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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
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People

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 45
William H. Crawford age 4
Jean-Andoche Junot age 4
Robert Morris age 42
Charles I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 63
Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg age 48
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Saxony age 9
Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily age 3
Axel von Fersen the Younger age 20
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 5 months
Thomas Gage age 58
Edward Livingston age 12
Horatio Gates age 49
Levin August von Bennigsen age 31
Lotf Ali Khan age 7
Archduke Joseph of Austria (Palatine of Hungary) age 4 months
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange age 25
Duke Louis of Württemberg age 19
Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg age 9
Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt age 24
Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa age 26
Henry Lee III age 20
Black Hawk age 9
James Wilson age 33
Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia age 60
Princess Carolina of Parma age 5
Robert Smith age 18
Henry Clinton age 46
Mihrişah Sultan (mother of Selim III) age 31
Mikhail Miloradovich age 4
Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802) age 50
Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia age 9
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia age 2
Bhimsen Thapa age 1
Roger Ducos age 29
Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg age 7
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings age 21
Ercole Consalvi age 19
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe age 50
Josiah Bartlett age 46
Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg age 52
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia age 46
Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 39
Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen age 38
Anthony Wayne age 31
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 16
Barthélémy Catherine Joubert age 7
Murad Bey age 26
Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz age 21
Dominique Vandamme age 5
Edward Rutledge age 26
Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel age 56
William Paterson age 30
William Huskisson age 6
DeWitt Clinton age 7
Comte de Grasse age 53
James McHenry age 22
Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay age 36
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney age 57
Ralph Abercromby age 41
Prince Josias of Coburg age 38
Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg age 16
Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta age 3
George Read age 42
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 51
Bernardo de Gálvez age 30
Jezzar Pasha age 54
Ibrahim Bey age 41
Friedrich von Gentz age 12
Alexander Tormasov age 23
Stephen Hopkins age 69
Samuel Huntington age 45
Thomas McKean age 42
Benjamin Harrison V age 50
Duchess Frederica of Württemberg age 11
Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771–1833) age 5
Prince Louis Charles of Prussia age 2
Alemdar Mustafa Pasha age 21
Charles Lee age 44
William Wirt age 3
John Breckinridge age 15
József Alvinczi age 41
Michael von Melas age 47
Arthur St. Clair age 39
John Sullivan age 36
James Wilkinson age 19
Francis Hopkinson age 38
Samuel Chase age 35
Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia age 61
Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg age 22
Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 54
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772–1806) age 3
Antoni Radziwiłł age 1
James Barbour age 1
William Bradford age 20
Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén age 18
Géraud Duroc age 3
John Moore age 14
Isaac Brock age 6
William Ellery age 48
George Clymer age 37
George Wythe age 50
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia age 29
Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel age 50
John Armstrong Jr. age 17
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers age 23
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 4
Israel Putnam age 58
Jean Reynier age 5
Jacques François Dugommier age 38
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent age 41
Caesar Rodney age 47
Button Gwinnett age 41
George Walton age 35
Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland age 26
Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg age 14
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst age 14
Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha age 63
Koca Yusuf Pasha age 46
Federico Gravina age 19
Pavel Chichagov age 9
William Pinkney age 12
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 34
Oliver Wolcott age 49
Francis Lewis age 63
John Witherspoon age 53
Carter Braxton age 39
Daniel Carroll age 46
Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758–1822) age 17
Elizabeth, Princess Berkeley age 25
Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria age 3
Cuthbert Collingwood age 27
Pierre Antoine Dupont age 11
William Prescott age 50
Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegarde age 19
Benjamin Lincoln age 43
Jacques-François Menou age 25
Jacques Lauriston age 8
Isaac Shelby age 25
John Morton age 51
William Paca age 35
Thomas Nelson Jr. age 37
Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 38
Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach age 40
Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld age 41
Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen age 7
Adam Albert von Neipperg age 1
Caleb Strong age 31
Henry Laurens age 52
Alexander J. Dallas age 17
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 17
Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten age 6
Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer age 28
Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken age 23
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy age 6
William Whipple age 46
Richard Stockton age 45
Abraham Clark age 50
William Hooper age 34
Lyman Hall age 52
Princess Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 30
Princess Anna Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 38
Princess Louise of Prussia (1770–1836) age 6
Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth age 43
Princess Louise of Orange-Nassau age 5
Princess Maria Antonia of Parma age 1
Francisco Ramón Vicuña age 10 months
Camilo Torres Tenorio age 9
Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha age 7
Pierre-Augustin Hulin age 17
Yakov Kulnev age 12
Carl Philipp von Wrede age 9
Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf age 14
Matthew Thornton age 62
James Smith age 56
Joseph Hewes age 46
Duke Ferdinand Frederick Augustus of Württemberg age 12
Julie von Voss age 10
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1770) age 6
Mahlon Dickerson age 6
James Jackson age 18
Tekle Giyorgis I age 25
Bertrand Clausel age 3
Gregorio García de la Cuesta age 35
Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland age 33
John Stark age 47
William Hull age 23
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt age 42
Magnus Gustav von Essen age 16
Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien age 15
Johann von Thielmann age 11
Queen Jeongsun age 30
Thomas Stone age 33
Thomas Heyward Jr. age 30
Thomas Lynch Jr. age 27
Friedrich von der Trenck age 50
Sophie von Dönhoff age 7
Domingo Matheu age 11
Christopher Gore age 17
Edward Tiffin age 10