Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.

Attorney Shearn had worked on this for two years and had succeeded in getting a report supporting his stand from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

But he had succeeded well, we agreed.

Presidential coercion had succeeded not only in poisoning the courtiers, `` toadies '' and sycophants of the `` bench '' against me, but it had been so far-reaching as to discourage any lawyer in the nation from representing me!!

An American student named Charlotte Adams had refused to take notice of his evident aversion to people and had at last succeeded in getting him to talk to her.

The expedition that had discovered Ozagen had succeeded in correlating two thousand Siddo words with an equal number of American words.

Angola sent a delegation to DR Congo's capital Kinshasa and succeeded in stopping government-forced expulsions which had become a " tit-for-tat " immigration dispute.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

These negotiations might have succeeded had it not been for the malignant influence of another Goth, Sarus, an Amali, and therefore hereditary enemy of Alaric and his house.

Ealdred was succeeded by Wulfstan, chosen by Ealdred, but John of Worcester relates that Ealdred had a hard time deciding between Wulfstan and Æthelwig.

He succeeded his father as king in 272 BC, and continued the war which his father had begun with Antigonus II Gonatas, whom he succeeded in driving from the kingdom of Macedon.

They had five or six children together, including Edward the Elder, who succeeded his father as king, Æthelflæd, who would become Queen of Mercia in her own right, and Ælfthryth who married Baldwin II the Count of Flanders.

He succeeded to relinquish suzerainty of his cousin Alfonso VII of León, becoming instead a subject of the papacy, as the kingdoms of Sicily and Aragon had done before him.

Aided by the treachery of Ælfmaer, whose life Ælfheah had once saved, the raiders succeeded in sacking the city.

He had succeeded to a remarkable degree in balancing tribal alliances and hostilities, and in directing tribal energies away from rebellion.

Ahmad Shah was succeeded by his son, Timur Shah, who had been deputed to administer his fathers conquests in northern India, but had been driven out by the Marathas.

He had to a great extent succeeded, and was paying a visit to Saxony, when he was recalled by news of a fresh rising.

Frederick William, known as the " Great Elector ", who had succeeded his father George William as ruler in 1640, initiated a policy of promoting immigration and religious tolerance.

Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.

Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.

However in July 1797 he had lost an arm at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and had been forced to return to Britain to recuperate.

In 1797, Daniel C. Cooper had laid out the Mad River Road, the first overland connection between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dayton, opening the " Mad River Country " at Dayton and the upper Miami Valley to settlement.

He had plans of Notre Dame delivered and participants in the coronation came to his studio to pose individually, though never the Emperor ( the only time David obtained a sitting from Napoleon had been in 1797 ).

By 1797, when the third edition was completed, it had been expanded to 18 volumes addressing a full range of topics, with articles contributed by a range of authorities on their subjects.

The new sailing frigates were able to fight with all their guns when the seas were so rough that comparable two-deckers had to close the gun-ports on their lower decks ( see the Action of 13 January 1797, for an example when this was decisive ).

A writer and follower of the philosophers of the Enlightenment tradition of the previous century, Jovellanos had served as Minister of Justice from 1797 to 1798 under King Charles IV of Spain.

During the War of the First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ), the Directoire had replaced the National Convention.

In 1834 James Frampton, a local landowner, wrote to the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, to complain about the union, invoking an obscure law from 1797 prohibiting people from swearing oaths to each other, which the members of the Friendly Society had done.

Watt continued to experiment with various gases for several years, but by 1797 the medical uses for the " factitious airs " had come to a dead end. Scientific apparatus designed by Boulton and Watt in preparation of the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol

Some time between 9 and 14 October 1797, when Coleridge says he had completed the tragedy, he left Stowey for Lynton.

In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire.

The first four battalions had been raised as regular line battalions, but in 1797 a 5th battalion had been raised and equipped entirely with the Baker rifles, and wore green jackets with red facings.

The old castle had already been demolished in 1797, so that its bricks could be sold.

Back in 1797 had come the first of two proposed schemes that would have afforded the future Potsdamer Platz the appearance of a proper square.

