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1745 and owing
He entered the academy of Dr Philip Doddridge at Northampton, became minister of a congregation formed by a fusion of Presbyterians and Independents at High Street Chapel, Shrewsbury ( 1741 ), received Presbyterian ordination there ( 1745 ), resigned in 1766 owing to ill-health, and lived in retirement at Kidderminster until his death.
Like his father in the rebellion of 1715, William initially supported the Government side, but in the rebellion of 1745, owing either to a personal affront or to the influence of his wife or to his straitened circumstances he deserted George II and joined Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender.

1745 and knowledge
After 1745, he instead considered himself receiving scientific knowledge in a spontaneous manner from angels.
On 21 November 1745, Archbishop Lourenço de Santa Maria decreed that in order to qualify for priesthood, the knowledge of, and the ability to speak only in Portuguese, not only for the pretendentes, but also for all the close relations, men as well as women, confirmed by rigorous examinations by reverend persons was an essential prerequisite.

1745 and Gaelic
Such is the connection between 1745 and the rising in the Gaelic mindset, that the ' 45 is known as Bliadhna Theàrlaich ( Charles ' Year ) in Scottish Gaelic.
Early in 1745 he was summoned by the Royal Bounty Committee in Edinburgh who had heard that he was composing immodest poems in Gaelic.
The Seann Triubhas () means " old trousers " in Gaelic and is romantically associated with the repeal of the proscription of the kilt by the English after the failed Jacobite Uprising of 1745.

1745 and gained
The book on which Dawes ' fame rests is his Miscellanea critica ( 1745 ), which gained the commendation of L. C. Valckenaer and Johann Jakob Reiske.
He gained experience organizing military expeditions during King George's War when he assembled many of the elements of the New England expedition that successfully captured Fortress Louisbourg in 1745, one of the feats for which he is best known.
Having served his apprenticeship with his brother, Jean-Henri, a pendulum maker, he set up a clockmaking business in Paris in 1745 and gained a great reputation for the excellence and accuracy of his marine chronometers.
When the Wittelsbach King Charles Albert of Bavaria gained the Imperial crown in 1742, Count John William retired from service in Bohemia, and only emerged from retirement following Charles's death in 1745 and the restoration of the Habsburgs to the Imperial throne.

1745 and appointment
), she obtained from the king the appointment of ministers ( Bernis, secretary of state for foreign affairs, in 1757 ), as well as their dismissal ( Orry, controller-general of finances, in 1745 ; Maurepas, secretary of state for the Navy, in 1749 ).
Newcastle had previously tried to have Pitt appointed Secretary of War in 1745, but George II had vetoed the appointment.

1745 and chaplain
As chaplain to the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, he was at the Battle of Fontenoy, 1745.
In 1745 he distinguished himself in the defence of Carlisle as a volunteer, and in 1747 was appointed chaplain to Richard Osbaldiston, on his admission to the bishopric of Carlisle.
In 1745, he was appointed chaplain of a regiment, and was present at the capture of Fortress Louisbourg.
He was a sort of chaplain to George Fox-Lane, and his first production in literature is said to have been an anonymous poem describing the beauties of his house Bramham Park, published in 1745.

1745 and afterwards
At the Dutch university, ( Leiden University ) where he matriculated on 27 October 1745, he associated with a small knot of English youths, afterwards well known in various circles of life, among whom were Dowdeswell, Wilkes, the witty and unprincipled reformer, and Alexander Carlyle, the genial Scotsman, who devotes some of the pages of his Autobiography to chronicling their sayings and their doings.
In 1745 Denis Diderot adapted or reproduced the Inquiry concerning Virtue in what was afterwards known as his Essai sur le Mérite et la Vertu.
In 1745 Butler was commissioned to act as tutor and guide to George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury and his two brothers, James and Thomas Talbot, both afterwards Catholic bishops, on the Grand Tour.
His father was a Roman Catholic yeoman, who had his lands sequestered for supporting the Jacobite rising in 1745 and afterwards he had to work as a labourer.
He did not, however, practise long in England, for his health failing he retired to Paris in 1742, and afterwards to Aix, where he died on 19 December 1745.

1745 and regiment
The regiment itself was downgraded to a battalion ( Garde-Grenadier No 6 ) and employed during the War of the Austrian Succession at Hohenfriedberg in 1745 and at Rossbach, Leuthen, Hochkirch, Liegnitz and Torgau throughout the Seven Years ' War.
Wolfe's regiment was left behind to garrison Ghent, which meant they missed the Allied defeat at the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745 during which Wolfe's former regiment suffered extremely heavy casualties.
In October 1745, Wolfe's regiment was urgently recalled to Britain to deal with the Jacobite rising which had broken out.
He first saw active service in the Jacobite rising of 1745, and later obtained a captaincy in the 39th Regiment, the first regular British regiment sent to India.
At the time of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion he offered to raise a regiment, but this was not needed.
Four years later he received a commission as colonel of a regiment raised by the Duke of Rutland to assist in quelling the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.
In 1745, having raised a regiment for service during the Jacobite Rebellion, the 76th Foot ( Lord Harcourts Regiment ), he received a commission as a Colonel in the army, The regiment was disbanded on 10 June 1746.
It was only one of the two foot regiments not to be disbanded and in 1743 the regiment was sent to Germany, where it distinguised itself in the Battle of Dettingen, gaining its first battle honour, then again at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745 and again in Rocoux and Lauffeld in 1747.
Entering the French army in 1721 he served in the war of 1734 against Austria ; he was present at Dettingen ( 1743 ), and commanded the regiment de Lally in the famous Irish brigade at Fontenoy ( May 1745 ).
In 1745, the regiment took part in the Battle of Fontenoy in the Austrian Netherlands between a British and Allies force and the French.
In 1745 Saxony, engaged in a personal union with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, created a Polish Uhlan regiment called " Saxon Volunteers ".
The regiment distinguished itself at the Battle of Dettingen in June 1743, and at Fontenoy in May 1745, and served in the Battle of Culloden in April 1746.
Many other exiled Jacobites in the French army were captured en route to Scotland in late 1745 and early 1746, including Charles Radcliffe, 5th Earl of Derwentwater, a captain in Dillon's regiment who was executed in London in 1746.
In 1745, he raised a cavalry regiment known as Montagu's Carabineers, which, however, was disbanded after the Battle of Culloden.
The regiment first saw war service, paradoxically, at home during the 1745 Jacobite Rising against rebels who had risen in support of Bonnie Prince Charlie who claimed the thrones of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1745 saw the regiment in Flanders fighting at Fontenoy before being recalled to Scotland to fight ' 45 Rebellion.
The regiment later ironically fought against the Jacobites during the Second Jacobite Rebellion ( 1745 ) at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
A meeting was held October 5, 1745, by the 6th Regiment of Foot for the raising of a regiment of volunteers to oppose the Jacobite rising.
Its first commander was Friedrich von Blumenthal, who died unexpectedly in 1745 ; his brother Hans von Blumenthal, who, with the other officers of the regiment had won the Pour le Mérite in its first action at the battle of Hohenfriedberg, assumed command in 1747.
In 1727 the regiment saw action at Gibraltar and were sent to Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island in 1745.

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