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General Benjamin Lincoln, commanding those forces, knew that he could not recapture Savannah without naval assistance ; for this he turned to the French, who had entered the war as an American ally in 1778.
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On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.
Blackbeard, as pictured by Benjamin Cole ( instrument maker ) | Benjamin Cole in the second edition of Charles Johnson's General Historie
Benjamin West, " The Death of General Wolfe " ( 1770 ), an early example of the vogue for painting scenes from recent history.
When, in 1770, Benjamin West proposed to paint " The Death of General Wolfe " in contemporary dress, he was firmly instructed to use classical costume by many people.
On 10 November Reynolds wrote to Benjamin West to resign the Presidency, but the General Assembly agreed that Reynolds should be re-elected, with Sir William Chambers and West to deputise for him.
John Reagan of Texas became Postmaster General, and Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana became Attorney General.
On September 17, Walker resigned as Secretary of War ; Benjamin left the Attorney General position replace Walker, and Thomas Bragg of North Carolina ( brother of General Braxton Bragg ) took Benjamin ’ s place as Attorney General.
In a desperate attempt to prevent armed battle and to avert the resulting political crisis, U. S. President Andrew Jackson consulted his Attorney General Benjamin Butler for his legal opinion on the border dispute.
On July 27, 1889, Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F. Tracy signed General Order # 374, making " The Star-Spangled Banner " the official tune to be played at the raising of the flag.
General Benjamin Lincoln had to raise funds among Boston merchants to pay for a volunteer army.
Grant's two Attorney Generals Amos T. Akerman and George H. Williams, in addition to Solicitor General Benjamin Bristow, effectively prosecuted and shut down the Ku Klux Klan by 1872 through the use of the Force Acts passed by President Grant and Congress.
In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison appointed him Solicitor General of the United States ; at age 32, he was the youngest-ever Solicitor General.
** Benjamin Foulois, American Brigadier General ( USAF ), first rated US military pilot, trained by the Wright Brothers ( b. 1879 )
* January 29 – After a second petition for partition from its residents, the North Carolina General Assembly abolishes Bute County, North Carolina ( established 1764 ) by dividing it and naming the northern portion Warren County ( for Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren ) and the southern portion Franklin County ( for Benjamin Franklin ).
* The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Lincolnton, North Carolina ( named for American General Benjamin Lincoln ) as the new county seat for Lincoln County.
* July 26 – The Second Continental Congress appoints Benjamin Franklin to be the first Postmaster General of what later becomes the United States Post Office Department.
General and Lincoln
In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.
Following his return, Lincoln continued his campaign for the August 6 election for the Illinois General Assembly.
Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.
Taylor won and Lincoln hoped to be appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office, but that lucrative patronage job went to an Illinois rival, Justin Butterfield, considered by the administration to be a highly skilled lawyer, but in Lincoln's view, an " old fossil ".
Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.
After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.
President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.
General Ulysses S. Grant's victories at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign impressed Lincoln and made Grant a strong candidate to head the Union Army.
In Louisiana, Lincoln ordered General Nathaniel P. Banks to promote a plan that would restore statehood when 10 percent of the voters agreed to it.
In a review of the book, Time Magazine wrote, " General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washington and Abraham Lincoln zealously following the Communist Party Line in recent years.
He painted about 260 oils during the last 20 years of his life to relax, mostly landscapes but also portraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.
As soon as he was able, President Jefferson ordered Levi Lincoln, who was the new administration's Attorney General and acting Secretary of State until the arrival of James Madison, not to deliver the remaining appointments.
* 1861 – American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
* 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
* 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
General Ulysses S. Grant and President Abraham Lincoln initially opposed the plan until Sherman convinced them of its necessity.
After President Lincoln relieved Frémont from command, Grant attacked Fort Belmont taking 3, 114 Union troops by boat on November 7, 1861, and initially took the fort, but his army was later pushed back to Cairo by the reinforced Confederate General Gideon J. Pillow.
The White House remained accessible in other ways ; President Abraham Lincoln complained that he was constantly beleaguered by job seekers waiting to ask him for political appointments or other favors, or eccentric dispensers of advice like “ General ” Daniel Pratt, as he began the business day.
