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* William Edgar Grumman, The Revolutionary Soldiers of Redding, Connecticut, and the Record of their Services: With Mention of Others Who Rendered Service or Suffered Loss at the Hands of the Enemy During the Struggle for Independence, 1775-1783: Together with Some Account of the Loyalists of the Town and Vicinity, Their Organization, Their Efforts, and Sacrifices in Behalf of the Cause of Their King, and their Ultimate Fate.
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William and Edgar
Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.
After the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred joined the group who tried to elevate Edgar the Ætheling, Edward the Exile's son, as king, but eventually he submitted to William the Conqueror at Berkhamsted.
John of Worcester says that the group supporting Edgar vacillated over what to do while William ravaged the countryside, which led to Ealdred and Edgar's submission to William.
In March 1067, William took Ealdred with him when William returned to Normandy, along with the other English leaders Earl Edwin of Mercia, Earl Morcar, Edgar the Ætheling, and Archbishop Stigand.
In 1069, when the northern thegns rebelled against William and attempted to install Edgar the Ætheling as king, Ealdred continued to support William.
In 1836, the family moved to a larger house in Edgar Street ( opposite Reid's Park ), following the demand for more heavy damask from which his father, William Carnegie, benefited.
Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.
Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's King Lear, a play the couple was performing in 1809.
At UCLA, Coppola directed a short horror film called “ The Two Christophers ” inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's " William Wilson ".
The field-effect transistor was first patented by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in 1925 and by Oskar Heil in 1934, but practical semi-conducting devices ( the JFET ) were only developed much later after the transistor effect was observed and explained by the team of William Shockley at Bell Labs in 1947.
Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.
Further opposition to William in support of Edgar the Ætheling soon collapsed, and William was crowned king on Christmas Day 1066.
The site was selected by Margaret's husband, Edgar W. Stanton, with the help of then-university president William M. Beardshear.
Director J. Edgar Hoover, Speaker of the House John William McCormack | John McCormack.
In 1068, he granted asylum to a group of English exiles fleeing from William of Normandy, among them Agatha, widow of Edward the Confessor's nephew Edward the Exile, and her children: Edgar Ætheling and his sisters Margaret and Cristina.
The point of naming Margaret's sons, Edward after her father Edward the Exile, Edmund for her grandfather Edmund Ironside, Ethelred for her great-grandfather Ethelred the Unready and Edgar for her great-great-grandfather Edgar and her brother, briefly the elected king, Edgar Ætheling, was unlikely to be missed in England, where William of Normandy's grasp on power was far from secure.
Whether the adoption of the classical Alexander for the future Alexander I of Scotland ( either for Pope Alexander II or for Alexander the Great ) and the biblical David for the future David I of Scotland represented a recognition that William of Normandy would not be easily removed, or was due to the repetition of Anglo-Saxon Royal name — another Edmund had preceded Edgar — is not known.
Malcolm met William at Abernethy and, in the words of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle " became his man " and handed over his eldest son Duncan as a hostage and arranged peace between William and Edgar.
William and Grumman
Founded on December 6, 1929, by Leroy Grumman with Jake Swirbul and William Schwendler, its independent existence ended in 1994 when it was acquired by Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman.
Leroy Grumman and others worked for the Loening Aircraft Engineering Corporation in the 1920s, but when it was bought by Keystone Aircraft Corporation and the operations moved from New York City to Bristol, Pennsylvania, Grumman and his partners ( Edmund Ward Poor, William Schwendler, Jake Swirbul, and Clint Towl ) started their own company in an old Cox-Klemin Aircraft Co. factory in Baldwin on Long Island, New York.
According to William O ' Dwyer, the Bridgeport Daily Standard newspaper reported that photos showing Gustave Whitehead in successful powered flight did exist and were exhibited in the window of Lyon and Grumman Hardware store on Main Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut in October 1903.
* January 2 – Leroy Grumman, Leon Swirbul, and William Schwender found the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation at Baldwin on Long Island, New York.
Two other Loening employees, William Schwendler and Edmund Ward Poor, contributed a little and former Wall Street banker E. Clinton Towl made up the fifth employee of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, formed January 2, 1930.
William and Revolutionary
* William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary ( 1st ed.
William V was hereditary stadtholder when the Republic of the Seven United Provinces was invaded by the French Revolutionary armies in 1794.
* Davis, William C., Lone Star Rising: The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic, Free Press ( 2004 ) ISBN 0-684-86510-6
* Chester ( song ), an American Revolutionary War anthem composed by William Billings
* General William Smallwood, American Revolutionary War statesman
* Ann Rogers Clark, mother of General George Rogers Clark, Revolutionary War Hero and Captain William Clark of Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery.
With the advent of the French Revolutionary Wars, Amherst was recalled as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in January 1793: however is generally criticised for allowing the armed forces to slide into acute decline, a direct cause of the failure of the early campaigns in the Low Countries: William Pitt said of him " his age, and perhaps his natural temper, are little suited to the activity and the energy which the present moment calls for ".
Elizabeth's father, William Patterson, had been born in Ireland and came to North America prior to the American Revolutionary War.
* William Jasper ( c. 1750 – 1779 ), a noted American soldier in the Revolutionary War
* O ' Brien, Neil L. " An American Editor in Early Revolutionary China: John William Powell and the China Weekly / Monthly Review.
The massacre was again remembered in 1858 in a celebration organized William Cooper Nell, an African American abolitionist who saw the death of Crispus Attucks as an opportunity to demonstrate the role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War.
Explorers William Clark and his slave York were members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1803 – 1805 ), and William's older brother, General George Rogers Clark -- conqueror of the old Northwest Territory and Revolutionary War hero.
* William Woodford, officer in the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War.
The county is named after General William Campbell of the Revolutionary War.
The county was named for Revolutionary War hero, General William Campbell, who is known for the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain.
* William Campbell, born in Augusta County, militia leader in the American Revolutionary War
Jasper County is named for William Jasper, an American Revolutionary War hero.
Dawes was the great-great-grandson of the Revolutionary War figure William Dawes and the son of Brigadier General Rufus Dawes, who commanded the 6th Wisconsin regiment of the Iron Brigade from 1863 to 1864 during the American Civil War.
It was named for William Polk, a colonel in the American Revolutionary War.
It was named after Brigadier General William Lee Davidson, an American Revolutionary War general killed at the Battle of Cowan's Ford on the Catawba River in 1781.
The county was organized in 1841 and named for William Jasper, a hero of the American Revolutionary War.
On January 29, 1841 the Missouri Legislature enacted a bill authorizing the organization of Jasper County and was named in honor of Sergeant William Jasper, a hero in the American Revolutionary War.
The county was organized in 1859 and is named after William Christian, a Kentucky soldier of the American Revolutionary War.
William Jasper, a Revolutionary War hero of the Siege of Savannah in 1779.
The County is named for Col. William Crawford, a Revolutionary War soldier killed in 1782 while fighting Native Americans in Ohio.
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