" He was a member of a distinguished West Point class that also included Creighton Abrams and Benjamin O. Davis Jr .. Westmoreland graduated as first captain-the highest graduating rank-and received the Pershing Sword, which is given to the most able cadet at the academy.

In May 1922 investors Benjamin Abrams and Rudolph Kararek purchased the Emerson Company for US $ 50, 000 and raised an additional US $ 200, 000 of capital to revive the business.

* Ann Uhry Abrams, The Valiant Hero: Benjamin West and Grand-Style History Painting ( Washington, 1985 ).

In 1922 Emerson Phonograph Co. passed into the hands of Benjamin Abrams and Rudolph Kanarak.

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* Mathews, L. K. “ Benjamin Franklin ’ s Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750 – 1775 .” American Political Science Review 8 ( August 1914 ): 393 – 412.

* Newman, Simon P. " Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia ," Journal of American Studies, August 2009, Vol.

In August 2012, the United States State Department's counter-terrorism coordinator Daniel Benjamin warned that Hezbollah may attack Europe at any time without any warning.

They were eventually able to walk to their expedition ship MV Benjamin Bowring and boarded it on August 4, 1982 at position 80: 31N 00: 59W.

On 12 August 2008, Benjamin Boukpeti ( born to a Togolese father and a French mother ) won a bronze medal in the Men's K1 Kayak Slalom, the first medal ever won by a member of the Togolese team at the Olympics.

* August 20 – Future United States President Benjamin Harrison is born in Ohio.

* August 20 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States ( d. 1901 )

* August 15 – Benjamin Disraeli's Second Reform Act enfranchises many urban working men and adds 938, 000 to an electorate of 1, 057, 000 in England and Wales.

* August 22 – Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist ( b. 1789 )

* August 28 – Benjamin Godard, French composer ( d. 1895 )

* August 13 – The Academy and College of Philadelphia, predecessor to the private University of Pennsylvania, opens its doors, with Benjamin Franklin as president.

He graduated from high school in 1944 and was inducted into the army at Fort Benjamin Harrison on August 8, 1944.

* August 15 – Abiah Folger Franklin, mother of Benjamin Franklin ( d. 1752 )

* August 2 – Captain Benjamin Church captures Metacomet's wife and son.

* August 12 – King Philip ( Metacomet ), the chief of the Wampanoags that had waged war throughout southern New England in a war that bore his name, is killed by an Indian named Alderman, a soldier led by Captain Benjamin Church.

* Benjamin Disraeli summered in Valletta in August 1830.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was home to the Peconic School, an artist colony initially led by painters Benjamin Rutherfurd Fitz and Edward August Bell.

On August 17, 1838, Benjamin Wilhelm, a settler from Pennsylvania, settled in Vandalia on his way to Vandalia, Illinois near the intersection of U. S. Route 40 and US Route 25-A.

* Benjamin Mays ( August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984 ), minister, educator, scholar, social activist, mentor to Martin Luther King Jr, and president of Morehouse College

Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford ( in ), FRS ( March 26, 1753 – August 21, 1814 ) was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.

Benjamin Ryan Tillman, Jr., known as Pitchfork Ben Tillman ( August 11, 1847July 3, 1918 ), was an American politician who served as the 84th Governor of South Carolina, from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator, from 1895 until his death in office.

Judah Philip Benjamin, QC ( August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884 ) was an American politician and lawyer who served in cabinet level positions in the Confederate States of America, including Secretary of War and Secretary of State.

Benjamin Grubb Humphreys ( August 26, 1808December 20, 1882 ) was an American politician from Mississippi.

Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw ( born 30 August 1960 ) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Exeter since 1997, and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

Benjamin Silliman ( 8 August 1779 – 24 November 1864 ) was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science ( at Yale University ), and the first to distill petroleum.

Many of Benjamin Britten's operas are scored for as few as 13 instrumentalists ; Mark Adamo's two-act realization of Little Women is scored for 18 instrumentalists.

* April 18 – William Ewart Gladstone defeats Benjamin Disraeli in the United Kingdom general election to become Prime Minister for the second time.

He is one of the 18 captured men taken to Fort Carolina and released later on by Benjamin.

* A sacerdotal city of Benjamin ( 1 Chronicles 6: 60 ), called also Almon ( Joshua 21: 18 ), now Almit, a mile north-east of the ancient Anathoth.

Anathoth () is the name of one of the cities given to " the children of Aaron " ( Joshua 21: 13, 18 ; 1 Chronicles 6: 54, 60 ), in the tribe of Benjamin ( Josh.

