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2 giorni fa · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
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- John Adams
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2 giorni fa · Monroe won the election as Governor of Virginia in 1799 and strongly supported Jefferson's candidacy in the 1800 presidential election. As President Jefferson's special envoy, Monroe helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase, through which the United States nearly doubled in size.
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2 giorni fa · Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755, or 1757 [a] – July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's presidency . Born out of wedlock in Charlestown, Nevis, Hamilton was orphaned as a child and taken in by a ...
5 giorni fa · John Hancock by John Singleton Copley. January 23, 1737 – October 8, 1793. John Hancock was one of the Founding Fathers and the president of the Second Continental Congress. He is remembered for signing the Declaration of Independence with a very large signature. After the war he was governor of Massachusetts.
1 giorno fa · Napoleon I (born August 15, 1769, Ajaccio, Corsica—died May 5, 1821, St. Helena Island) was a French general, first consul (1799–1804), and emperor of the French (1804–1814/15), one of the most celebrated personages in the history of the West.
- Napoleon I, also called Napoléon Bonaparte, was a French military general and statesman. Napoleon played a key role in the French Revolution (1789–...
- Napoleon first seized political power in a coup d’état in 1799. The coup resulted in the replacement of the extant governing body—a five-member Dir...
- Napoleon served as first consul of France from 1799 to 1804. In that time, Napoleon reformed the French educational system, developed a civil code...
- After a series of military defeats in 1812–13, Napoleon was forced to abdicate the French throne on April 6, 1814. Napoleon returned to power in ea...
- No! “Le Petit Caporal” wasn’t petite—at least not by 19th-century standards. The estimated average height of a French man in 1820 was 5 feet 4 inch...
5 giorni fa · French Revolutionary wars, title given to the hostilities between France and one or more European powers between 1792 and 1799.
5 giorni fa · What Was the Consulate of 1799? How Was Legislative Power Reduced? How Did Napoleon Transform France with the Consulate? Why Is the Consulate Considered An Authoritarian Regime? How Does the Consulate End? What Is the Difference Between the Consulate and the Empire? KEY DATES OF THE CONSULATE SIEGE.
