Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was an eighteenth-century French inventor, famed playwright, and upstart near-aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI. In 1776, he conceived an audacious plan to send aid to the American rebels. What's more, he convinced the king to bankroll the project, and singlehandedly carried it out.
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The Pioneers : The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
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101 Amazing Facts about William Shakespeare (Unabbreviated)
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The War Chief of the Ottawas : A chronicle of the Pontiac war
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American Hannibal
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