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Nonetheless, Drummond insisted that Lundy's Lane was a total victory for the British, and tried to smash Brown's army into the ground by chasing them to Fort Erie.

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By 1848, Edward Hay Drummond Hay, the President of the British Virgin Islands, reported that: " there are now no properties in the Virgin Islands whose holders are not embarrassed for want of capital or credit sufficient to enable them to carry on the simplest method of cultivation effectively.
This was cause for consternation in Scotland, and there had been whisperings of a secret marriage with Margaret Drummond, his mistress.
The second expedition arrived on November 30, 1699 and found two sloops there ; one with Thomas Drummond from the original expedition.
Jonson's ' Conversations With Drummond ' refers to the imprisonment, and suggests there was a possibility that both authors would have their ' ears and noses slit ' as a punishment, but this may have been Jonson elaborating on the story in retrospect.
Drummond was essentially a follower of Spenser, but, amid all his sensuousness, and even in those lines most conspicuously beautiful, there is a dash of melancholy thoughtfulness-a tendency deepened by the death of his first love, Mary Cunningham.
Drogan explains that there were three other occupants of his house before the cat arrived: his sister, Amanda ( played by Dolores Sutton ), her friend Carolyn ( played by Alice Drummond ), and the family's butler, Richard Gage ( played by Mark Margolis ).
Ben Jonson remarked to Drummond of Hawthornden that “ so he had written that piece of, ' The Burning Babe ,' he would have been content to destroy many of his .” In fact, there is a strong case to be made for Southwell's influence on his contemporaries and successors, among them Drayton, Lodge, Nashe, Herbert, Crashaw, and especially Shakespeare, who seems to have known his work, both poetry and prose, extremely well.
Giles started as a sporting journalist, and used what he learned there as background for the Drummond novels.
* John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there ( born 1816 ).
It was known that Drummond's force was dwindling and there were strong arguments for simply waiting for Drummond to abandon the unsuccessful siege, but Brown was determined to attack.
" The same day on which Drummond was executed, the rebel Jean Baptista, a Frenchman, was also hanged there.
His new bosses Maurice Drummond and Andrew Maxwell assign Peter to the technology division but there ’ s one thing.
Drummond and Yeo had reliable information that the garrison of the fort numbered only 290 regulars, and believed that thirty or more heavy guns intended for Chauncey's ships under construction at Sackett's Harbor were waiting there.

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Shortly before midnight, Drummond launched a third counter-attack, using every man he could find, although by this time the British line consisted of mixed-up detachments and companies, rather than organised regiments and battalions.
The medal has on occasion been awarded to multiple people at a time ; in 1938 it was won by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton " for their discovery that nuclei could be disintegrated by artificially produced bombarding particles ", in 1981 by Peter Higgs and Tom Kibble " for their international contributions about the spontaneous breaking of fundamental symmetries in elementary-particle theory ", in 1982 by Drummond Matthews and Frederick Vine " for their elucidation of the magnetic properties of the ocean floors which subsequently led to the plate tectonic hypothesis " and in 1988 by Archibald Howie and M. J. Whelan " for their contributions to the theory of electron diffraction and microscopy, and its application to the study of lattice defects in crystals ".
In the wake of these somewhat academic explorations, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, entered the arena in 1987 with an album of plunderphony which, while still serving as a critical reflection on the nature of pop music and the power and potential of the sampler, upped the ante by being ( almost ) music one could dance to as well as think about.
Drummond is muscular man, who has worked to remove the limitations of his size carries making him stealthy (" he could move over ground without a single blade of grass rustling ") and quick (" he could kill a man with his bare hands in a second ") for such a large man.
According to the Drummond Report ( created by Chairman of the Commission of the Reform of Ontario's Public Services Don Drummond ), Casino Niagara could be closed sometime before the year 2025 if the recommendations from the report are accepted by the McGuinty government.
Lieutenant General Gordon Drummond, the British commander in Upper Canada, hoped that the garrison at Fort Erie could at least buy him enough time against the American invasion to concentrate his forces.

