La Bataille de Prusse 1809

In the Year 1806

rule the two provinces and Hunan province is not only famous for its cuisine but it is the birth province of Mao Zedong. Meanwhile, across the sea in Japan, the arts continued to flourish.

Actor and Woman . Ukiyo-e woodblock print. 1806, Japan Artist Utagawa Toyokuni was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his kabuki actor prints. He was the second head of the renowned Utagawa school of Japanese woodblock artists, and was the artist who really moved it to the position of great fame and power it occupied for the rest of the nineteenth century. He was known mostly for his prints related to the kabuki theatre, in particular his yakusha-e actor portraits, a field which he took to new heights. He also, however, produced other genres such as musha-e warrior prints, shunga erotica, and most notably bijin-ga . .

The first Japanese came to Oahu, Hawaii in 1806 when an American sea captain rescued several Japanese seamen who had come stranded at sea for four months, living on rainwater and eating flying fish leaping into their leaky lifeboat. He left them in at what would be called Honolulu, in the care of King Kamehameha I. While those Japanese left Hawaii in just a few months and returned home, the Japanese today consist of the largest ethnic group in the American state of Hawaii.

A Year of Exploration In The United States. Thomas Jefferson is President and George Clinton is Vice- President.

In the United States, the Lewis and Clark Expedition completes its return to its home base of St. Louis, Missouri, on September 23-- ending a successful exploration of the Louisiana Territory and the Pacific Northwest having gone all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

Earlier in that same year, The Red River Expedition, also known as the Freeman-Custis Expedition; Freeman Red River Expedition; Sparks Expedition; or officially as the Exploring Expedition of Red River in 1806, was one of the first civilian scientific expeditions to explore the Southwestern United States. It was ordered to find the headwaters of the Red River (Red River of the South) from the Mississippi River as a

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