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157764	Battle of Tudela	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Tudela	Battle of Tudela French attack was carried out in a piecemeal fashion by the vanguard when it was realised that the Spanish were not in position. Although this attack was repelled it showed the weakness of the Spanish positions, especially the gap between Castaños and La Peña's force at Cascante. The battle would ulti...	2,100
157764	Battle of Tudela	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Tudela	Battle of Tudela of Brigade Alexandre, vicomte Digeon to pin him in place. The second French attack was made with much greater force. On the French left General of Division Antoine Morlot’s division attacked Roca's division on the heights above Tudela. On the French right General of Division Maurice Mathieu’s division...	2,101
157764	Battle of Tudela	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Tudela	Battle of Tudela Grimarest finally united at Cascante late in the day giving them a total of 21,000 men against Lagrange's division which was 6,000 strong plus Colbert and Digeon. After the defeat of the rest of the Spanish army however La Peña and Grimarest withdrew after dark. Their poor performance was also reflecte...	2,102
157764	Battle of Tudela	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Tudela	Battle of Tudela defend that city. Napoleon however moved more quickly, and after defeating a small Spanish army at the Battle of Somosierra on 30 November 1808, arrived in Madrid on 1 December 1808. Napoleon's strategy ultimately ended in total success with Madrid in his hands. He was then able to prepare for the re...	2,103
157764	Battle of Tudela	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Tudela	Battle of Tudela detailed narrative of the fighting in Spain and Portugal. This first volume covers the initial French intervention, the start of the Spanish uprising, the early British involvement in Spain and Portugal and Napoleon's own brief visit to Spain. - "The Spanish Ulcer, A History of the Peninsular War", Da...	2,104
157764	Battle of Tudela	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Tudela	Battle of Tudela f the fighting in Spain and Portugal. This first volume covers the initial French intervention, the start of the Spanish uprising, the early British involvement in Spain and Portugal and Napoleon's own brief visit to Spain. - "The Spanish Ulcer, A History of the Peninsular War", David Gates, Pimlico N...	2,105
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke Theodore Huebner Roethke ( ; May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation. Roethke's work is characterized by its introspection, rhythm and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer...	2,106
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke a highly regarded poetry teacher. He taught at University of Washington for fifteen years. His students from that period won two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and two others were nominated for the award. "He was probably the best poetry-writing teacher ever," said poet Richard Hugo, who studied under Roet...	2,107
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke was 15 years old, his uncle committed suicide and his father died of cancer. Roethke noted that these events affected him deeply and influenced his work. Roethke attended the University of Michigan, earning a B.A. "magna cum laude" and Phi Beta Kappa. He continued on at Michigan to receive a M.A. in E...	2,108
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke was expelled from his position at Lafayette and he returned to Michigan. Prior to his return, he had an affair with established poet and critic Louise Bogan, one of his strongest early supporters. While teaching at Michigan State University in East Lansing, he began to suffer from manic depression, whi...	2,109
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke was Roethke's poetry on Plath's mature poetry that when she submitted "Poem for a Birthday" to "Poetry" magazine, it was turned down because it displayed "too imposing a debt to Roethke." In 1952, Roethke received a Ford Foundation grant to "expand on his knowledge of philosophy and theology", and spe...	2,110
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke to bouts of mental illness. He did not initially inform O'Connell of his repeated episodes of mania and depression, yet she remained dedicated to him and his work. She ensured the posthumous publication of his final volume of poetry, "The Far Field", as well as a book of his collected children's verse,...	2,111
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke suffered a heart attack in his friend S. Rasnics' swimming pool in 1963 and died on Bainbridge Island, Washington, aged 55. The pool was later filled in and is now a zen rock garden, which can be viewed by the public at the Bloedel Reserve, a 150-acre (60 hectare) former private estate. There is no sig...	2,112
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke Saginaw floral company. Beginning in 1941 with "Open House", the distinguished poet and teacher published extensively, receiving a Pulitzer Prize for poetry and two National Book Awards among an array of honors. In 1959 Pennsylvania University awarded him the Bollingen Prize. Roethke taught at Michigan...	2,113
