Edward Vernon, the British admiral who devised the scheme, saw his 4, 000 occupying troops capitulate to local guerilla resistance, and more critically, a disease epidemic, forcing him to withdraw his fleet to British-owned Jamaica.

* 1684 – Edward Vernon, English Royal Navy admiral ( d. 1757 )

The name Mount Vernon is a dedication to the English Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon.

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After arriving at the island of Antigua in early October 1739, Edward Vernon sent three ships under the command of Captain Thomas Waterhouse to intercept Spanish merchant ships that made the route between La Guaira and Portobelo.

On 20 July, Vice Admiral Edward Vernon and a squadron of warships departed England bound for the West Indies to attack Spanish ships and " possessions ".

The poorly defended port was attacked by six ships of the line under Vice Admiral Edward Vernon who captured it within twenty-four hours.

Following the success of Portobelo, Vernon decided to try to Cartagena de Indias, considered both by him and by the governor of Jamaica Edward Trelawny a priority.

Edward Vernon was then made the mistake of giving the victory achieved and sent an email to Jamaica communicating that had managed to take the city.

The largest action of the war was a major amphibious attack launched by the British under Admiral Edward Vernon in March, 1741 against Cartagena de Indias, one of Spain's principal gold-trading ports in their colony of New Granada ( today Colombia ).

Vice-Admiral Admiral Vernon | Edward Vernon.

One force, military and naval, was to assault them from the West Indies under Admiral Edward Vernon.

In March 1741, the city endured a large-scale attack by British and American colonial troops led by Admiral Edward Vernon ( 1684 – 1757 ), who arrived at Cartagena with a massive fleet of 186 ships and 23, 600 men, including 12, 000 infantry, against six Spanish ships and fewer than 6, 000 men, in an action known as the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, part of the War of Jenkin's Ear.

Albert Edward Wiggam and James Whitcomb Brougher, authors and graduates of Vernon High School

That name derives from Edward Vernon, a British naval hero, under whom Washington's half-brother served, and in whose honor Rule Britannia was written.

* Admiral Edward Vernon.

Other influential people who have lived in Hartsdale include the artist / sculptor Malvina Hoffman, American businessman Vernon Jordan, National Urban League president John Edward Jacob, pro-wrestler " Classy " Freddie Blassie, actor Peter Riegert, singer / musician / composer Billy Vera, novelist and educator Michael Rubin, Mad magazine artist Jack Davis, and Nobel laureate Louis J. Ignarro.

Lawrence Washington, George's older half-brother, inherited the estate and changed its name to Mount Vernon in honor of Vice Admiral Edward Vernon famed for the War of Jenkin's Ear and capture of Portobelo, Colón.

It is estimated Lawrence received news of his father's plans in late 1741, while at Jamaica, and presumably wrote back instructing his father to call the new home " Mount Vernon " in honor of Captain Lawrence Washington's commanding officer, Vice Admiral Edward Vernon ( then regarded as the greatest military hero of the age in Britain ).

Carney, youngest of six sons ( Fred, Jack, Ned, Phil, Robert ), was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the son of Helen ( née Farrell ) and Edward Michael Carney, who was a newspaper man and publicist.

The Gentleman's Magazine reported that on 20 July 1739 Vice Admiral Edward Vernon and a squadron of warships departed England for the West Indies, and that on 21 July, " Notice was given by the Lords of the Admiralty, that in pursuance of his Majesty's Commission under the Great Seal, Letters of Marque or General Reprisals against the Ships, Goods and Subjects of the King of Spain, were ready to be issued.

Paula's older brother is Edward Steichen, a talented artist and, for the past half-century, one of the world's eminent photographers.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people ; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as " one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first ".

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

He worked to bring one of the king's relatives, Edward the Exile, back to England from Hungary to secure an heir for the childless king.

He also was the one bishop that published ecclesiastical legislation during Edward the Confessor's reign, attempting to discipline and reform the clergy.

" A charter from the reign of his son Edward the Elder depicts Alfred as hearing one such appeal in his chamber, while washing his hands.

Excluding those princesses who have married into overseas Roman Catholic royal families, only one member of the Royal Family ( that is, with the style of Royal Highness ) has converted to Roman Catholicism since the passage of the act: the Duchess of Kent, wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

Years later in 1890 Edward Granville Browne described how ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was " one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muhammadans ... scarcely be found even amongst the eloquent.

In 1958, George Beadle and Edward Tatum received the Nobel Prize for work in fungi showing that one gene produces one enzyme.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

In the event, one man was witnessed by Father Edward Daly and others haphazardly firing a revolver in the direction of the paratroopers.

Oxford classicist Edward Copleston said that classical education “ communicates to the mind … a high sense of honor, a disdain of death in a good cause, a passionate devotion to the welfare of one ’ s country ”, thus concurring with Cicero that: “ All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature ”.

In 1996, Love began a relationship with actor Edward Norton and were at one point engaged, but separated in 1999.

Photographer Edward Steichen purchased one of the " birds " in 1926 and shipped it to the United States.

It happens, moreover, the name foxglove is a very ancient one and exists in a list of plants as old as the time of Edward III.

Edward Sapir (; 1884 – 1939 ) was an American anthropologist-linguist, widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the early development of the discipline of linguistics.

His published poetry dates from this period and, along with Edward Dyer he was one of the first courtiers to introduce vernacular verse to the court.

On 1562, John de Vere had contracted with Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon for Edward to marry one of Huntingdon's sisters ; when he reached the age of 18, he would choose either Elizabeth or Mary Hastings.

In 1906, Albert Edward Smith and James Stuart Blackton at Vitagraph took the next step, and in their Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, what appear to be cartoon drawings of people move from one pose to another.

In 1938, Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, coined the term googol which is, then proposed the further term googolplex to be " one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired ".

Sullivan had one installed as well, and on 13 May 1883, at a party to celebrate the composer's 41st birthday, the guests, including the Prince of Wales ( later Edward VII ), heard a direct relay of parts of Iolanthe from the Savoy.

Edward Gibbon remarks, " f the first fifteen emperors, Claudius was the only one whose taste in love was entirely correct.