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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: LEONARDO
 Leonardo da Vinci
- anatomical drawings
- and fortification
- and geology
- and the mitre lock
- at Amboise
 - the Leonardo Cartoon
Leonidas - at Thermopylae
Leopard - and the Chesapeake
Leopold I - Austrian emperor
- and the League of Augsburg
- and William III
Leopold I - margrave of Austria
Leopold II - succeeds Joseph II in 1790
- and Marie-Antoinette
- reforms in Bohemia
Leopold II (of Belgium) - and the Congo
- Congo Free State
Léopoldville - origin in the 1880s
- population surge from 1945
- first Congolese elections in 1957
- renamed Kinshasa
- riots in 1959
Lepanto - battle in 1571
- and galleys
Le Prince, Jean Baptiste - and aquatint
 leprosy - history of the disease
- and hospitals in Middle Ages
- and the Knights of St Lazarus
Lerdo, Sebastián - president of Mexico
Lérins - early monastery
Lerma, duke of - favourite of Philip III
Le Roy, Pierre - and the chronometer
Lerwick
LESOTHO
- and Britain
Lesseps, Ferdinand de - and Suez canal
- and the Panama Canal
'Lest we forget' (Kipling)
L'état c'est moi - attributed to Louis XIV
Letchworth - garden city
Letsie III - king of Lesotho
Letter from America (Cooke)
Letter from Sydney - by Wakefield
Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul von - in World War I
lettres de cachet - in the ancien régime
Lettres Philosophiques - by Voltaire
Lettsom, John Coakley - and the Royal Humane Society
- founds London dispensary
Leuchars (near St Andrews)
Leuctra - battle in 371 BC
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