2) Vincennes, city, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Vincennes, city, United States, (vinsenz´) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 19,859), seat of Knox co., SW Ind., on the Wabash River; inc. 1814. The city is the center of an...

3) Vincennes, Jean Baptiste Bissot, sieur de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Vincennes, Jean Baptiste Bissot, sieur de, (vinsenz´; Fr. zhaN batest´ beso´ syor d vaNsen´) (KEY) , 1668-1719, Canadian explorer and leader of the Miami, b. Quebec....

4) Sevres ware. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...made in France by the royal (now national) potteries established (1745) by Louis XV at Vincennes, moved (1756) to Sevres after changing hands. Before 1770 it was...

5) Gimbel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...up and down the Mississippi River peddling notions. He set up (1842) a small business in Vincennes, Ind., and expanded it considerably over a period of 40 years....

6) Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...pioneer writer in the history of American education and served as president (1891-96) of Vincennes Univ. and as superintendent of schools (1896-98) in San Diego,...

7) Gibault, Pierre. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of Virginia. He was of tremendous assistance to Clark in winning the people of Vincennes to the patriot cause and in raising a force for the recapture of Vincennes...

8) Kenton, Simon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Revolution he accompanied (1778) George Rogers Clark on his expedition to Kaskaskia and Vincennes and helped Boone in the raid on Chillicothe. He was later captured...

9) Wabash, river, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the chief traffic on the river. In the fertile Wabash basin corn and livestock are raised. Vincennes, Terre Haute, and Lafayette, Ind., and Danville, Ill., are on...

10) Enghien, Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon-Conde, duc d'. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...in Ettenheim, Baden, and within the space of a few hours, was court-martialed and shot at Vincennes (Mar. 21, 1804). Napoleon's brutal procedure provoked a revulsion...