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An eyewitness account of the last day of Major André can be found in the book The American Revolution: From the Commencement to the Disbanding of the American Army Given in the Form of a Daily Journal, with the Exact Dates of all the Important Events ; Also, a Biographical Sketch of the Most Prominent Generals by James Thacher, M. D., a surgeon in the American Revolutionary Army:
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The alien creature Sil is nearly identical to Tolentino ’ s chupacabra eyewitness account and she had seen the movie before her report: " It was a creature that looked like the chupacabra, with spines on its back and all ...
Rosenberg published Niflaos Maharal: Ha Golem Al Prague ( Wonders of the Maharal: The Golem of Prague ) ( Warsaw, 1909 ) which purported to be an eyewitness account by the Maharal's son-in-law, who had helped to create the Golem.
He also published what he said was an eyewitness account of the San Francisco fire of 1851 which he said was in June although it took place in May.
A detailed but spurious account of Ignatius ' arrest and his travails and martyrdom is the material of the Martyrium Ignatii which is presented as being an eyewitness account for the church of Antioch, and as if written by Ignatius ' companions, Philo of Cilicia, deacon at Tarsus, and Rheus Agathopus, a Syrian.
Polybius's The Histories provides a detailed account of Rome's ascent to empire and included his eyewitness account of the Sack of Carthage in 146 BC.
Busbecq, who claims to have received an account from an eyewitness, describes Mustafa's final moments.
Stephen King-Hall wrote a detailed eyewitness account of the surrender.
His journal entry records the first written eyewitness account of an earthquake in the Puget Sound region.
Stanley Wells and Michael Dobson point out that Holinshed's Chronicles, which Shakespeare used as a source, mention an Innogen, and that Forman's eyewitness account of the April 1611 performance refers to " Innogen " throughout.
In 1836 Eduard Poeppig documented a statement by a local physician in Pará, known only as Dr. Lacerda, who offered an eyewitness account of a case where a candiru had entered a human orifice.
Hooke also participated in the design of the Pepys Library, which held the manuscripts of Samuel Pepys's diaries, the most frequently cited eyewitness account of the Great Fire of London.
Samuel Pepys wrote an eyewitness account of the execution at Charing Cross, in which Major General Harrison was dryly reported to be " looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition ".
However, according to the eyewitness account of the Reverend Le Seur, who attended Cavell in her final hours, eight soldiers fired at Cavell while the other eight executed Philippe Baucq.
For instance, his eyewitness account on the siege of Hanoi was monumental.
However, the account in significant for offering an eyewitness account of the transition to Buyid rule.
Orderic also provides us ( 1135 ) with what may be the first description of a troubadour performance: an eyewitness account of William of Aquitaine.
In 1985 Paxman published Through the Volcanoes: A Central American Journey, an eyewitness account of people, places and politics.
" The only account of the speech written down at the time by an eyewitness ( which came to light many years later ) records that Henry apologized after being accused of uttering treasonable words, and assured the House that he was loyal to the king.
A fictionalized eyewitness account of Nagurski's 1943 comeback is the subject of a dramatic monologue in the film version of Hearts in Atlantis.
This eyewitness account, together with others, were widely published during the presidential election of 1856, which featured John Frémont as the first anti-slavery Republican nominee versus Democrat James Buchanan.
However, eyewitness accounts by servicemen who survived present a different account of their captivity.
* Explosion at Myyrmanni, Juha Haataja's eyewitness account
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The earliest are two eyewitness accounts written by white adventurer-traders who met Shaka during the last four years of his reign.
* 1856, 9 August: Elizabeth Martha Brown was the last woman to be hanged in public in the English county of Dorset ; her hanging is notable in part because it influenced Thomas Hardy, an eyewitness, in his portrayal of the execution of the fictional heroine of Tess of the D ' Urbervilles.
It also offers detailed eyewitness accounts of John Moore's observations as he travelled throughout Europe in the last years of the 18th century.
Frisbee was a key figure in the Jesus movement and eyewitness accounts of his ministry documented in the 2007 Emmy-nominated film Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher explain how Frisbee became the charismatic spark igniting the rise of Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard Movement, two worldwide denominations and among the largest evangelical denominations to emerge in the last thirty years.
The team meets with art salesman James Costa ( Hawke ), an eyewitness who saw Asher kill his last victim.
Captain James Gordon has been kidnapped and brought back to his hometown of Chicago to be tortured into revealing the name of the last surviving eyewitness to a grisly murder.
The last survivor of Hitler's bunker, Rochus Misch, gave this eyewitness account of the events to the BBC:
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An eyewitness report from the day recalls him riding a mule with hands tied behind his back and a rope around his neck.
But Wasersztajn was not an eyewitness of many of the events he described, since he had spent the day of the pogrom in a hiding-place near Jedwabne.
Nevertheless, stories of sea monsters and eyewitness accounts which claim to have seen these beasts persist to this day.
On 16 December, dawn broke on a clear day, revealing that "' all of Zululand sat there '", said one Trekker eyewitness.
His death was announced a few hours later ; amid contradicting eyewitness reports that remain to this day.
There were three surviving eyewitness accounts of what happened on that day.
Another eyewitness, William Rood, a former Chicago Tribune editor, in a 2004 article gave an account that supports Kerry's version of the events of that day.
Herbert Morrison's recorded radio eyewitness report from the landing field was not broadcast until the next day.
However, according to eyewitness testimony, this did not happen on the day of his arrival there.
Then, one day in 1944, Gerrit Bolkestein, a member of the Dutch government in exile, announced in a radio broadcast from London that after the war he hoped to collect eyewitness accounts of the suffering of the Dutch people under the German occupation, which could be made available to the public.
Journalist and eyewitness Linda Polman, who was accompanying the approximately 80 Zambian soldiers from UNAMIR at Kibeho, described the situation that day:
One Australian eyewitness notes that, " the events which occurred on that day are still not completely clear but one theory based on the reports of several eye witnesses and Intel reports is as follows ":
Many nearby residents and several eyewitness accounts tell that homes and buildings still stand under the water to this day, a watery ghost town.
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