As a result, Grant was again on the verge of resigning until Gen. Sherman paid a visit to his camp.

He followed the explorations of Matthew Flinders, George Bass and Lieutenant James Grant, and among his paid helpers were George Caley, Robert Brown and Allan Cunningham.

His deed was signed by President Ulysses S Grant, and under the provisions of the Public Land Act of 1820, he could have paid as little as $ 1. 25 per acre.

Major General Edward Ord paid $ 40 for the table Lee had used to sign the surrender document, while Major General Philip Sheridan got the table on which Grant had drafted the document for $ 20 in gold.

Grant travelled closely with the Yardbirds, ensuring that all costs were kept to a minimum, that members were paid on time, and that the band retained artistic control.

According to statements by Qing imperial official Li Hongzhang in a meeting with Ulysses S. Grant, China had a special relationship with the island and the Ryūkyū had paid tribute to China for hundreds of years, and the Chinese reserved certain trade rights for them in an amicable and beneficial relationship.

The French Grant ( also known as the French-Grant Estates ) was a land tract in the Northwest Territory, present day Scioto County, Ohio, that was paid out by the U. S. Congress on March 31, 1795., This was after a group of French colonists were defrauded by the Scioto Company of purchased land grants which rightly were controlled by the Ohio Company of Associates.

Henry Grant vowed on his baby son's crib that the child would not grow up afraid of life, and so he encouraged his son in sports and paid for coaching that would have continued into the young man's college days except that both Henry Grant and his wife died.

Nominated for Supreme Court Chief Justice by President Grant, Williams failed to be appointed by the U. S. Senate in part due to the controversy over his wife owning an expensive carriage paid for by government money.

The King was courteous and smiling, and paid particular attention to " the lady on whose account so many Highlanders went down to Elgin two years ago " when election passions led to Lady Anne Margaret Grant, daughter of the late Sir James Grant, 8th Baronet, and her sisters who had also supported the Tories, being besieged by a " democratic mob " of Whig supporting townsfolk until a rescue party of her clansmen was " summoned by the fiery cross " and released them without coming to blows.

To protect Laura's name, Philip paid them but had second thoughts and canceled payment, causing the Committee to send Max Grant to kill Laura.

Bobbi DePorter is the mother of Grant DePorter, a Chicago restaurateur who came to worldwide prominence in 2004 when he paid US $ 113, 824. 16 for a baseball which a fan had unwittingly deflected out of the hands of a Chicago Cubs player ( thus contributing to the team's defeat in the 2003 National League Championship Series ), and then having the ball blown-up in a nationally televised event intended to help end the " Curse of the Billy Goat " which had afflicted the Cubs since 1945.

Between 1907 and 1976, it was a Direct Grant grammar school, and in the 1960s and 1970s most of the pupils at the school enjoyed a free education, paid for by public funds.

The 1980s and 1990s were challenging years for the British bus industry, with the privatization of publicly owned operators, deregulation of routes and the reduction and subsequent elimination of the Bus Grant, a Government grant that paid for a large proportion of the cost of new vehicles.

General Ulysses S. Grant had Hotchkiss released from custody and returned his maps to him.

The governor wrote Miss Grant that he has been concerned for some time `` with the continuous problem which confronts our local and state law enforcement officers as a result of the laws regulating Sunday sales ''.

Nevertheless, Lincoln was concerned that Grant might be considering a candidacy for President in 1864, as McClellan was.

He obtained Congress's consent to reinstate for Grant the rank of Lieutenant General, which no officer had held since George Washington.

Amy Lee Grant ( born November 25, 1960 ) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

In May 1979, while at the album release party for her second album, My Father's Eyes, Grant met Gary Chapman, writer of the title track ( and future husband ).

Grant received her first Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Gospel Performance, as well as two GMA Dove Awards for Gospel Artist of the Year and Pop / Contemporary Album of the Year.

Grant and Smith continue to have a strong friendship and creative relationship, often writing songs for or contributing vocals to each other's albums.

During the 1980s, Grant was also a backup singer for Bill Gaither.

Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

The track " Baby Baby " ( written for Grant's newborn daughter, Millie, whose " six-week-old face was my inspiration ,") became a pop hit ( hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), and Grant was established as a name in the mainstream music world.

The video for " Takes A Little Time " was a new direction for Grant ; with a blue light filter, acoustic guitar, the streets and characters of New York City, and a plot, Grant was re-cast as an adult light rocker.

That same year, Grant won $ 125, 000 for charity on the " Rock Star Edition " of " Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ".

* 1999: The Amy Grant Room for Music and Entertainment – The Target House at St. Jude's Children's Hospital

His half-brother was Charles Einstein ( 1926 – 2007 ), a writer for such television programs as Playhouse 90 and Lou Grant.

Writer Alan Grant has stated, " The Batman I wrote for 13 years isn't gay.

In 2010, Grant Speed's statue was taken down for refurbishment, and construction began on a new Walk of Fame.

* Spragga Benz, a. k. a. for Carlton Grant ( b. 1969 ), Jamaican deejay and musician

* Michigan Council for the Arts Grant, 1984

* National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1983

Following Belmont, Grant asked Gen. Henry Halleck for permission to move against Ft. Henry ; Halleck agreed on condition that the attack be conducted with oversight by Union Navy Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote.

The only travel route at the time was through the United States with the permission of U. S. President Grant.

When he was unable to obtain permission to film in the UN Headquarters, director Alfred Hitchcock covertly filmed Cary Grant arriving for the 1959 feature North by Northwest.

( Sheridan had a poor opinion of Warren from earlier in the campaign and had received confidential permission from Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to relieve Warren if he saw fit.

Even in the possession of Firestone Library, Beebe's papers remained inaccessible without Jocelyn's permission, and most scholars were prevented from using them until Jocelyn offered access to the writer Carol Grant Gould for the purpose of writing Beebe's biography.

Grant was also concerned about the situation in neighboring Mexico, where 40, 000 French soldiers were propping up the puppet regime of Austrian Archduke Maximilian, and gave Sheridan permission for a large Texas occupation force.

In July and November 1869, under authority of the President Grant and permission by the State Department on the second trip, Orville Babcock, private secretary to President Grant, secretly negotiated a treaty with President Buenaventura Báez, President of the Dominican Republic.

After trying for several days to keep it afloat by pumping, Grant finally asks permission to leave the ship in the cutter once the water reaches the orlop deck.

Since Stanton was traveling outside Washington, D. C., at the time, Grant appealed directly to Lincoln for permission to terminate Butler.

Grave photo of Victoria Cross recipient John Gildroy Grant, migrated from the Victoria Cross Reference site with permission.

A close friend and political ally of Abraham Lincoln, McClernand was given permission to recruit a force to conduct an operation against Vicksburg, Mississippi, which would rival the effort of Grant, his department commander.

* Grant reprieves, commutations, and pardons, remit fines and forfeitures after final conviction and amnesty with the permission of the National Assembly, except at the time of impeachment ; and