If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

Diodorus Siculus tells us that upon the assassination of the tyrant Jason of Pherae, in 370 BC, his brother Polydorus ruled for a year, but he was then poisoned by Alexander, another brother.

Alexander was then forced to restore the conquered towns to the Thessalians, confine himself to Pherae, join the Boeotian League, and become a dependent ally of Thebes.

Her brothers then entered and killed Alexander.

In his writing he makes mention of a moment when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition: the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then?

After the death of Alexander the city ( now known as Akroinοn ( Ακροϊνόν ) or Nikopolis ( Νικόπολις ) in Ancient Greek ), was ruled by the Seleucids and the kings of Pergamon, then Rome and Byzantium.

He asked Alexander to send him two new British divisions ( 51st Highland and 44th ) that were then arriving in Egypt and were scheduled to be deployed in defence of the Nile Delta.

Daniel then predicts that the Jewish people would suffer great persecution under an official who would come to power after Alexander ’ s death.

Captain Alexander Ball then joined the attack on Orient.

Caligula, a man who could not swim, then proceeded to ride his favorite horse, Incitatus, across, wearing the breastplate of Alexander the Great.

Bardyllis was succeeded by Grabos, then by Bardyllis II, and then by Cleitus the Illyrian, who was defeated by Alexander the Great.

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 commanded his battalion at Third Ypres, where he was slightly wounded, then at Bourlon Wood ( part of the battle of Cambrai ), where his battalion suffered 320 casualties out of 400 men.

Alexander was then in February 1928 promoted to colonel ( backdated to 14 May 1926 ) and was the next month appointed Officer Commanding the Irish Guards Regimental District and 140th ( 4th London ) Infantry Brigade in the Territorial Army a post he held until January 1930, when he again returned to study, attending the Imperial Defence College for one year.

Alexander would have been seen in this event by two of his Canadian viceregal successors: Vincent Massey, who was then the Canadian high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and Massey's secretary, Georges Vanier, who watched the procession from the roof of Canada House on Trafalgar Square.

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 then received the German surrender in Italy, on 29 April 1945.

It was then announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on 21 March 1946 that George VI had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved the recommendation of his prime minister, Mackenzie King, to appoint Alexander as his representative.

" Although he did not fare so well during the reign of Innocent X, under Alexander VII, he once again regained pre-eminent artistic domination and continued to be held in high regard by Clement IX.

The first Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University was Alexander George Mitchell, who held the position until December 1975, when he was replaced by Edwin Webb, who served until 1986.

At length, however, Honorius was forsaken by the German court and deposed by a council held at Mantua ; Alexander II's position remained unchallenged.

In March 1179, Alexander III held the Third Council of the Lateran, one of the most important mediaeval church councils, reckoned by the Roman Church as the eleventh ecumenical council.

Shortly after the death of Alexander III ( 30 August 1181 ) Lotario returned to Rome and held various ecclesiastical offices during the short reigns of Lucius III, Urban III, Gregory VIII, and Clement III, reaching the rank of Cardinal-Deacon in 1190.

Alexander was an educated, intelligent man, who held that his task was to keep peace in Europe and Russia.

* August 11 – Pope Alexander VI succeeds Pope Innocent VIII as the 214th pope, after the 1492 papal conclave, the first held in the Sistine Chapel.

In 1994, the first presidential elections were held and Alexander Lukashenko was elected president of Belarus.

The issue of homage did not reach the same level of controversy as it did in Wales ; in 1278 King Alexander III of Scotland paid homage to Edward I, but apparently only for the lands he held of Edward in England.

In his final year Heath was President of Balliol College Junior Common Room, an office held in subsequent years by his near-contemporaries Denis Healey and Roy Jenkins, and as such was invited to support the Master of Balliol Alexander Lindsay, who stood as an anti-appeasement ' Independent Progressive ' candidate against the official Conservative candidate, Quintin Hogg, in the Oxford by-election, 1938.

Louth Contemporary Music Society invited the US composer Terry Riley to perform in Drogheda in 2007, Arvo Pärt's first Irish commission and visit to the country was in Drogheda in February 2008, Michael Nyman performed in Drogheda in May 2008, John Tavener's Temenos festival was held in October 2008 and the Russian composer Alexander Knaifel was the focus of a portrait concert as part of the Drogheda Arts festival on 1 May 2009.

During Alexander ’ s captivity James attempted to split Clann Dòmhnall — Alexander's uncle John Mór was approached by an agent of the king to take the clan leadership but his refusal to have any dealings with the king while his nephew was held prisoner led to John Mór's attempted arrest and death.

A quickly organized election was held in June, and a runoff election between the two highest vote-getters was held in July ; in a surprise result, Kyebich was soundly beaten by populist Alexander Lukashenko, a youthful anti-corruption crusader.

Prior to the speech the Armada had been driven from the Strait of Dover in the Battle of Gravelines eleven days earlier, and had by now rounded Scotland on its way home, but troops were still held at ready in case the Spanish army of Alexander Farnese, the Duke of Parma, might yet attempt to invade from Dunkirk ; two days later they were discharged.

* Cassander, who has held Roxana, widow of Alexander the Great, in prison for a number of years, has her put to death along with her young son Alexander Aegus, the nominal King Alexander IV of Macedon.

Subsequently he held an important command in the Indian campaigns of Alexander.

: 72 ( 1 ) Alexander held games in honour of his victories.

Responsibility for running the University is held formally by the Chancellor, currently Dame Helen Alexander, and led at the executive level by the Vice-Chancellor, currently Don Nutbeam.

