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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Torrens
Britannica 11thTORRENS, ROBERT (1780-1864), English soldier and economist, was born in Ireland in 1780. He entered the Marines in 1797, became a captain in 1806, and major in 1811 for bravery in Anhalt during the Walcheren expedition. He fought in the Peninsula, becoming lie ...
Vol. 27, pp. 60-60
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Torrey
Britannica 11thTORREY, JOHN (1796-1873), American botanist, was bom at New York on the i5th of August 1796. When he was 15 or 16 years of age his father received a prison appointment at Greenwich, and there he made the acquaintance of Amos Eaton (i 776-1842), a pioneer of na
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Torres Novas
Britannica 11thTORRES NOVAS, a town of Portugal, in the district of Santarem, 19 m. N.N.E. of Santarem on the Lisbon-Entroncamento railway. Pop. (1900), 10,746. It manufactures cottons, linens, jute, paper, leather and spirits. It was probably founded by Greeks, and was held
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