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  Harriette Deborah Lacy - LoveToKnow 1911
HARRIETTE DEBORAH LACY (1807-1874), English actress, was born in London, the daughter of a tradesman named Taylor.
Her first appearance on the stage was at Bath in 1827 as Julia in The Rivals, and she was immediately given leading parts there in both comedy and tragedy.
Her Rosalind, Aspatia (to Macready's Melantius) in The Bridal, and Lady Teazle to the Charles Surface of Walter Lacy (1809-1898) - to whom she was married in 1839 - confirmed her position and popularity.
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 Franz Moritz, Count Lacy - LoveToKnow 1911
FRANZ MORITZ LACY, Count (1725-1801), Austrian field marshal, was born at St Petersburg on the 21st of October 1725.
Franz Moritz was educated in Germany for a military career, and entered the Austrian service.
Lacy was now old and worn out, and his tenure of command therein was not marked by any greater measure of success than in the case of the other Austrian generals.
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 News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Count Peter von Lacy, or Pyotr Petrovich Lacy (Russian: Пётр Петрович Ласси), as he was known in Russia (1678–1751), was one of the most successful Russian imperial commanders before Rumyantsev and Suvorov.
Peter Lacy was born on 26 September, 1678 in Killeady near Limerick into a noble Irish family of Norman origin, originally hailing from Lassy, Calvados.
Lacy was reputedly the first Russian officer to enter the capital of Livland and he was appointed the first Russian chatelain of the Riga Castle in the aftermath.
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 Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maria Theresa having placed her son, Emperor Joseph II, at the head of Austrian military affairs, Lacy was made a field marshal, and given the task of reforming and administering the army (1766).
Tomb of Count Lacy in the Schwarzenbergpark in Neuwaldegg, Vienna
In the brief and uneventful War of the Bavarian Succession, Lacy and Laudon were the chief Austrian commanders against the King of Prussia, and when Joseph II at Maria Theresa's death, became the sovereign of the Austrian dominions as well as emperor, Lacy remained his most trusted friend.
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 Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy Lascy - Definition, explanation
Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy Lascy (en: Count Franz Moritz von Lacy), (October 21, 1725–November 24, 1801), Austrian field marshal, was born at St Petersburg.
Maria Theresa having placed her son, Emperor Joseph II, at the head of Austrian military affairs, Lacy was made a field marshal, and given the task of reforming and administering the army (1766).
In the brief and uneventful War of the Bavarian Succession, Lacy and Laudon were the chief Austrian commanders against the King of Prussia, and when Joseph II at Maria Theresa's death, became the sovereign of the Austrian dominions as well as emperor, Lacy remained his most trusted friend.
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 Franz Moritz von Lacy Information
Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy or Lascy (English: Count Francis Morris von Lacy, Russian: Boris Petrovich Lassi), (October 21, 1725 – November 24, 1801), Austrian field marshal, was born at St Petersburg.
His father, Count Peter Lacy, was a Russian Field Marshal, who belonged to an Irish family, and had followed the fortunes of the exiled James II.
Tomb of Count Lacy in the Schwarzenbergpark in Neuwaldegg, Vienna
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 Germany
The electoral college was to consist of the three Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, and Cologne; the Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Duke of Saxony (Sachsen-Wittenberg), and the Margrave of Brandenburg; to this number was added later the King of Bohemia.
The Counts of Holstein, who had carried the German nationality into the northern territory of what is now Germany, had received Schleswig as early as 1386 in fief from Denmark; the two provinces, Holstein and Schleswig, soon grew together.
After the death of the last Count of Holstein, King Christian of Denmark was in 1460 elected duke by Schleswig and Holstein.
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 Lacy, Count Franz Moritz - Project SYW
Franz Moritz Lacy was the son of Count Peter Lacy and Martha von Funcke from Livonia.
Lacy spent his childhood in Saint-Petersburg and was then sent to the Cavalry Academy of Liegnitz in Germany.
From 1768 to 1774, Lacy was president of the Hofkriegsrat.
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 ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN VIENNA, 1766 by Brian McGinn
Lacy then fought in turn for France and Poland before finding an outlet for his prodigious organizational talents in the Russian Army of Peter the Great.
In 1737, Lacy sent his youngest son Francis Maurice, born in October 1725 at St. Petersburg, to study in Austria under the care of Maximilian Ulysses Browne.
Peter Lacy's new son-in-law was a fellow Field Marshal in the Russian service, and a first cousin of his son's tutor, Field Marshal Maximilian Browne in Austria.
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 COUNT FRANZ MORITZ LAC... - Online Information article about COUNT FRANZ MORITZ LAC...
Fabian methods, they were strong enough to persist in their resolve to the end.
Joseph II., at the head of Austrian military affairs, Lacy was made a field-marshal, and given the task of reforming and administering the army (1766).
Lacy was now old and worn out, and his See also:
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 Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Saint Moritz lies in the Oberengadin (Upper Inn Valley) and is surrounded by magnificent Alpine peaks.
The Austrian dramatic poet Franz Grillparzer drew on his personal problems to create tragedies that are recognized as the greatest work of the Austrian stage.
