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George French Angus may have collected a description of a bunyip in his account of a " water spirit " from the Moorundi people of the Murray River before 1847, stating it is " much dreaded by them … It inhabits the Murray ; but … they have some difficulty describing it.
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On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.
He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair ( later to become George Orwell ) and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils, but was remembered as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn ’ t keep discipline.
Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.
After the defeat of the French Campaign in the Battle of the Nile, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 King George III presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs.
In August 1689, a French fleet appeared near the coast of Ceylon compelling the Governor of Pulicat Lawrence Pitt who was on high seas to seek protection within the bastions of Fort St George.
* Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, a collaborative site by the Center for History and New Media ( George Mason University ) and the American Social History Project ( City University of New York )
The result was Pas de Dieux, based on Greek mythology, combined with the music of George Gershwin's Concerto in F. It was a major success, and led to his being honoured with the Chevalier of the Legion d ' Honneur by the French Government.
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This is not a sign of homage to the Irish but of the conquest of French speaking Québec by the British who use the symbols of France, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland bounded within the English cross of St. George.
Abbadie subsequently published a revised version of the French translation of the English liturgy used at this church, with an epistle dedicatory to George I.
The conventionalized scrawny, French revolutionary sans-culottes Jacobin, was developed from about 1790 by British satirical artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank.
Another influential book which he read at the time was a translation of Great Heroes of the World, becoming inspired by the American revolutionary George Washington and French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, whose military prowess and nationalistic fervour greatly impressed him.
* 1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
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It is an adaptation by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht of the novel The House of Dr. Edwardes ( 1927 ) by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer ( writing as " Francis Beeding ").
Again, in 1448, the town was burnt by a Scottish Army led by William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, and George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus.
They organised a mainly Scots relief force which, under George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus and de Brézé, set out on 22 November.
* Mary, Married 1st George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus ; Married 2nd Sir James Kennedy the Younger ; Bethrothed to Sir William Cunningham ; Married 3rd to Sir William Graham of Kincardine ; Married 4th Sir William Edmonstone of Duntreath ( Ancestors
The Scots carried on with the siege, led by George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus, and the castle fell a few days later.
* Elmina's Kitchen written by Kwame Kwei-Armah, directed by Angus Jackson and starring Doña Croll, George Harris, Oscar James, and Paterson Joseph ( 2003 ).
In June 1548, during the war of the Rough Wooing, Margaret's father, the Earl of Angus, wrote to her with the news that her half-brother George Douglas and others of the family had been captured at Dalkeith Palace.
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James Douglas was the second son of Sir George Douglas of Pittendreich, Master of Angus, and Elizabeth Douglas, daughter David Douglas of Pittendreich.
She was fiercely protective of his estate and edited, with Ian Angus, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell ( 4 volumes, Secker & Warburg, London, 1968 ).
It was completed around 1495, although the site was earlier fortified in 1454 when George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus received permission to build on the site.
Lord of Jedburgh Forest was a Lordship of Parliament that was granted to George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus on the occasion of his marriage to the Princess Mary, daughter of Robert III in 1397.
Morton reached Brechin, in Angus, where he signed a deed resigning his lands to his kinsman Robert Douglas of Lochleven, who was then compelled to resign the lands in turn to James V. After James V's death in late 1542, George Douglas of Pittendreich and the Earl of Arran assisted Morton in reclaiming his lands, including Aberdour.
The roads to Coupar Angus and Braemar form part of General Wade's military road from Perth to Fort George.
In 1724 the military road from Coupar Angus to Fort George which passes through the town on the line of the A923 and A93 was completed.
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The original members of Aswad were Brinsley Forde, Angus " Drummie Zeb " Gaye, Donald Griffiths, George Oban, and Courtney Hemmings. Aswad were the backing band of Burning Spear's 1977 Live album, recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in London.
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