The Ohio General Assembly decided to replace the statue in part because " Allen ’ s pro-slavery position and outspoken criticism of President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War make him a poor representative for Ohio in the U. S. Capitol.
* November 1 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.
* September 2 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
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General Krulak was assigned as commanding general, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, on August 24, 1992, and was promoted to lieutenant general on September 1, 1992.
* Sir Arthur Currie, Lieutenant General, British Army, commanding Canadian Corps
On 9 October 1920, General Lucjan Żeligowski, commanding a Polish military force in contravention of the Suwałki Agreement, took the city and established the Republic of Central Lithuania.
* 1806 – Believing he was facing a much larger force, Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5, 300 men, surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers commanded by General Lassalle.
In 1994, he was promoted to Major General, commanding the Southern Corps.
If the officer imposing punishment holds General Court Martial authority, or if the commanding officer of the grade O-7 or greater
On October 9, 1901, the park was renamed Grant Park in honor of American Civil War commanding General and United States President Ulysses S. Grant.
In July 1932, Patton served under Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur as a major commanding 600 troops, including the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
When General Sumner refused to allow the Army's Gatling Gun Detachment-which had priority-to disembark from the transport Cherokee on the grounds that the lieutenant commanding the Detachment did not have the rank to enforce his priority, Shafter had to personally intervene, returning to the ship in a steam launch to enforce his demand that the guns come off immediately.
Beauregard continued commanding these troops as the new First Corps under Gen. J. E. Johnston as it was joined by the Army of the Shenandoah on July 20, 1861, when command was relinquished to General J. E. Johnston.
General of Infantry Ernst August Marx von Bachmeister, commanding the German 79th Reserve Division, reported in late-March that he believed the Canadian Corps was moving into an echelon formation and were preparing for a major attack.
His visit prompts Major General Patrick Pritchard ( Millard Mitchell ), commanding general of VIII Bomber Command, Eighth Air Force, to visit the 918th.
His mother was from Devonshire Parish, Bermuda ; Douglas's maternal grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Melville Dill, served as Attorney General of Bermuda, as a Member of the Parliament of Bermuda ( MCP ), and as commanding officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery.
Late in 1957, General Raoul Salan, commanding the French Army in Algeria, instituted a system of quadrillage ( surveillance using a grid pattern ), dividing the country into sectors, each permanently garrisoned by troops responsible for suppressing rebel operations in their assigned territory.
Flattering his former commanding officer, General Matthew Arbuckle, Birch named the site " Fort Arbuckle.
General Judson Kilpatrick, commanding officer of the Union cavalry advance, forced Confederate forces under the command of Generals Wade Hampton III and Joseph Wheeler to withdraw in haste who were frantically trying to transport their remaining supplies and wounded by rail westward toward the final Confederate encampment in Greensboro, NC.
Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Moore, Deputy Quartermaster General of the Hillsborough district, was another Revolutionary War hero of note, commanding Person County troops in the Battle of Camden.
After the commanding general of the Union Forces, General Nathaniel Lyon, was killed at the Wilson's Creek battle near Springfield, his body was brought to Rolla to be transported back East for burial.
Within a year, he was commanding an active service unit of the IRA in south County Londonderry during the Border Campaign, where his leadership skills and his burning down of the courthouse in Magherafelt earned him the nickname of " the Boy General ".
On 8 May 1945 the ADSEC Engineer Group A, led by Col. Helmer Swenholt, commanding officer of the 332nd Engineer General Service Regiment, constructed a railway bridge between Duisburg and Rheinhausen across the Rhine River.
He named the camp for his former commanding officer Captain Braxton Bragg, who later became a General in the Army of the Confederacy.
* John T. Wilder, ( January 31, 1830 – October 20, 1917 ) Industrialist and Civil War Union General, well known for commanding the Lightning Brigade, and for success at the Battle of Chickamauga.
Major General Benjamin F. Butler, commanding Union forces in the Department of the Gulf, launched an expedition into the Bayou Lafourche region to eliminate the Rebel threat from that area, to make sure that sugar and cotton products from there would come into Union hands and, in the future, to use it as a base for other military operations.
General Heath had been the commanding officer and friend of Col. Hugh Maxwell, a local citizen who suggested the town be named in his honor.
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