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke (Kane Hall 130) at the University of Washington is named in his honor. In 1995, the Seattle alley between Seventh and Eighth Avenues N.E. running from N.E. 45th Street to N.E. 47th Street was named Roethke Mews in his honor. It adjoins the Blue Moon Tavern, one of Roethke's haunts. In 2016, the Theod...	2,114
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke a Spring 1976 interview in the "Paris Review" (No. 65), James Dickey defended his choice of Roethke as the greatest of all American poets. Dickey states: "I don't see anyone else that has the kind of deep, gut vitality that Roethke's got. Whitman was a great poet, but he's no competition for Roethke." ...	2,115
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke Burn: Forty-three of the World's Best Poems," critic Camille Paglia includes three Roethke poems, more than any other 20th-century writer cited in the book. The Poetry Foundation entry on Roethke notes early reviews of his work and Roethke's response to that early criticism: W. H. Auden called [Roethk...	2,116
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke both Auden's and Drew's reviews, along with other favorable reactions to his work. As he remained sensitive to how peers and others he respected should view his poetry, so too did he remain sensitive to his introspective drives as the source of his creativity. Understandably, critics picked up on the s...	2,117
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke forty-five twentieth century poets, the critic Ian Hamilton also praised this book, writing, "In Roethke's second book, "The Lost Son", there are several of these greenhouse poems and they are among the best things he wrote; convincing and exact, and rich in loamy detail." Michael O'Sullivan points to ...	2,118
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke their own section in the new book and 'were a distinct departure from the painful excavations of the monologues and in some respects a return to the strict stanzaic forms of the earliest work,' [according to the poet] Stanley Kunitz. [The critic] Ralph Mills described 'the amatory verse' as a blend of ...	2,119
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke book of poetry. It reveals the full extent of Roethke's achievement: his ability to perceive reality in terms of the tensions between inner and outer worlds, and to find a meaningful system of metaphor with which to communicate this perception... It also points up his weaknesses: the derivative quality...	2,120
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke Richard Eberhart, lobbied against Roethke on the grounds that the award should go to a living poet. It would have been Roethke's second Pulitzer Prize. # Bibliography. - "Open House" (1941) - "The Lost Son and Other Poems" (1948) - "Praise to the End!" (1951) - "The Waking" (1953) - "Words For Th...	2,121
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke (1972; Copper Canyon Press, 2006) (selected and arranged by David Wagoner) # Film and theatre. Film - "In a Dark Time: A Film About Theodore Roethke" (1964). Directed by Dan Myers for McGraw-Hill Films. 25:38 min. - "I Remember Theodore Roethke" (2005). Produced and edited by Jean Walkinshaw. SCCtv...	2,122
157763	Theodore Roethke	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Roethke	Theodore Roethke 21, No. 6) March 1960, pp. 326–330, 335-338. # External links. - Friends of Roethke page - Brief biography at Washington State History - "Theodore Roethke Remembered" - "Theodore Roethke Michigan's Poet" by Linda Robinson Walker at "Michigan Today" (Summer 2001) - Roethke at the Modern American P...	2,123
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria Battle of Vitoria At the Battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813) a British, Portuguese and Spanish army under General the Marquess of Wellington broke the French army under King Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan near Vitoria in Spain, eventually leading to victory in the Peninsular War. # ...	2,124
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria and retreat. By 31 October he had abandoned Madrid too, and retreated first to Salamanca then to Ciudad Rodrigo, near the Portuguese frontier, to avoid encirclement by French armies from the north-east and south-east. Wellington spent the winter reorganizing and reinforcing his forces. By contrast, N...	2,125
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria to Burgos, with Wellington's forces marching hard to cut them off from the road to France. Wellington himself commanded the small central force in a strategic feint, while Sir Thomas Graham conducted the bulk of the army around the French right flank over landscape considered impassable. Wellington l...	2,126
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria mass of Monte Arrato. Vitoria stands to the east, two miles (3 km) south of the Zadorra. Five roads radiate from Vitoria, north to Bilbao, northeast to Salinas and Bayonne, east to Salvatierra, south to Logroño and west to Burgos on the south side of the Zadorra. ## Plans. Jourdan was ill with a fev...	2,127
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria Maransin's brigade was posted in advance, at the village of Subijana. The divisions were disposed with Leval on the right, Daricau in the centre, Conroux on the left and Villatte in reserve. Only a picket guarded the western extremity of the Heights of La Puebla. Further back, d'Erlon's force stood i...	2,128