18, in which " a prophet like Moses " is promised: " As Moses was a prophet for forty years, so was Jeremiah ; as Moses prophesied concerning Judah and Benjamin, so did Jeremiah ; as Moses ' own tribe Levites under Korah rose up against him, so did Jeremiah's tribe revolt against him ; Moses was cast into the water, Jeremiah into a pit ; as Moses was saved by a slave ( the slave of Pharaoh's daughter ); so, Jeremiah was rescued by a slave ( Ebed-melech ); Moses reprimanded the people in discourses ; so did Jeremiah.

On November 18, 1868, two weeks after he was elected vice president, Colfax married Ella M. Wade, a niece of Senator Benjamin Franklin Wade.

Other composers of Hölderlin settings include Peter Cornelius, Hans Pfitzner, Richard Strauss ( Drei Hymnen ), Max Reger ( An die Hoffnung ), Alphons Diepenbrock ( Die Nacht ), Richard Wetz ( Hyperion ), Josef Matthias Hauer, Hermann Reutter ( an opera, a choral work, 18 songs ), Stefan Wolpe, Paul Hindemith, Benjamin Britten, Hans Werner Henze, Bruno Maderna ( Hyperion, Stele an Diotima ), Heinz Holliger ( the Scardanelli-Zyklus ), Hans Zender ( Hölderlin lesen I-IV ), György Kurtág ( who planned an opera on Hölderlin ), György Ligeti ( Hölderlin-Phantasien ), Hanns Eisler ( Hollywood Liederbuch ), Viktor Ullmann ( who wrote settings in Terezin concentration camp ), Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Walter Zimmermann ( Hyperion, an epistolary opera ) and Wolfgang Rihm.

The flat curtain was 35 feet ( 11 m ) high and 60 feet ( 18 m ) wide ; the illustration was an allegory of Independence including historical figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Joseph Hart ( 219 ); William Gadsby ( 173 ); Isaac Watts ( 145 ) John Berridge ( 72 ); John Newton ( 63 ) John Kent ( 51 ); Charles Wesley ( 41 ); Thomas Kelly ( 34 ); Samuel Medley ( 31 ); Anne Steele ( 27 ); Augustus M. Toplady ( 24 ); Richard Burnham ( 22 ); Henry Fowler ( 20 ); William Cowper ( 18 ); Joseph Swain ( 18 ); Daniel Herbert ( 12 ); Benjamin Beddome ( 10 ); John Fawcett ( 10 ); William Hammond ( 10 ); John Stevens ( 9 ); John Adams ( 9 ); Phillip Doddridge ( 8 ); John Cennick ( 6 ).

It was carried out by the 7th Armoured Brigade led by Canadian volunteer Ben Dunkelman ( called Benjamin Ben-David in Israel ), a battalion from the Carmeli Brigade, and some elements from the Golani Brigade between 8 – 18 July.

Basel played their opening game of the season in Bern on 18 July 2008 against BSC Young Boys, which they won 2 – 1 with goals coming from substitutes Marko Perović and Benjamin Huggel after Eudis put the home side ahead.

Between the 5th and 18 September his brig was responsible for capturing and setting ablaze the schooner Starlight, and several whalers ( including the Ocmulgee, Ocean Rover, Alert, Weather Gauge, Altamaha, Benjamin Tucker, Courser, Virginia and Elisha Dunbar ) off the coast of Flores.

Haas and Benjamin regained the championship from Guerrero and Tajiri on the July 3 episode of SmackDown, but lost it to the reformed Los Guerreros on September 18.

At the Final Battle 2010 pay-per-view on December 18, Haas and Benjamin announced they would be wrestling regularly for ROH in 2011.

The Wah Mee massacre was a multiple homicide on February 18, 1983, in which Kwan Fai " Willie " Mak, Wai-Chiu " Tony " Ng, and Benjamin Ng gunned down 14 people in the Wah Mee gambling club.

* Benjamin allotment-Joshua 18: 28

It was a key landmark in identifying the border between the tribes of Judah and Benjamin ( see Joshua 15: 9 & 18: 14, 15 ).

Raymond Benjamin ( December 14, 1872 – June 18, 1952 ) was an American attorney and chairman of the Republican National Committee in California.

Charles Benjamin " Babe " Adams ( May 18, 1882 – July 27, 1968 ) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1906 to 1926 who spent nearly his entire career with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach ( May 21, 1784 – March 18, 1852 ) was a German dramatist.

Benjamin Kennicott ( 4 April 1718 – 18 September 1783 ) was an English churchman and Hebrew scholar.

Joe Higgs ( born Joseph Benjamin Higgs, 3 June 1940 – 18 December 1999 ) was a reggae musician from Jamaica.

Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães ( Niterói, 18 October 1836 – Rio de Janeiro, 22 January 1891 ) was a Brazilian military man and political thinker.