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Stourbridge

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Manufacturing town in Worcestershire; its staple manufactures are glass and pottery.

Duc d'Albufera Suchet Louis Gabriel

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Marshal of France, born in Lyons; distinguished himself in Italy, Egypt, Austria, and Prussia, and became general in command in Aragon, by his success in ruling which last he gained the marshal's ...

Comte de Tallard

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Marshal of France; served in the War of the Spanish Succession; was taken prisoner by Marlborough at Hochstadt, on which occasion he said to the duke, "Your Grace has beaten the finest troops in ...

Prince de Soubise

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Marshal of France; was aide-de-camp to Louis XV. in Flanders, was favoured by Pompadour, held an important command in the Seven Years' War, but was defeated by Frederick the Great at Rossbach ...

James Hutchison Stirling

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Master in philosophy, born in Glasgow; bred to medicine and practised for a time in South Wales; went to Germany to study the recent developments in philosophy there, on his return to Scotland ...

Mathematician and physician, born in London; was Queen's printer, as his father had been before him; published numerous important papers on scientific subjects, his greatest work "The Polarization of ...

Sir George Gabriel Stokes

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Mathematician and physicist, born in Skreen, co. Sligo; he is great in the department of mathematical physics, and has been specially devoted to the study of hydro-dynamics and the theory of light; ...