* James Armistead Lafayette ( circa 1760 – 1830 ), aka James Armistead, African-American Revolutionary War spy

Lewis A. Armistead, Richard B. Garnett, and James L. Kemper, was on the right flank of the assault.

During this tour he recognized and embraced James Armistead Lafayette, a free negro who took his last name to honor him ; while in Yorktown, the story of the event was reported by the Richmond Enquirer.

Richard Barnes Mason was a grandson of George Mason ( 1725 – 1792 ); son of George Mason V ( 1753 – 1796 ); brother of George Mason VI ( 1786 – 1834 ); grandnephew of Thomson Mason ( 1733 – 1785 ); first cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1760 – 1803 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1765 – 1824 ), and William Temple Thomson Mason ( 1782 – 1862 ); first cousin of Thomson Francis Mason ( 1785 – 1838 ) and James Murray Mason ( 1798 – 1871 ); second cousin of Armistead Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1819 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1850 ), and John Thomson Mason, Jr. ( 1815 – 1873 ); and second cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1811 – 1843 ).

Facsimile of Marquis de Lafayette's certificate of commendation of James Armistead Lafayette, 1784

James Armistead Lafayette ( December 10, 1760 – August 9, 1830 ) was the first African American double spy.

Although the Virginia Assembly passed a manumission act in 1782 allowing for the freedom of any slave by his or her owner, James remained the property of William Armistead ( A 1783 law specifically targeted at freeing slaves whose owners had used them as substitutes for army service in exchange for their liberty did not apply to James ).

However, in 1786, with the support of William Armistead ( then a member of the House of Delegates ) and carrying a 1784 testimonial of his service from the Marquis de Lafayette, James petitioned the Virginia Assembly for his freedom ( The facsimile of the letter of commendation can be viewed on the Lafayette College website ,< ref >

At Yorktown, James Armistead, a slave who had joined Lafayette's service with his master's permission, crossed into Cornwallis ' lines in the guise of an escaped slave, and was recruited by Cornwallis to return to American lines as a spy.

Cato appears again at the end of the series when he does not tell on an African American Patriot spy, James Armistead, whose spying was crucial to the American victory at Yorktown, which ends the war for American independence.

* James Armistead

James Murray Mason was a grandson of George Mason ( 1725 – 1792 ); nephew of George Mason V ( 1753 – 1796 ); grandnephew of Thomson Mason ( 1733 – 1785 ); first cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1760 – 1803 ) and John Thomson Mason ( 1765 – 1824 ); son of John Mason ( 1766 – 1849 ) and Anna Maria Murray Mason ( 1776 – 1857 ); first cousin of Thomson Francis Mason ( 1785 – 1838 ), George Mason VI ( 1786 – 1834 ), and Richard Barnes Mason ( 1797 – 1850 ); second cousin of Armistead Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1819 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1850 ), and John Thomson Mason, Jr. ( 1815 – 1873 ); second cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1811 – 1843 ); and first cousin thrice removed of Charles O ' Conor Goolrick.

There was however much harsh treatment of POWs in Germany, as recorded by the American ambassador to Germany ( prior to America's entry into the war ), James W. Gerard, who published his findings in " My Four Years in Germany ".

As America's Founding Fathers shared a perfect horror at the concept of arbitrary courts of justice, such as those " of Philip in the Netherlands, in which life and property were daily confiscated without a jury, and which occasioned as much misery and a more rapid depopulation of the province ", they incorporated the right to trial by jury into the Bill of Rights, thereby restoring what soon-to-be United States Supreme Court Justice James Iredell described as that " noble palladium of liberty ", and protecting it from the reach of future legislators.

Charles James, credited with being America's first couturier who influenced fashion in the 1940s and 1950s.

An Uncommon Christian: James Brainerd Taylor, Forgotten Evangelist in America's Second Great Awakening ( 2008 ).

* < i > Merchant of Illusion: James Rouse, America's Salesman of the Businessman's Utopia is a more critical and academic treatment of Rouse's life.

Strasberg's students included many of America's most famous actors of the latter half of the 20th century, including Paul Newman, Al Pacino, James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Marilyn Monroe, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Mickey Rourke, and many others.

Other notable post-War Wagnerian baritones have been Canada's George London, Germany's Hermann Uhde and, more recently, America's James Morris.

The outbreak of World War I was a shock for James, and on 26 July 1915, he became a British citizen as a declaration of loyalty to his adopted country and in protest against America's refusal to enter the war.

