Search results
18 hours ago · Notes ^ According to biographer Andrew F. Rolle (1991), Frémont's father was born in Québec City, Quebec , on December 8, 1768, named Louis-René Frémont [7] [5] Louis-René left Quebec on a French ship travelling to the colony of Saint-Domingue when it was captured by a Royal Navy frigate; Frémont was held by the British as a prisoner of war . [7]
18 hours ago · t. e. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in ...
