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1844 AD (search for this): entry duponceau-peter-stephen
Duponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Philologist; born in the Isle of Rhea;, France, June 3, 1760; went to Paris in 1775, where he became acquainted with Baron Steuben, and accompanied him to America as his secretary.
He was brevetted a captain (February, 1778), and assisted Steuben in the preparation of his system of military tactics for the use of the United States troops.
From 1781 to 1783 he was secretary to Robert R. Livingston, then at the
The old magazine at Williamsburg. head of the foreign office of the government; and then studying law, was admitted to practice in 1785, becoming eminent in the profession on questions of civil American Indians.
In 1819 he published and international law. He finally devoted himself to literature and science, and made many valuable researches into the language and literature of the North a Memoir on the structure of the Indian Languages.
When seventy-eight years of age (1838) he published a Dissertation on the Chinese language; also a t
1775 AD (search for this): entry duponceau-peter-stephen
Duponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Philologist; born in the Isle of Rhea;, France, June 3, 1760; went to Paris in 1775, where he became acquainted with Baron Steuben, and accompanied him to America as his secretary.
He was brevetted a captain (February, 1778), and assisted Steuben in the preparation of his system of military tactics for the use of the United States troops.
From 1781 to 1783 he was secretary to Robert R. Livingston, then at the
The old magazine at Williamsburg. head of the foreign office of the government; and then studying law, was admitted to practice in 1785, becoming eminent in the profession on questions of civil American Indians.
In 1819 he published and international law. He finally devoted himself to literature and science, and made many valuable researches into the language and literature of the North a Memoir on the structure of the Indian Languages.
When seventy-eight years of age (1838) he published a Dissertation on the Chinese language; also a t
1783 AD (search for this): entry duponceau-peter-stephen
Duponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Philologist; born in the Isle of Rhea;, France, June 3, 1760; went to Paris in 1775, where he became acquainted with Baron Steuben, and accompanied him to America as his secretary.
He was brevetted a captain (February, 1778), and assisted Steuben in the preparation of his system of military tactics for the use of the United States troops.
From 1781 to 1783 he was secretary to Robert R. Livingston, then at the
The old magazine at Williamsburg. head of the foreign office of the government; and then studying law, was admitted to practice in 1785, becoming eminent in the profession on questions of civil American Indians.
In 1819 he published and international law. He finally devoted himself to literature and science, and made many valuable researches into the language and literature of the North a Memoir on the structure of the Indian Languages.
When seventy-eight years of age (1838) he published a Dissertation on the Chinese language; also a t
1835 AD (search for this): entry duponceau-peter-stephen
1785 AD (search for this): entry duponceau-peter-stephen
1838 AD (search for this): entry duponceau-peter-stephen
1781 AD (search for this): entry duponceau-peter-stephen
Duponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Philologist; born in the Isle of Rhea;, France, June 3, 1760; went to Paris in 1775, where he became acquainted with Baron Steuben, and accompanied him to America as his secretary.
He was brevetted a captain (February, 1778), and assisted Steuben in the preparation of his system of military tactics for the use of the United States troops.
From 1781 to 1783 he was secretary to Robert R. Livingston, then at the
The old magazine at Williamsburg. head of the foreign office of the government; and then studying law, was admitted to practice in 1785, becoming eminent in the profession on questions of civil American Indians.
In 1819 he published and international law. He finally devoted himself to literature and science, and made many valuable researches into the language and literature of the North a Memoir on the structure of the Indian Languages.
When seventy-eight years of age (1838) he published a Dissertation on the Chinese language; also a t
June 3rd, 1760 AD (search for this): entry duponceau-peter-stephen
Duponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Philologist; born in the Isle of Rhea;, France, June 3, 1760; went to Paris in 1775, where he became acquainted with Baron Steuben, and accompanied him to America as his secretary.
He was brevetted a captain (February, 1778), and assisted Steuben in the preparation of his system of military tactics for the use of the United States troops.
From 1781 to 1783 he was secretary to Robert R. Livingston, then at the
The old magazine at Williamsburg. head of the foreign office of the government; and then studying law, was admitted to practice in 1785, becoming eminent in the profession on questions of civil American Indians.
In 1819 he published and international law. He finally devoted himself to literature and science, and made many valuable researches into the language and literature of the North a Memoir on the structure of the Indian Languages.
When seventy-eight years of age (1838) he published a Dissertation on the Chinese language; also a t
1760 AD (search for this): entry duponceau-peter-stephen
Duponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Philologist; born in the Isle of Rhea;, France, June 3, 1760; went to Paris in 1775, where he became acquainted with Baron Steuben, and accompanied him to America as his secretary.
He was brevetted a captain (February, 1778), and assisted Steuben in the preparation of his system of military tactics for the use of the United States troops.
From 1781 to 1783 he was secretary to Robert R. Livingston, then at the
The old magazine at Williamsburg. head of the foreign office of the government; and then studying law, was admitted to practice in 1785, becoming eminent in the profession on questions of civil American Indians.
In 1819 he published and international law. He finally devoted himself to literature and science, and made many valuable researches into the language and literature of the North a Memoir on the structure of the Indian Languages.
When seventy-eight years of age (1838) he published a Dissertation on the Chinese language; also a t
February, 1778 AD (search for this): entry duponceau-peter-stephen
Duponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Philologist; born in the Isle of Rhea;, France, June 3, 1760; went to Paris in 1775, where he became acquainted with Baron Steuben, and accompanied him to America as his secretary.
He was brevetted a captain (February, 1778), and assisted Steuben in the preparation of his system of military tactics for the use of the United States troops.
From 1781 to 1783 he was secretary to Robert R. Livingston, then at the
The old magazine at Williamsburg. head of the foreign office of the government; and then studying law, was admitted to practice in 1785, becoming eminent in the profession on questions of civil American Indians.
In 1819 he published and international law. He finally devoted himself to literature and science, and made many valuable researches into the language and literature of the North a Memoir on the structure of the Indian Languages.
When seventy-eight years of age (1838) he published a Dissertation on the Chinese language; also a t