The county is named in honor of William Barret Travis, the commander of the Republic of Texas forces at the Battle of the Alamo.

:: February 23 – Alamo messenger Launcelot Smithers carries to the people of Gonzales, the Colonel William Barret Travis letter stating the enemy is in site and requesting men and provisions.

Billy Boyd ( born 28 August 1968 ) is a Scottish actor and musician most widely known for playing the character Peregrin " Pippin " Took in the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and Barret Bonden in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

Megan's mother, Sarah, is keeping company with Hull Barret, the leader of the miners.

Two units of 15mm spearmen from a Phocis ( ancient region ) | Phokian Greek army under De Bellis Antiquitatis rules. Scale is generally expressed as the approximate height of a humanoid figure from base of foot to eyeline ( though some count to top of head – hence the possible confusion ) in millimeters, this is sometimes referred to as the Barret Scale, as opposed to the ratio values used in scale modeling.

Following the player's departure from Midgar, Cloud is appointed group leader by the other members of the party, upsetting Barret, AVALANCHE's original leader.

The latest example is the new Barret Library ( 2005 ), designed by the firm of Hanbury Evans Wright and Vlattas.

Getting into the high school is virtually impossible unless previous enrolled in one of the 3 traditional program magnet middle schools, Johnson Middle ( Southwest ), Jefferson County Traditional Middle ( Middle East ) and Barret Traditional Middle ( Northeast and East ).

Victor Frankenstein ( played by Barret Oliver ) is a young boy who creates movies starring his dog, Sparky ( a Bull Terrier, whose name is a joke on the use of electricity in the film ).

He played Uncle Bryn in the comedy drama Gavin and Stacey, is the host of panel quiz show Would I Lie to You ?, plays a parody of himself in Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive and played Keith Barret in the BBC comedy Marion and Geoff and its spin-off The Keith Barret Show.

Aubrey's coxswain, Barret Bonden, is killed in single ship action.

" Daryl " ( whose name is an acronym for " Data-Analysing Robot Youth Lifeform ") ( Barret Oliver ) is an experiment in artificial intelligence, created by the government.

The Keith Barret Show is a spoof BBC chat show hosted by Keith Barret ( Rob Brydon ) who interviews celebrity couples in the hope of finding the secret to a successful marriage ( though in fact many of his interviewee couples were not married ; see below ).

North Corel is home to the surviving inhabitants of the former mining village Corel, Barret Wallace's hometown, which was razed to the ground by Shinra troops in reprisal after members of the original AVALANCHE attacked the new Mako reactor at the nearby Mt.

... If the land is fertile ..." / Barret: " Then there's gotta be Mako!

As of Advent Children, Barret is voiced by Masahiro Kobayashi in Japanese and Beau Billingslea in English localizations.

Barret is first introduced in Final Fantasy VII as a eco-terrorist, leading the group AVALANCHE to bomb Mako reactors in the fictional city of Midgar, so as to avenge the losses dealt him by the megacorporation Shinra, the Planet's de facto world government, who operate under the pretense of saving the Planet.

He added that Barret " shows us that a black man speaking in ' ebonics ' is not something to fear ," and that his portrayal was not racist, but instead the opposite.

William Barret Travis ( Patrick Wilson ) is also in San Felipe, reporting for duty.

Huebner married Florence Barret in 1921.

Barret, Barrett, or Barretts may refer to:

On April 28, 2010, Barrett scored his first goal of the 2010 season, the second goal in a 2-0 win over the Montreal Impact during the opening game of the 2010 Canadian Championship On May 8, 2010, Barret added his first league goals of the season, scoring a pair in Toronto's 4-1 win over his former team, the Chicago Fire.

CDT builds upon the earlier work of Barrett and Crane, and Baez and Barret, which demonstrates the feasibility and utility of this approach, but by introducing the causality constraint as a fundamental rule ( influencing the process from the very start ) Loll, Ambjørn, and Jurkiewicz created something different.

In 1851, he represented Alton & Sangamon Railroad in a dispute with one of its shareholders, James A. Barret, who had refused to pay the balance on his pledge to buy shares in the railroad on the grounds that the company had changed its original train route.

He was finally taught by his brother-in-law, Jean-Marie Barret, who ran a printing and bookselling business.

The earliest identified use of the word toothbrush in English was in the autobiography of Anthony Wood, who wrote in 1690 that he had bought a toothbrush from J. Barret.

