WebBiography. Victor Emmanuel was the second son of King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, daughter of King Philip V of Spain and Elisabeth Farnese.. Victor Emmanuel was known from birth as the Duke of Aosta.From 1792 to 1796, Aosta's father had taken an active part in the struggle of the old powers against the …

WebCharles III (born Charles Sebastian; Spanish: Carlos Sebastián; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain (1759–1788). He also was Duke of Parma and Piacenza, as Charles I (1731–1735); King of Naples, as Charles VII, and King of Sicily, as Charles V (1734–1759). He was the fifth son of Philip V of Spain, and the eldest son of Philip's …

WebVictor Emmanuel III was born in Naples in the Kingdom of Italy to King Umberto I of Italy and Margherita of Savoy, the Queen consort.He was named after his grandfather, Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia and later King of Italy.Unlike his paternal first cousin's son, the 1.98 m (6-foot 6") tall Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta, Victor Emmanuel was short of …

WebCharles Emmanuel II (Italian: Carlo Emanuele II di Savoia); 20 June 1634 – 12 June 1675) was Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675 and under regency of his mother Christine of France until 1648. He was also Marquis of Saluzzo, Count of Aosta, Geneva, Moriana and Nice, as well as claimant king of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Armenia.At his death in 1675 his second …

WebCharles Philippe of France was born in 1757, the youngest son of the Dauphin Louis and his wife, the Dauphine Marie Josèphe, at the Palace of Versailles.Charles was created Count of Artois at birth by his grandfather, the reigning King Louis XV. [citation needed] As the youngest male in the family, Charles seemed unlikely ever to become king.His eldest …

WebCharles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (/ ˌ t æ l ɪ r æ n d ˈ p ɛr ɪ ɡ ɔːr /, French: [ʃaʁl mɔʁis də tal(ɛ)ʁɑ̃ peʁiɡɔʁ, – moʁ-]; 2 February 1754 – 17 May 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French clergyman, politician and leading diplomat.After studying theology, he became Agent-General of the Clergy in 1780.

WebCharles Pierre François Augereau, 1st Duke of Castiglione (21 October 1757 – 12 June 1816) was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.After serving in the Revolutionary Wars, he earned rapid promotion while fighting against Spain and soon found himself as …

WebThe unification of Italy (Italian: Unità d'Italia [uniˈta ddiˈtaːlja]), also known as the Risorgimento (/ r ɪ ˌ s ɔːr dʒ ɪ ˈ m ɛ n t oʊ /, Italian: [risordʒiˈmento]; lit. 'Resurgence'), was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the consolidation of different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single state in 1861, the Kingdom of Italy.

WebJean-Charles Pichegru Jean-Baptiste Jourdan Lazare Hoche André Masséna Jean Lannes Charles François Dumouriez Jean Victor Moreau François Kellermann Louis Desaix † Jean Humbert Charles IV (From 1796) Ignacio de Álava Herman Daendels Wolfe Tone † Jan Henryk Dąbrowski: Strength; 1794: 1,169,000: Casualties and losses; Austrians (1792–97)

WebCharles-Augustin de Coulomb (/ ˈ k uː l ɒ m,-l oʊ m, k uː ˈ l ɒ m,-ˈ l oʊ m /; French: ; 14 June 1736 – 23 August 1806) was a French officer, engineer, and physicist.He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. He also did important work on friction. ...