Eager to support the revolutionary cause, Mao joined the rebel army as a private soldier, but was not involved in the fighting.

Through his mother, he was the great-grandson of Francis Scott Key, the author of the " Star Spangled Banner ", and John Eager Howard, governor and senator from Maryland.

Eager to restore the Empire to the position it had occupied under Charlemagne and Otto I the Great, the new king saw clearly that the restoration of order in Germany was a necessary preliminary to the enforcement of the imperial rights in Italy.

To honor John Eager Howard, an officer in the American Revolutionary War and later the fifth Governor of Maryland, the area was designated the Howard District when Anne Arundel County was divided in 1839.

John Eager Howard ( June 4, 1752October 12, 1827 ) was an American soldier and politician from Maryland.

He was the son of Cornelius Howard and Ruth ( Eager ) Howard, of the Maryland planter elite and was born at their plantation " Belvedere ," which he inherited after their deaths.

Eager to fight fascism, Zinn joined the Army Air Force during World War II and was assigned as a bombardier in the 490th Bombardment Group, bombing targets in Berlin, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.

Eager to turn pro and begin his march toward a world championship, Vargas " ferociously " followed his physical therapy program, and within five months he was ready for his professional debut.

Eager to learn more about what the Order of the Arrow was and how it could better serve the Scouts of the Council, lodge leadership attended an area meeting at Camp Collier in New Hampshire in 1951.

Eagar was settled by John Thomas Eager ( Dec 20, 1851-March 12, 1942 ) with his brothers Joel and William and another family named Robertson.

According to " An Outline History of Orange County " by Samuel Watkins Eager p. 378 Campbell Hall was named for Colonel Campbell who was a Scotchman, had 2 sons, and when the war of the Revolution commenced, one sided with England ; the other with his adopted country.

Eager to develop additional lands, the new government decided to pay veterans of the Revolution with warrants for land in the Northwest Territory, which was organized under federal authority in 1787 by the Northwest Ordinance.

In November 1975 The Best of Uriah Heep compilation was released, preceded by two solo albums: Byron's debut Take No Prisoners and Hensley's second, Eager to Please.

Eager to advance in rank, he had volunteered to command one of the newly raised " colored " regiments in 1863 and was appointed colonel of the 1st Missouri Colored Infantry, which in March 1864 was federalized in Louisiana as the 62nd U. S. C. T.

Eager to prove his mediocre performance was the result of improper physical conditioning, he enlisted the help of Walter Eberhardt, St. Louis University's director of physical education.

His wife was Lucy Eager, a musician of some repute.

After struggling with injuries for the next two seasons, the Coyotes traded Tkachuk to the Blues in 2001 for Ladislav Nagy, Michal Handzus, Jeff Taffe and a 1st round selection ( Ben Eager ), where he was re-united with Dallas Drake, who had signed a free agent deal with the Blues in the summer of 2000.

Eager Rd access to and from I-170 was also revised in the New I-64 project.

By late 1943 with a Capitol Records contract, a popular record in " Eager Beaver ", and growing recognition, the Stan Kenton Orchestra was gradually catching on.

Eager to pursue this mechanistic direction of study and influenced by his advisor, Gause contacted Pearl to see if the American would take on another Russian student.

Eager for a regal title to call her own, Rubinstein pursued the handsome youth avidly ; coming to name a male cosmetics line after her youthful prized catch.

After Dodgers plots an enormously complicated course to Planet X, his assistant, the " Eager Young Space Cadet " ( Porky ) points out that they can simply follow a path leading from Planet A, through Planets B, C, D, and so on ( each planet features a single landmass in the shape of the letter itself ).

Eager to secure victory, Kadru requested the cooperation of her offspring in order to fix the bet so that Kadru would win.

Eager to accompany his parents to the surf-friendly shores of the South Pacific, he is dismayed to find out that he will not be joining them and instead will be living with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio so as to finish the remainder of his high school semester.

Eager to press on to Monterey Bay, Portolà and his expedition, consisting of Father Juan Crespí, sixty-three leather-jacket soldiers and a hundred mules loaded down with provisions, headed north on July 14, 1769.

Eager to avenge Hausberg, Hahn hunted down and executed no less than 8 RAF members.

Eager to shake off his green / pink past he tells Music Maker magazine in 1985 " you can flush Doris Day down the toilet anytime you like ; it's the worst song I ever wrote.

Eager to work with both Laurents and Sondheim, Angela Lansbury accepted the lead role as Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper, despite her strong misgivings about the script and her ability to handle the score.

Eager to be involved in film-craft, he turned out 8mm features edited from home movies with such titles as The Rich Millionaire and The Lost Wallet.

Eager to join Western economic institutions like the World Trade Organization, OECD, and the European Union, Latvia signed a Europe Agreement with the EU in 1995 with a 4-year transition period.

Eager to work with Palin sans Jones, Cleese later asked him to perform in How to Irritate People together with Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Eager to copy these effects, Theodore Steinway invented " duplex scaling " which employed short lengths of non-speaking wire were bridged by the aliquot throughout much of upper range of the piano, always in locations that caused them to vibrate in conformity with their respective overtones — typically in doubled octaves and twelfths

Eager to work with Peckinpah again, Steve McQueen presented him Walter Hill's screenplay to The Getaway.

Eager to avoid a similar calamity in the future the Soviet Union created the Warsaw Pact as means of establishing a series of buffer states, closely aligned with Moscow and serving to act as a political and military barrier between Russia's vulnerable borders in Eastern Europe and its potential enemies in the West.

Eager to take advantage of Julius Caesar's anger toward Ptolemy, Cleopatra had herself smuggled secretly into the palace to meet with Caesar.

These moves, coupled with the signings of Eric Belanger, Cam Barker, Ben Eager, and Darcy Hordichuk, changed the complexion of the team to add " grit and toughness ".

Eager to be with him under any circumstances, Frances accepts.

Then he successfully recruits Jimmie Sue Altfeld ( Lana Turner, from Johnny Eager ) and unsuccessfully attempts to make peace with her father ( Edward Arnold, from Johnny Eager ) by giving him a puppy.

It starred father and son actors Timothy and Rafe Spall as Mr Emerson and George, together with Elaine Cassidy ( Lucy Honeychurch ), Sophie Thompson ( Charlotte Bartlett ), Laurence Fox ( Cecil Vyse ), Sinéad Cusack ( Miss Lavish ), Timothy West ( Mr Eager ) and Mark Williams ( Reverend Beebe ).

Eager to show himself competent and gain popularity with the citizens, Gallus swiftly dealt with the epidemic, providing burial for the victims.

Carmichael's war time songs ( most with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster ) included " My Christmas Song for You ", " Don't Forget to Say ' No ' Baby ", " Billy-a-Dick ", " The Army of Hippocrates ", " Cranky Old Yank ", " Eager Beaver ", " No More Toujours l ' Amour ", " Morning Glory ", and the never completed " Hitler Blues ".

Eager to cash in on their success, Pye decided against releasing anything from the album, as the earlier material had been more soul-based than the pop they were now successful with.

During World War II, Turner became a popular pin-up girl due to her popularity in such films such as Ziegfeld Girl ( 1941 ), Johnny Eager ( 1942 ), Slightly Dangerous ( 1943 ) and four films with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's " king of the lot ", Clark Gable.