The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was under the general direction of Sir Lawrence Bragg, who had won the Nobel Prize in 1915 at the age of 25.

This includes his reluctance to resolve a dispute between Leonidas Polk, a personal friend, and Braxton Bragg, who was defeated in important battles and distrusted by his subordinates.

* Sweet Honey in the Rock's 1981 album, Good News, contains tracks titled " Biko " and " Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto ", which compares Biko's death to that of Chilean musician Victor Jara and was covered by Billy Bragg in 1992.

The Prize was awarded to Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg " for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays ".

Seeing that Bragg was reinforcing his right flank, Grant ordered Thomas to make a general assault on Missionary Ridge.

He was saved by being appointed research assistant to Sir Lawrence Bragg, under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, on 1 January 1939.

The day after the Mayor's son's and nephew's hidden involvement in a city contract was disclosed in the Chicago Sun-Times, Daley left for Fort Bragg, North Carolina to see his son deployed.

Garfield conceived a plan to conduct a cavalry raid behind Bragg's line ( similar to that Bragg was employing against Rosecrans ) which Rosecrans approved ; the raid, led by Abel Streight, failed, due in part to poor execution and weather.

The event was organised by Helena Cronin, and chaired by Melvyn Bragg.

How much of this was due to his intake of alcohol is impossible to ascertain, according to Bragg, because of Burton's reluctance to be treated for alcohol addiction ; however, in 1974, Burton spent six weeks in a clinic to recuperate from a period during which he had been drinking three bottles of vodka a day.

In the early spring of 1863, Longstreet suggested to Lee that his corps be detached from the Army of Northern Virginia and sent to reinforce the Army of Tennessee, where Gen. Braxton Bragg was being challenged in Middle Tennessee by Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, Longstreet's roommate at West Point.

What followed was one of the most bizarre scenes of the war, with Bragg sitting red faced as a procession of his commanders condemned him.

Longstreet stated that Bragg " was incompetent to manage an army or put men into a fight " and that he " knew nothing of the business.

The plan was well received and approved by President Davis, but it was disapproved by Bragg, who objected to the significant logistical challenges it posed.

When Bragg was defeated by Grant at Chattanooga on November 25, Longstreet was ordered to join forces with the Army of Tennessee in northern Georgia.

The only real effect of the minor campaign was to deprive Bragg of troops he sorely needed in Chattanooga.

Although he had the concurrence of Gen. Lee, Longstreet was unable to convince President Davis or his newly appointed military advisor, Braxton Bragg.

Forrest protested that to send such untrained men behind enemy lines was suicidal, but Bragg insisted, and Forrest obeyed his orders.

Bragg failed to do so, upon which Forrest was quoted as saying, " What does he fight battles for?

Shughart was assigned to " Delta Force " and was transferred to Fort Bragg, North Carolina in June 1986.

Chickamauga was a great tactical victory for Bragg, but instead of pursuing and destroying the Union Army as it retreated, he laid siege to it in Chattanooga, concentrating his effort against the enemies inside his army instead of his enemies from the North.

In an effort to block further Union progress, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, commander of the Army of Tennessee, established a fortified line along the Duck River from Shelbyville to Wartrace.

The leading voice of protest in Thatcherite Britain in the 1980s was Billy Bragg, whose style of protest song and grass-roots political activism was mostly reminiscent of those of Woody Guthrie.

Other TV presenting roles include BBC Northern Ireland's weekly late-night television interview series " William Crawley Meets ...", face-to-face interviews of 30 minutes in duration with leading thinkers and social reformers from across the world, including the philosopher Peter Singer, the scientist Richard Dawkins, the writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, and the gay bishop Gene Robinson.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Army of Tennessee.

* 1959 – Rick Bragg, American author and journalist

* 1817 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general ( d. 1876 )

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain – Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Perryville – Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.

* 1969 – Darren Bragg, American baseball player

* November 24 – American Civil War – Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

* November 25 – American Civil War – Battle of Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.

** Rick Bragg, American journalist

* October 8 – American Civil War – Battle of Perryville: Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.

* March 22 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general ( d. 1876 )

Of the successful American qualifiers, Art Bragg was injured prior to the Games, but, Dean Smith, of Texas, did qualify for the final alongside Remigino.

* Janet Harmon Waterford Bragg, American aviator

Fort Bragg was founded prior to the American Civil War as a military garrison rather than a fortification.

In prehistoric days, the area now known as Fort Bragg was home to the Native American Indians, most of whom belonged to the Pomo tribe.

In October 1862, the fields west of town were the site of the Battle of Perryville, an important encounter in the American Civil War that ended the Kentucky Campaign of Confederate generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith.

In an interview with Melvyn Bragg in the early 1980s, the British actor Laurence Olivier said that Disney's Big Bad Wolf was supposedly based on a widely detested American theatre actor called Jed Harris.

Braxton Bragg ( March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876 ) was a career United States Army officer, and then a general in the Confederate States Army — a principal commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and later the military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

The training for the majority of the American PRTs took place at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, it has now been moved to Camp Atterbury, Indiana.

* 5 October — 4th running of the American Grand Prize takes place at Wauwatosa, near Milwaukee over 659. 44 km ( 12. 682 km x 52 laps ) and is won by Caleb Bragg ( USA ) driving a FIAT in 5: 59: 27. 44.

Born in Warrenton, North Carolina, Bragg attended Warrenton Academy and later graduated from Captain Partridge ’ s American Literary, Scientific & Military Academy.

Christian Jules LeBlanc ( born August 25, 1958 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina ) is an American actor.

Braxton Bragg Comer ( November 7, 1848 – August 15, 1927 ) was a planter, businessman, and an American Democratic politician who was the 33rd Governor of Alabama from 1907 to 1911, and a United States Senator in 1920.