Alerted by a Union reconnaissance on January 14, 1862, Johnston ordered Tilghman to fortify the high ground opposite Fort Henry, which Polk had failed to do despite Johnston's orders.

The main objective of the mission, however, was to secure the return of Edward ; but this failed, mainly because Henry III's relations with the Hungarians were strained, and the emperor was unable or unwilling to help Ealdred.

Henry McLeish, Labour First Minister of Scotland, failed to refund the House of Commons for income he had received from the sub-let of his constituency office in Glenrothes while still a Westminster MP.

Sir Henry Maine ( 1861 ) studied the ancient codes available in his day, and failed to find any criminal law in the " modern " sense of the word.

There were also plans for Henry Norris to build a larger stadium on the other side of Stevenage Road but there was little need after the merger idea failed.

Henry failed to create a proper bureaucracy to replace his disobedient vassals.

Henry V failed to outlive Charles so it was Henry VI of England and France who consolidated the Dual-Monarchy of England and France.

After the attempts to achieve German national unity failed with the Revolutions of 1848, Wagner strongly relied on the picture of Henry as the actual ruler of all German tribes as advocated by pan-Germanist activists like Friedrich Ludwig Jahn.

Therefore, after a failed agreement with Charles of Anjou, he invested that kingdom to Edmund, the nine-year-old son of King Henry III of England, on 14 May 1254.

Geoffrey and Matilda's son, the future King Henry II, mounted a small mercenary invasion of England in 1147 but the expedition failed, not least because Henry lacked the funds to pay his men.

When Henry James's Guy Domville failed, Alexander turned to Wilde and agreed to put on his play.

Henry chose to blame Cromwell for the failed marriage, and ordered him beheaded on 28 July 1540.

No foreign affairs controversy tested Taft's statesmanship and commitment to peace more than the uprising in Mexico against the authoritarian regime of the aging Porfirio Diaz, which had attracted billions in capital investment for economic development, much of it from the U. S. Anti-regime ( and anti-American ) riots began in 1910 and were reported by Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson to Knox, who failed to pass the information on to the President.

They were not arrested and neither did Henry confiscate their lands, but he failed to help them when they sought his advice in August 1171.

When his rebellion failed to gain the support of Germany's aristocracy, Henry II was forced to abandon his claims to the throne and to allow Otto III's mother Theophanu, who would serve as regent until 991.

Following a failed rebellion to claim the throne from himself, Henry II was forced to pass the regency to Otto III's mother Theophanu.

Otto III's cousin Henry II, who had been deposed as Duke of Bavaria by Otto II in 976 following his failed rebellion, had been imprisoned under the Bishopric of Utrecht since his failed rebellion.

Most significant was the submission of Henry II, who demonstrated his loyalty to his consign despite his failed rebellion two years earlier.

The Lutici federation of West Slavic Polabian tribes had remained quite during the early years of Otto III's reign, even during Henry II's failed rebellion.

Following Otto I's death in 973, Mieszko I's sided with Duke Henry II of Bavaria against Emperor Otto II during Henry's failed revolt in 977.

After initially siding with Duke Henry II of Bavaria against Emperor Otto II during Henry's failed revolt in 977, Boleslaus II swore loyalty to Otto II.

Henry stormed into Giffen's office waving a copy of the New Orleans Courier, shouting that the emancipation scheme had become a public affair, and that it would reach the `` Ears of the People on the Plantation, and make them restless & unhappy ''.

Marc Isambard Brunel ( father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel ), with the help of Henry Maudslay and others, designed 22 types of machine tools to make the parts for the blocks used by the Royal Navy.

* 1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.

A threat of invasion by Henry in 1243 for a time interrupted the friendly relations between the two countries ; but the prompt action of Alexander in anticipating his attack, and the disinclination of the English barons for war, compelled him to make peace next year at Newcastle.

They were willing to make concessions with Henry V and his successors in order to get along.

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

To make this system of royal criminal justice more effective, Henry employed the method of inquest used by William the Conqueror in the Domesday Book.

There is some evidence suggesting Henry was unsure of his own hopes and the oath to make Matilda his heir.

Because the election of a three-year-old boy to be German king appeared likely to make orderly rule difficult, the boy's uncle, Duke Philip of Swabia, brother of late Henry VI, was designated to serve in his place.

Jehuda Cresques, a noted cartographer, received an invitation to come to Sagres and make maps for Henry, a position he accepted.

Additionally, if the elder Emma was also an illegitimate child of Henry I, this would make Guy and his wife Emma first cousins, something that casts more doubt on the claim.

In 1826 there were plans for father and son to reunite, but Henry died, aged 11, before he could make the journey to Rome.

" To yells of " treason ", Henry added, " If this be treason then make the most of it!

He had to persuade Duke Oldřich to make an alliance against the Emperor Henry II.

Henry II probably wanted to force the presence of Bolesław I in Merseburg and make him explain his actions.

Getting agreement took many months, and Mary and Pope Julius III had to make a major concession: the monastery lands confiscated under Henry were not returned to the church but remained in the hands of the new landowners, who were very influential.

A sign in a shop window in Italy proclaims " No tick tock | Tic Tac ", in imitation of the sound of a clock. An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (, from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία ; ὄνομα for " name " and ποιέω for " I make ",< ref > ποιέω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus <</ ref > adjectival form: " onomatopoeic " or " onomatopoetic ") is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.

According to Henry Petroski, transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau discovered how to make a good pencil out of inferior graphite using clay as the binder ; this invention was prompted by his father's pencil factory in Concord, which employed graphite found in New Hampshire in 1821 by Charles Dunbar.

The three brothers made an oath at the French court that they would not make terms with Henry II without the consent of Louis VII and the French barons.

Henry now wished to make peace with Rhys, who came to Newnham to meet him.

When Henry Tudor landed in Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1485 to make a bid for the throne, his descent from Rhys was one of the factors which enabled him to attract Welsh support ( Henry flew a ( Welsh ) dragon banner at the battle of Bosworth Field ).