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In 1781, he obtained his commission in the artillery in and saw service in the Dutch Civil War ( 1787 ).
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1781 and obtained
The White-bellied Sea Eagle was first described by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788, although John Latham had made notes on the species in 1781, from a specimen obtained in February 1780 at Princes Island off the westernmost cape of Java during Captain Cook's last voyage.
Arkwright in 1775 obtained for a grand patent covering many processes that he hoped would give him monopoly power over the fast-growing industry, but Lancashire opinion was bitterly hostile to exclusive patents ; in 1781 Arkwright tried and failed to uphold his monopolistic 1775 patent.
He obtained an LLD degree from King's College, Aberdeen in 1781.
In 1781 he obtained a " star " engagement at Dublin making his first appearance there on 2 November as Hamlet.
In 1781, he obtained the rich priory of Lyons, near Pronne ; and in 1785 he was elected to the Académie française as Lefranc de Pompignan's successor.
Improvements to the of river from the River Glen junction to the town of Bourne were authorised by an act of Parliament obtained on 29 March 1781, which suggested that the river had previously been navigable, but had become choked with mud.
He obtained his doctorate of philosophy at the university of Erlangen in 1781 with a thesis entitled De varietatibus specierum in naturale productis.
1781 and commission
When the 25-year-old Mozart arrived in Vienna in 1781, seeking professional opportunity, one of the first tasks to which he addressed himself was to become acquainted with Stephanie and lobby him for an opera commission.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, one of the top French scientists of the day, mentored Lamarck, and helped him gain membership to the French Academy of Sciences in 1779 and a commission as a Royal Botanist in 1781, in which he traveled to foreign botanical gardens and museums.
In 1781 he received a commission in the Hanoverian guards, and as a captain took part in the campaigns of 1793-1795 in the Low Countries, distinguishing himself particularly on the Lys in command of light infantry.
In 1781, shortly after Mozart had moved to Vienna, van Swieten met him again: at the salon of Countess Thun, Mozart played extracts from his recent opera Idomeneo, with van Swieten and other important officials in the audience ; this event helped instigate Mozart's commission for the opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, his first great success as a composer.
Apparently on commission from Louis XVI, Ménageot painted The Death of Leonardo da Vinci in the arms of Francis I in 1781, setting it in a background of classical statuary.
1781 and artillery
In May 1781, the French troops of General Marquis de Lafayette, known as the Coloniels, advanced south from Richmond and deployed artillery on the heights overlooking Petersburg from across the Appomattox River.
On the morning of April 25, 1781, Rawdon was still under the impression that the Continental army was without its artillery.
1781 and saw
John Stanley, later Lord Stanley of Alderley, saw her in 1781, and noted that she was an attractive girl with curly, fair hair.
Because of an act passed in October 1779, the assembly elected to meet at any place in the state they saw fit, meeting successively in Wilmington, Lewes, Dover, New Castle, and Lewes again, until it finally settled down permanently in Dover in October 1781.
Under Cajigal, Miranda participated in the 1781 Battle of Pensacola, which saw British West Florida fall into Spanish hands, and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.
In 1781, Raikes saw the plight of children living in the Gloucester slums.
The next few years saw a struggle for control of the theatre, and Taylor bought Sheridan's interest in 1781.
Beginning in 1779 a mail boat circulated between Constantinople and Kherson, and 1781 saw the establishment of an overland route through Bucharest to Bratzlav.
1781 and service
After adopting the Articles of Confederation, the Congress of the Confederation was formed and convened in Philadelphia from March 1781 until June 1783, when a mob of angry soldiers converged upon Independence Hall, demanding payment for their service during the American Revolutionary War.
From one siege to another, he was a vital member of General George Washington ’ s staff serving well under General Nathanael Greene and coming to Georgia in 1781 in his service during the American Revolution.
For the next two years he was in the French service, returning to Finland in 1781.
Burnet was elected to the Continental Congress in 1780 and served from December 11, 1780 until his resignation on April 1, 1781, when he was forced to leave this service by the press of other duties and his wife's illness.
If claimed earlier year of birth and the subsequent service record are correct George Fruits joined the militia belonging to Captain George Miars ( of Washington County, Pennsylvania ) as a private on November 2, 1781, aged 19.
This was just in the nick of time because Huntington and his associates had promised they would provide rail service to Yorktown where the United States was celebrating the centennial of the surrender of the British troops under Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781, an event considered most symbolic of the end of American Revolutionary War.
* was a 16-gun vessel, possibly a brig-sloop, purchased in 1780, probably in the Caribbean, and in service in 1781.
In 1778, General Washington proposed the formation of a new military unit to be known as the " Corps of Sappers and Miners " and in the summer of the next year it was organized and on 8 June 1781, David Bushnell was appointed Captain and was at the Battle of Yorktown in the following Sept. and October, the only time the unit had had the opportunity to render special service.
He returned to active service during the American War of Independence and became commander-in-chief of the North American Squadron in 1781 when Mariot Arbuthnot returned home.
Johann Anton Güldenstädt ( 26 April 1745 in Riga, Latvia – 23 March 1781 in St. Petersburg, Russia ) was a Baltic German naturalist and explorer in Russian service.
Francisco's Fight is the name commonly given to an alleged skirmish between a detachment of Tarleton's Raiders and Peter Francisco, a Continental Army soldier with a long service record, during the American Revolutionary War in July 1781.
Many years of routine service with his regiment were broken only by his participation as a volunteer in the Duke de Crillon's Franco-Spanish expedition to Minorca in 1781.
It was rebuilt in its current form in 1781 and named after the wife of George III but has never seen service during hostilities since then.
In 1781, he retired from military service.
This service delayed his return to Greene, but in October 1781 he and Sevier led 600 riflemen to join Greene in South Carolina.
In his Short history of the people called Methodists ( 1781 ), Wesley describes the first covenant service ; a similar account is to be found in his Journal of the time.
In 1781 he entered the army as a private soldier, and after ten years ' service he received his discharge and settled at Valence.
In 1781 the New York legislature offered a financial incentive to slaveholders who assigned their slaves to military service, and promised freedom at war's end for the slaves.
* Argonaute ( 1781 ), a 74-gun ship of the line, razéed to a 42-gun ship in 1794 and renamed Flibustier, out of service in 1795
Trigg's political service started around 1781 when he became a Justice of the Peace in Bedford County.
1781 and Dutch
* 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opened his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa ( present-day Ghana ).
The " Dutch House " adjoining was purchased by George III in 1781 as a nursery for the royal children.
In 1781, Isaac Titsingh published Bereiding van Sacki in Batavia, Dutch East Indies | Batavia, which was then the main city of the Dutch East Indies.
Though an attempt was made to likewise capture the Dutch Leeward Antilles, these remained in Dutch hands, as did Suriname, though neighboring Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo were rapidly taken by the British early in 1781.
Suffren attempted to take the Dutch port of Negapatam ( taken by the British in 1781 ), but was frustrated by Hughes.
In August 1781 word of the war reached Sumatra, where both the Dutch and British companies had trading outposts.
The French also returned the other Dutch colonies they had recaptured from the British, including the ones in the West Indies ( like St. Eustatius that had been taken by Admiral Rodney in February, 1781, but was retaken by the French Admiral De Grasse on November 27, 1781 )
In London, he employed his knowledge of English and his learning to secure a living by publishing books on various subjects, and English translations of German works, and there are allusions to him as “ a Dutch savant ” in 1780 in the writings of Horace Walpole, who gave him money and helped him to publish an Essay on the Origin of Oil-painting ( 1781 ).
Dutch possessions in the East Indies, captured in 1781, were returned by Britain to the Netherlands in exchange for trading privileges in the Dutch East Indies, by a treaty which was not finalised until 1794.
Despite the setback at Saratoga, and the entry of France, Spain and the Dutch Republic into the war North's government continued to gain strength until October 1781 when a British army under Lord Cornwallis was forced to surrender to a combined Franco-American force at Yorktown.
Only in 1781 would the Dutch and British fleets fight each other again.
Following the outbreak of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War between Britain and the Dutch Republic Rodney, acting under orders from London, captured the valuable Dutch island of St Eustatius on 3 February 1781.
" A map of the Dutch settlements of Surinam, Demerary, Issequibo, Berbices, and the islands of Curaçao | Curassoa, Aruba, Bonaire, & c ." ( 1781 ).
In January 1781, when in command of the 50-gun, he captured a Dutch 50-gun ship which had beaten off a British vessel of equal strength a few days before.
In 1781 the American revolution induced the Dutch Republic to join with the Bourbon side against the British, a large fleet under Admiral Lord Rodney's command was sent to the West Indies, and after having made some seizures in the Caribbean Islands, a squadron was detached to take possession of the colonies of Essequebo and Demerara, which was accomplished without much difficulty.
The town hall was traditionally a gathering place for various gentlemen, and the Dutch Society of Science started meeting there in 1752, which was the beginning of a municipal museum for natural history, that today no longer exists, though its " competitor " founded in 1781 still does ; namely the Teylers Museum.
To the landscape gardens designed by Lancelot Brown in 1781 have been added a parterre ( illustration ), grotto, the sunken Dutch garden created by Frances, Countess of Onslow in the late 19th century, and a Māori meeting house named Hinemihi.
He was sent by the Dutch East India Company to the Cape Province of South Africa in 1781, and collected specimens there until 1784.
The arrival of Lord Macartney as governor of Madras in the summer of 1781 included news of war with the Dutch Republic.
Macartney ordered the seizure of the Dutch outposts in India, and the British captured the main Dutch outpost at Negapatam after three weeks of siege in November 1781 against defenses that included 2, 000 of Hyder Ali's men.
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