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Taranto — Port in Apulia, in the Kingdom of Naples at the start of the nineteenth century, where Laclos died
A port on the gulf of the same name, at the heel of Italy, held by a French army in 1803 when the Peace of Amiens broke down. Laclos, who commanded the artillery there, died of illness there and was buried there. (Editorial synthesis)
Recorded person who died in Taranto: Laclos.
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