In 1168 Amalric and Manuel negotiated an alliance against Egypt, and William of Tyre was among the ambassadors sent to Constantinople to finalize the treaty.

As William of Tyre put it, it was hoped that Manuel would be able " to relieve from his own abundance the distress under which our realm was suffering and to change our poverty into superabundance ".

Amalric cemented his alliance with Manuel by marrying Manuel's niece Maria Komnene in 1167, and an embassy led by William of Tyre was sent to Constantinople to negotiate a military expedition, but in 1168 Amalric pillaged Bilbeis without waiting for the naval support promised by Manuel.

After having travelled to England and discovered William James ' invention, the French physician Manuel Théodore Guillaumet, from Argentan ( Normandy ), patented in 1838 the oldest known regulator mechanism.

In 1732 Empress Anna of Russia, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and King Frederick William I of Prussia, irritated with Augustus but unwilling to allow Stanisław to become king, secretly signed Löwenwolde's Treaty, in which they agreed to jointly back the candidacy of Infante Manuel of Portugal for the Polish throne.

In 1167 Amalric married Maria Comnena, grand-niece of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus, and in 1168 the king sent William to finalize a treaty for a joint Byzantine-crusader campaign against Egypt.

William was, however, sent by Alexander as an ambassador to Emperor Manuel, and Manuel then sent him on a mission to the Principality of Antioch.

Emperor Manuel, whom William met during his visits to Constantinople, was portrayed more ambivalently, much like King Amalric.

Death of John II Komnenos, and crowning of Manuel I Komnenos ( from the Manuscript of William of Tyre's Historia and Old French Continuation, painted in Acre, Israel, 13th century, Bibliothèque nationale de France ).

Manuel at first ignored the prostrate Raynald, chatting with his courtiers ; William of Tyre commented that this ignominious scene continued for so long that all present were " disgusted " by it.

The death of Roger in February 1154, who was succeeded by William I, combined with the widespread rebellions against the rule of the new King in Sicily and Apulia, the presence of Apulian refugees at the Byzantian court, and Frederick Barbarossa's ( Conrad's successor ) failure to deal with the Normans encouraged Manuel to take advantage of the multiple instabilities that existed in the Italian peninsula.

Manuel offered a large sum of money to the Pope for the provision of troops, with the request that the Pope grant the Byzantine emperor lordship of three maritime cities in return for assistance in expelling William from Sicily.

Personnel included Oliver on cornet, his protégé Louis Armstrong on second cornet, Baby Dodds on drums, Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Lil Hardin ( later Armstrong's wife ), on piano, Honoré Dutrey on trombone, and William Manuel Johnson on bass and banjo.

Fur traders included Manuel Lisa, Robert Stuart, William Henry Ashley, Jedediah Smith, William Sublette, Andrew Henry, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, David Thompson, James Douglas, Donald Mackenzie, Alexander Ross, James Sinclair and other mountain men.

The city was founded in 1850 by William McDaniel, on a part of the 1843 Mexican land grant Rancho Los Putos purchased from Manuel Cabeza Vaca.

William Manuel " Bill " Johnson ( August 10, 1872 – December 3, 1972 ), was an American jazz musician, considered the father of the " slap " style of string bass playing.

* William Manuel Johnson's WWI Draft Registration Card and essay

The barons, always chafing against the royal power, were encouraged to revolt by Pope Adrian IV, whose recognition William had not yet sought, by the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus, and by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I.

A better prospect opened in the confusion in Byzantine affairs which followed the death of Manuel Comnenus ( 1180 ), and William took up the old design and feud against Constantinople.

In the 19th and 20th centuries countless composers after Mozart and Beethoven have taken up this challenge, including Lennox Berkeley, Carlos Chávez, Henry Cowell, Jean Cras, Paul Dessau, Ernst von Dohnányi, Hanns Eisler, Jean Françaix, Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Paul Hindemith, Gideon Klein, Frank Martin, Bohuslav Martinů, Darius Milhaud, Ernest John Moeran, Manuel Ponce, Max Reger, Terry Riley, Alexis Roland-Manuel, Miklós Rózsa, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, William Schuman, Jean Sibelius, Robert Simpson, Richard Strauss, Sergei Taneyev, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Anton Webern, and Eugène Ysaÿe.

In the following year, on September 4, 1913, Manuel married Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Princess ( 1890 – 1966 ), his cousin ( she was the grand-daughter of the Infanta Antónia of Braganza ), and daughter of Prince William, Prince of Hohenzollern.

Johnson's grandfather William was poverty stricken, and was unable to educate his son Jacob or pass on any land to him.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

Many of the men involved with Johnson's acquittal committee were friends of Secretary William Seward, Johnson's strongest ally on his Presidential Cabinet.

He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

Douglas Haldeman has described William Masters ' and Virginia Johnson's work on sexual orientation change as a form of conversion therapy.

First, Grant's relationship with his predecessor Johnson had deteriorated badly, culminating with Johnson's appointment of Grant antagonist William Rosecrans as minister to Mexico.

The Iroquois sent runners to William Johnson's manor in upstate New York.

Johnson's advance stopped at Fort William Henry, and the French withdrew to Ticonderoga point, where they began the construction of Fort Carillon ( later renamed Fort Ticonderoga after British capture in 1759 ).

William Quandt, wrote about Johnson's meeting with Eban on October 24, 1967, and noted that Israel had annexed East Jerusalem.

Between the wars, American exponents of the sterling example set to Britain by National Prohibition, such as William " Pussyfoot " Johnson and Dr Armor, toured the country, to be met with derision, and in Johnson's case, violence.

Johnson's force was originally intended to join General William Hull at Detroit, but Hull surrendered Detroit on August 16 and his army was captured.

Johnson's loyalty and Jackson's anger at Johnson's primary rival, William Cabell Rives also played into his decision.

* William Kenrick-A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare

William Johnson's paternal grandfather was originally known as William MacShane, but changed his surname to Johnson, the English translation of the Gaelic Mac Seáin.

Although the Johnson family had a history of Jacobitism, William Johnson's uncle Peter Warren was raised as a Protestant to enable him to pursue a career in the British Royal Navy, which proved to be highly successful and lucrative.

Sir William Johnson's home suffered vandalism at the hands of Continental soldiers quartered there.

Sir William Johnson's manor house and estate were subsequently purchased by Silas Talbot, a naval officer and hero of the American Revolution.

Silas Talbot moved with his family to Johnstown, where he purchased Sir William Johnson's estate and manor house.

* Captain William Johnson's Old Mill

*" Sir William Johnson Journal in Detroit 1761 ", Johnson's account of his prewar diplomatic mission to Detroit, from the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University.