Lady Godina's rout; - or - Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan, by James Gillray, 1796. She holds the 9, a powerful card in the game, the so-called Curse of Scotland. Her mother was an inveterate party- giver, first in Edinburgh, then in London. James Gillray's caricature of 1796 shows Lady Georgiana Gordon, at the age of 14, at a rout-party,In Georgian England a "rout" or "rout-party" was a relatively informal party given by the well-off, to which large numbers of people were invited.
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Lady Godina's rout; - or - Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan, by James Gillray, 1796. In Georgian England a "rout" or rout-party was a relatively informal party given by the well-off, to which large numbers of people were invited. The term covered a variety of styles of event, but they tended to be basic, and a guest could not count on any music, food, drink, cards, and dancing being available, though any of these might be. "Rout-cake" was a particular type, mentioned by Jane Austen in Emma.
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The expedition lasted for 162 from late May to early November 1816. Four missionaries, E. R. Moon, W. A. Frymire, E. A. Johnston, and W. R. Holder, were given the commission for this expedition. They made use of the S. S. Oregon for much of the journey up two tributaries of the Congo River: the Ubangi and the Ngiri.Moon, E. R., Frymire, W. A., Johnston, E. A., and Holder, W. R. Spying Out Congo Land: The Record of a Three Thousand Mile Journey of Four American Missionaries in the Unexplored Regions of Belgian Congo. Indianapolis, IN: Christian Woman’s Board of Missions, 1918.
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Matthias expelled the Czech troops from Austria and invaded Moravia and Silesia. He took an active part in the fighting; he was injured during the siege of Třebíč in May 1468 and was captured at Chrudim while spying out the enemy camp in disguise in February 1469. On the latter occasion, he was released because he made his custodians believe he was a local Czech groom. The Diet of 1468 authorized Matthias to levy an extraordinary tax to finance the new war, but only after 8 prelates and 13 secular lords pledged on the King's behalf that he would not demand such charges in the future.
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A network with the code name ʻSapphire,ʼ consisting of more than half a dozen French intelligence officers, all of whom had been recruited by the KGB, was operating inside the SDECE itself. A new section for collecting scientific intelligence had been or was being created inside the SDECE, with the specific mission of spying out U.S. nuclear and other technological advances, eventually in the Soviet interest”.Life magazine, “The French Spy Scandal,” April 26, 1968, p. 34. In in 1963, SDECE’s Chief of Station in Washington D.C. Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli reported spontaneously to the CIA that his hierarchy in Paris asked to him to organize a clandestine intelligence ring in the United States, with the specific purpose to collecting information about U.S. military installations and scientific researches.
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Chevalier du Mérite militaire Commissioned into the Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, he saw active service during the Seven Years' War commanding the Royal Navarre Cavalry Regiment. Appointed in 1762 Brigadier-General de Bonnières was promoted Maréchal de camp in 1770.Calendrier des Princes et de la Noblesse de France, Paris 1769 After his father's death in 1763, he was accorded the courtesy title of comte de Guînes and embarked upon a diplomatic career, both buoyed and hampered by a dry wit. "It was a most lively animated gazette," the comtesse de Genlis who was smitten and let it be known after a visit to the Prince of Conti in 1766, where de Guînes was present: "his whole reputation hangs on a manner of spying out all the little ridiculous trifles and of an ill-grace, which he relates in few words with an amusing manner".
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