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Admiral Manuel de la Cámara y Livermoore (or Libermoore) (7 May 1836 – 4 January 1920) was a Spanish naval officer.He saw service in many of Spain′s wars of the second half of the nineteenth century and is most notable for commanding a large naval squadron that made an abortive attempt to relieve Spanish forces in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish–American War.
Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottière, French decorative painter (died 1820) Margareta Seuerling, Swedish actor and theater director (died 1820) Shiba Kōkan, born Andō Kichirō, Japanese painter and printmaker (died 1818) Francis Wheatley, English painter and engraver (died 1801)
1747 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1747th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 747th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1747, the ...
Juan de la Cámara (1525-1602) - Spanish Conquistador and hidalgo was born in Alcala de Henares Spain. He arrived in New Spain current day Mexico from Spain in 1539, joining the Spanish Conquest of Yucatán in 1541, and was one of the founders of Bacalar and Mérida , both in the Yucatán Peninsula .
From 1745–1747 he was stationed at Montreal and carried out many military assignments, including a raid on the British colonial settlement of Saratoga, New York. In 1747 he and Louis de la Corne fought the British and their Indian allies in the Lachine area. From 1748–1750 he served at Fort Michilimackinac during which time he was promoted ...
He was baptized Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo in the El Sagrario parish on February 21, 1747. According to most historians, his father was Luis de la Cruz Chuzhig, a Quichua Indian from Cajamarca, who arrived in Quito as an assistant to the priest and physician José del Rosario, and his mother was Maria Catalina Aldás, a mulatta native to Quito.
Joseph Marie was the third, but only surviving, son of Louis-François de Boufflers and Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, daughter of Antoine Charles de Gramont, 3rd Duke of Gramont. [3] His father was a marshal of France who was made a peer of France as Duke of Boufflers in 1708.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues. Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (French:; 6 August 1715 – 28 May 1747) was a French writer and moralist.He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend.