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Hooker's son Joseph Dalton Hooker was one of the first plant explorers to use the new Wardian cases, when he shipped live plants back to England from New Zealand in 1841, during the pioneering voyage of HMS Erebus that circumnavigated Antarctica.
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The campaign pitted Union Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac against an army less than half its size, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
At dawn on September 17, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank.
During the Battle of Chancellorsville, his corps faced Fredericksburg in an initial holding action while Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's other four corps maneuvered against Robert E. Lee's left flank.
When Joseph Dalton Hooker returned from his travels in India, Fitch prepared lithographs from Hooker's sketches for his Rhododendrons of Sikkim Himalaya ( 1849 – 51 ) and, from the drawings of Indian artists, for his Illustrations of Himalayan Plants ( 1855 ).
Krzyżanowski played a role in the Battle of Wauhatchie, where he followed Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's orders very literally ; and he was present at the Battle of Missionary Ridge.
Gen. Joseph Hooker's 2nd division of the III Corps was the lead infantry in the Union Army advance.
Gen. Joseph Hooker's division repelled and once pursued minor attacks.
Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Confederate division fought a brisk rearguard action against Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Union division at Kettle Run, resulting in about 600 casualties.
Joseph Hooker's division of the Union III Corps first encountered Ewell's skirmishers about 2: 30 p. m. Ewell was able to hold his position for over an hour but Hooker then brought up his own artillery and tried to outflank the Confederate line.
Early's division to hold Fredericksburg on May 1, while he marched west with the rest of the Army of Northern Virginia to deal with Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's main thrust at Chancellorsville with four corps of the Army of the Potomac.
After occupying Marye's Heights on May 3 following the Second Battle of Fredericksburg, Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick's VI Corps of about 25, 000 men marched out on the Plank Road with the objective of reaching his superior Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's force at Chancellorsville.
Soon afterward, on Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's appointment to command the army, Sumner was relieved at his own request, apparently disillusioned with the quarreling in the army and also thoroughly exhausted.
It formed part of Joseph Hooker's rear guard at Chancellorsville.
* Joseph Hooker's family
During the American Civil War, so many prostitutes took up residence in Murder Bay to serve the needs of General Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac that the area became known as " Hooker's Division.
The journey was inspired by reading Joseph Dalton Hooker's " Himalayan Journals "; it was the first of Elwes ' many visits to Asia, and resulted in the major paper " On the geographical distribution of Asiatic birds " read to the Zoological Society in 1873.
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* December-Joseph Dalton Hooker's Introductory Essay to the Flora Tasmaniae supports Darwin's theories.
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On May 1, Hooker advanced from Chancellorsville toward Lee, but the Confederate general split his army in the face of superior numbers, leaving a small force at Fredericksburg to deter Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick from advancing, while he attacked Hooker's advance with about 4 / 5ths of his army.
# " Hooker's Hooker " ( Hamlisch )
Hooker's biographer reports that there were numerous stories indicating that Abraham Lincoln attempted to intercede with Sherman, urging that Hooker be appointed to command the Army of the Tennessee, but Sherman threatened to resign if the president insisted.
He numbered Richard Hooker among his friends as well as Hooker's biographer Isaak Walton, who wrote of the information he derived from Morton.
While most of Hooker's output is rooted in free jazz, critic Neil Strauss has written, " William Hooker is a man determined to get his music ' out there ', and he'll cross any genre to do it.
Hooker assigned Stoneman a key role in which his Cavalry Corps would raid deeply into Robert E. Lee's rear areas and destroy vital railroad lines and supplies, distracting Lee from Hooker's main assaults.
* T. J. Hooker ( Episode: Hooker's War ) as Lt. Pete Benedict
John Jay Hooker's father, John Jay Hooker, Sr., was one of Nashville's best and most influential lawyers.
On the morning of the 29th he acknowledged Hooker's letters, writing " I cannot think now ", then that night he read the letters, and though " quite prostrated ", got his servant to take to Hooker Wallace's essay, the letter to Asa Gray and the Essay of 1844, leaving matters in the hands of Lyell and Hooker.
The chapters were sent to Hooker for correcting as they were completed, which led to a minor disaster when a large bundle was put by accident into the drawer Hooker's wife used to keep paper for the children to draw on.
After the death of his friend Richard Hooker he edited the first five books of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie ( London, 1604 ).