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria Royal Guard units held the river bank. Wellington directed Hill's 20,000-man Right Column to drive the French from the Zadorra defile on the south side of the river. While the French were preoccupied with Hill, Wellington's Right Centre column moved along the north bank of the river and crossed it ne...	2,129
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria four attacking "columns", attacking the French defensive position from south, west and north while the last column cut down across the French rear. Coming up the Burgos road, Hill sent Pablo Morillo's Division to the right on a climb up the Heights of La Puebla. Stewart's 2nd Division began deploying ...	2,130
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria his right flank. He asked Jourdan, now recovered from his fever, for reinforcements. Having become obsessed with the safety of his left flank, the marshal refused to help Gazan, instead ordering some of D'Erlon's troops to guard the Logroño road. Wellington thrust James Kempt's brigade of the Light D...	2,131
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria the Bilbao road. Jourdan immediately realised he was in danger of envelopment and ordered Gazan to pull back toward Vitoria. Graham drove Sarrut's division back across the river, but could not force his way across the Zadorra despite bitter fighting. Further east, Longa's Spanish troops defeated the S...	2,132
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria one third of all Allied losses at the battle) as they held their ground. Cole's 4th Division crossed further west. With Gazan on the left and d'Erlon on the right, the French attempted a stand at the village of Arinez. Formed in a menacing line, the 4th, Light, 3rd and 7th Divisions soon captured this...	2,133
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria a mass of wagons and carriages. The efforts of Reille's two divisions, holding off Graham, allowed tens of thousands of French troops to escape by the Salvatierra road. # Aftermath. The Allied army lost about 5,000 men, with 3,675 British, 921 Portuguese and 562 Spanish casualties. French losses tot...	2,134
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria off Graham's column. Third, the valley by which the French retreated was narrow and well-covered by the 3rd Hussar and the 15th Dragoon Regiments acting as rearguard. Last, the French left their booty behind. Many British soldiers turned aside to plunder the abandoned French wagons, containing "the l...	2,135
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria are a disgrace to the name of soldier, in action as well as elsewhere; and I propose to draft their horses from them and send the men to England if I cannot get the better of them in any other manner." (On 8April 1814, the 18th redeemed their reputation in a gallant charge led by Lieutenant-colonel Si...	2,136
157766	Battle of Vitoria	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vitoria	Battle of Vitoria The battle was the inspiration for Beethoven's Opus 91, often called the "Battle Symphony" or "Wellington's Victory", which portrays the battle as musical drama. The climax of the movie "The Firefly", starring Jeanette MacDonald, occurs with Wellington's attack on the French centre. (The film used mu...	2,137
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers Richard Briers Richard David Briers, (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor. His fifty-year career encompassed television, stage, film and radio. Briers first came to prominence as George Starling in "Marriage Lines" (1961–66), but it was a decade later, when he narrated "Roobarb" an...	2,138
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993), "Hamlet" (1996), and "As You Like It" (2006). # Early life. Briers was born in Raynes Park, Surrey, the son of Joseph Benjamin Briers and his second wife Morna Phyllis, daughter of Frederick Richardson, of the Indian Civil Service. He was the first cousin once removed o...	2,139
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers his life as a bookmaker but also working as, amongst other things, an estate agent's clerk and a factory worker for an air filter manufacturer, as well as a gifted amateur singer who attended classes at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Morna Briers was a concert pianist and a drama and music teac...	2,140
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers paid for his education, despite not being particularly well-off, and having lived in slightly reduced circumstances in India before returning to England and coming to live at Wimbledon. Briers attended Rokeby School in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, and, having failed the examination for King's College S...	2,141
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers RAF, during which he was a filing clerk at RAF Northwood, where he met future "George and Mildred" actor Brian Murphy. Murphy introduced Briers, who had been interested in acting since the age of 14, to the Dramatic Society at the Borough Polytechnic Institute, now London South Bank University, where he ...	2,142
