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A new strategy led to General Daniel Morgan's victory of Cowpens on January 17, 1781, where nearly nine-tenths of the entire British force were killed or captured.
Daniel Morgan's great-great-grandfather was also the uncle of the famous Welsh privateer and pirate, Henry Morgan.
The North Carolina city of Morganton is also named after Morgan, as well as the Kentucky city of Morganfield ( originally Morgan's Field ) which was founded in 1811 on land which was part of a Revolutionary War land grant to Daniel Morgan.
These were augmented by troops Washington ordered north from the Hudson Highlands as part of General Arnold's operation to relieve Stanwix, which arrived at the end of August, and included the crack sharpshooters of Daniel Morgan's rifle corps, which he sent north from his own army.
Gates denied a general movement since he wanted to wait behind his defenses for the expected frontal attack ; he did permit Arnold to send Daniel Morgan's riflemen and some light infantry out for a reconnaissance in force.
Their movements were spotted, and Gates wanted to order only Daniel Morgan's men out in opposition.
In the first engagement of Saratoga, the Battle of Freeman's Farm, Poor's brigade was the first to come to the aid of Daniel Morgan's attack.
The attack on the American far left was turned by Daniel Morgan's men, but the enemy's center was held by Hessian troops.
They were formed into two battalions for the expedition ; a third battalion was composed of riflemen from Pennsylvania and Virginia under Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Morgan's command.
* Daniel Morgan, commander of the 11th Virginia Regiment, later called the Corps of Rangers and " Morgan's Sharpshooters ", during the American Revolution.
In July 1777 this skill led to Murphy joining Daniel Morgan's newly formed " Sharpshooter Corps ".

Daniel and condition
His father then asked him to study in medicine, and Daniel agreed under the condition that his father would teach him mathematics privately, which they continued for some time.
Kreese orders his students to leave Daniel alone, but under the condition that if Daniel does not show up for the tournament, the harassment will resume and Miyagi himself will also become a target.
Its collaborators included poets such as José Agustín Goytisolo, politicians like Salvador Clotas, artists like Daniel Argimon and Joan Ponç, actresses like Serena Vergano, and, lastly, architects such as Anna Bofill, Peter H. Hodgkinson, Ramón Collado, Xavier Bagué, and Manuel Nuñez Yanovsky. The film is a study of the relationship between art and madness and describes the horror of the human condition – a mere instant between nothingness and nothingness.
During the 100-gun salute to the U. S. flag — Anderson's one condition for withdrawal — a pile of cartridges blew up from a spark, killing Private Daniel Hough instantly and seriously injuring the rest of the gun crew, one mortally ( Private Edward Gallway ); these were the first fatalities of the war.
Vítor Baía replaced in-form Ricardo in goal, Beto played out of position at right back, Luís Figo was in very poor physical condition, and Hugo Viana was called as a last-minute replacement for Daniel Kenedy ( who tested positive in a doping control test ) – as Portugal underachieved and ended third in its group stage, subsequently eliminated.
" He spent a number of columns criticizing the new master plan for the World Trade Center site, calling the plan produced by Daniel Libeskind an embodiment of the " Orwellian condition America's detractors accuse us of embracing: perpetual war for perpetual peace.
Daniel Ruettiger ( nicknamed " Rudy ") had a hard time in school because he was dyslexic — a condition that was not well understood at the time.
Sato has one condition, however: that Daniel join him and the other villagers in the celebration.
Several problems occurred during the preparation for the tournament in Japan and South Korea, and the competition itself: Vítor Baía replaced in-form Ricardo in goal, Beto played out of position at right back, Luís Figo was in very poor physical condition and Hugo Viana was called as a last-minute replacement for Daniel Kenedy, who tested positive in a doping control test ; after one win and two losses in the group stage, Portugal was eliminated, and the manager was fired.
He is not happy to see Clara ( in the previous episode Samson mentioned that he never was on good terms with Daniel, although the reason is never revealed ) and intends to send her away to the war-raged East, but he is persuaded by his wife and his son Robert to take Clara in, on the condition that Robert takes the sole responsibility for Clara.

Daniel and worsened
While there, she met her future husband, Julian Daniel Beard, but her eating disorder steadily worsened and she was re-hospitalized after Christmas.

