The senior generals sent to the fort to command the enlarged garrison, Gideon J. Pillow and John B. Floyd, squandered their chance to avoid having to surrender most of the garrison and on February 16, 1862, Brig.

Embarking on a cross-country tour via train, as Parsons suffered from periodic bouts of fear of flying, the group squandered most of their money in a perpetual poker game and received bewildered reactions in most cities.

Jackie Coogan earned millions of dollars from working as a child actor only to see most of it squandered by his parents.

His inheritance squandered, Esterhazy had tried to retrieve his fortune in gambling-houses and on the stock-exchange ; hard pressed by his creditors, he had recourse to the most desperate measures.

In his view, most Canadian leaders had sadly chosen to neglect that vision and had instead allowed Canada ’ s potential to needlessly squandered.

Also, because of the locally bred social conflicts, Catalonia squandered in one century most of what it had gained in political rights between 1070 and 1410.

Countless professional golfers have seen their dreams of winning the Open Championship squandered by hitting their balls in those bunkers, making them one of the most feared and dreaded places to find oneself on a golf course.

He squandered most of his personal fortune upon that edifice but was subsequently constricted to sell it to the crown for the lack of funds required to complete its interior decoration.

He is considered a corrupt ruler who before he died squandered most of the wealth which he had derived from these and other benefices.

Every male Griqua who settled in East Griqualand was able to secure a 3, 000 acre ( 12 km² ) farm, but most of them sold their land cheaply to white settlers and squandered their money.

" In his review, Camus wrote, " the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished and squandered.

Wesley Willeford, a career con-artist and robber, arrives at the Prairie Rose Reservation to count cards, having squandered his career earnings and opportunities following his expulsion from most major casinos.

Catman was originally Thomas Blake, a world-famous trapper of jungle cats who turned to crime because he had grown bored with hunting and had squandered most of his fortune as a millionaire.

However, the Soviets refused to supply the plane in adequate numbers, and their aerial victories were soon squandered because of their limited use.

He never appeared in his regiment at Beauvais, and for about five years led a life of dissipation in Paris, as a result of which his small fortune was soon squandered.

Despite its initial media success at Flat Rock, North Carolina, the SP soon squandered its momentum, falling to the same type of internal squabbling that resulted in the earlier rift within SPEC ranks.

Spruance was heavily criticized by many officers after the battle ( and continues to be to this day ) for his decision to initiate battle cautiously rather than exploiting his superior forces and intelligence data with a more aggressive posture ; by failing to press the attack earlier and more forcefully, his critics argue, he might well have squandered the opportunity to envelop and destroy the entire Japanese strike force.

1990 / 91 was another season of frustration as Queen's squandered a chance for promotion after having been in contention for so long and finished 5th, only 4 points behind 2nd place Montrose.

Although the Jazz held leads of 49 – 45 by halftime and 66 – 61 after the third quarter, the team squandered their lead in the fourth and would lose after Malone lost a pass in the post.

He was followed during the next 15 years ( 450-466 / 1058-1073 ) by about 40 vizirs one after another in rapid succession, but none equated him, as their main ' accomplishments ' appear to be that they squandered the royal treasury.

In the first tie, Berdych lost to top seed, Novak Djokovic 6 – 3, 3 – 6, 6 – 7, after Berdych squandered match point at 5 – 4 in the final set.

His run was successful but management squandered all the money so when the company went bankrupt, Sheik jumped to Baba's All Japan Pro Wrestling.

Crowds of beggars and rapscallions of every description gathered wherever she went, supported by the charities squandered from the common fund.

Matsuda's European American wife, complained that Matsuda and his friends squandered her inheritance and threatened her with violence when she complained.

In the east the Empire was overrun by the Seljuk Turks ; from the north Bulgarians and Vlachs descended unchecked to ravage the plains of Macedonia and Thrace, and Kaloyan of Bulgaria annexed several important cities, while Alexios squandered the public treasure on his palaces and gardens and attempted to deal with the crisis through diplomatic means.

Sulla's veterans had spent and squandered the wealth they acquired from their years of service.

Surrounded by a crowd of slaves, mistresses and flatterers, he permitted his empire to be administered by unworthy favourites, while he squandered the money wrung from his provinces on costly buildings and expensive gifts to the churches of his metropolis.