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers Theatre in Coventry for 6 months. He made his West End debut in the Duke of York's Theatre 1959 production of "Gilt And Gingerbread" by Lionel Hale. # Television career. In 1961, Briers was cast in the leading role in "Marriage Lines" (1961–66) with Prunella Scales playing his wife. In between the pilo...	2,143
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers (1968) and the storyteller in several episodes of "Jackanory" (1969). In 1970, he starred in the Ben Travers Farce "Rookery Nook", shown on the BBC. In the 1980s he played several Shakespearean roles, including "Twelfth Night". Briers was featured twice on the Thames Television show "This Is Your Life" i...	2,144
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers Paul Eddington, a fellow council member of Equity, in the role of Jerry. An enormously successful series, the last episode in 1978 was performed in front of Queen Elizabeth II. In 1977, he starred with his "The Good Life" co-star Penelope Keith in the televised version of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy "The No...	2,145
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers God, Tell Him" (1993). He also starred in "All in Good Faith" (1985), "Tales of the Unexpected" (1988), and "Mr. Bean" (1990). In 1987, he appeared as the principal villain in the "Doctor Who" serial "Paradise Towers", a performance which was described by "Radio Times" writer Patrick Mulkern as Briers' "...	2,146
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers 7. # Stage work. Briers spent much of his career in the theatre, including appearances in plays by Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. In 1967, one of his earliest successes was playing alongside Michael Hordern and Celia Johnson in the London production of Alan Ayckbourn's "Relatively Speaking". Aft...	2,147
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers Lear" and "Uncle Vanya". Briers also appeared in many of Branagh's films, including "Henry V" (1989, as Bardolph), "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993, as Signor Leonato) and "Hamlet" (1996, as Polonius). The theatre production of "Twelfth Night" (1988) was adapted for television, with Briers reprising his ro...	2,148
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers debut in the British feature film "Bottoms Up" (1960). He then took parts in "Murder She Said" (1961), "The Girl on the Boat" (1962), "A Matter of WHO" (1962), "The V.I.P.s" (1963); and Raquel Welch's spy spoof "Fathom" (1967). He latterly appeared in Michael Winner's "A Chorus of Disapproval" (1988) an...	2,149
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers cartoon was written by Grange Calveley and produced by Bob Godfrey. He was the original narrator and voice actor for all the characters in the "Noddy" (1975) TV series based on the Enid Blyton character, and then another series with Godfrey, "Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk" (1976). He also provided the voi...	2,150
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers Mole in the TV series "Mouse and Mole", based on books by Joyce Dunbar and James Mayhew. He latterly starred alongside Neil Morrissey in "Bob the Builder" (2005) as Bob's Dad, Robert to his credit. He also recorded the four seasonal "Percy The Park Keeper" stories for a home audio release based on the bo...	2,151
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers Sparrow in BBC Radio 4's adaptions of Richard Gordon's "Doctor in the House" and "Doctor at Large" (1968), and a retired thespian in a series of six plays with Stanley Baxter "" (2008), and later the play "Not Talking", commissioned for BBC Radio 3 by Mike Bartlett. In 1986 he narrated Radio 4's "Oh, yes...	2,152
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers Sierra done in a sitcom style portraying the Sierra as "one of the family". Briers narrated the public information film "Frances the Firefly", about the dangers of playing with matches, firstly in the mid 1990s when first made, and then in the early 2000s when re-made by the Government fire safety campai...	2,153
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers Shadow"), "Doctors", "New Tricks", "Kingdom", and "If You See God, Tell Him". Richard Briers starred as Hector in the first three series of "Monarch of the Glen" from 2000 to 2002 (and as a guest in series 7 in 2005), a role which saw him return to the limelight. He contributed "Sonnet 55" to the 2002 co...	2,154
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers Like It". He made a cameo appearance as a dying recluse in the 2008 "Torchwood" episode "A Day in the Death". On 17 December 2000, Briers was the guest on BBC Radio 4’s "Desert Island Discs". Among his musical choices were "Di quella pira" from "Il Trovatore" by Giuseppe Verdi, "I Feel A Song Coming On"...	2,155
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers from his mother, bought an engagement ring and they were married within six months. They had two daughters, one of whom, Lucy, is also an actress; Kate (or Katie) has worked in stage management, and is a primary school teacher. Briers and his friend Paul Eddington shared a similar sense of humour, and k...	2,156
