A few days later it was learned that General Howe was planning an attack upon the American camp.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

" In August 1777, General Sir William Howe led a British army through Delaware on his way to a victory at the Battle of Brandywine and capture of the city of Philadelphia.

In August 1776, British General William Howe launched a massive naval and land campaign designed to seize New York.

General Howe in New York took his army south to Philadelphia instead of going up the Hudson River to join with Burgoyne near Albany.

The western pincer, under the command of Barry St. Leger, was repulsed when the Siege of Fort Stanwix failed, and the southern pincer, which was to progress up the Hudson valley from New York City, never started since General William Howe decided instead to capture Philadelphia.

Abercromby's second-in-command, Brigadier General George Howe, had been killed when his column encountered a French reconnaissance troop.

While Lee had been held prisoner by the British General Sir William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe in March, 1777, Lee drafted a plan for British military operations against the Americans.

Among those who attended were Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Lise Thibault, various politicians ( including then Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien, and then Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard ), Gordie Howe, Jean Béliveau, and then Canadiens team captain Saku Koivu.

In the spring of 1777, the British Commander-in-Chief, North America General William Howe, in New York City, ordered William Tryon to interrupt the flow of supplies from Connecticut that were reaching the Continental Army.

Control of the upper Hudson would enable the British to link their forces in Quebec with those in New York, recently captured in the New York campaign by Major General William Howe.

Mary Lindley Murray is credited with delaying William Howe and his army during General Washington's retreat from New York following the British landing at Kip's Bay, 15 September 1776.

In August, 1777, the town was bombarded as a diversionary tactic while General Sir William Howe ’ s troops sailed up the Elk River to effect a landing.

General Howe landed his approximately 15, 000 troops at the Head of Elk, subsequently marching them north and culminating in the Battle of Brandywine.

When the Northern Pacific Railway's transcontinental rail line arrived in 1881, the town was renamed for Alfred Howe Terry, a General in the Union Army who commanded an 1876 expedition in connection with George Armstrong Custer ’ s campaign against Native Americans, specifically in the west.

On October 22 of that year, in what is known as the Battle of Red Bank, an attack by 900 Hessian troops, serving under British Major General William Howe, who then occupied Philadelphia, was repelled, with heavy losses on the Hessian side ( including the death of their commander, Colonel Carl Emil Kurt von Donop ) by the 600 Continental defenders under Colonel Christopher Greene.

Bloomingdale's Federal Hill was the site of the 1781 Pompton Mutiny, a winter revolt of Continental Army troops that was crushed by General Robert Howe on direct orders by General George Washington.

General Robert Howe was stationed across the river in Fort Johnson.

They were preparing for a September 16, 1777, encounter with British General William Howe.

It is the home of Grove City College, a private conservative Christian liberal arts college ; General Electric ; Instron ; USIS ; George G. Howe Co .; and a number of small businesses.

Hubert Howe Bancroft relates ( 1888 ) how one of the columns was led by general Leiva ( no relation to Cajemé ) and General Marcos Carillo, and traveled west towards the Yaqui River Valley, carrying two mitrailleuse ( the first machine gun used in major combat ).

The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

This Court agreed with the trial court `` that considerations of price, quality and service were not overlooked by either Du Pont or General Motors ''.

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.

Among other things the General Synod agreed that the Book of Common Prayer was to ' be regarded as the authorised standard of worship and doctrine in this Church ...'.

General Mannerheim agreed on the need for German weapons, but opposed any help from German troops in Finland.

At a meeting in Geneva in 1966, the two countries agreed to receive recommendations from a representative of the UN Secretary General on ways to settle the dispute peacefully.

The General Council of WTO, on 4 May 2010, agreed to establish a working party to examine the request of Syria for WTO membership.

An agreement was worked out that provided for an interim presidency headed by General Vicente Tosta, who agreed to appoint a cabinet representing all political factions and to convene a Constituent Assembly within ninety days to restore constitutional order.

On February 1, 2010 it was announced that Sichuan and General Motors had agreed to extend the deadline until the end of February as Sichuan tried to get approval by the Chinese government.

On 8 July, de Valera met General Macready, the British commander in chief in Ireland and agreed terms.

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.

To entice Lancaster, Douglas agreed to let him play the General, while Douglas took the less showy lead role of the General's aide, who turns against him and helps the President.

Konoe agreed with Army Minister General Hajime Sugiyama to send two divisions to defend Japanese honor.

Lenin and the Bolshevik Central Committee agreed on 4 March to create the Supreme Military Council, headed by former chief of the imperial General Staff Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich.

The Allies, however, agreed ( at Mussolini's insistence ) that the Conference of Ambassadors should be responsible for resolving the dispute because it was the conference that had appointed General Tellini.

However, in 2006 the Victorian Auditor General noted that in spite of $ 750 million spent, " We found that the delivery of more frequent fast rail services in the Geelong, Ballarat, and Bendigo corridors by the agreed dates was not achieved.

In 1947, 23 countries agreed to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to promote free trade.

After studying the works of John XXII and previous papal statements, Ockham agreed with the Minister General.

When Hans Frank, head of the General Government in occupied Poland, heard of the meeting, he demanded to be represented and Heydrich agreed.

In the Kingsbury Commitment, actually a letter from AT & T Vice President Nathan Kingsbury of December 19, AT & T agreed with the Attorney General to divest itself of Western Union, to provide long distance services to independent exchanges under certain conditions and to refrain from acquisitions if the Interstate Commerce Commission objected.

" General der Panzertruppen Hasso von Manteuffel, who had fought both Soviet and Anglo-American tank commanders, agreed: " Patton!

The French agreed to transfer Xiang to the Shanghai Garrison Headquarters, under the command of General Xiong Shihui, who subjected Xiang to relentless torture and interrogation.

Instead, the group agreed to leave the mural, " The Life and Times of General Israel Putnam of Connecticut ," at its current location at Greenwich Library.

General Tang agreed with this proposal if the International Committee could acquire permission of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who had already fled to Hankow to which he had temporarily shifted the military headquarters two days earlier.

Chaired by General Joseph Joffre, the commander-in-chief of the French Army, Allied representatives agreed on a concerted offensive against the Central Powers in 1916 by the French, British, Italian and Russian armies.