In 1973, Governor J. James Exon issued a proclamation designating Seward " Nebraska's Official 4th of July City "; in 1976, the city was chosen to host Nebraska's July 4 celebration for the United States Bicentennial ; in 1979, a resolution in the U. S. Congress named Seward " America's Official Fourth of July City — Small Town USA ".

* Floyd James Thompson ( 1933 – 2002 ), America's longest held prisoner of war.

Several different producers, including Richie Zito, Matthew McCauley, and Richard James Burgess, helped create an electronic popular style, that was very common during the 1980s, but drastically different from America's usual style.

* Future World Heavyweight Champion James J. Corbett is the most successful amateur boxer on America's Pacific Coast and takes part in an exhibition bout with Dempsey.

* BUDDY — The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Mayor, an EMMY award-winning documentary directed by Cherry Arnold and narrated by James Woods, is about the life and times of Buddy Cianci.

And I. Francis Kyle III, An Uncommon Christian: James Brainerd Taylor, Forgotten Evangelist in America's Second Great Awakening ( University Press of America, 2008, Foreword by John F. Thornbury, contains the appendix " David Brainerd and James Brainerd Taylor: A Comparative Chart "), Of Intense Brightness: The Spirituality of Uncommon Christian James Brainerd Taylor ( University Press of America, 2008, Foreword by James M Houston, Epilogue by Peter Adam ), God's Co-worker: 21st-century Evangelism with Uncommon Christian James Brainerd Taylor ( forthcoming, published doctoral dissertation ), Uncommon Christian Devotional: Living the Uncommon Christian Life with James Brainerd Taylor ( forthcoming ) and Uncommon Christian Ministries ' online biographical sketch and timeline on Taylor ( http :// www. UncommonChristian. com or http :// www. JamesBrainerdTaylor. com ).

* James A. Henretta, Elliot Brownlee, David Brody, Susan Ware, and Marilynn Johnson, America's History, Third Edition, Worth Publishers Inc., 1997

Stossel denied any misrepresentation of Galbraith's views, and stated that it was not his intention to convey that Galbraith agreed with all of the special's ideas, but re-edited that portion of the program for its September 2000 repeat, in which Stossel paraphrased, " Even economists who like Europe's policies, like James Galbraith, now acknowledge America's success.

The Center for Legal Policy, directed by senior fellow James Copland, is known for its position that " America's litigation system reduces innovation and investment, lowers safety and well-being, and erodes the risk-taking and personal responsibility essential to our free society ".

America's Most Wanted (" Wildcat " Chris Harris and " Cowboy " James Storm ) came out and interfered on Jarrett's behalf.

James Stillman Rockefeller also concerned himself with other family investments, and prior to his death was America's oldest living Olympic champion, and the earliest living cover subject of Time magazine.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

To illustrate, the first blessing in the King James Bible reads: `` Blessed are the poor in spirit ; ;

Deck Cadet James L. Cahill and Seaman Walter Brooks had been the first to leave.

Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.

The first governor of South Australia, John Hindmarsh, clashed frequently with others, in particular with the Resident Commissioner, James Hurtle Fisher.

James Bradley first tried to measure stellar parallaxes in 1729.

* 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

* 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.

* 1902 – James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

Tradition relates that in 814, the body of Saint James the Greater was discovered in Compostela and that Alfonso was the first pilgrim to that famous medieval ( and modern ) shrine.

The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.

It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.

Phillip assigned a convict, James Ruse, land at Rose Hill ( now Parramatta ) to establish proper farming, and when Ruse succeeded he received the first land grant in the colony.

His uncle, Josiah Turner, together with business partner James Starley used this as a basis for the ' Coventry Model ' in what became Britain's first cycle factory.

In Acts 11: 30 and, we see a collegiate system of government in Jerusalem though headed by James, according to tradition the first bishop of the city.

The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

" He quotes Charles Lyell as saying " Continents, therefore, although permanent for whole geological epochs, shift their positions entirely in the course of ages " and claims that the first to throw doubt on this was James D. Dana in 1849.

The name " curl " was first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1871.

Christian Science metaphysics teach that God is Spirit and cites the first chapter of Genesis as the true story of creation, where in the King James Bible, " man " is both " male and female ", created " in the image and likeness " of God.

# The final piece of the puzzle, thermal transpiration, was theorized by Osborne Reynolds, but first published by James Clerk Maxwell in the last paper before his death in 1879.

Mather's first published sermon, which appeared in 1686, concerned the crime and punishment of James Morgan, a reprobate who in a drunken rage impaled a man with an iron spit.