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers on BBC Radio 4. In 2014, BBC Radio 4 broadcast "Memories of a Cad", an affectionate comedy drama by Roy Smiles about the relationship between Terry-Thomas and Briers, played by Martin Jarvis and Alistair McGowan respectively. Set in 1984 when he had suffered from Parkinson's Disease for many years, Terr...	2,157
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers Deafblind and Rubella Association campaign. Briers was also a non-medical patron of the TOFS (Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula Support) charity, which supports children and the families of children born unable to swallow. Interviewed by "The Daily Telegraph" in 2008, Briers admitted that, while on holiday, h...	2,158
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers OBE in 1989, and CBE in 2003. # Death. In an interview with the "Daily Mail" on 31 January 2013, Briers stated that he had smoked about half a million cigarettes before he quit. According to Lucy Briers, his daughter, he quit in 2001 immediately after a routine chest X-ray suggested he would otherwise ...	2,159
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers treasure, a great actor and a wonderful man. He was greatly loved and he will be deeply missed." Briers's agent, Christopher Farrar, said: "Richard was a wonderful man, a consummate professional and an absolute joy to work alongside. Following his recent discussion of his battle with emphysema, I know h...	2,160
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers in "The Guardian", critic Michael Coveney described Briers as "always the most modest and self-deprecating of actors, and the sweetest of men," and noted: "Although he excelled in the plays of Alan Ayckbourn, and became a national figure in his television sitcoms of the 1970s and 80s, notably "The Good L...	2,161
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers "Ever Increasing Wonder", with a variety of his BBC Radio recordings, many of them introduced by those who knew him and worked with him. Guest speakers included: - Prunella Scales - Stephen Fry - Michael Chaplin - Alan Bennett - Michael Ball - Kenneth Branagh - Ed Harris - Briers's widow Ann Dav...	2,162
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers dramatized by Alan Bennett) - Aled Jones's interview of Briers # Selected filmography. - "Girls at Sea" (1958) - 'Popeye' Lewis - "Bottoms Up" (1960) - Colbourne - "Murder, She Said" (1961) - 'Mrs. Binster' - "A Matter of WHO" (1961) - Jamieson - "Marriage Lines" (1961–1966, TV sitcom) - George St...	2,163
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers - Miles Gannet - "The Three Musketeers" (1973) - King Louis XIII (voice, uncredited) - "Roobarb" (1974) - Louis XIII (voice, uncredited) - "The Good Life" (1975–1978, TV sitcom) - Tom Good - "Watership Down" (1978) - Fiver (voice) - "The Other One" (1977–1979, TV sitcom) - Ralph Tanner - "Goodbye, ...	2,164
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers TV sitcom) - Godfrey Spry - "Frankenstein" (1994) - Grandfather - "A Midwinter's Tale" (1995) - Henry Wakefield (Claudius, the Ghost, and the Player King) - "Hamlet" (1996) - Polonius - "Spice World" (1997) - Bishop - "Love's Labour's Lost" (2000) - Sir Nathaniel - "Monarch of the Glen" (2000–2005)...	2,165
157729	Richard Briers	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Briers	Richard Briers laudius, the Ghost, and the Player King) - "Hamlet" (1996) - Polonius - "Spice World" (1997) - Bishop - "Love's Labour's Lost" (2000) - Sir Nathaniel - "Monarch of the Glen" (2000–2005) - Hector MacDonald - "Unconditional Love" (2002) - Barry Moore - "Peter Pan" (2003) - Smee - "As You Like It" (2...	2,166
20101	Mary	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary	Mary Mary Mary may refer to: - Mary (name), a female given name # People. - Mary (slave) (died 1838), an American teenage slave executed for murder - Mary (conjoined twin) (2000-2000), pseudonym of Rosie Attard, subject of a 2001 legal case ## Religious contexts. - New Testament people named Mary is an overview ...	2,167
20101	Mary	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary	Mary mother of John Mark - Mary of Egypt, patron saint of penitents - Mary of Rome, a New Testament woman - Mary, mother of Zechariah and sister of Moses and Aaron; mostly known by the Hebrew name: Miriam - Mary the Jewess one of the reputed founders of alchemy, referred to by Zosimus. - Mary 2.0, movement of roma...	2,168
20101	Mary	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary	Mary George V of the United Kingdom - Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), mother of James I of England - Mary of Guise (1515–1560), Queen Consort of James V of Scotland and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots - Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark (born 1972), wife of Crown Prince Frederik - Mary I of Portugal, daughter of Kin...	2,169
20101	Mary	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary	Mary Mary of Woodstock (1278–1332), daughter of Edward I of England # Geography. - Mary Province, in southeast Turkmenistan - Mary District, in Mary Province - Mary, Turkmenistan, capital city of the province, located in Mary District - Islas Marías (Mary Islands), Mexico - Mary, Saône-et-Loire, France - Mary Ri...	2,170
