In 1701 Defoe, flanked by a guard of sixteen gentlemen of quality, presented the Legion's Memorial to the Speaker of the House of Commons, later his employer, Robert Harley.

The historicity of this story is questioned by most scholars, although John Robert Moore later said that " no man in England but Defoe ever stood in the pillory and later rose to eminence among his fellow men ".

However, these three statues were later speculatively ' identified ' by the writer Daniel Defoe ( 1659 – 1731 ) as Caesar ( 100 – 44 BC ) and Pompey ( 106 – 48 BC ) responsible for the decline of the Roman republic facing a statue of Cicero ( 106 – 43 BC ), the defender of the Republic.

These translations later inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe, regarded as the first novel in English.

He would also provide another high cross for Defoe later in the match, which he headed over the bar.

These translations later inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe, which also featured a desert island narrative and was regarded as the first novel in English.

In later attacking Moore's work on the Defoe canon as a whole, Rodney Baine picked out the attribution of Robert Drury's Journal as an egregious example.

These translations later inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe, which also featured a desert island narrative and was regarded as the first novel in English.

It made Knox internationally famous and was a major influence on the works of Daniel Defoe ; Robinson Crusoe and the later Captain Singleton both draw on the experiences of Knox.

Defoe later offered his sympathy for Charlton and expressed his wishes for them to bounce straight back to the Premiership the following season, in a post-match interview.

Redknapp later said that Rooney is the best all round attacking player but Defoe is the best finisher in England and should be a regular for England.

Sixteen days later, Berbatov tied a league record by scoring five goals in a game during a 7 – 1 home victory over Blackburn Rovers ; he was the first non-Englishman to net five in a Premier League match, and joined Andrew Cole, Alan Shearer and Jermain Defoe as the only players overall to do so.

Prominent anti-gin campaigners included Henry Fielding ( whose 1751 ' Enquiry into the Late Increase in Robbers ' blamed gin consumption for both increased crime and increased ill health among children ), Josiah Tucker, Daniel Defoe ( who had originally campaigned for the liberalisation of distilling, but later complained that drunken mothers were threatening to produce a ' fine spindle-shanked generation ' of children ), and – briefly – William Hogarth.

According to Daniel Defoe Child " added innumerable rows of trees, avenues and vistas to the house, all leading up to the place where the old house stood, as to a centre ".

" Defoe marked his arrival at Tottenham with a goal on his debut in the 4 – 3 home win over Portsmouth in February 2004 and added a further six in the remainder of the 2003 – 04 season, scoring seven goals in 15 matches.

Living during the agitations for the union of England and Scotland, he took part as a Jacobite in the war of pamphlets inaugurated and sustained by prominent men on both sides of the Border, and he crossed swords with no less redoubtable a foe than Daniel Defoe in his Advantages of the Act of Security compared with those of the intended Union ( Edinburgh, 1707 ), and A Vindication of the Same against Mr De Foe ( ibid.

By 1695 he was back in England, now formally using the name " Defoe ", and serving as a " commissioner of the glass duty ", responsible for collecting taxes on bottles.

Under the name of Henry Stonecastle, Baker was associated with Daniel Defoe in starting the Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal in 1728.

The scale that carries Beaufort's name had a long and complex evolution, from the previous work of others, including Daniel Defoe the century before, to when Beaufort was a top administrator in the Royal Navy in the 1830s when it was adopted officially and first used during the voyage of Charles Darwin on HMS Beagle.

Besides biographical sketches of Defoe, Sir John Davies, Allan Ramsay, Sir David Lyndsay, Churchyard and others, prefixed to editions of their respective works, the British government paid Chalmers 500 pounds sterling to write a hostile biography of Thomas Paine, the author of the Rights of Man, that Chalmers published under the assumed name of Francis Oldys, A. M., of the University of Pennsylvania ; and a life of Ruddiman, in which considerable light is thrown on the state of literature in Scotland during the earlier part of the last century.

* Daniel Foe ( 17th-century – 1731 ), original name of British author Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe describes life in the Mint for his heroine Moll Flanders in the novel of the same name.

Some scholars have suggested that " Charles Johnson " was actually Daniel Defoe writing under a pen name, but this is disputed.

Moore's study, and his reputation as a Defoe scholar, was so convincing that most libraries recataloged A General History under Defoe's name.

*" Our name is Legion, and we are Many " is from Daniel Defoe's " Legion's Memorial ," delivered to the British House of Commons on May 14, 1701, in which Defoe defends the right to petition, claiming to represent 200, 000 petitioners.

Robinsonade is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

The art of Defoe and Richardson is founded on an awareness of this great change.

Daniel Defoe also wrote dismissively about Londoners who posted the word on their doorways to ward off sickness during the Great Plague of London.

Defoe comments on the tendency to attribute tracts of uncertain authorship to him in his apologia Appeal to Honour and Justice ( 1715 ), a defence of his part in Harley's Tory ministry ( 1710 – 14 ).

Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors.

* TrueScans. com Click on Defoe to obtain comprehensive information on The History Of The Union Of Great Britain Edinburgh, Heirs of Anderson, 1709

* 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

While Pepys provides an account of the Plague through his diary, Henry Foe's nephew Daniel Defoe published A Journal of the Plague Year, a fictional account of the plague, in 1722, possibly based on Foe's journals.

* Robinson Crusoe on Mars ( 1964 ) – A pastiche of the classic Daniel Defoe novel.

Jonathan Swift was a strong advocate for licensing, and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, " One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price ... these things call for an Act of Parliament ".

This was followed by another review by Defoe on 6 December, in which he even went so far as to provide a draft text for the bill.

In 1724 Daniel Defoe wrote of Lymington, Hampshire, on the south coast of England

* February 2 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

It is possible that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island.

Defoe went on to write a lesser-known sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

Defoe was a Puritan moralist and normally worked in the guide tradition, writing books on how to be a good Puritan Christian, such as The New Family Instructor ( 1727 ) and Religious Courtship ( 1722 ).

Defoe also foregrounds this theme by arranging highly significant events in the novel to occur on Crusoe's birthday.

Daniel Defoe commented: " Unless the Spaniards are to be divested of common sense, infatuate, and given up, abandoning their own commerce, throwing away the only valuable stake they have left in the world, and in short, bent on their own ruin, we cannot suggest that they will ever, on any consideration, or for any equivalent, part with so valuable, indeed so inestimable a jewel, as the exclusive trade to their own plantations ".

* Daniel Defoe ( c. 1660-1731 ), writer – born and lived on Church Street.

Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.