During the Mexican American War ( 1846 – 1848 ), Lieutenant Grant served under Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott.

During the War with Mexico, beginning in 1846, Washington became a rally point for volunteer troops on their way to serve with the US Army.

During the years of early pioneer settlement, in 1846 the US Army built Old Fort Kearny at Nebraska City.

During the Mexican-American War in 1846, Stephen W. Kearny delivered an address at the Plaza of Las Vegas claiming New Mexico for the United States.

During the Victorian era a lot of new buildings and industry were established, such as Independent Chapel ( 1822 ), Holy Trinity ( 1836 – 37 ), Christ Church ( 1837 ), Castle Railway Station ( 1846 ), Wesleyan Chapel ( 1846 ), The Corn Exchange ( 1848 ), Methodist New Connexion Chapel ( 1848 ), W. N.

During 1846 to 1849 George Turnbull was the resident engineer under William Cubitt for the London District of the Great Northern Railway.

During the terrible years of 1846 and 1847 the archbishop and his family tried to alleviate the miseries of the people.

During the long period of peace between 1815 and 1846 midshipmen had few opportunities for promotion, and their warrants were often obtained via patronage.

During his time, Nekrasov was best remembered as Fyodor Dostoyevsky's first editor, in 1845, and the long-standing publisher of Sovremennik ( The Contemporary ) ( from 1846 until July 1866, making it the leading Russian literary magazine of his time.

During the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament in London in 1834-1850 by Charles Barry, Maclise was commissioned in 1846 to paint murals in the House of Lords on such subjects as Justice and Chivalry.

During the Mexican – American War ( 1846 – 1848 ), this prototype was seen by Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker who made some suggestions to Colt about making it in a larger caliber.

During the last five years of his life he wrote an autobiography, Was ich erlebte, and after his death his Nachgelassene Schriften ( 1846 ) was published.

During the 1849 Constitutional Convention debate on the design of the seal, the bear was added to satisfy Major J. R. Snyder and the men of the Bear Flag Revolt, which freed California from Mexican rule in 1846.

During the Mexican War ( 1846 – 1848 ) Elizabeth Newcom enlisted in Company D of the Missouri Volunteer Infantry disguised as a man, calling herself Bill Newcom.

During the Mexican-American War, Commodore Conner commanded the Home Squadron which operated in the Gulf of Mexico in 1846 and 1847 and executed a brilliant amphibious assault against the city of Veracruz.

Between 1844 and 1846, Worden was stationed at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D. C. During the Mexican-American War, he cruised the west coast, primarily in the store ship Southampton, but in other ships as well.

During the Relief work for the Distress ( in the middle of the Great Famine ) in 1846 and 1847, the footpaths were formed and flagged Another development during the 1840s was the development of a fishing station to exploit the coast's natural resources.

During the Mexican-American War ( 1846 – 1848 ), Second Lieutenant Boyd fights in the United States Army ( Boyd is obviously a former officer in the Army of the Republic of Texas, that merged with the US Army in 1846-he still wears the Texas Army rank insignia of second lieutenant: one five pointed star on each shoulder strap ).

During these early travels he met Ellen G. Harmon whom he married on August 30, 1846.

During the 1840s he formed his own band, and performed before Franz Liszt in May 1846 in Pest.

During the first wave of German immigration ( between 1846 and 1875 ) German colonies were primarily set up in the " Frontera " region.

During 1846 the SER opened another secondary main line from Ashford to Ramsgate with a branch from there to Margate on 1 December 1846.

During his years in Italy Meyerbeer became acquainted with, and impressed by, the works of his contemporary Gioachino Rossini who by 1816, at the age of 24, was already director of both major opera houses in Naples and in the same year premiered his operas The Barber of Seville and Otello.

During a visit to Sicily in 1816, Meyerbeer noted down a number of folksongs, and these in fact constitute the earliest collection of folk music of the region.

During that time Alboin turned his attention to Tuscany, but signs of factionalism among his supporters and Alboin's diminishing control over his army increasingly began to manifest themselves.

