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This is the English translation of a letters published in Houzeau, J.-C. (1862). La Terreur Blanche au Texas et mon Évasion. Bruxelles: Ve Parent & Fils
Baron Eugène Van Bemmel (1824–1880) was the first Editor of the Revue trimestrielle – The Quarterly Review – which he founded in 1854.
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The symmetry of the forms of the continent.
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The physical geography of Belgium.
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The history of the soil of Europe.
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This is not entirely correct: Houzeau departed in July 1857.
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The Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique – The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium – was founded by Empress Maria-Theresa(Empress of the Holy Roman Empire) in the 18th century.
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Van Bemmel: Revue trimestrielle, volumes 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 (April 1858 – July 1861).
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John Brown (1800–1859) was an American abolitionist who was sentenced to death by hanging after leading an armed revolt against a federal arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia on October 16, 1859.
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The term Sonderbund refers to the 1845 alliance of seven Catholic cantons against the Swiss Confederation. This led to a civil war, and to the new Swiss Federal Constitution in 1848.
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Houzeau had this habit of sending “packages” that included reports and personal letters to friends, colleagues and family. As such, he was saving on postage.
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The source text says, literally, “the alarm was long and doubly painful”.
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The source text mentions note “astronomique” – the literal translation of Astronomische Nachrichten, one of the first international journals in the field of astronomy, founded in 1821 and the oldest astronomical journal in the world that is still being published.
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The Confederate authorities in Texas.
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The source text mentions galériens, literally galley slaves.
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l’Indépendance belge, established in 1843, was the successor of l’Indépendant, a daily newspaper in which the government published its official communications.
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Sterken, C., King, A.A. (2020). The White Terror in Texas–Foreword. In: Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46538-4_7
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