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Record 1 2019-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Organization
  • Land Forces
CONT

Regiments who were required to employ speed and stealth in their role as scouts and skirmishers ahead of the main body were not authorized to carry Colours. In Canada this included both hussar and rifle regiments.

CONT

The hussars played a prominent role as cavalry in the Revolutionary Wars(1792–1802) and Napoleonic Wars(1803–15). As light cavalrymen mounted on fast horses, they would be used to fight skirmish battles and for scouting. Most of the great European powers raised hussar regiments. The armies of France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia had included hussar regiments since the mid-18th century. In the case of Britain, four light dragoon regiments were converted to hussars in 1806–1807.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation militaire
  • Forces terrestres
OBS

Les régiments qui devaient aller vite et furtivement dans leur rôle en tant que troupe de reconnaissance et d'avant-garde précédant le gros des troupes n'étaient pas autorisés à arborer des drapeaux consacrés. Au Canada, cela comprenait les régiments, tant de hussards que de voltigeurs.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Historical Names
  • Treaties and Conventions
OBS

The Quadruple Alliance was a treaty signed in Paris on 20 November 1815 by the United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia, and Russia. It renewed the alliance first agreed to in 1813 and it modified the aims of the alliance from defeating Napoleon Bonaparte to upholding the settlement following the Napoleonic Wars : with France's admission in 1818, it became the Quintuple Alliance, though British government distaste for the other allies’ reactionary policies meant that it lapsed into ineffectiveness after the mid-1820s.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations historiques
  • Traités et alliances
DEF

Alliance conclue, sur l'initiative de Castlereagh, entre l'Angleterre, l'Autriche, la Prusse et la Russie [le 20 novembre 1815].

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

The North German Confederation(German : Norddeutscher Bund), came into existence in August 1866 as a military alliance of 22 states of northern Germany with the Kingdom of Prussia as the leading state. In July 1867 it was transformed into a federal state. It provided the country with a constitution and was the building block of the German Empire, which adopted most parts of the federation's constitution and its flag.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

La Confédération de l'Allemagne du Nord (en allemand, Norddeutscher Bund) fut un état fédéral de 22 États allemands situés au nord de la ligne du Main de 1867 à 1871, créé sur initiative du ministre-président de Prusse Otto von Bismarck à la suite de la guerre austro-prussienne de 1866 et de la dissolution de la Confédération germanique. Ayant battu les troupes autrichiennes à la bataille de Sadowa le 3 juillet 1866, le Royaume de Prusse annexe les États qui avaient soutenue l'Autriche : le Royaume de Hanovre, le Schleswig-Holstein, le Duché de Nassau, la Hesse-Cassel (ou Hesse électorale), et la partie au nord du Main de Hesse-Darmstadt, ainsi que la ville impériale de Francfort-sur-le-Main. L'Autriche est exclue de la «Petite Allemagne» et doit accepter les annexions prussiennes et la dissolution de la Confédération germanique par le traité de Prague le 23 août. La Confédération est créée le 18 août 1866 sous la forme d'une alliance militaire, dite l'alliance d'Août.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Topónimos (fuera de Canadá)
OBS

La Federación Alemana del Norte (en alemán, Norddeutscher Bund) tuvo su inicio en 1867, luego de la disolución de la Confederación Germánica. Formada por 22 estados del Norte de Alemania, fue un agrupamiento transitorio, que duró solo hasta la proclamación del Imperio Alemán en 1871. A diferencia de la Confederación Germánica, la Federación Alemana del Norte fue un verdadero estado. Su territorio estaba comprendido por las partes de la Confederación Germánica que se encontraban al norte del Main; los territorios orientales de Prusia y el Ducado de Schleswig, pero excluía a Austria, Baviera, Württemberg, Baden y los territorios meridionales del Gran Ducado de Hesse.

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Record 4 2004-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

Historical region and former province of Prussia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Ancienne région allemande située en bordure de la Lituanie.

Spanish

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Record 5 2004-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

Former province of Prussia, now part of West Germany

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Région historique d'Allemagne.

Spanish

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Record 6 1999-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
OBS

A native or resident of Prussia.

OBS

Plural: Prussians.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
OBS

Habitant ou personne originaire de la Prusse.

Spanish

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Record 7 1995-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A West Baltic language extinct since the 17th century; it was spoken in the former German area of East Prussia. Modern knowledge of Old Prussian is based primarily on a German-Prussian vocabulary and the three Old Prussian catechisms dating from the 16th century.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue baltique parlée en Prusse-Orientale jusqu'aux XVIIième siècle. Il est connu par deux lexiques et des traductions de catéchismes allemands du XVIième siècle.

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

Former City, Prussia. Germany

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)

Spanish

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Record 9 1986-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Laws and Regulations
OBS

An alliance formed in 1815 by the rulers of Russia, Austria, and Prussia to suppress the democratic revolutionary movement in Europe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements
OBS

Alliance signée en 1815 par le tsar, l'empereur d'Autriche et le roi de Prusse pour maintenir l'équilibre européen à leur profit.

Spanish

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Record 10 1985-08-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cheese and Dairy Products
OBS

Tilsiter is a semifirm cheese, piquant in flavor, with small irregular holes. It was made originally by Dutch emigrants settled in Prussia.

Key term(s)
  • Tilsiter cheese
  • Tilsiter
  • Tilsit

French

Domaine(s)
  • Laiterie, beurrerie et fromagerie
OBS

Il existe du Tilsit de fabrication canadienne, norvégienne, finlandaise, danoise (...) Fait de lait de vache [le Tilsit a une] saveur relevée, fruitée, un peu aigre.

Key term(s)
  • fromage Tilsiter
  • fromage Tilsit
  • Tilsit

Spanish

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