" Looking on from the House of Lords, the Duke of Argyll wrote that Disraeli " was like a subaltern in a great battle where every superior officer was killed or wounded.

" My intentions ", wrote the Duke from The Hague on 29 April to his governmental confidant, Sidney Godolphin, " are to march with the English to Coblenz and declare that I intend to campaign on the Moselle.

The guns were heard by Baden in his camp before Ingolstadt, " The Prince and the Duke are engaged today to the westward ", he wrote to the Emperor.

Marlborough wrote an appeal to the Duke of Württemberg, the commander of the Danish contingent – " I send you this express to request your Highness to bring forward by a double march your cavalry so as to join us at the earliest moment …" Additionally, the King in Prussia, Frederick I, had kept his troops in quarters behind the Rhine while his personal disputes with Vienna and the States-General at The Hague remained unresolved.

Marlborough ’ s horse tumbled and the Duke was thrown – " Milord Marlborough was rid over ," wrote Orkney some time later.

Marlborough realised the great opportunity created by the early victory of Ramillies: " We now have the whole summer before us ," wrote the Duke from Brussels to Robert Harley, " and with the blessing of God I shall make the best use of it.

One of the senior Polish commanders on the day, Duke Bogusław Radziwiłł, wrote that the Polish army had had 80, 000 soldiers.

On 9 November 1555 Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este ( famed as the builder of the Villa d ' Este at Tivoli ), wrote to Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua ( 1538 – 1587 ), that he has heard that His Grace is interested in his cantoretti, and offering to send him two, so that he could choose one for his own service.

In their leisure time the children created a number of fantasy worlds, which were featured in stories they wrote and enacted about the imaginary adventures of their toy soldiers along with the Duke of Wellington and his sons, Charles and Arthur Wellesley.

On February 13, 1610, Galileo wrote to the Grand Duke ’ s secretary:

On March 12, 1610, Galileo wrote his dedicatory letter to the Duke of Tuscany, and the next day sent a copy to the Grand Duke, hoping to obtain the Grand Duke ’ s support as quickly as possible.

" She was ready to meet her Creator ," wrote her son-in-law, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, about Maria's last years.

He also wrote many letters, verses and epitaphs, including those of Duke / Prince Arichis II of Benevento and of many members of the Carolingian family.

In 1701 he wrote his hugely popular suites Opus 3, and dedicated that collection to Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

The Duke of Wellington's armies used it from 1808 in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo, and he wrote admiringly of its effectiveness.

Henry IV received a careful education, which may explain his subsequent interest in culture and poetry ( there are reasonable suspicions that the Duke wrote some poems in old Polish ).

He wrote " The three greatest composers who ever lived are Bach, Delius and Duke Ellington.

In his 1946 biography, Duke Ellington, Barry Ulanov wrote:

* Stevie Wonder wrote the song " Sir Duke " as a tribute to Ellington in 1976.

Almost without resources, Johanna wrote to the Duke of Weimar a letter in which she narrated her current plight.

" The three lead actresses were castigated in numerous publications, including The Saturday Review, which wrote, " Ten years ago ... Parkins, Duke and Tate would more likely have been playing the hat check girls than movie-queens ; they are totally lacking in style, authority or charm.

Composers came to Ferrara from many parts of Europe, especially France and Flanders ; Josquin Des Prez worked for Duke Ercole for a time ( producing the Missa Hercules dux Ferrariæ, which he wrote for him ); Jacob Obrecht came to Ferrara twice ( and died during an outbreak of plague there in 1505 ); and Antoine Brumel served as principal musician from 1505.

When news of this invasion reached Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, on 21 October 1496, he wrote to his ambassador in Spain, to request the Spanish monarchs make peace between England and Scotland.

After attending Bedford Modern School, where he wrote amateur plays, he became a schoolteacher, working at the Bedford Froebel Kindergarten and Hazelwood School in Limpsfield, Surrey.

He wrote the manual in response to his poor performance in leading a church meeting at a Baptist church in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

In addition to writing poems, Mackellar also wrote novels, one by herself, Outlaw's Luck ( 1913 ), and at least two in collaboration with Ruth Bedford.

In 2002, Llewellyn Howland III wrote ' The New Bedford Yacht Club: a history '

In the same year Stone wrote a remarkable letter, preserved in the Bedford Correspondence ( ii.

