which was raised in 1750, and he went ahead that same year with a general census of the militia, which included about 12,000 men.
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Blinkbits.com
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (en)
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (en)
Claude de Lorraine, 1er duc de Guise (en)
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 Livre : Le voyage du comte de Forbin à Siam. 1685-168, Claude de Forbin - decitre.fr - Librairie
Livre : Le voyage du comte de Forbin à Siam.
L'équation à retenir : Disponibilité de l'ouvrage + délai de livraison du transporteur = date prévisionnelle de livraison.
Voir tous les livres de Claude de Forbin
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 JANVIER 1702
Bollina semble différent de bolina (bouline) et de bollino (tiquet).
Forbin les rassure en parlant d’exhalaisons du mont Gibel, qui est à 50 km à l’intérieur des terres et culmine péniblement à 900 m.
De plus, il semble que, tant les marins français qu'italiens connaissaient ce type de météore et le craignaient comme annonciateur de catastrophe.
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 AddALL.com - Siamese Memoirs of Count Claude De Forbin: 1685-1688
The Chevalier (later Count) Claude de Forbin came to Siam at the age of 29 in 1685 as aide-de-camp of the French ambassador, the Chevalier de Chaumont.
Forbin's memoirs, written long after his departure from Siam, were not published until 1729.
This rare text in English is fascinating for the insights it gives to daily life at King's Narai court, the intrigues spun by his Levantine chief minister, and the condition of Siam at a critical juncture, two years before the 'revolution' of 1688.
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 Jan Baert or Jean Bart
He observed the Dutch admiral De Ruyter and learnt seamanship and naval tactics.
Their defenders say they were not lawless pirates since they carried a licence from the King, and attacked only his enemies.
In 1689 Jean Bart, his lieutenant Claude de Forbin and 20 men were imprisoned in Plymouth.
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 AllRefer.com - Forbin, Claude, comte de (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Forbin, Claude, comte de (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Forbin, Claude, comte de[klOd kONt du fOrbaN´] Pronunciation Key, 1656–1733, French naval commander.
He fought in the Antilles (1680) and in Abraham Duquesne's Algerian campaign (1682–83) and from 1685 to 1687 was grand admiral and generalissimo of the king of Siam.
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 29 Jun History: This Date
Isabel de Perón was imprisoned for five years on a charge of abuse of property, and upon her release in 1981 settled in Madrid
Capitaine de vaisseau, il se voit confier par le roi une escadre légère avec laquelle il multiplie les croisières en mer du Nord contre le commerce anglais et hollandais, à qui il fait subir des dommages considérables.
In 1959 he became president of Conakat (Confédération des Associations Tribales du Katanga), a political party that was supported by Tshombe's tribal group, the powerful Lunda, and by the Belgian mining monopoly Union Minière du Haut Katanga, which controlled the province's rich copper mines.
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 Amazon.com: forbin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Mémoires du comte de Forbin (1656-1733) (Le Temps retrouvé) by Forbin (Unknown Binding - 1993)
The power of little children: The story of Charles Conte de Forbin-Janson, primate of Lorraine, and the beginning of the Association of the Holy Childhood by Fanchòn Royer (Unknown Binding - 1954)
The Siamese Memoirs of Count Claude De Forbin: 1685-1688 (Treasures from the Past) by Forbin and Michael Smithies (Paperback - Jun 1999)
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 Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
May 4 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (died 1799)
October 14 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (died 1798)
March 4 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (born 1656)
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 1733
May 4 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d.
October 14 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d.
March 4 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b.
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 1656 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
June 5 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (died 1708)
August 6 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (died 1733)
July 2 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (born 1611)
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Indice de l'Histoire de France :  LN 300 = Forbin, Claude de (1656-1733) -- autobiographie -- 1685-1688 ; LN 461 = 1675-1710
Titre(s) :  Mémoires du comte de Forbin [Texte imprimé]
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 1656
June 5 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (d.
August 6 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d.
July 2 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b.
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 Constance Phaulkon: Myth or Reality?
It can then be inferred that De Chaumont, De Choisy, and Forbin in their accounts were critical towards Phaulkon, and their antipathy towards the minister was rooted in their own failures.
We see how their deeds are magnified or vilified according to the feelings of those who tried to narrate their exploits.
The Portuguese adventurer Philip de Brito was the first to trace the route toward absolute power in Burma, who after winning over the king of Arakan, betrayed him.
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 Jean Bart:corsair/pirate
When he was a boy, the English had besieged, battered and captured his home town - perhaps naturally, teenage Jean joined the Dutch Navy to fight the English.
He observed brilliant Dutch admiral De Ruyter, and learnt seamanship and naval tactics.
Jean Bart, his lieutenant Claude de Forbin and 20 men were imprisoned in Plymouth.
www.theotherside.co.uk /tm-heritage/background/jean-bart.htm   (1403 words)

  
 1733 | Political Events: The People's Chronology
Russian forces lay siege to Danzig beginning in October, and Louis XV sends a French expeditionary force to relieve the Baltic city and rescue Stanislaw (see 1734).
Former French naval officer Claude de Forbin dies at Saint-Marcel March 4 at age 76.
A Persian army under Nadir Kuli lays siege to Baghdad but is surrounded at Kirkuk near Shimar (see Herat, 1732).
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 1656 - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
June 5 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (d.
August 6 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d.
October 20 - Nicolas de LargilliГЁre, French painter (d.
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 This Day in History: 1733   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal
www.thelearningcalendar.com /this_day_in_history/year.cfm?year=1733   (110 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Divers - Asie: Livres en Français   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Journal du voyage de Siam by abbé de Choisy and Dirk Van der Cruysse (Paperback - Mar 15 1995)
L'histoire terrible mais inachevée de Norodom Sihanouk, roi du Cambodge by Hélène Cixous and Théâtre du Soleil (Unknown Binding - 1987)
La ferveur et le sacrifice by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and Jean-Luc Barré (Unknown Binding - 1987)
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 Piratical Bibliography
Naar de Hoogduitse vertaling uit het Engelsch [: the history of the lives and actions of the most famous highwaymen, street-robbers, etc.
(Bound with:) J. de Q..., Bloedige tafereelen, geschetst in geschiedenissen, welke zoo wel de rampen des oorlogs als die der wraakzucht, der verleiding en der roofzucht voorstellen.
In: The Des Moines Register (1999 July 7) News section, Vol.
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 Novel : Lady Pirate, The King’s valets de Mireille Calmel
Earthly, violent and passionate, Mary Read — the legendary pirate — is one of the heroines that Mireille Calmel, since The Eleanor’s Bed and The She-Wolves Ball, excels in recalling.
However, her destiny is sealed on that very day.
Seduced by Captain Claude de Forbin, she discovers the joys of sea and love jousts… But being a woman prevents her from staying on board.
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