Secretary of State Timothy Pickering reported to Congress on June 21, 1797, that the French had seized 316 American merchant ships in the previous eleven months.

In 1811, prompted by discussions with a Chinese student about Chinese script, Silvestre de Sacy considered a suggestion made by Georg Zoëga in 1797 that the foreign names in Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions might be written phonetically ; he also recalled that as long ago as 1761, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy had suggested that the characters enclosed in cartouches in hieroglyphic inscriptions were proper names.

San Marino finally had to make a choice on February 5, 1797, when, with the arrival of a letter from General Louis Alexandre Berthier addressed to the Regents, it was required to arrest and consign the Bishop of Rimini, Monsignor Vincenzo Ferretti, accused of instigating crimes against the French, who fled with all his possessions to San Marino.

He was the sixth child of Pieter Jiltes Tadema ( 1797 – 1840 ), the village notary, who had had three sons by a previous marriage, and the third child of his mother, Hinke Dirks Brouwer ( c. 1800 – 1863 ).

" Hayek had hoped to receive a baronetcy, and after he was awarded the CH he sent a letter to his friends requesting that he be called the English version of Friedrich ( Frederick ) from now on.

Treves was honoured with a baronetcy ( which Edward had arranged before the operation ) and appendix surgery entered the medical mainstream.

Lord Wemyss had no male issue and on his death in 1679 the baronetcy became extinct.

He had no sons and on his death in 1952 the baronetcy became extinct.

Lord Acton's grandfather, who in 1791 succeeded to the baronetcy and family estates in Shropshire, previously held by the English branch of the Acton family, represented a younger branch which had transferred itself first to France and then to Italy.

He had never married and the baronetcy became extinct on his death ( in London ).

Although he had been promised a baronetcy and a pension of £ 1, 000 for his service, he learned after his return that the pension had been reduced to £ 500 ( the baronetcy, of Nettleham, was awarded at crown expense ).

The baronetcy was afterwards bestowed upon his eldest son, Henry in the following January ; while to his widow, by Royal Warrant of Precedence, were given the rights to which she would have been entitled had her husband survived and been created a baronet.

The couple had one son, Charles Mary Wentworth, who succeeded to the baronetcy.

In an attempt to have Charles James Fox removed as an MP he had Fox's ballot challenged ; while this backfired, he was awarded with a baronetcy for the effective sacrifice of his political career.

Lord Chichester had no sons and on his death in 1653 the baronetcy became extinct.

On the Earl's death in 1814 the barony of Grey de Wilton became extinct as he had no male heirs, while the baronetcy was passed on to his kinsman, the eighth Baronet ( see Grey Egerton Baronets for additional information on this title ).

It was created in 1690 for Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth, 2nd Baronet, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1696 to 1702 ( the baronetcy had been created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1637 for his father and namesake Patrick Hume ).

He had earlier represented Rutland in Parliament, and in 1617, twelve years prior to succeeding his father-in-law, he had himself been raised to the peerage as Baron Noel of Ridlington after being raised to a baronetcy, of Brook, in the county of Rutland in 1611.

He had previously inherited the baronetcy, of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester, that was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 March 1677 for his great-great-grandfather Robert Cotton.

He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Philip, who had already been elevated to the peerage as Baron De L ' Isle and Dudley.

However, it was revived only a few months later in favour of the late Earl's uncle, James Ogilvy-Grant, 9th Earl of Seafield ( who had also succeeded him in the baronetcy of Colquhoun ; see Colquhoun baronets for earlier history of this title ).

He was the illegitimate son of Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, of Clowance, on whose death in 1839 the baronetcy of Clowance had become extinct ( see St Aubyn Baronets ).

However, he had no surviving male issue and the viscountcy became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his younger brother, the third Baron.

In 1813 Wellesly-Pole sold Ballyfin to the young Sir Charles Coote who had inherited the family baronetcy from his cousin the 7th, and last, Earl of Mountrath.

He was succeeded in the baronetcy he had inherited in 1778 by his son.