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Patriot’s Disappearance and Theodosia Burr Alston - The Patriot’s #disappearance in 1813 remains a mystery that has never been solved. Socialite Theodosia Burr Alston, the daughter of Aaron Burr, ... https://t.co/5rJHhgpIUU #19thcentury #ushist
American Plot to Save #MarieAntoinette From the Guillotine - On a slightly misty day on 16 October 1793 the Queen was guillotined. However, before it reached that point, there were a variety of plots to ... https://t.co/PledIbv1hH #18thcentury #18thc
Engraving of France's queen, Marie Antoinette, in 1793 published by Thomas Cheesman. #marieantoinette #18thcentury #arthist
Born #OnThisDay 7Apr1772 F M Charles Fourier, a French philosopher, early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of #utopiansocialism. Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, are mainstream in modern society. #18thc
RT @AntoineVanner: Courage, professionalism, leadership and skill of the highest order saved massive loss of life in1804 when a #RoyalNavy “74” ship-of-the line HMS Venerable, was wrecked in a gale. Credit went to her 67-year old captain. https://t.co/7hQ9EZotcN
Born #OnThisDay 2Apr1740 Armand-Gaston Camus a French revolutionist who was exchanged for Marie Thérèse of France (the daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette) in November of 1795. Learn more about this exchange: https://t.co/fzUfQwQRUT #history #18thcentury
Clementina Clerke and Richard Vining Perry: Their #Elopement - One of the more well-known elopements of the 1790s involved a precocious 14-year-old girl named #ClementinaClerke and a handsome Bristol surgeon-apothecary ... https://t.co/hzoVYllC6K #18thcentury
#OnThisDay 26Mar1832 Cholera takes its first victim in France. Learn More about this disease and its victims at https://t.co/hbbPo3hLVv #19thcentury #medhist #cholera
François Levaillant: Explorer, Naturalist, and Ornithologist Extraordinaire - Explorer, naturalist, and ornithologist extraordinaire François Levaillant was born on 6 August 1753 in Paramaribo ... https://t.co/1ahFptkSbB #18thcentury #18thc #Levaillant
Horace Vernet: French Painter of the 1800s - Horace Vernet was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects. He came from ... https://t.co/GyxJiFSlym #19thcentury #arthist #Vernet