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In 1787, the General Assembly further ordered that the Clerk's Office be moved to Drummond.
The king's involvement with Margaret Logie ( née Drummond ) and soon to be his queen may also have represented a threat in the Steward's own earldom of Strathearn where the Drummonds also had interests, while Douglas and March mistrusted David's intentions towards them.
Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond of the K Foundation received media coverage for the award of the " Anti-Turner Prize ", £ 40, 000 to be given to the " worst artist in Britain ", voted from the real Turner Prize's short-list.
Drummond explained the reasoning for choosing a smaller label, " We decided we wanted to be big fish in a small pond instead of a little fish in a big pond.
In 1825, a Scottish engineer, Thomas Drummond ( 1797 – 1840 ), saw a demonstration of the effect by Michael Faraday and realized that the light would be useful for surveying.
Although the " restoration " in 1687 of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle was accomplished by King James VII & II, the initiative for-essentially-founding this Scottish Royal Order can be attrbuted to John Drummond, 1st Earl and 1st Jacobite Duke of Melfort, then Secretary of State for Scotland, who together with his elder brother James Drummond, 4th Earl and 1st Jacobite Duke of Perth, then Lord Chancellor of Scotland, were among the eight Founding Knights.
The church is the burial place of Spencer Perceval ( 1762 – 1812 ), the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated, and of murdered civil servant Edward Drummond.
Despite these occasional displays of brutal and sudden punishment, Drummond was typically respectful of the citizenry as a whole, recognizing that their help would be essential in driving the Americans out of Canada.
Drummond continued to be actively interested in missionary and other movements among the Free Church students.
The arrival of Gordon Drummond allowed de Rottenburg to be moved to Lower Canada where he commanded forces south of the St. Lawrence River at Montreal.
Among the five economists was Toronto-Dominion Bank chief economist Don Drummond, who also wrote a private letter to Baird arguing that the " economic cost implementing Kyoto would be at least as deep as the recession in the early 1980s.
Many heritage registered Victorian terrace houses can be found on Drummond Street, a long wide boulevard flanked by grand homes, including Rosaville ( no46 built 1883 ), Medley Hall ( no48 built 1892-93 ), Drummond Terrace ( no 93-105 built 1890-91 ), Lothian Terrace ( no175-179 built 1865-69 ), Terraces at 313 & 315 ( 1889 ), Police Station ( no330 built 1878 ) and Court House ( no345-355 built 1887-88 ).
The first houses to be built were in Drummond Road.
Therefore it was no surprise that after the Mets had just lost their seventh game in a row that Aguilera was included in a last-minute July 31 deadline deal, along with West, Tapani, reliever Tim Drummond and a player to be named ( which on October 16 became reliever Jack Savage ), for Minnesota Twins ace Frank Viola.
— The Councill of the Royall Company of Archers, viz., Mr David Drummond, Praeses, Thomas Kincaid, John Nairn, James Ross, Robert Lowis, John Lowis, John Carnegy, George Drummond, Tresr., William Murray and James Lowis, clerks, ordered this piece of plate to be furnished out of the stock of the Company, and to be shot for as ane annual pryze.

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In the meantime, Mr. Bartlett had had dinner and an extra supply of grog, and when they had passed the eastern end of Drummond Island he began, in no very polite manner, to charge that he had been cheated while dining, and that the course should have been by the Detour passage.
The environment used to support habitat for crayfish, three leech varieties, water insects and snails. There are no ticks on Drummond Island.
This recognition was tied to two events: ( 1 ) the observation of magnetic anomaly stripes on the seafloor, parallel to oceanic ridge systems, interpreted by Frederick Vine and Drummond Matthews to represent the formation of new crust at the oceanic ridge and its subsequent symmetric spreading away from that ridge, and ( 2 ) the observation of a sheeted dike complex within the Troodos ophiolite ( Cyprus ) by Ian Graham Gass and co-workers, which must have formed by repetitive extension of crust and intrusion of magma resulting in a formation consisting of 100 % dikes with no older wall rocks preserved within the complex.
There was no subtlety ; Drummond merely launched an attack in line, without attempting to use his many light infantry to harass or disorder the American line, or to locate any weak points in it.
Later, former Radio 3 controller John Drummond complained that the senior ranks of the BBC took no interest in what he was doing.
While Brock is once reported to have shed tears while watching a traitor executed by firing squad, Drummond displayed no such feelings.
Drummond, like Brock and Henry Procter, was continually hungry for reinforcements from the governor general, Sir George Prevost, who held relatively large numbers of troops in reserve at Quebec, despite the fact that no enemy had even come close to endangering the capital.
* Elizabeth ( June 1690 – August 1774 ), married Lord Edward Drummond, son of James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth and Jacobite 1st Duke of Perth, in November 1709, no children
Fitzpatrick's camp was being guarded by 25 of his men under Captain William Drummond Stewart, a former British officer ( and veteran of Waterloo ) and no pushover.
British private detective and adventurer Bulldog Drummond was featured in no less than 24 films from 1922 to 1969 and was the prototype for Ian Fleming's James Bond character.
Historically a number of large houses were constructed, mostly with the appendage of ‘ Mount ’, reflecting the parish ’ s elevation, and their names are remembered today but no longer as houses: Mount Argus, ( church and monastery ) Mount Jerome ( cemetery ), Greenmount House ( the Hospice ), Mount Harold ( the Catholic Church ) and Mount Drummond and Mount Tallant ( Housing ).
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Those under Captain John Williams and Lieutenant Patrick McDonogh who stood and fought were quickly killed as Drummond cried out " Give no Quarter to the Damn Yankees!

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