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    Léonard Victor Joseph Charner (13 February 1797 – 7 February 1869) was an Admiral of the French Navy. As a commander of French naval forces in Asia from...
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    shipowner, builder of the Pourquoi-Pas?, close friend of Charcot. Léonard Victor Charner (1797-1869), Admiral of France: in 1857 he built a manor house with...
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  • Desaix named for Jean-Baptiste Kléber after Victor Schœlcher (1804–1893) after Victor Bory after Léonard Charner (1797–1869) after Ernest Doudart de Lagrée...
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  • Admiral Léonard Charner took over command. After the Anglo-French forces defeated the Chinese in the Battle of Palikao in October 1860 Charner was able...
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  • 1855 Joseph Romain-Desfossés, 1860 Charles Rigault de Genouilly, 1864 Léonard Charner, 1864 François Thomas Tréhouart, 1869 Henry VI of England appointed...
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    of brutal Vietnamese occupations and Siamese interventions. Admiral Léonard Charner proclaimed the formal annexation of three provinces of Cochinchina...
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    southern China to Europeans. Having relieved the Siege of Saigon, Admiral Léonard Charner proclaimed the formal annexation of three provinces of Cochinchina...
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  • was approved by a committee consisting of Leonard D. White, C. Herman Pritchett, Clarence Ridley, and Charner Marquis Perry.: 84  Simon received his doctorate...
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  • Governor Acting for Page 6 February 1861 to 30 November 1861 Léonard Victor Joseph Charner, Governor 30 November 1861 to 16 October 1863 Louis Adolphe...
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  • Archived from the original on 5 March 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2008. Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16...
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    Millers Point, New South Wales, Australia (d. 2007) French cruiser Amiral Charner was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine SM U-21 off the coast of Egypt...
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