Initially the judge found in Spill's favour, but ultimately it was judged that neither party held an exclusive claim and the true inventor of celluloid / xylonite was Alexander Parkes, due to his mention of camphor in his earlier experiments and patents.

John Adams owned none ; George Washington freed his slaves in his will ( his wife independently held numerous dower slaves ); Thomas Jefferson freed five slaves in his will, and the remaining 130 were sold to settle his estate debts ; James Madison did not free his slaves but some were sold to pay off estate debts, and his wife and son retained most to work Montpelier plantation ; Benjamin Franklin freed his slaves ; Alexander Hamilton likely owned slaves and freed them, as he was an officer of the New York Manumission Society ; the society was founded by John Jay, who freed his domestic slaves in 1798, the same year as governor he signed a gradual abolition law in New York.

Of Alexander, Alan Brooke felt that he needed an able chief of staff " to think for him ", while Montgomery ( Alexander's subordinate in Africa and Italy ) claimed to think of Alexander as " incompetent " and success was only attained in Tunisia only because Montgomery lent Brian Horrocks to organise the coup de grace.

Computing Center staff member Mike Alexander sitting at the console of the IBM System 360 Model 67 Duplex at the University of Michigan, 1969

On the teaching staff are figures such as Stephen Nugent, Sophie Day, Catherine Alexander, Keith Hart and David Graeber, whose contract at Yale was not renewed in 2005 because of his political commitments.

Meanwhile, Lucian Truscott, who had been promoted from the command of U. S. 3rd Infantry Division to replace Lucas as commander of VI Corps on February 22, worked with his staff on the plans for a decisive attack as part of a general offensive which Alexander was planning for May and which would include a major offensive on the Gustav Line, Operation Diadem.

* Alexander Swift " Sandie " Pendleton ( 1840-1864 ), Confederate staff officer serving Thomas ' Stonewall ' Jackson

Among the gallery ’ s objects are: a CF-101 Voodoo jet ; an M109 self-propelled howitzer ; an East German BMP infantry fighting vehicle ; tracked artillery from the First World War ; a Chieftain tank ; a Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer ; an M3 Lee ; a fully restored Panzer V Panther tank ; a Panzer II ; a Leopard C1 tank ; searchlights ; rare motorcycles ; Field Marshal Alexander ’ s staff car ; a Canadian Iltis jeep and other vehicles with service in the Balkans during the 1990s ; a Molch midget submarine ; underwater mines ; a T-34 ; a Valentine tank recovered from a bog in 1990 ; an Italian L3 / 35 tankette ; and Weather Station Kurt, an automated weather station planted by a German U-boat on the coast of Labrador in the 1940s.

Most of the project staff and actors were students or university employees, in addition a few professionals joined the project like the actress Julia Kahl and the camera man Alexander Böke.

Kutuzov quickly realized that he no longer had any power with Alexander and the Austrian chief of staff General-Major Franz von Weyrother.

In January 2009, Turnbull appointed former Alexander Downer staffer and Advertiser journalist Chris Kenny as his chief of staff.

After graduating from college, Lincoln served as a staff assistant for U. S. Representative Bill Alexander, a Democrat from.

Although President Alexander Lukashenko's spokeswoman, Natalya Petkevich, said that a patient ( among those who died in the fire ), described as a pyromaniac who had twice previously tried to set fire to the building, was responsible for the blaze, government investigators were also looking into staff carelessness as a possible cause.

It was rumoured that no important government appointment could happen without the Family's support By 1999, the Family also included two of Berezovsky's associates, his former AVVA partner Alexander Voloshin, who replaced Yumashev as Yeltsin's chief of staff, and Roman Abramovich.

The first special security department was Department on Protecting the Order and Public Peace under the Head of St. Petersburg, created in 1866 after a failed assassination attempt on Alexander II, with a staff of 12 investigators.

Ian and Edward arrived from India on leave, Alexander Godley came from Britain, and Howard-Vyse as chief of staff to Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.

For instance, Alexander Antonov ’ s Green army in Tambov had a medical staff, reinforcement brigades, and a complex system of communication and intelligence that employed women, children, and the elderly.

Overall command was given to Hugo Sperrle, with Alexander Holle as chief of staff.

Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, a member of Dostler's staff who was unaware of the secret Commando Order and who had refused to sign the execution order, was dismissed from the Wehrmacht for insubordination.

Although Harding did not share Leese's view and 8th Army planning staff had already rejected the idea of an Adriatic offensive ( because it would be difficult to bring the necessary concentration of forces to bear ), Alexander was not prepared to force Leese to adopt a plan which was against his inclination and judgment and Harding was persuaded to change his mind.

The corpse was given the false identity of ' Major William Martin ' of the Royal Marines, who sat on the planning staff of Combined Operations in London and was carrying papers for General Alexander chained to his wrist.

The effort was met with immediate acclaim, and according to Salinger biographer Paul Alexander, it was " the story that would permanently change his standing in the literary community .” Salinger ’ s decision to collaborate with Maxwell and The New Yorker staff in developing the story marked a major advance in his career and led to his entry into that echelon of elite writers at the journal.

Distinguished staff had already appeared, such as historian William Jethro Brown, physicists and mathematicians Alexander McAulay and his son Alexander Leicester McAulay, classicist RL Dunbabin, and philosopher and polymath Edmund Morris Miller.

Blanton's strongest condemnation of Alexander seemed to be that he had served for a time on Nixon's White House staff.