Which preposition to use with bretons

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Z. Gray, in a note on these lines, quotes Selden's note on Drayton's Polyolbion:'About the year 1570, Madoc, brother to David Ap Owen, Prince of Wales, made a sea-voyage to Florida; and by probability those names of Capo de Breton in Norimberg, and Penguin in part of the Northern America, for a white rock and a white-headed bird, according to the British, were relicts of this discovery.'

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He was of a good Essex family, second son of William Breton of Redcross Street, in the parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate.

than Occurrences 1%

Anne could not bear the idea that her daughter, Princess Claude, should marry the son of her personal enemy; and, being more Breton than French, say her contemporaries, she, in order to avoid this disagreeableness, had used with the king all her influence, which was great, in favor of the Austrian marriage, caring little, and, perhaps, even desiring, that Brittany should be again severed from France.

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One of these was finally obliged to turn back from Mine au Breton with a continued attack of fever and ague.

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We think not of the millions of Frenchmen to whom the language of the capital is a sealed letter,of the Germans of Alsatia, the Flemings of the extreme North-East, the Bretons of the peninsula of Finisterre, the Basques, the Catalans of the mountains of Roussillon, and, more numerous than all these, the fourteen millions of the thirty-seven departments south of the Loire.

on Occurrences 1%

She gave it this name herself; for when she saw them she said, 'There are my Bretons on the perch waiting for me.'

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Cabot overran Cape Race and went south of St. Pierre and Miquelon without seeing them, and, continuing on a westerly course, hit Cape Breton at its most easterly point.

under Occurrences 1%

Thus were the wicked punished, by the means which they contrived for the destruction of another; and such is the substance of the lay which was composed by the Bretons under the name of Equitan.

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The capture of Louisbourg and of the Island of Cape Breton by the English colonists, in 1745, profoundly disquieted the Canadians.

Which preposition to use with  bretons