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Deventer, Sir Jacob Louis van

(Encyclopedia) Deventer, Sir Jacob Louis vanDeventer, Sir Jacob Louis vanyäˈkōp l&oomacr;ēˈ fän dĕfˈəntər [key], 1874?–1922, Boer general. In the South African War he commanded guerrilla forces…

Devils Island

(Encyclopedia) Devils Island, Fr. Île du Diable, the smallest and southernmost of the Îles du Salut, in the Caribbean Sea off French Guiana. A penal colony founded in 1852, it was used largely for…

Eeden, Frederik van

(Encyclopedia) Eeden, Frederik vanEeden, Frederik vanfrāˈdərĭk vän āˈdən [key], 1860–1932, Dutch novelist and poet, a practicing physician. He founded a cooperative farm colony (1898). His work is…

Dudley, Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Dudley, Thomas, 1576–1653, colonial governor of Massachusetts, b. England. As a young man he served as a clerk and later as steward to the earl of Lincoln. In 1630 he emigrated to…

Cáceres

(Encyclopedia) Cáceres Cáceres käˈthārās [key], city, capital of Cáceres prov., W central Spain, in…

Newport, Christopher

(Encyclopedia) Newport, Christopher, 1565?–1617, English mariner, commander of early voyages to Virginia. He commanded a privateering expedition to the West Indies (1592) that returned to England…

Berkeley, Sir William

(Encyclopedia) Berkeley, Sir William, 1606–77, colonial governor of Virginia. Appointed governor in 1641, he arrived in Virginia in 1642. Berkeley defeated the Native Americans and the Dutch,…

Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig, Graf von

(Encyclopedia) Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig, Graf vonZinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig, Graf vonnēˈkōlous l&oobreve;tˈvĭkh gräf fən tsĭnˈtsəndôrf [key], 1700–1760, German churchman, patron and bishop of…

Bienville, Jean Baptiste le Moyne, sieur de

(Encyclopedia) Bienville, Jean Baptiste le Moyne, sieur deBienville, Jean Baptiste le Moyne, sieur dezhäN bätēstˈ lə mwän syör də byăNvēlˈ [key], 1680–1768, colonizer and governor of Louisiana, b.…

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