Franz Schubert was a student at the Royal Imperial Academy in Vienna when Napoleon attacked the city.
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 The Neuwaldegg Institute - History of Castle Neuwaldegg
For the next twenty years, Graf Lacy was too preoccupied with official duties to tend to his new acquisition.
The Count made major changes to the façade, renewed the frescos in the Mirror Room (today Fresco Room) and enlarged the castle on the north wing.
In 1801 Graf Lacy died, and Fürst Joseph Johann Nepumuk zu Schwarzenberg inherited the premises.
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 Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Shop
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(count of) French naturalist and politician who made original contributions to the knowledge of fishes and reptiles.
boy king of Hungary and of Bohemia (from 1453), who was caught up in the feud between his guardian Ulrich, count of Cilli, and the Hunyadi family of Hungary.
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 A Roll of Arms of Romantic and Historical Interest. A-Z.
Lacy, Franz Moritz, Graf von, (1725-1801), Imperial Soldier, of Austria.
Arms: Quarterly: 1 and 4, Or, an Eagle displayed Sable beaked membered and crowned of the last: 2 and 3, Gules, a dexter arm embowed in armour (and in the 4th quarter a sinister arm embowed) Argent holding a sabre of the last piercing a Human head proper.
The shield ensigned with the coronet of a French Count.
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 Schloss Neuwaldegg
Castle Neuwaldegg is built as a garden palace for Count Theodor Strattman.
Under Johann Karl Bartholotti, Baron of Partenfeld, the castle undergoes substantial changes (the wings are extended and pointed roofs are added).
The castle is purchased by Franz Moritz, Count of Lacy, Field Marshal of Empress Maria Theresia, who redesigns the baroque garden and transforms it into one of the grandest and most beautiful of its kind in Europe.
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boy king of Hungary and of Bohemia (from 1453), who was caught up in the feud between his guardian Ulrich, count of Cilli, and the...
French Symbolist poet, a master of lyrical irony and one of the inventors of vers libre ("free verse").
a minor Jewish observance falling on the 33rd day in the period of the counting of the
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"In an hour and half," what military men may count almost incredible, they are fairly on their ground, motionless the most of them by 9 A.M.; the rest wheeling rightward, as they successively arrive in the Chwala-Podschernitz localities; and, descending diligently, Sterbohol way; and will be at their harvest-work anon.
Moritz, would he die for it, cannot get his Bridge to reach: his fresh 15,000 stand futile there; not even Seidlitz with his light horse could really swim across, though he tried hard, and is fabled to have done so.
His account of the Battle, as if it had been a painful object, rather avoided in his after-thoughts, is unusually indistinct;--and helps us little in the extreme confusion that reigns otherwise, both in the thing itself and in the reporters of the thing.
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 lacy - OneLook Dictionary Search
Lacy : E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook [home, info]
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 tanzania.ca - lacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The last time I was camping with thousands of people while a band played on a distant stage was in 1994, at the...
Champ Lacy to face Welshman in battle of unbeatens
Unbeaten American Jeff Lacy will risk his International Boxing Federation super middleweight crown against unbeaten Welshman Joe Calzaghe in Cardiff next year, promoters said.
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 The Pulp Heroes: G
He was located in Vienna but traveled around the world, aided by his dog, his best friend, and his reputation, which commanded airplanes and vehicles to be made available to him at all times.
He was Captain Franz Drake, the “ore pirate,” a pirate during the years of the Spanish Main who sailed the various seas preying on, well, everyone who came his way.
He was, in fact, an actual Graf (count), and like Prince Petroff he worked as a thief among the moneyed classes of Europe, stealing gold shipments from trains, robbing ministerial couriers, and such-like.
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 Consistency List - PERSONAL NAMES (I-P) (Soloviev)
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 Food For Thought: Biographies L
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Franz Moritz, count Lacy (October 21, 1725-November 24, 1801), Austrian field marshal, was born at St Petersburg.
That their cautiousness often degenerated into timidity may be admitted--Leuthen and many other bitter defeats had taught the Austrians to respect their great opponent--but they showed at any rate that, having resolved to wear out the enemy by Fabian methods, they were strong enough to persist in their resolve to the end.
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 Bell Catalog - Bs
Brasilianische Geschichte, bey Achtjähriger in selbigen Landen geführeter Regierung siner Fürstlichen Gnaden Herrn Johann Moritz, Fürstens zu Nassau, &c.
Franz Urban Bawiers Merckwürdige Reisen und Begebenheiten seine Kriegsdienste zu Lande Seefahrten nach Ost- und Westindien und endliche Wohlfarth von ihm selbst beschrieben.
London : printed for T. Combes …, J. Lacy …, and J. Clarke …, 1728.
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 Lithuania
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 The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Invasion Of Southern France (Aug-1944) - Mar. 27th, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
For the next month MPs were rounding up cocky young glider pilots claiming to have become hopelessly lost on their way back to the coast.
Unfortunately there are cultures and "religions" that purposely use children as shields, suicide bombers or purposely target children.
It also took place a little too late, by the time it was launched, the Normandy breakout was taking place.
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