Daniel and with
Daniel Baker deluged his `` Unckle Quyne '' with requests to pay money for him to drapers in Watling Street and at the Two Cats in Canning Street.
* New tribalist American author Daniel Quinn identifies himself as an animist and defines animism not as a religious belief but a religion itself, though with no holy scripture, organized institutions, or established dogma.
In 1983 he wrote an extended manuscript ( about 600 pages ) entitled Pursuing Stacks, stimulated by correspondence with Ronald Brown, ( see also R. Brown and Tim Porter at University of Bangor in Wales ), and starting with a letter addressed to Daniel Quillen.
The remake is scheduled for release sometime in 2013 with Daniel Radcliffe starring as Bäumer.
* Emma Kirkby, soprano and Daniel Taylor, countertenor, with the Theatre of Early Music.
* On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, the elder brother of the 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw to " send a message to the FBI and the media.
Pentecost then outlines the biblical time period for this campaign to occur and with further arguments concludes that it must take place with the 70th week of Daniel.
The project was led by Dr Jeff Peakall and Dr Daniel Parsons at the University of Leeds in collaboration with the University of Southampton, Memorial University ( Newfoundland, Canada ), and the Institute of Marine Sciences ( Izmir, Turkey ).
Bede acknowledged his correspondents in the preface to the Historia Ecclesiastica ; he was in contact with Daniel, the Bishop of Winchester, for information about the history of the church in Wessex, and also wrote to the monastery at Lastingham for information about Cedd and Chad.
Critics of Daniel, at least since the third century works of Porphyry view the Book of Daniel as a pseudepigraph dated around 165 BCE that concerns itself primarily with the Maccabean era and the reign of the Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes.
The visions in the latter half of Daniel are theorized to be written by an anonymous author in the Maccabean era, who assembled the legends with the visions as one book, in the 2nd century BCE.
Critics do, however, acknowledge that the author of Daniel was familiar with the history of Near Eastern imperial power from the sixth to the second centuries.
Even the critic G. R. Driver recognized that " the presence and popularity of the Daniel manuscripts at Qumran " conflicted " with the modern view which advocates the late dating of the composition of Daniel ".
According to John J. Collins in his 1993 commentary, Daniel, Hermeneia Commentary, the Aramaic in Daniel is of a later form than that used in the Samaria correspondence, but slightly earlier than the form used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning that the Aramaic chapters 2-6 may have been written earlier in the Hellenistic period than the rest of the book, with the vision in chapter 7 being the only Aramaic portion dating to the time of Antiochus.
Contrary to the above, the Expositor's Bible Commentary ( Zondervan, 1990 ) says that the language of Daniel, in comparison with the Hebrew and Aramaic texts of the Hellenistic period, " prove quite conclusively to any scholar that the second-century date and Palestinian provenance of the Book of Daniel cannot be upheld any longer without violence being done to the science of linguistics.
" He agrees with Collins that there are " clear differences " between Qumran Hebrew and the Hebrew of Daniel.
Attempts have been made to organize the entire book of Daniel with a chiastic structure despite the major break between Daniel 6 and 7, even though there are parallel themes across that break.

Daniel and increase
Daniel Gralath was the first to combine several jars in parallel into a capacitor " battery " to increase the total possible stored charge.
Daniel Kuehn attributes the improvement to the earlier monetary policy of the Federal Reserve, and notes that the changes in marginal tax rates were accompanied by an expansion in the tax base that could account for the increase in revenue.
Watch Tower publications often cite Proverbs 4: 18, " The path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established " ( NWT ) to support their view that there would be an increase in knowledge during " the time of the end ", as mentioned in Daniel 12: 4.
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner in economics, calls Flyvbjerg's counsel to use reference class forecasting to de-bias forecasts, " the single most important piece of advice regarding how to increase accuracy in forecasting .”
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner in economics, calls Flyvbjerg's counsel to use reference class forecasting to de-bias forecasts, " the single most important piece of advice regarding how to increase accuracy in forecasting ," including of costs and demand
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner in economics, calls Flyvbjerg's counsel to use reference class forecasting to de-bias forecasts, " the single most important piece of advice regarding how to increase accuracy in forecasting .”
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner in economics, calls Flyvbjerg's counsel to use reference class forecasting to de-bias forecasts and avoid wishful thinking, " the single most important piece of advice regarding how to increase accuracy in forecasting .”
Uncle Jim offers to increase Daniel's monthly allowance for living expenses as long as Daniel promises to keep a diary.
Daniel has commissioned and premiered many new works for the oboe, to increase its status as a solo instrument.
A midterms version could focus on particular races or the general balance of the Congress ; an example of a single-race midterms disadvantage would be that the reelection of Senator Daniel Akaka is critical to free speech, and plan prevents Akaka from winning ; a " balance of Congress " disadvantage might hold that the plan is a credit to the Republicans, who would increase their grip on Congress and allow extensive drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Elnora Daniel became President in 1998 and she worked to increase federal and state funding and to create new programs.
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner in economics, calls Flyvbjerg's counsel to use reference class forecasting to de-bias forecasts of risk, " the single most important piece of advice regarding how to increase accuracy in forecasting ,” including forecasts of risk.
" After Cooper rewrote the scene to increase Vala's vulnerability to Daniel, and have Daniel truthfully explain his feelings of a relationship, the actors decided to play the confrontation scene as genuinely as possible, with both characters being neither completely in-character nor totally out-of-character.
In an early passage of A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe mentions " merry andrews " while describing the effects of the plague on London society: " All the plays and interludes which, after the manner of the French Court, had been set up, and began to increase among us, were forbid to act ; the gaming-tables, public dancing-rooms, and music-houses, which multiplied and began to debauch the manners of the people, were shut up and suppressed ; and the jack-puddings, merry-andrews, puppet-shows, rope-dancers, and such-like doings, which had bewitched the poor common people, shut up their shops, finding indeed no trade ; for the minds of the people were agitated with other things, and a kind of sadness and horror at these things sat upon the countenances even of the common people.

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