Right now he found Sophie De Witt, that magnificent young matron he had spotted at Kamieniec four years ago.

* Burton, Ernest De Witt.

* The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself ( 1858 ) by De Witt C. Peters, at Project Gutenberg and at Google Books.

* De Witt, B .; Hoppe, J .; Nicolai, H. " On The Quantum Mechanics Of Supermembranes ", Nucl. Phys.

* January 5 – William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet ( d. 2009 )

William begged De Witt to allow Zuylenstein to stay, but he refused.

De Witt, the leading politician of the Republic, took William's education into his own hands, instructing him weekly in state matters — and joining him in a regular game of real tennis.

Gaspar Fagel replaced De Witt as Grand Pensionary, and was more friendly to William's interests.

To prevent the restoration of the influence of the House of Orange, De Witt allowed the pensionary of Haarlem, Gaspar Fagel, to induce the States of Holland to issue the Perpetual Edict ( 1667 ).

De Witt demanded an oath from each Holland regent ( city council member ) to uphold the Edict ; all but one complied.

William saw all this as a defeat, but in fact this arrangement was a compromise: De Witt would have preferred to ignore the prince completely, but now his eventual rise to the office of supreme army commander was implicit.

De Witt further conceded that William would be admitted as a member of the Raad van State, the Council of State, then the generality organ administering the defence budget.

DeWitt Clinton was the second son born to James Clinton and his wife Mary DeWitt ( 1737 – 1795, aunt of Simeon De Witt ), and was educated at King's College, what is now Columbia University.

* Hanyan, Craig and Mary L. De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People's Men McGill-Queens University Press, ( 1996 ) online

Map of Otsego County, New York, by Simeon De Witt c. 1792-1793

The U. S. Census Bureau and the USGS list the county's name as De Witt, although the county uses the name DeWitt ( no space ).

De Witt County is divided into thirteen townships:

The sudden return of De Witt from the fleet prevented the Orangists from seizing power.

De Witt considered it a mere feint to create dissension among the Dutch and between them and France.

Five days later Charles made another peace offer to De Witt, again using Buat as an intermediary.

De Witt now had proof of the collaborationist nature of the Orange movement and the major city regents distanced themselves from its cause.

De Witt was aware of Charles's general intentions ( though not of the secret treaty ).

De Witt personally had arranged for the planning of a landing of marines at Chatham.

It lay effectively defenceless at Chatham and De Witt ordered it destroyed.

In June, De Ruyter, with Cornelis de Witt supervising, launched the Dutch " Raid on the Medway " at the mouth of the River Thames.

De Tocqueville believed these biblical values led to America's unique institutions of religious tolerance, public education, egalitarianism, and democracy.

De Vries was supported by the professor and city council member David Jacob van Lennep, who believed the legend and sponsored De Vries by obtaining funds from the city council for the monument.

After Scupi was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 518 AD, Justinian, according to his historian Procopius in " De Aedificiis " ( On the Buildings ), built a new city near his birthplace Tauresium and Bederiana ( believed to be today's villages Taor and Bader ) at the fertile entry point of the River Lepenec into the Vardar, making Skopje the city of Justiniana Prima.

De Forest's device was not a hard vacuum tube, as he erroneously believed that it depended on the presence of residual gas remaining after evacuation.

The classical scholar Isaac Casaubon in De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI ( 1614 ) showed, through an analysis of the Greek language used in the texts, that those texts which were believed to be of ancient origin were in fact much more recent: most of the " philosophical " Corpus Hermeticum can be dated to around AD 300.

It is believed the donkey is modeled after hefty Latin lover Don Juan De Gama.

Alonso De León in 1688 discovered French explorer and La Salle expedition deserter Jean Henri in a somewhat confused state of mind, among the Coahuiltecan Indians near the site of present Brackettville, generally believed to be at Anacacho Mountain.

An earlier text, De Causis Corruptae Eloquentiae (" On the Causes of Corrupted Eloquence ") has been lost, but is believed to have been " a preliminary exposition of some of the views later set forth in Oratoria " ( Kennedy, 24 ).

The De Menils believed the universal " spiritual " aspect of Rothko ’ s work would complement the elements of Roman Catholicism.

# The grammarians Dionysius Thrax and Dionysius of Halicarnassus class ζ with the " double " () letters ψ, ξ and analyse it as σ + δ. Contra: The Roman grammarian Verrius Flaccus believed in the opposite sequence, δ + σ ( in Velius Longus, De orthogr.

It is generally believed to relate to the traditional student song, De Brevitate Vitae ( On the Shortness of Life ), which is commonly known as the Gaudeamus by virtue of its first line.

Amongst those who believed the folkloric tales relating the Brú to the Tuatha De Danann, it was commonly thought that they were the abode of the most powerful of the Tuatha, particularly The Dagda, his wife Boann and his son, Oengus.

The name De Stijl is supposedly derived from Gottfried Semper's Der Stil in den technischen und tektonischen Künsten oder Praktische Ästhetik ( 1861 – 3 ), which Curl suggests was mistakenly believed to advocate materialism and functionalism.

De Torres is also believed to have discovered the turkey and named it after the Hebrew tukki ( parrot ) of the Bible.

" De Gaulle refused Pompidou's request that he dissolve the National Assembly as he believed that their party, the Gaullists, would lose the resulting election.

This South Front ( illustration above ), has been deemed an architectural triumph of Palladian architecture in Britain, and it is widely believed that the final modifications to the work of De Caus were by Inigo Jones himself.

His authority was rejected by the third Nawab of the Carnatic Muhammed Saadatullah Khan I, who killed De Singh of Orchha, mainly because the Nawab believed that he was the righteous commander of the Gingee Fort, and began a smear campaign referring to Jahandar Shah as an usurper to the Mughal throne.

De Gaulle believed that he could persuade the Vichy French forces in Dakar to join the Allied cause.

De Gaulle had believed that he would be able to persuade the Vichy French at Dakar to change sides, but this turned out not to be the case, which damaged his standing with the Allies.

In addition to translating the Roman Catechism into Ge ' ez, Páez is believed to be the author of the treatise De Abyssinorum erroribus.

They believed that South Africa and the United Kingdom had absolutely nothing in common, and even UP leader Sir De Villiers Graaff praised Verwoerd for his handling of the situation.

* The Székelys have historically claimed descent from Attila's Huns ( repeated in Procopius ’ De bello Gothico ), and believed they played a special role in shaping Hungary.

The troops were sent back to their lines because De La Rey had no means to support them, and Methuen was also released because he had been gravely wounded and De la Rey believed that he would die without the prompt medical attention which only the British could provide.