20101	Mary	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary	Mary Show" - "Mary" (1994 film), an Australian documentary - "Mary" (2005 film), a film directed by Abel Ferrara about an actress playing Mary Magdalene # Music. - Mary Mary, contemporary gospel musical duo ## Albums. - "Mary" (Mary J. Blige album), 1999 - "Mary" (Mary Travers album), 1971 - "Mary" (Sarkodie al...	2,171
20101	Mary	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary	Mary "Proud Mary", a 1969 song by John Fogerty, later covered by Ike and Tina Turner - "Mary", a song by Kings of Leon on the album "Come Around Sundown" - "Mary", a song by The 4 of Us on the album "Songs for the Tempted" - "Mary", a song by Tori Amos on the album "Tales of a Librarian" - "Mary", a song by John Ca...	2,172
20101	Mary	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary	Mary "Young for Eternity" - "Mary", a song by Pete Townshend written for the concept album "Lifehouse" - "Mary", a song by Dune Rats on "The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit]" - "Mary Is a Grand Old Name", a song by George M. Cohan from "Forty-five Minutes from Broadway" - "Mary (I'm in Love with You)", a song written ...	2,173
20101	Mary	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary	Mary for a motorboat the United States Navy planned to take over in 1918 but never actually acquired # Other uses. - Mary (crater), a lunar impact crater - Mary (elephant), an elephant from the "Sparks World Famous Shows" circus - Mary Melody, a character from "Tiny Toon Adventures" - Mary (programming language) ...	2,174
20101	Mary	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary	Mary lanned to take over in 1918 but never actually acquired # Other uses. - Mary (crater), a lunar impact crater - Mary (elephant), an elephant from the "Sparks World Famous Shows" circus - Mary Melody, a character from "Tiny Toon Adventures" - Mary (programming language) - Mary's room, a philosophical thought e...	2,175
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps Battle of Vauchamps The Battle of Vauchamps (14 February 1814) was the final major engagement of the Six Days Campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition. It resulted in a part of the Grande Armée under Napoleon I defeating a superior Prussian and Russian force of the Army of Silesia under Field-mar...	2,176
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps On 13 February, reeling from his successive defeats, Blücher looked to disengage from Napoleon and instead manoeuvre with a part of his forces to fall upon the isolated VI Corps of Marshal Auguste de Marmont, who was defending Napoleon's rear. The Prussian commander attacked and pushed back Marmont ...	2,177
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps which allowed the French to launch a determined counterattack and drive back the leading elements of the Army of Silesia. Blücher realized that he was facing the Emperor in person and decided to pull back and avoid another battle against Napoleon. In practice, Blücher's attempt to disengage proved e...	2,178
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps rode down the enemy. Retreating in slow-moving square formations in broad daylight and along some excellent cavalry terrain, the Coalition forces suffered very heavy losses, with several squares broken by the French cavalry. At nightfall, combat ceased and Blücher opted for an exhausting night march...	2,179
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps Army Corps of Marshal Marmont, at Étoges. Blücher knew that Marmont's Corps was weak and his plan was to destroy it and thus fall upon the rear of Napoleon's main force. Still in pursuit of the debris of the enemy force, late on 13 February, Napoleon received reports that Marmont's Corps had been a...	2,180
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps Taking with him the cavalry of the Guard and Grouchy's Cavalry Reserve, Napoleon headed for the village of Vauchamps. Meanwhile, late on 13 February, having successfully regrouped what forces he could muster at Bergères-lès-Vertus, Blücher had launched an attack against Marmont's single division, p...	2,181
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps Army of Silesia could count on 20,000 to 21,500 men, from three Army Corps: - IInd (Prussian) Corps, commanded by General Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf: - 10th brigade under George Dubislaw Ludwig von Pirch - 11th brigade under Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten - 12th brigade under Prince ...	2,182
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps 6,500 soldiers. There were also the 1,500 troops from IX Corps who survived the Battle of Champaubert. These were grouped into three or four temporary battalions and an artillery battery. The rump of IX Corps lost 600 men and all of its guns on the evening of 14 February. The II Corps had eight 6-po...	2,183
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps the battlefield in time, with no more than 10,000 men engaged in the actual fighting: - VI Corps, commanded by Marshal of the Empire Auguste de Marmont: - 3rd Division under Joseph Lagrange - 8th Division under Étienne Pierre Sylvestre Ricard - Reinforcements temporarily attached: 7th division u...	2,184
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps artillery under Antoine Drouot. - Guard infantry, under Marshal, Prince of the Moskowa Michel Ney (Reinforcements not engaged): - 1st (Old Guard) division under Louis Friant, - 2nd (Young Guard) division under Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial. Grouchy's I Cavalry Corps and II Cavalry Corps, each o...	2,185