* April 14, 2012: the St. Louis Blues won 3 – 0 over the San Jose Sharks with Jaroslav Halak who left the game after a collision with teammate Barret Jackman in the second period.

The series starred Rob Brydon as Keith Barret, a naïve taxicab driver going through a messy divorce from his wife, Marion, who, though he failed to realise it, had had a long-standing affair with her work colleague, Geoff.

* The Keith Barret Show-a 2004 spoof chat / debate show tackling the subject of relationships, hosted by " Keith Barret ", who interviewed a different celebrity couple on each show.

Together, they have been taking care of Marlene ( their friend Barret Wallace's daughter ), and the orphan Denzel, who Cloud met outside a church in the slums of Midgar.

The shortest serving mayor was Arthur Barret who died 11 days after taking office.

Football resumed in Messina during the following year, thanks largely to Arthur Barret Lascelles who used money from his own pocket to ensure football activity in the city would continue.

After that he is substituted by Samuel Barret, who constructed the towers in the extreme west of the dormitories.

Similarly and unexplainably, Barret was replaced by the Italian scenery designers Rambois and Cinatti ( who worked on the theatre designs of the São Carlos Theatre ), to continue the remodelling within the monastery in 1867.

Barret later encounters Dyne, who insists that he wants everything to be destroyed, and, after forcing Barret to fight him, commits suicide, entrusting Marlene's care to Barret.

The last mission was flown by Wing Commander J. Barret DFC, GOC No. 201 Squadron RAF.

Up front, their offensive line was led by 2 Pro Bowlers, guard Lincoln Kennedy and center Barret Robbins.

But a distraction for the Raiders was that starting center Barret Robbins went missing for most of the week leading up to the game and ended up in the hospital.

Professor John C. Barret asserts that although we no longer know what was at the top of Silbury Hill and cannot suggest what specific rituals or beliefs were associated with it, we can tease out basic spatial concepts.

William Barret Travis ( August 1, 1809 – March 6, 1836 ) was a 19th-century American lawyer and soldier.

By this time the Alamo was surrounded by Mexican troops, and according to Maverick's children ; when Maverick left, William Barret Travis ( the commander of the Texan forces at the Alamo ) urged him to convince the convention to send reinforcements.

The giftbook was composed of contributions from various notable figures-Longfellow, Emerson, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Harriet Martineau, and Bayard Talor, among others-none of these received any remuneration for their participation in the publication aside from a copy of The Liberty Bell.

It was released in 1984, directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Barret Oliver as Bastian, Noah Hathaway as Atreyu, and Tami Stronach as the Childlike Empress.

That season, Nash was nominated for the Calder Trophy, as the NHL's best rookie, but lost to defenceman Barret Jackman of the St. Louis Blues.

It was directed by Simon Wincer and stars Barret Oliver, Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Danny Corkill, and Josef Sommer.

Designed by Tetsuya Nomura, Barret was present in Final Fantasy VII from its early development.

Initially, the game was to have only three playable characters, with Barret one of those three, along with the protagonist Cloud Strife and the heroine Aerith Gainsborough.

During a phone call to project director Yoshinori Kitase, it was suggested that at some point in the game, one of the main characters should die, and after much discussion as to whether it should be Barret or Aerith, the producers chose Aerith, as they felt Barret's death would be " too obvious.

Journalist Jeremy Parish agreed that the character was racist, although he argued that cultural gaps between Japan and the United States, plus the lack of American translators for Final Fantasy VII may have been contributing factors, arguing that the likeness between Barret and Mr. T was possibly an attempt to make a character that appealed to Americans, as the actor did.

In contrast, on 1UP. com, Parish argued in favor of Barret, noting that while on the surface he appeared to be the " worst kind of stereotype ," he was a great character with complexity, having made " difficult decisions in his life, and agonized over his losses.

Despite their criticism, IGN ranked Barret fourth " Top 10 " best sidekick characters in video games, stating that he " took the videogame world by storm " when introduced and noting that his portrayal was also appealing, adding that his past made him a visibly loyal character.

Designed by Tetsuya Nomura, Tifa was not present in early versions of Final Fantasy VII, as initially, the game was to have only three playable characters ; the protagonist Cloud Strife, the heroine Aerith Gainsborough and Barret Wallace.

However, during a phone call to project director Yoshinori Kitase, it was suggested that at some point in the game, one of the main characters should die, and after much discussion as to whether it should be Barret or Aerith, the producers chose Aerith.