Historian Jim Bradbury has summarised the contemporary historical opinion of John's positive qualities, observing that John is today usually considered a " hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general ".

The challengers included 7th Circuit ( Spartanburg ) Solicitor Trey Gowdy, state Senator David Thomas, college professor and former Historian of the U. S. House Christina Jeffrey, and businessman Jim Lee.

Historian Jim Piecuch argues that the battle was as much a massacre as similar events led by Patriot commanders.

Historian of fascism Stanley Payne has said about Saddam Hussein's regime: " There will probably never again be a reproduction of the Third Reich, but Saddam Hussein has come closer than any other dictator since 1945 ".

Historian Douglas Brinkley said gonzo journalism requires virtually no rewriting and frequently uses transcribed interviews and verbatim telephone conversations.

Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper said in 1977 that More was " the first great Englishman whom we feel that we know, the most saintly of humanists, the most human of saints, the universal man of our cool northern renaissance.

Historian Michael Robertson has said that " Newspaper reporters and readers of the 1890s were much less concerned with distinguishing among fact-based reporting, opinion and literature.

* ( perhaps ) Kadlin, said by Ari the Historian to have been daughter of Ganger Hrolf, traditionally identified with Rollo.

" Historian Robert Payne on page 142 in " The History of Islam " said " The more powerful Muslims and the spread of Islam were knocking on Europe's door.

Historian Richard Kurin builds a highly speculative case for 1653 as the year of acquisition, but the most that can be said with certainty is that Tavernier obtained the blue diamond during one of his five voyages to India between the years 1640 and 1667.

" Historian Christopher Hibbert said of Marion,

Historian and former MP and Trudeau biographer John English said " I don't think it does any good to do this kind of historical ransacking to try to destroy reputations ".

Historian David Potter ( 1976 ) said the emotional effect of Brown's raid was greater than the philosophical effect of the Lincoln – Douglas debates, and that his raid revealed a deep division between North and South.

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Kearns claimed to have informed Dempsey that he had wagered Dempsey's share of the purse on Dempsey winning with a first-round knockout and had applied plaster of paris to the customary wrappings under Dempsey's gloves, Historian J. J. Johnston said " the films show Willard upon entering the ring walking over to Dempsey and examining his hands.

Historian Barbara B. Diefendorf, Professor of History at Boston University, wrote that Simon Vigor had " said if the King ordered the Admiral ( Coligny ) killed, ' it would be wicked not to kill him '.

Historian Walter A. McDougall quotes Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, the founder of Iowa's Grinnell College, as saying, " I was the young man to whom Greeley first said it, and I went.

Historian Judith Binney called herself a Pākehā and said, " I think it is the most simple and practical term.

The Chinese name for Tian Shan may be derived from the Xiongnu language name qilian (), which was described by Sima Qian in the Records of the Grand Historian as the homeland of the pre-Xiongnu peoples of the region, the Yuezhi, and has been said to refer to the Tian Shan rather than to the range further east now known by this name.

Historian Fred Siegel, calling Lindsay the worst New York City mayor of the 20th century, said " Lindsay wasn't incompetent or foolish or corrupt, but he was actively destructive ".

Historian James Cowan described the Moturoa expedition as " Whitmore's one great blunder ", but strong criticisms of Whitmore's strategy were rejected by Belich, who said the commander's one mistake was to underestimate the Moturoa deceptively strong defences.

Historian Barbara B. Diefendorf, Professor of History at Boston University, wrote that Simon Vigor had " said if the King ordered the Admiral ( Coligny ) killed, ' it would be wicked not to kill him '.

Historian Howard Jones said that these comments " all but put the finishing touch on the Diệm regime ".

Historian Philip Piccigallo said that Homma was convicted of the actions of his men during the march rather than having a direct hand in the actions themselves.

Historian Dr. Louise Yeoman, along with other mediaeval scholars, says the Knights Templar connection is false, and points out that Rosslyn Chapel was built by William Sinclair so that Mass could be said for the souls of his family.

Historian George E. Hyde said the Indians had six killed and six wounded and did not regard the fight as a defeat, as they had captured a large number of mules and horses.

First appearing in Chinese records of the Grand Historian as Gekun or Jiankun ( 鬲昆 or 隔昆 ), and later as part of the Tiele tribes, they were once under the rule of Göktürks and Uyghurs.

Historian Albert Resis stated that the Litvinov dismissal gave the Soviets freedom to pursue faster-paced German negotiations, but that they did not abandon British – French talks.