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps comprised 4,500 soldiers. Of these forces, only the cavalry, Marmont's infantry and one battalion of the Old Guard were actually engaged in the fighting. The others were marching along behind. # Battle. Having begun to push back the feeble French forces from Marmont's VI's Corps the day before, Bl...	2,186
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps motion from Vauchamps towards Montmirail. To their surprise, Marmont's men didn't give ground this time and vigorously counterattacked, pushing Zieten's advance guard back into the village of Vauchamps. The accompanying Prussian cavalry was dispersed by a violent French cannonade. With now both brig...	2,187
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps Imperial Guard duty squadrons from the Emperor's own escort, under general Lion. Marmont's leftmost brigade entered Vauchamps, but, with the village heavily invested with Zieten's Prussian defenders, the Frenchmen were soon repulsed, with the Prussians in pursuit. Marshal Marmont then launched his f...	2,188
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps Corps in that direction, coming from Champaubert. The French also moved forward, with Marmont's two divisions (Lagrange and Ricard) in pursuit of Zieten, along the road to Fromentières. Marmont was now supported on his left by General Grouchy, who had just arrived on the field of battle with the div...	2,189
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps Zieten's Prussians drew back in good order, and formed in squares to fend off Grouchy's cavalry. Towards 2 o'clock in the afternoon, after assessing the situation, Blücher realised that he was facing Napoleon himself and thus decided to immediately withdraw. He ordered all of his forces to retreat t...	2,190
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps two cavalry divisions on his left. Following Marmont at a short distance were further reinforcements, two Guard infantry divisions (Friant and Curial) under the command of Marshal Ney and with them was Napoleon himself. Napoleon was followed by an additional "Young Guard" division, under General Meu...	2,191
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps for cavalry action, and now, with the increasingly aggressive action of the enemy cavalry against his flank and rear, Zieten and his brigade became increasingly isolated. Grouchy, with the divisions of Doumerc and Saint-Germain was now boldly menacing Zieten's right, while on his left, the Prussian ...	2,192
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps infantry had just begun to irrupt, Blücher ordered the continuation of the retreat towards Champaubert and Étoges, with Kleist's Corps on the left, south of the road and Kaptzevitch's Corps on the right, north of the road. Again taking advantage from the flat terrain, Grouchy was able to advance rap...	2,193
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps energetically launched his three divisions against the Coalition squares, dispersing a number of them, with these men fleeing in disorder to take refuge in the Étoges forest. The old Blücher, who had been bravely exposing himself to great danger in order to boost the morale his men, was almost taken...	2,194
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps Udom's men were exhausted after the long retreat and fighting and, seeing that night had fallen, thought themselves in safety. However, Doumerc's cuirassiers, formed unseen in the night, surprised these men and a single charge was enough to send the panicked men fleeing. Prince Urusov, 600 men and e...	2,195
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps corps. # Result. The battle was actually no more than a very long cavalry pursuit and was a very costly defeat for Blücher's "Army of Silesia", which lost as much as 10,000 men, during this day. French author Jean-Pierre Mir states that the Prussian Corps of Kleist had 3,500 men out of action (kil...	2,196
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps men killed, wounded or missing and 2,000 prisoners for the Prussians, and of 2,000 men lost for the Russians. Since Pigeard asserts that these casualties occurred during the pursuit, it is possible that these figures do not take into account the casualties incurred during the initial actions of this...	2,197
157760	Battle of Vauchamps	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Vauchamps	Battle of Vauchamps account the casualties incurred during the initial actions of this battle (one battalion of Zieten's brigade captured, plus the 2,000 prisoners taken during Grouchy's and Nansouty's joint action against Zieten). According to Pigeard, the French registered very light casualties of around 600 men. Mi...	2,198
157736	Hybrid vehicle	https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hybrid%20vehicle	Hybrid vehicle Hybrid vehicle A hybrid vehicle uses two or more distinct types of power, such as internal combustion engine to drive an electric generator that powers an electric motor, e.g. in diesel-electric trains using diesel engines to drive an electric generator that powers an electric motor, and submarines that...	2,199

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