fond de oale : down in tbe bold

29. Vaubaii (1683-1707), a great military englneer wbo built 83 fortressesy repaired 800, and conducted 53 sièges of towns. He fell into disgrâce for baving written a book called Projet de dime roycUe, in wbicb be advocated tbe payment of taxes by tbe nobility and by tbe cbnrcb.

68. — 20. Crimée. In 1854-55, wben tbreatening Constastinople, Russia foagbt tbere against a coalition of Turkey, FraneOi England and Piedmont, and was defeated.

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69. — 32. Pontehaitraiiiy comte de, minister of marine under Louis XIV.