During colonial times, the Spanish decided that El Salvador would produce and export indigo, but after the invention of synthetic dyes in the 19th century, Salvadoran authorities and the newly created modern state turned to coffee as the main export of the economy.

During the Italian Renaissance, for example, translators such as Ficino and Pico della Mirandola turned their attention to the classical literature of Neoplatonism, and what was thought to be the pre-Mosaic tradition of Hermeticism.

During World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ) the Rock was again turned into a fortress and the civilian residents of Gibraltar were evacuated.

During World War II Stalin had supported the dictator of China, Chiang Kai-Shek, as a bulwark against Japan and had turned a blind eye to Chiang's mass killings of communists.

During his final year at Columbia, Jarmusch moved to Paris, for what was initially a summer semester on an exchange program but turned into ten months.

During Kristallnacht, the Jewish synagogue and homes were destroyed, and in 1938 the local Jewish cemetery was vandalised, while a cemetery shrine was turned to stable by German soldiers.

During these " Boston Tech " years, MIT faculty and alumni repeatedly rejected overtures from former MIT faculty turned Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot, to merge MIT with Harvard College's Lawrence Scientific School.

During the election, 78. 87 per cent of the 209, 000 registered voters turned out at the polls.

During a train-ride through a flooded area where an entire tribe was said to have seen the dinosaur, the locomotive suddenly derailed and turned over.

During the First World War, the Egyptology department was out of action and so Murray turned her attention to another subject, the history of witchcraft in Europe.

During the 1990s, Gell-Mann's interest turned to the emerging study of complexity.

During the 15th century, sentiment in Europe increasingly turned against the enslavement of Christians and the Church denounced such practices, but this did not extend to unbelievers.

During World War II, Volkswagen production turned to the military version of the Volkswagen Beetle, the Kübelwagen, 52, 000 produced, and Schwimmwagen, 14, 000 produced.

During the course of their journeys, the three encounter enemies and obstacles both sacred and profane, including: the Saint of Killers, an invincible, quick-drawing, perfect-aiming, come-lately Angel of Death answering only to " He who sits on the throne "; a disfigured suicide attempt survivor turned rock-star named Arseface ; a serial-killer called the ' Reaver-Cleaver '; The Grail, a secret organization controlling the governments of the world and protecting the bloodline of Jesus ; Herr Starr, ostensible Allfather of the Grail, a megalomaniac with a penchant for prostitutes, who wishes to use Custer for his own ends ; several fallen angels ; and Jesse's own redneck ' family ' — particularly his nasty Cajun grandmother, her mighty bodyguard Jody, and the ' animal-loving ' T. C.

During the World War II Occupation of Czechoslovakia, the Škoda works was turned into part of Reichswerke Hermann Göring serving the German World War II effort.

During presentations to upper management he often turned to his comic creations to add humor.

During a typical raid, the lights were turned on, and customers were lined up and their identification cards checked.

During the rainy night, Key had witnessed the bombardment and observed that the fort's smaller " storm flag " continued to fly, but once the shell and Congreve rocket barrage had stopped, he would not know how the battle had turned out until dawn.

During 1989 Prost began to contemplate starting his own team, as his relationship with his McLaren teammate, Ayrton Senna, had turned sour.

During this time the Germans turned the city and its environs into a major base for submarines ( DORA 1 ), and also contemplated a scheme to build a new city for 300, 000 inhabitants, Nordstern (" Northern Star "), centred 15 km ( 10 mi ) southwest of Trondheim, near the wetlands of Øysand in the outskirts of Melhus municipality.

During February 1975, after winning the leadership election, Margaret Thatcher refused to offer Powell a Shadow Cabinet place because " he turned his back on his own people " by leaving the Conservative Party exactly 12 months earlier and telling the electorate to vote Labour.

During the same period the behavior of his troops worsened and turned disastrous.

During a little more than a decade, from the late 1810s to the early 1830s, her literary production turned her into the most famous woman author in Germany.

During the 1970s, there were major efforts to find processes that could produce deuterium, which turned out to be a way of producing isotopes other than deuterium.