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George Washington visited the city on his victory tour in the 1790s, and proclaimed that Haverhill was " one of the most beautiful villages ".
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Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.
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.
and George Washington Harris, whose Tennessee hillbilly character Sut Lovingood perpetrated more unmalicious mischief and more unintended pain than any other character in literature.
she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.
High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city.
Ike's somewhat like George Washington.
In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.
Parson Weems's George Washington became the symbol of honesty and the father image of the uniting States.
An essay on `` Freedom '' written at 10 years of age quoted the Declaration of Independence, the freedom given to slaves in Canada, and the views of George Washington.
A wreath will be placed at the tomb of George Washington, one of this Nation's first Masons -- a past master of Washington-Alexandria Lodge 22 in Alexandria.
He obtained Congress's consent to reinstate for Grant the rank of Lieutenant General, which no officer had held since George Washington.
* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
* 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.
His maternal grandfather joined the Army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington.
Also while in Washington, Doubleday testified against George Meade at the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, criticizing him harshly over his conduct of the Battle of Gettysburg.
* 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.
* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
Canova's marble statue George Washington was commissioned by the State of North Carolina after the war of 1812 to be displayed in its Capitol Building.
* 1792 – U. S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
George Washington ( February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799 ), the country's first president, is often said to be the father of his country.
Parson Mason Locke Weems mentions the first citation of this legend in his 1850 book, The Life of George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen.
Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.
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On February 5, 2002, George W. Bush visited the RODS laboratory and used it as a model for a $ 300 million spending proposal to equip all 50 states with biosurveillance systems.
It was said that when Attlee visited King George VI at Buckingham Palace to kiss hands, the notoriously laconic Attlee and the notoriously tongue-tied George VI stood for some minutes in silence before Attlee finally volunteered the remark " I've won the election.
In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center.
George III, elector ( ruler ) from 1760 to 1820, never once visited Hanover.
In November 1934, Ribbentrop visited Britain where he met with George Bernard Shaw, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Lord Cecil, and Lord Lothian.
Vice President George H. Bush visited Oman in 1984 and 1986, and President Bill Clinton visited briefly in March 2000.
In 2007, U. S. President George W. Bush marked the first time that such a high ranking American official visited Tirana.
George III reigned 1760 – 1820 ; he was born in Britain, never visited Hanover, and spoke English as his first language.
In 1789 the stone was visited by King George III along with his queen and an inscription was added to the stone commemorate the visit.
Many geologists and fossil collectors from Europe and America visited Anning at Lyme, including the geologist George William Featherstonhaugh, who called Anning a " very clever funny Creature.
In 1853 Charles Dickens wrote a scathingly sarcastic review in his weekly magazine Household Words of painter George Catlin's show of American Indians when it visited England.
In 1821 the North West Company was forcibly merged ( at the behest of the British government ) into the Hudson's Bay Company after armed conflict in the Red River Colony between the two companies. George Simpson, director of Hudson's Bay Company, visited the Columbia District in 1824-25, journeying from York Factory.
Clara accepts, but before they set out, George returns and reveals that he actually visited New York instead.
Weber was already suffering from tuberculosis when he visited London ; he died at the house of Sir George Smart during the night of 4 / 5 June 1826.
Anne's second cousin George of Hanover ( her eventual successor ) visited London for three months from December 1680, sparking rumours of a potential marriage between them.
Lloyd George also visited Germany's public works programmes and was impressed.
Beatle George Harrison had once visited Haight-Ashbury and found it to be just a haven for dropouts, inspiring him to give up LSD.
In June 1705, Queen Sophia Charlotte's nephew, George Augustus, the electoral prince of Hanover, visited the Ansbach court, supposedly " incognito ", to inspect Caroline, as his father the Elector did not want his son to enter into a loveless arranged marriage as he himself had.
20 ) and George IV, as Prince Regent, visited it when he came to Stratford in 1806.
During the American Civil War, Union troops occupied Berkeley Plantation, and President Abraham Lincoln twice visited there in the summer of 1862 to confer with Gen. George B. McClellan.
The site was visited by several dignataries, including President George W. Bush and Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the landing at Jamestown in 2007.
Alabama's governor George Wallace visited Calley in the stockade and requested that Nixon pardon him.
Along with co-worker Noah Falstein, he visited the library of George Lucas ' workplace Skywalker Ranch to look for possible plot devices.
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