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JACOBINS

The Jacobins were a radical French political group. The Jacobins stood for the establishment of a single, uniform, rational and centralised nation- state, which would be a democratic republic, expressing the sovereignty of the people. Jacobins were entirely hostile to aristocratic privileges and to all feudal forms of government. They were originally called the Club Breton when they were formed in Versailles, but on moving to Paris in 1789 were renamed the Jacobins. After successive purges they became the instrument of the Reign of Terror under Robespierre's dictatorship. See Jacobinism
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TREATY OF PARIS

The 1763 Treaty of Paris was a treaty concluded between Great Britain, France, Spain and Portugal. By the treaty, France ceded to Great Britain: Canada, Cape Breton and the islands and coasts of the St Lawrence. The Mississippi River from its source to the Iberville and a line thence through Lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain to the Gulf of Mexico were to bound the Spanish and British possessions. Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain. England renounced her pretensions to Cuba in favour of Spain and surrendered her forts in Spanish America.
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BRETON

The Breton is an old breed of French heavy horse originally developed by the Celts and then adapted during the ages. The modern Breton stands 15 to 16 hands high, is chestnut or chestnut roam in colour often with a flaxen mane and tail. They are lively and energetic, but with a very good temperament and are used for pulling wagons and carts.
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DON MANUEL BRETON DE LOS HERREROS

Don Manuel Breton de Los Herreros was a popular Spanish poet. He was born in 1800 and died in 1873. He furnished the Spanish stage with more than 150 pieces, original and adapted, besides writing lyrical and satirical poems, etc.
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EDWARD BOSCAWEN

Sir Edward Boscawen was a British admiral. He was born in 1711 and died in 1761. He was the third son of the first Viscount Falmouth. In 1741 he distinguished himself at the taking of Porto Bello. In 1744 when in command of the Dreadnought, he assisted in the capture of the French ship Medee. In 1747, after commanding the Namur, in the action off Finisterre, where he was wounded, he became a rear-admiral. Having subsequently rendered useful service in India, he became a lord of the Admiralty in 1751, and a vice- admiral in 1755. He effected the reduction of Louisburg and Cape Breton Island in 1758, and in the following year chased and destroyed a French squadron under De La Clue off Lagos. In 1758 he reached the rank of admiral, and in 1760 was made general of marines.
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GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH

Geoffrey of Monmouth (also known as Geoffrey ap Arthur, that is Geoffrey son of Arthur) was a British historian. He was born in 1100 and died in 1154. He sprang from the Norman settlers in Wales; became archdeacon of Monmouth, whence he was, in 1152, raised to the bishopric of St Asaph. His famous history was first published in 1128. This ' Chronicon sive Historia Britonum' is now known to be, as the compiler states, chiefly a translation from an ancient book in the Breton tongue, discovered by Walter Calenius, an archdeacon of Oxford. It contains a pretended genealogy of the kings of Britain from the time of the fabulous Brutus, or Brute, the Trojan, to the death of Cadwallader, king of Wessex, in 688. It was soon translated into French, English, and Welsh, and became a great source of romance to the writers of successive generations.
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JULES BRETON

Jules Breton was a French painter. He was born in 1827 and died after 1905. He studied at Ghent, Antwerp, and Paris, and has made his mark chiefly as a painter of rustic life, including rural and religious festivals. He was elected a member of the Institute in 1866, was made commander of the Legion of Honour in 1889, and chosen a foreign member of the Royal Academy in 1899. Among his works are Return of the Harvesters (1853), Women Gleaning, Blessing the Fields, The Return of the Gleaners, The Close of Day, Potato Gatherers, Washer-women on the Breton Coast, The Song of the Lark, etc. He also published a number of poems and an autobiographic work.
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SEBASTIAN CABOT

In another voyage soon after Sebastian CAbot is said to have visited Labrador and Newfoundland. He subsequently entered the service of King Ferdinand of Spain, and in 1516 was to make an attempt to discover the north-west passage, an attempt relinquished owing to the king's death. In 1526, when in the Spanish service, he was put in charge of an expedition which visited Brazil and the river Plate. He now held the office of examiner of pilots under Charles V, and while in this post he compiled a famous map of the world published in 1544.

In 1547 he again settled in England, and received a pension from Edward VI He became life-governor of the Company of Merchant Adventurers, who under his advice made an attempt to discover a way to Cathay (China) by the northeast, an attempt having important results for English trade with Russia and Asia. He was among the first who noticed and investigated the variations of the compass.
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WILLIAM SHIRLEY

William Shirley was an English colonial governor. He was born in 1693 and died in 1771. He went to Massachusetts from England in 1734. He was Royal Governor of Massachusetts from 1741 to 1749. He planned the successful expedition against Cape Breton in 1745. He was again Governor of Massachusetts from 1753 to 1756, and was commander of the forces in British North America at the outbreak of the French War in 1755.
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HOLY GRAIL

In Christian mythology, the Holy Grail (variously spelt Greal, Graal, Granal, Grasal, etc), is the holy vessel, supposed to have been of emerald, from which Jesus dispensed the wine at the last supper. It was said to have been brought to England by Joseph of Arimathea, but to have been taken back to heaven until the appearance of heroes worthy to be its guardians. Titurel, a descendant of the Asiatic prince Perillus, whose descendants had allied themselves with the family of a Breton sovereign, was chosen as its keeper. He erected for it a temple on the model of that at Jerusalem, and organized a band of guardians. It was visible only to the baptized and pure of heart. With this legend that of King Arthur became connected. Three of his knights, Galahad, Percival, and Bors, had sight of it, and on the death of Percival, its last guardian, it was again taken to heaven.
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