Historian Beau Riffenburgh states that the promise to Scott " should never ethically have been demanded ", and compares Scott's intransigence on this matter unfavourably with the generous attitudes of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who gave freely of his advice and expertise to all, whether they were potential rivals or not.

Historian Peter Kolchin wrote, " By breaking up existing families and forcing slaves to relocate far from everyone and everything they knew " this migration " replicated ( if on a reduced level ) many of horrors " of the Atlantic slave trade.

A star catalogue is featured in one of the chapters of the late 2nd-century-BC history work Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian ( 145-86 BC ) and contains the " schools " of Shi Shen and Gan De's work ( i. e. the different constellations they allegedly focused on for astrological purposes ).

Historian Henry Commager wrote that " Even when definitions of terrorism allow for state terrorism, state actions in this area tend to be seen through the prism of war or national self-defense, not terror .” While states may accuse other states of state-sponsored terrorism when they support insurgencies, individuals who accuse their governments of terrorism are seen as radicals, because actions by legitimate governments are not generally seen as illegitimate.

Historian Stanley Jones, in his study of the 1896 election, suggests that western Democrats would have opposed Cleveland even if the party had held its congressional majority in 1894 ; with the disastrous defeat, they believed the party would be wiped out in the West if it did not support silver.

Historian Norman Cantor who specialized in the medieval period, teaching and writing at Columbia and New York University, says in 1993: " It may be true that the Arabs had now fully extended their resources and they would not have conquered France, but their defeat ( at Tours ) in 732 put a stop to their advance to the north.

Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke has described this membership roll and other, similar claims as " spurious " and " fanciful ", noting that Feder, Eckart and Rosenberg were never more than guests to whom the Thule Society extended hospitality during the Bavarian revolution of 1918, although he has more recently acknowledged that Hess and Frank were members of the Society before they came to prominence in the Nazi Party.

Historian Robert Owens argued that the chiefs probably did not intend to give up ownership of the land, and that they would not have sold so much valuable territory for such a modest price.

Historian David Engel supports this, writing that " there can be no logically or empirically compelling grounds for declaring that some particular episode does or does not merit the label ," but he offers that the majority of the incidents " habitually " described as pogroms took place in societies significantly divided by ethnicity and / or religion where the violence was committed by the higher-ranking group against a stereotyped lower-ranking group against whom they expressed some complaint, and with the belief that the law of the land would not be used to stop them.

Historian Lillian Faderman declared, " Its very establishment in the midst of witch-hunts and police harassment was an act of courage, since members always had to fear that they were under attack, not because of what they did, but merely because of who they were.

Historian Harold Schultz describes the Aberharts as " prosperous ", while biographers David Elliott and Iris Miller says they " lived better than the average family ".

Archeologist and Historian Edward J. Lenik disagrees with Cohen's findings by stating " While the Ramapough's origins are controversial, most historians and anthropolgists agree that they ( Ramapough ) are the descendants from local Munsee speaking Lenape ( Delaware ) Indians who fled to the mountains in the late seventeenth century to escape Dutch and English settlers.

( Historian Vicente Carcel Orti asserts that anticlerical Freemasons had in fact played a large part in the anti-Catholic acts of the prior Republican government since they held key government positions, including at least 183 deputies in the Cortes ( the Spanish parliament ), and thus were instrumental in the making of anti-Catholic laws.

... it hath been the constant opinion of all Ages that the Parliament of England had an unquestionable power to limit, restrain and qualify the Succession as they pleased, and that in all Ages they have put their power in practice ; and that the Historian had reason for saying that seldom or never the third Heir in a right descent enjoyed the Crown of England.

Historian Henry Brooks Adams explains that the anti-slavery North took a consistent and principled stand on states ' rights against Federal encroachment throughout its history, while the Southern states, whenever they saw an opportunity to expand slavery and the reach of the slave power, often conveniently forgot the principle of states ' rights — and fought in favor of Federal centralization:

Historian Richard J. Evans wrote: " Müller was a stickler for duty and discipline, and approached the tasks he was set as if they were military commands.

Historian Edwin Coddington, otherwise critical of Slocum's dilatory response, found that it was highly doubtful whether they could have deployed beyond the town in time to mount a counterattack in support of the retreating XI Corps.

Historian William H. McNeill has noted that the plague was transferred from ground rodents living in southern Chinese and Burmese Himalayan foothills to Mongol soldiers when they invaded the area in 1252.