This involved a well-known New Zealand actor, Bruno Lawrence, and 30 or 40 hangers-on who travelled around the country in a clapped-out Bedford bus, and sang, wrote and did hippie art.

More than 900 people wrote letters in support of her petition, including: Robert Dennison, the former chairperson of Parole under Governor Pataki ; Elaine Lord, the superintendent of Bedford Hills for the first 22 years of Clark's incarceration ; and Frank Olivier, a corrections officer of 23 years who grew up with one of the deceased as a role model.

Although not a major songwriting force within the band, Bedford wrote one of the band's more emotive songs " One Better Day " with Suggs.

After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

Michael Mehaffy wrote an introductory essay on Christopher Alexander's built work in the online publication " Katarxis 3 ", which includes a gallery of Alexander's major built projects to date ( September 2004 ).

Beatty did not respond until after surgery on his arm in September 1900 when he wrote, I landed from China with my heart full of rage, and swore I did not care if I ever saw you again, or if I were killed or not.

' In September Oxford again wrote of ill health, regretting he had not been able to pay attendance to the Queen.

As early as September 1942, Dr. Johann Paul Kremer, M. D., an SS physician, witnessed a gassing of prisoners, and in his diary wrote: " They don't call Auschwitz the camp of annihilation Lager der Vernichtung for nothing!

Additionally, following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the United States Government wrote to the European Union opposing the project, arguing that it would end the ability of the United States to shut down satellite navigation in times of military operations.

The British historian Richard Overy wrote that what Hitler thought he was starting in September 1939 was only a local war between Germany and Poland, and his decision to do so was largely because he vastly underestimated the risks of a general war.

* What We'll Find Inside the Atom by Dr. Leon Lederman is an essay he wrote for the September 15, 2008 issue of Newsweek

The naturalist Charles Dury, of Cincinnati, Ohio, wrote in September 1910: " One foggy day in October 1884, at 5 a. m.

In September 1917 V. I. Lenin wrote " There is only one way to prevent the restoration of the police, and that is to create a people's militia and to fuse it with the army ( the standing army to be replaced by the arming of the entire people ).

* September 14 was the day that Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States

According to al-Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda's documentary Top Secret: The Road to September 11, three weeks prior to the attacks Saeed is believed to have used the name ' Abdul Rahman ' to send a message to Ramzi bin al-Shibh ( who was posing as a girlfriend ) online, in which he wrote

In September he wrote the first of his " Chants for Socialists.

He founded MicroPro International Corporation in September 1978 and hired John Robbins Barnaby as programmer, who wrote a word processor, WordMaster, and a sorting program, SuperSort, both in Intel 8080 assembly language.

Walter Kerr wrote in the New York Herald Tribune on September 27, 1957:

On 26 September Mozart wrote:

Within days of the September 11 attacks in 2001, Perutz wrote to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, appealing to him not to respond with military force: " I am alarmed by the American cries for vengeance and concerned that President Bush's retaliation will lead to the death of thousands more innocent people, driving us into a world of escalating terror and counter-terror.

After Neville Chamberlain's first visit to Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden, Powell wrote in a letter to his parents of 18 September 1938:

Simon Grynée wrote to Martin Bucer in September 1531 that Anne was " young, good-looking, of a rather dark complexion ".

In September 2006, New Scientist was criticised by science fiction writer Greg Egan, who wrote that " a sensationalist bent and a lack of basic knowledge by its writers " was making the magazine's coverage sufficiently unreliable " to constitute a real threat to the public understanding of science ".

In late September, to cover extra expenses for his daughter Julia's move from London to Paris to attend the Sorbonne, Wright wrote blurbs for record jackets for Nicole Barclay, director of the largest record company in Paris.

On September 19, Municipal Art Society chairman Philip K. Howard wrote to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, asking him " to consider placing two large searchlights near the disaster site, projecting their light straight up into the sky.

German counter-attacks were defeated with heavy casualties and on 28 September Albrecht von Thaer, Staff Officer at Group Wytschaete wrote that the experience was " awful " and that he did not know what to do.

On his return to Britain he wrote an article for The Daily Express of 17 September in which he praised Hitler and said " The Germans have definitely made up their minds never to quarrel with us again ".