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...The English, John Talbot, first Earl of Shrewsbury (1373-1453). 1...
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...f. The Byzantine Empire (See 1261)THE PALEOLOGUS FAMILY (1260-1453)After the recapture of Constantinople by the Greeks in 1261, the empire of the Paleologi was still...
13) Captain. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...i.e. Garibaldi (1807-1882). 1 The Great Captain (el gran capita no). Gonzalvo di Cor dova (1453-1515.) 2 Manuel Comne nus of Treb izond (1120, 1143-1180) 3...
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...King of France (1422-1461). He ended the Hundred Years' War (1453) by driving the English from most of France....
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...that after having slept soundly through the Dark Ages, Europe was suddenly awakened in 1453 by the Fall of Constantinople. We now know that it had been light all...
16) Albuquerque, Afonso de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Albuquerque, Afonso de, (foN´zo di lbooker´k, -d al´bker´k) (KEY) , 1453-1515, Portuguese admiral, the effective founder of the Portuguese Empire in the East. He...
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...Fernández de Córdoba, Gonzalo, (gontha´lo farnan´dath da kor´doba) (KEY) , 1453-1515, Spanish general, called the Great Captain. He fought in the civil wars preceding...
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...Luna, Alvaro de, (alva´ro da loo´na) (KEY) , 1391?-1453, constable of Castile, grand master of the Order of Santiago. The favorite of John II of Castile, he virtually...
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...A term of self-abasement assumed by an order of monks founded by St. Francis of Paula, in 1453. The order of St. Francis of Assisi had already engrossed the "humble"...
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...of the seat of empire to Constantinople to the extinction of that empire by the Turks in 1453. 1...
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