His mother's family came from Baltimore and his maternal grandfather had a successful freight-hauling business, but squandered his wealth in failed mining and real estate ventures in Nevada.

As described by Jeff Tamarkin, " The Grape's saga is one of squandered potential, absurdly misguided decisions, bad luck, blunders and excruciating heartbreak, all set to the tune of some of the greatest rock and roll ever to emerge from San Francisco.

Crow was an outspoken critic of Tony Blair who " squandered a massive landslide from an electorate hungry for change, poured billions of public pounds into private pockets and accelerated the growing gap between rich and poor ".

In 1934 her husband and son made a legal motion to place her under a conservatorship on the grounds that she had squandered profits from the sale of the couple's property in numerous donations, made in order to join the Social Democrats.

He watched from the sidelines as United squandered an eleven-point lead over Arsenal to miss out on the Premier League title.

But when his average slipped to. 277 in 1951, off 44 points from his previous mark, Snider caught the brunt of the sports ‑ page blame when the Dodgers squandered a 13 ‑ game August lead and finished sec ­ ond to the Giants.

After leaving the office of governor, he squandered a substantial sum of his money in unsuccessful investments in Nevada gold mines ; then he lost a civil suit brought by the Suffolk County prosecutor that forced him to forfeit to the city of Boston the $ 40, 000 he received from General Equipment Company for " fixing " a damage claim settlement.

They said only R520, 000 of this money was used and of this a large portion had been squandered on unoccupied offices for the SANAC secretariat, something that drew criticism from the auditor-general.

Most of the money that was raised from the dissolution was squandered on the Boulogne campaign of 1544.

However, it received mixed reviews from critics, with Khalid Mohammed stating, " Throughout, you can ’ t help feeling that Farhan Akhtar could have made three far more valuable films out of the budget squandered on this thriller where cars are smashed as if they were tea cups.

It may, of course, be said that the use to which a loan is put is the responsibility of the borrower, but it is difficult to absolve the creditors from guilt when they know that the funds will be squandered by the kleptocrats, whereas the money will be extorted from their unfortunate subjects.

He is convinced that Blanche has selfishly squandered Stella's portion of money from the sisters ' ancestral home.

It had been reported that he faced a tax bill of more than £ 1m and owes thousands of pounds to other creditors, having squandered it gambling.

Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.

With capital largely squandered, there seemed to them no other course to pursue.

Beckenbauer pulled a goal back for the Germans and Ramsey replaced the ageing and tired Charlton with Colin Bell who further tested the German keeper Maier and also provided a great cross for Geoff Hurst who uncharacteristically squandered the chance.

The collapse of the old defensive system meant that they met no opposition, and the empire's resources were distracted and squandered in a series of civil wars.

According to Suetonius, in the first year of Caligula's reign he squandered 2, 700, 000, 000 sesterces that Tiberius had amassed.

They also comment at the end of each show: " Well, it's happened again-you've squandered another perfectly good hour listening to Car Talk.

When third husband Marty Melcher died April 20, 1968, a shocked Day discovered that her husband of 17 years and his business partner Jerome Bernard Rosenthal had squandered her earnings, leaving her deeply in debt.

As in much of Central America, Honduras's once abundant forest resources have been badly squandered.

The Lords of the Isles ruled the Inner Hebrides as well as part of the Western Highlands as subjects of the King of Scots until John MacDonald, fourth Lord of the Isles, squandered the family's powerful position.

* lines 14. 86-95 – Caetronius squandered much of his wealth by building many fine houses ; his son squandered the rest by doing the same.

However, the Phillies squandered a six-and-a-half-game lead during the final weeks of the season that year, losing 10 games in a row with 12 games remaining and losing the pennant by one game to the St. Louis Cardinals.

It seems that the resources available to the contras was squandered, abused, and used for the personal gain of the leadership.

" Germany won the final more convincingly ; a 16 – 10 lead at half time was never squandered, as Slovenia only got within three goals in the second half, and eventually lost 25 – 30.

On reaching the age of 21, he came into his inheritance but he squandered much of it on gambling and by funding two unsuccessful newspapers, The National Standard and The Constitutional for which he had hoped to write.

", which is subtitled " Supergroups: So much promise, so often squandered ", notes that " when well-known rockers get together in new configurations, they're guaranteed lots of attention, but these ego summits rarely bear fruit as fresh as what made these guys famous in the first place.