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Howe was sent to North America in March 1775, arriving in May after the Revolutionary War broke out.
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A few days later it was learned that General Howe was planning an attack upon the American camp.
The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.
Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.
Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??
When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.
The lack of artifacts caused concern for some archaeologists and the petrofabric analysis was inconclusive, but further research at Maes Howe and on the Bush Barrow Lozenge led MacKie to conclude that while the term ' science ' may be anachronistic, Thom was broadly correct upon the subject of high-accuracy alignments.
By his second season, Howe was paired with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay to form what would become one of the great lines in NHL history – the " Production Line ".
Mahovlich was traded to Montreal in 1970, and Howe retired after the 1970 – 71 season.
The Royal Navy named a King George V-class battleship after Beatty, but this ship was renamed HMS Howe before completion, as another battleship of the same class, intended to be named after Jellicoe, was renamed HMS Anson.
It was founded in 1985 by Denis Howe and is hosted by Imperial College London.
According to Irving Howe, Orwell was " the best English essayist since Hazlitt, perhaps since Dr Johnson.
It was a major strategic mistake for the British, and Washington rushed to Philadelphia to engage Howe, while closely following the action in upstate New York.
Meanwhile, Burgoyne, out of reach from help from Howe, was trapped and forced to surrender his entire army at Saratoga, New York.
Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.
Major was promoted to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1987, following the general election, and in a surprise re-shuffle in July 1989, a relatively inexperienced Major was appointed Foreign Secretary, succeeding Sir Geoffrey Howe.
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" Anne Becher, her sister Harriet, and widowed mother Harriet, had been sent back to India by her authoritarian guardian grandmother, widow Ann Becher, in 1809 on the Earl Howe.
" I sent them the jersey ", said Howe.
In the spring of 1838, Howe sent Sidney Gambia, an agent, to Enterprise to sell goods and develop the settlement.
When Washington attacked the Hessian quarters at Trenton on 26 December 1776, Howe sent Cornwallis to reform the army in New Jersey and chase after Washington.
Richard Howe entered the navy in the Severn, one of the squadron sent into the south seas with George Anson in 1740.
A third supporting expedition expected by General Burgoyne never materialized ( apparently due to miscommunication on that year's campaign goals ) when General William Howe sent his army to take Philadelphia rather than sending a portion of it up the Hudson River from New York City.
Howe said that if Germain sent him substantial reinforcements, he could launch various offensives, including sending 10, 000 men up the Hudson River to take Albany, New York.
Howe sent Germain this revised plan, which Germain received on February 23, 1777.
This uncertainty is highlighted by a letter sent by Germain to Howe, dated April 2, 1777, in which he approved Howe's plan for Philadelphia, but also stressed that " it will be executed in time for you to co-operate with the army ordered to proceed from Canada and put itself under your command.
Howe finally issued orders, and while most of his army waited, a detachment of British and Hessian troops was sent to take the hill.
Howe saw it as the wrong war in the wrong place, and thought that Canadian troops should not be sent.
The James Ferris house had been commandeered by Admiral Richard Howe as his headquarters in October 1776, when James Ferris was sent to the prison hulks in New York harbor, where he died in 1780.
On July 14, pursuant to these powers, Admiral Howe sent a messenger with a letter addressed to " George Washington, Esq.
General Howe, after consolidating British positions around New York harbor, detached 6, 000 men under the command of two of his more difficult subordinates, Henry Clinton, and Hugh, Earl Percy to take Newport, Rhode Island ( which they did without opposition on December 8 ), while he sent General Lord Cornwallis to chase Washington's army through New Jersey.
Admiral Howe sent a noisy demonstration of Royal Navy ships up the Hudson River early on the morning of September 15, but Washington and his aides determined that it was a diversion and maintained their forces at the north end of the island.
By late afternoon another 9, 000 British troops had landed at Kip's Bay, and Howe had sent a brigade toward New York City, officially taking possession.
On the return journey Ball sent a party ashore on Lord Howe Island to claim it as a British possession.
On the return journey of 13 March 1788 Ball observed Ball's Pyramid and sent a party ashore on Lord Howe Island to claim it as a British possession.
