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Contribution à la faune malacologique des Îles Açores, 1889 – Contribution to the malacological fauna of the Azores. Voyage de la goelette Melita aux Canaries et au Sénégal 1889-–890 – Voyage of the schooner Melita to the Canary Islands and Senegal in 1889–90).
Many short papers (notes diverses) in Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France and Miscellanea Entomologica; 1938 with Jean Sainte-Claire Deville Catalogue raisonné des coléoptères de France Société entomologique de France, 1938 - 474 pages; 1942 Voyage de MM. L. Chopard et A. Méquignon aux Açores (août-septembre 1930). XIII.
Carthaginian coins of Corvo. The Cyrenaic and Carthaginian coins of Corvo are a hoard of coins dating to approximately 200 BCE that were supposedly left in the Azores by Carthaginians and discovered in 1749 on the island of Corvo, the smallest and most remote island of the Azores.
The Battle of Flores (1592), also known as Cruising Voyage to the Azores of 1592, or the Capture of the Madre de Deus describes a series of naval engagements that took place from 20 May to 19 August 1592, during the Anglo-Spanish War. The battle was part of an expedition by an English fleet initially led by Sir Walter Raleigh, and then by ...
13 survived/captured. 60 killed or wounded (35 killed in explosion) [4] The Action of Faial or the Battle of Faial Island was a naval engagement that took place on 22–23 June 1594 during the Anglo-Spanish War in which the large and richly laden 2,000-ton Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas was destroyed by an English privateer fleet after a long ...
France. Journey to the End of the Night ( French: Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932) is the first novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. This semi-autobiographical work follows the adventures of Ferdinand Bardamu in World War I, colonial Africa, the United States and the poor suburbs of Paris where he works as a doctor.
More than 60 veterans of World War II took off Friday from Dallas to France, where they will take part in ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The group ranges from 96 to 107 years ...
João Vaz Corte-Real (c. 1420 – 1496) was a Portuguese sailor, claimed by some accounts to have been an explorer of a land called Terra Nova do Bacalhau ( New Land of the Codfish ), speculated to possibly have been a part of North America. These accounts assert that Corte-Real was awarded the donatário – captaincies of São Jorge and Angra ...