At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.

* 1608 – At Ticonderoga ( now Crown Point, New York ), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs.

At Augsburg in 1573, a German military engineer by the name of Samuel Zimmermann invented an extremely effective mine known as the fladdermine.

At least since the days of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, analysis of the play has centred on the question of Macbeth's ambition, commonly seen as so dominant a trait that it defines the character.

At a press conference in November 2008, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez said, " Certainly, we think that the decision recognize independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia was fair and appropriate.

At a press conference in November 2008, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez said, " Certainly, we think that the decision recognize independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia was fair and appropriate.

At Jefferson's request, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, a French nobleman who had close ties with both Jefferson and Napoleon, also helped negotiate the purchase with France.

* July 30 – At what is now Crown Point, New York, Samuel de Champlain participates in a battle between the Huron and Iroquois, shooting and killing two Iroquois chiefs ; this helps set the tone for French – Iroquois relations for the next 100 years.

At the start of the second millennium, he took on his greatest adversary, Samuel of Bulgaria.

At the end of the Cold War, academics including Samuel P. Huntington and Robert D. Kaplan predicted a proliferation of conflicts fuelled by civilisational clashes, tribalism, resource scarcity and overpopulation.

At Bart's, Rivers had been a physician to Dr. Samuel Gee.

At the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, Samuel inadvertently sees two men brutally murder a third.

At a simultaneous match against five masters, Morphy won two games against Jules Arnous de Rivière and Henry Edward Bird, drew two games with Samuel Boden and Johann Jacob Löwenthal, and lost one to Thomas Wilson Barnes.

At the time of his death he was in possession of a modest library of books, including works by Shakespeare, Voltaire, and Samuel Johnson.

At one time or another during the period leading up to the Civil War, Brown, Clark, Benjamin Waterhouse, and Captain Samuel Barry were arrested for violating the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, on April 19, 1775, a company of minutemen from Acton responded to the call to arms initiated by Paul Revere ( who rode with other riders, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, with Prescott the only one of the three who was able reach Acton itself ) and fought at the North Bridge in Concord as part of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

At this time, on land purchased from Samuel Howard in 1886, the LDS Church began to store tithed produce and livestock.

At the age of nineteen, Garrick, who had been educated at Lichfield Grammar School, enrolled in Samuel Johnson's Edial Hall School.

At the turn of the 18th century the house was further altered and extended by architect Samuel Wyatt, when the pavilions and passages were incorporated into the main building and a new porticoed entrance front with ten Doric order pillars was created at the east.

At the same time he carried through the press, assisted by Samuel Birch, the concluding volumes of his work ( published in English as well as in German ) Egypt's Place in Universal History -- containing a reconstruction of Egyptian chronology, together with an attempt to determine the relation in which the language and the religion of that country stand to the development of each among the more ancient non-Aryan and Aryan races.

At one time he thought of writing a life of his friend Dr Samuel Johnson, but retired before the crowd of biographers who rushed into that field.

At one point Samuel requested a legal separation, but Julia refused.

At the age of seventeen, he published a pamphlet On the War in North America, and in 1761 went to London and started a magazine entitled The Universal Museum, which was dropped on the advice of Samuel Johnson.

At the close of the Revolutionary War, Samuel and Elisha Payne moved from Lebanon, Connecticut, to the town of Whitestone ( now Whitesboro, New York ), a few miles from Utica.

At the age of only seven, he drove his father Germanicus to despair and death by secretly terrorizing him.

At first he considered a career in law, but came to have, in his words, " an insurmountable aversion to everything but the pursuits of Philosophy and general Learning ; and while family fanceyed I was poring over Voet and Vinnius, Cicero and Virgil were the Authors which I was secretly devouring.

At sixteen, Carson secretly signed on with a large merchant caravan heading to Santa Fe — with the job of tending the horses, mules, and oxen.

At the beginning of the 12th century, a local mullah had a dream in which the 7th century Ali bin Abi Talib, cousin and son-in-law of Islam's prophet Muhammad, appeared to reveal that he had been secretly buried near the city of Balkh.

At the same time, he secretly funded litigation for civil rights cases, such as challenges to southern constitutions and laws that disfranchised blacks.

At The Hague, Charles had a brief affair with Lucy Walter, who later falsely claimed that they had secretly married.

At around the same time, Anne Hyde, the daughter of the Lord Chancellor Edward Hyde, revealed that she was pregnant by Charles's brother, James, whom she had secretly married.

At other times, Horne's character would pretend not to understand the more risqué meanings in Julian and Sandy's dialogue, although it was always hinted that he was secretly in on the joke.

At this particular moment, von Kleist visited Britain secretly and discussed the situation with British MI6 and some high-ranking politicians.

At the advice of Meese, Reagan allowed his campaign to secretly establish a transition office to avoid similar difficulties faced by the Nixon administration in their own transition.

At the end of the three months and with no way to repay his debts, Morrel is about to commit suicide when he learns that all of his debts have been mysteriously paid and that one of his lost ships has returned with a full cargo, secretly rebuilt and laden by Dantès.

At the age of 18, she became secretly engaged to Bryan Walter Guinness shortly after her presentation at Court.

At this same time, Sauron was secretly forging the One Ring which would enable him to rule Middle-earth.

At one time it was believed that the Kol Nidre was composed by Spanish " Marranos ", Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity, yet who secretly maintained their original faith.

At one moment he secretly encouraged the demands of the Royalist City of London, at another he urged submission to the existing parliament, then again he refused to swear an oath abjuring the house of Stuart, and further he hinted to the Rump of the Long Parliament the urgent necessity of a dissolution.

At the same time Qin secretly replaced Wang He with the notoriously violent Bai Qi.

At this point the Baron drugs and viciously rapes Mohiam, and in retribution she secretly infects him with the disease that will later leave him horribly obese.

At risk as an aristocrat, he went into hiding, while secretly trying to gain passage to the United States.

At that time, Guan Yu realised that Sun Quan had secretly formed an alliance with Cao Cao and attacked Jing Province while he was attacking Fancheng.

At this time Celan began to secretly write poetry.

At the same time, the Qin secretly replaced Wang He with the renowned general, Bai Qi.

At the beginning of the saga, Siuan is the Amyrlin Seat, secretly supporting Moiraine's machinations of Rand al ' Thor.

At a secretly arranged meeting in Monte Carlo, the Barclays approached David Scott, Ellerman non-executive chairman.

At this time, Henry VIII was secretly urging Margaret to marry Lisle, whom he created Duke of Suffolk, although he was careful to disclaim ( on 4 March 1514 ) any complicity in the project to her father, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.