Hooker's address to the Norwich British Association was a great success for the X Club ( a dining club formed in November 1864 to support the evolutionary " new reformation " in naturalism, including Huxley, Hooker, John Tyndall, Busk, Spencer, and Spottiswoode ).
On 13 November Hooker's wife Fanny died suddenly, and a devastated Hooker felt unable to return home after the funeral and brought his family to Downe.
After stalling Hooker's advance, Lee sent a flanking column led by Thomas J. Jackson around Hooker's left, which attacked a few hours before sunset on May 2 ; this attack and further Confederate attacks the following day forced Hooker to retreat on May 6.
Although credited to Hooker and Butterworth, they are all quite different in tone, have considerable character variations ( e. g., age impossibilities ) from Hooker's own work and were essentially ghostwritten by Butterworth.
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In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.
Through an ingenious plan by Maj. Gen. William F. Smith, a " Cracker Line " was formed with Hooker's Army of the Potomac located at Lookout Mountain and supplied the Army of the Cumberland with food and military weapons.
The victory, a product of Lee's audacity and Hooker's timid decision making, was tempered by heavy casualties and the mortal wounding of Lt. Gen. Thomas J.
Gen. Daniel Butterfield was reassigned from command of the V Corps to be Hooker's chief of staff.
A similar translation of Richard Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity was accidentally destroyed.
As Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia moved north into Maryland, Hooker's corps ( redesignated the I Corps on September 12 ) was returned to the Army of the Potomac, and he fought with distinction at South Mountain and Antietam.
Hooker's plan for the spring and summer campaign was both elegant and promising.
Hooker's initial plan was to seize Richmond instead, but Lincoln immediately vetoed that idea, so the Army of the Potomac began to march north, attempting to locate Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as it slipped down the Shenandoah Valley into Pennsylvania.
Hooker's mission was first to protect Washington, D. C., and Baltimore and second to intercept and defeat Lee.
Hooker's military career was not ended by his poor performance in the summer of 1863.
He was brevetted to major general in the regular army for his success at Chattanooga, but he was disappointed to find that Grant's official report of the battle credited his friend William Tecumseh Sherman's contribution over Hooker's.
Hooker's reputation as a hard-drinking ladies ' man was established through rumors in the pre-Civil War Army and has been cited by a number of popular histories.
However, because the family name Ebenaceae had become so well known, being used in major botanical references such as Bentham and Hooker's Genera Plantarum, Engler and Prantl's Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, and Hutchinson's Families of Flowering Plants, it was conserved and is therefore legitimate.
His widow, Hyacinth, declined the proposal and eventually Hooker's body was buried, as he wished to be, alongside his father in the churchyard of St. Anne's Church, Kew, on Kew Green, within short distance of Kew Gardens.
Hooker's flora was also to include that collected on the voyages of Cook and Menzies held by the British Museum and collections made on the Beagle.
Gray and Hooker's research was reported in their joint 1882 publication, " The Vegetation of the Rocky Mountain Region and a Comparison with that of Other Parts of the World ," which appeared in volume six of Hayden's Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geophysical Survey of the Territories.
At the colonial office he had great influence in furthering the cause of natural science, particularly in connection with equipment of the Palliser Expedition in Canada ( for his efforts, the Ball Range in the Canadian Rockies was named after him ), and with William Jackson Hooker's efforts to obtain a systematic knowledge of the colonial floras.
In addition, there was an extensive series of books ( bearing Hooker's name but ghostwritten by William E. Butterworth ) in which the characters travel to Moscow, New Orleans, San Francisco, Paris, etc.
Winthrop recorded that Hooker's company was motivated by " the strong bent of their spirits to remove ".
At Hooker's ranch, they encounter Josephine, learning that Mr. Fabian was shot by Cowboys who tried to steal Josephine's watch.
The court found, however, that the series was a spin-off of the original movie – itself an adaptation of Richard Hooker's MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors.
Hooker's tough, no-nonsense demeanor saw him often clashing with station Captain Sheridan ( Richard Herd ), but he always got the job done and was highly respected as a result.
Introduced at the start of the second season was attractive Officer Stacy Sheridan ( Heather Locklear ), the daughter of Captain Sheridan and Hooker's younger partner-in-command, who attended the police academy and replaced Vicki.
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