Another striking example was its use by Alexander Macomb in the stunning victory at the Battle of Plattsburgh.

Following his April 1789 inauguration, President George Washington occupied two executive mansions in New York City: the Samuel Osgood House at 3 Cherry Street ( April 1789 – February 1790 ), and the Alexander Macomb House at 39 – 41 Broadway ( February – August 1790 ).

* Macomb, Alexander, Major General of the United States Army, The Practice of Courts Martial, ( New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841 ) 154 pages.

* Macomb, Alexander, A Treatise on Martial Law, and Courts-Martial as Practiced in the United States.

They were Alexander Macomb, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, Douglas MacArthur, and Maxwell D. Taylor.

The county is named for Alexander Macomb, Jr., an early U. S. Army commander.

The county was named in honor of Detroit-born Alexander Macomb, Jr., a highly decorated veteran of the War of 1812 who became Commanding General of the U. S. Army in 1828.

First settled in 1829 on a site tentatively named Washington, the town was officially founded in 1830 as the county seat of McDonough County and given the name Macomb after General Alexander Macomb, a general in the War of 1812.

The township was named in honor of General Alexander Macomb, who was a highly decorated veteran of the War of 1812 ; his successful mercantile family owned most of Macomb County at one time.

Grosse Ile historians consider the beginning of ownership and governance of the community by residents of European heritage to have begun on July 6, 1776, when the Potawatomi Indians deeded the island to prominent Detroit merchants, brothers William and Alexander Macomb.

Belfast was the birthplace of Alexander Macomb, the prosperous New York City merchant of Loyalist sympathies.

The town is named after Alexander Macomb, who once owned much of northern New York as Macomb's Purchase.

Despite its spelling, McComb, Ohio is named for Alexander Macomb ( American general ).

* Alexander Macomb House ( New York City ) — Second Presidential Mansion.

A British army under Lieutenant General Sir George Prévost and a naval squadron under Captain George Downie converged on the lakeside town of Plattsburgh, which was defended by American troops under Brigadier General Alexander Macomb and ships commanded by Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough.

Izard's force departed on 23 August, leaving Brigadier General Alexander Macomb in command at Plattsburgh with only 1, 500 American regulars.

Alexander Macomb was promoted to Major General and became commanding general of the United States Army in 1828.

These were awarded to Captain Thomas Macdonough, Captain Robert Henley, and Lieutenant Stephen Cassin of the U. S. Navy, and to Alexander Macomb ( 20 October 1814 3 Stat.

The next day, while the main body re-embarked, an advance guard battalion commanded by Colonel Alexander Macomb and a battalion of riflemen under Major Benjamin Forsyth were landed on the Canadian side of the river to clear the river bank of harassing Canadian militia.

As part of such postwar development, Alexander Macomb bought thousands of acres in Macomb's Purchase.

Alexander Macomb bought land in this area and this was known as the Macomb purchase.

* Catherine Navarre, wife of Alexander Macomb ( American general )

The general impression was that, as much as the senate was packed with men devoted to the royal couple and the government obtained a large majority at the general elections, King Alexander would not hesitate any longer to proclaim Queen Draga's brother as the heir to the throne.

* Alexander the Great, ancient Greek king and general

For other uses, see Alexander and Alexander ( Aetolian general )

The Antigonid dynasty ( Greek: Δυναστεία των Αντιγονιδών ) was a dynasty of Hellenistic kings descended from Alexander the Great's general Antigonus I Monophthalmus (" the One-eyed ").

Ten years later, Alexander Friedmann, a Russian cosmologist and mathematician, derived the Friedmann equations from Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity, showing that the Universe might be expanding in contrast to the static Universe model advocated by Einstein at that time.

The cosmological solutions of general relativity were found by Alexander Friedmann in the early 1920s.

Excepting a few ineffective attempts to revive scythed chariots, and continuing far eastern use, the use of chariots in battle was obsolete in civilized nations by the time of the Persian defeat at the hands of Alexander the Great, but chariots remained in use for ceremonial purposes such as carrying the victorious general in a Roman triumph, or for racing.

Alexander VI staked the hopes of the Borgia family in Cesare's brother Giovanni, who was made captain general of the military forces of the papacy.

Plutarch states that, when questioned by Scipio as to who was the greatest general, Hannibal is said to have replied either Alexander or Pyrrhus, then himself, or, according to another version of the event, Pyrrhus, Scipio, then himself.

Alexander proved to be enthusiastic about the Canadian wilderness, as well as a popular governor general with the Canadian people, and he would be the last non-Canadian-born governor general before the appointment of Adrienne Clarkson in 1999.

After the completion of his courses, Alexander, on 14 October 1931, married Lady Margaret Bingham, the daughter of the Earl of Lucan and with whom Alexander had two sons — Shane, born 1935, and Brian, born 1939 — and a daughter, as well as adopting another daughter during his time as Canada's governor general.

Following the coronation celebration, Alexander returned to India, where he was made the honorary colonel of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Punjab Regiment, and then in October 1937 was promoted to the rank of major-general, making Alexander the youngest general in the British Army.

Alexander took his duties as the viceroy quite seriously, feeling that, as governor general, he acted as a connection between Canadians and their king, and spent considerable time travelling Canada during his term ; he eventually logged no less than 294, 500 km ( 184, 000 mi ) during his five years as governor general.

In 1579 the city was sacked by the Spanish army under general Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma ( Siege of Maastricht, 1579 ).

* 1729 – Alexander Suvorov, Russian general ( d. 1800 )

Popes like Alexander VI, an ambitious if spectacularly corrupt politician, and Pope Julius II, a formidable general and statesman, were not afraid to use power to achieve their own ends, which included increasing the power of the papacy.

* Alexander Patch ( 1889 – 1945 ), general of US Army in World War II

Hence, although the government of Egypt had been Greek-speaking ever since the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Memphis decree, like the two preceding decrees in the series, included texts in Egyptian to display its relevance to the general populace by way of the literate Egyptian priesthood.

Eventually the Persians took control of Syria as part of their general control of Southwest Asia ; this control transferred to the Macedonians after Alexander the Great's conquests ( after whose death hegemony of Syria passed from the Antigonids and subsequently the Seleucids ) and from thence to the Romans and the Byzantines.