The British heard rumors that Wayne was in the area, and General Howe sent out spies who reported his location near the Paoli Tavern in September 19.
Washington then sent General Robert Howe to lead the two brigades to besiege Verplanck's on the 17th, but the force was not provisioned with adequate artillery or siege equipment, and could do little more than blockade the fort.
On the 18th some British troops were landed from ships sent upriver, and more were rumored to be coming overland, so Howe decided to withdraw.
Howe sent General James Screven and about 100 cavalry south on this road.
Howe then sent General James Screven and about 100 militia cavalry to find Brown, who retreated before Screven's advance.
Tensions in the fleet had been gradually rising since the start of the war, and in February 1797, anonymous sailors from the Channel Fleet at Spithead sent letters to their former commander Lord Howe, soliciting his support in improving their conditions.
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During this century, Nova Scotia was the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire to achieve responsible government in January – February 1848 and become self-governing through the efforts of Joseph Howe.
In 1778 when the British commander in North America, William Howe, requested to be relieved, Amherst was considered as a replacement by the government: however, his insistence that it would require 75, 000 troops to fully defeat the rebellion was not acceptable to the government, and Henry Clinton was instead chosen to take over from Howe in America.
In the spring of 1777, the British Commander-in-Chief, North America General William Howe, in New York City, ordered William Tryon to interrupt the flow of supplies from Connecticut that were reaching the Continental Army.
* Hubert Howe Bancroft ; History of the North Mexican States and Texas ( 2 vols., San Francisco: History Company, 1886, 1889 ).
For example, the names Howe and Greenhow ( both in North Yorkshire ) reflect the Old Norse word haugr meaning a hill or mound.
The Don follows a circuitous route eastwards past Corgarff Castle, through Strathdon and the Howe of Alford before entering the North Sea just north of Old Aberdeen.
Mi ' kmaq attacked the North Blockhouse ( located at the north end of Joseph Howe Drive ) and killed the men on guard.
Although King George wanted to reward his " mild general " for his service, Gage's sole reward after Lord Germain ( who succeeded Dartmouth as the Secretary of State for North America ) formally gave his command to Howe in April 1776 was that he retained the governorship of Massachusetts.
* Finding Aid for the Julia Ward Howe Papers at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
* Julia Ward Howe battle hymn from the Julia Ward Howe Papers, 1891-1898 at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
On November 30, 1776, Howe — the British commander-in-chief in North America — wrote to Germain, outlining an ambitious plan for the 1777 campaign.
In 1758, in preparation for the attack on the French fort at Ticonderoga, which controlled access from Lake George to Lake Champlain, Lord Howe set about reforming General James Abercrombie's army for warfare in North America.
In areas explored by the British in the late 18th Century, particularly the northwest coast of North America, the term ' sound ' was applied to inlets containing large islands ( e. g. Puget Sound, Howe Sound ) and also bodies of open water still not fully open ocean ( Queen Charlotte Sound, Caamaño Sound ) or broadenings or mergings at the openings of inlets ( Fitz Hugh Sound, Cross Sound ).
*" 13 North American Poets ", with Susan Howe, in TXT # 31 ( Le Mans, France and Bussels: 1993 )
He was appointed by C. D. Howe to the executive committee of the Department of Munitions and Supply and would be appointed by Winston Churchill to run the British Supply Council in North America.
* April 15-Nova Scotia: resolution for provincial union by Joseph Howe for referral to the other British North American provinces in July.
An intercolonial rail system in the British North American colonies was never far from the minds of government and civic leaders and in an 1851 speech at a Mason's Hall in Halifax, local editor of the Novascotian, Joseph Howe spoke these words:
Stephen James " Steve " Howe ( born 8 April 1947 in Holloway, North London, England ) is an English guitarist, known for his work with the progressive rock group Yes.
* Howe, North Yorkshire
The electoral district was created as " West Vancouver – Sunshine Coast " in 1996 from parts of Capilano — Howe Sound and North Island — Powell River ridings.
Barbara Howe is currently the Libertarian candidate for Governor of North Carolina in the 2012 election.
In 2000 Howe ran as the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of North Carolina receiving 42, 674 vote for 1. 45 % of the vote.
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