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Grande Armée. 1805-12. Napoleon’s 1,000,000 man army; combined smaller armies for central control.
Russian Campaign. 1812. Napoleon’s march on Moscow. 10,000 of 100,000 return. Grande Armée.
Grande Gallery of Louvre. Longest gallery in the world, 300m.
Grandee. 13C-. Highest rank of Spanish nobility.
Ingres, Dominique. 1780-1867. French classical painter: Grande Odalisque 1814. Turkish Bath 1860.
Jacquemart de Hesdin. Court painter: Grandes Heures du Duc de Berry 1409.
Léger, Fernand. 1881-1955. French painter. Modernist mechanistic forms of solid colors. Femme au Livre 1923. Grande Parade 1954.
Scala, Cangrande I della. 1291-1329. Lord of Verona, patron of Dante.
Achates. Aeneas’ armour bearer and friend in Greek mythology.
Aggression. 1974 UN Definition-Use of armed force against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another state.
Aizen Myo-o. 6-armed Japanese Buddhist diety.
Albert I. 1875-1932. King of Belgians, 1909. Led army WWI. Introduced universal male suffrage.
Aldermaston March. 1958-64. Annual ‘Ban the Bomb’ demonstration of CND.
Amritsar Riot. 1919. British Dyer opens fire on unarmed Indians. 379 dead. 1200 injured.
Armageddon. Site of battle at end of the world.
Armagnac. Former county of southwest France, now Gascogne. 960 Independent. 1360 English. 1607 France.
Armagnacs. Fought Burgundians for control of France through Charles VI regency 1395-1435. Arras.
Armed Neutrality at Sea. 1780-1801. Agreement that neutral flag at sea protects all but military goods.
Armenia. 9C BC Vannic kingdom. 8C BC Persians, Assyrians, Armenians settle. 521BC Persian. 331BC Alexander...Seleucid. 298 Rome. 387 Persia/Byzantine. 7C Moslem. 885 Independent kingdom. 1071 Seljuk. 13C Mongol. 1405 Ottoman/Persian. 1514 Ottoman. 1918 Independent. 1920 Russia/Turkey. 1990 Independent. CIS.
Armenian Church. c303. First Christian state church. 506 schism with Rome.
Armenian Massacres. 1894-1918. 1.8M Armenians killed in Turkey.
Arminianism. 17C-. Christian movement. Free-will is compatible with God’s sovereignty.
Arminius. 18BC-19 AD. German chief who defeated Varus 9 AD.
Armistice. Nov 11, 1918. Ended fighting in WWI.