Henry Lee III, better known as Light-Horse Harry Lee, a Revolutionary War general, former governor of Virginia, and father of Robert E. Lee, was imprisoned for debt between 1808 and 1809.

He married a second time in 1809, to Margaret Scott ( 1783 – 1843 ), and had three more children in this union ; Robert Eden Lee ( 1810 – 1843 ), Elizabeth Gordon Lee ( 1813-1813 ), Alexander Lee ( 1815-1815 ).

Between 1809 and 1814 the owner of the house, Sir Charles Lee, let the mansion to exiled King Louis XVIII of France.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

Despite his lack of formal qualifications, Ampère was appointed a professor of mathematics at the school in 1809.

The word autobiography was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical the Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid but condemned it as ' pedantic '; but its next recorded use was in its present sense by Robert Southey in 1809.

Albert Pike ( December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891 ) was an attorney, Confederate officer, writer, and Freemason.

On 5 May 1809, the right of citizenship was granted to Jews, and they were permitted to engage in trade and agriculture.

After Ajaigarh was captured by the British in 1809, it became a princely state in the Bundelkhand Agency of the Central India Agency.

With the conclusion of peace he began his active work of army reorganization, which was first tested on the field in 1809.

The army reforms were not yet completed by the war of 1809, in which Charles acted as commander in chief, yet even so it proved a far more formidable opponent than the old and was only defeated after a desperate struggle involving Austrian victories and large loss of life on both sides.

That he sustained defeat in 1809 was due in part to the great numerical superiority of the French and their allies, and in part to the condition of his newly reorganized troops.

Strategic points, he says, not the defeat of the enemy's army, decide the fate of one's own country, and must constantly remain the general's main concern, a maxim which was never more remarkably disproved than in the war of 1809.

* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.

The suggestion that this newly discovered gas was a simple element was made in 1809 by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jacques.

Gauss's personal life was overshadowed by the early death of his first wife, Johanna Osthoff, in 1809, soon followed by the death of one child, Louis.

Designed by Daniel Asher Alexander and constructed originally between 1806 and 1809 by local labour, to hold prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars, it was also used to hold American prisoners from the War of 1812.

Independently of Stone, the Campbell wing of the movement was launched when Thomas Campbell published the Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington, in 1809.

The encyclopaedia grew in size ; the second edition was 10 volumes, and by its fourth edition ( 1801 – 1809 ) it had expanded to 20 volumes.

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.

Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's King Lear, a play the couple was performing in 1809.

Republican James Sullivan won the governor's seat from Strong in 1807, but his successor was unable to hold the seat in the 1809 election, which went to Federalist Christopher Gore.

The term ' guerrilla ' was used within the English language as early as 1809.

On July 9, 1809, Santo Domingo was born.

After half a century of largely unrestricted parliamentary rule proved just as ruinous, King Gustav III seized back royal power in the coup d ' état of 1772, and later once again abolished the privy council under the Union and Security Act in 1789, which, in turn, was rendered void in 1809 when Gustav IV Adolf was deposed in a coup and the constitution of 1809 was put in its place.

With the Regent's backing, Nash created a master plan for the area, put into effect from 1818 onwards, which stretched from St James ’ s northwards and included Regent Street, Regent's Park ( 1809 – 1832 ) and its neighbouring streets, terraces and crescents of elegant town houses and villas.

Although the novelty was put out of order 1772 – 1809, it has since remained central in the Swedish mindset, seen as a forceful means against corruption and government agencies ' unequal treatment of the citizens, increasing the perceived legitimacy of ( local and central ) government and politicians.

The Instrument of Government of 1809 put an end to notions of royal absolutism by dividing the legislative power of between the Riksdag ( primary ) and the King ( secondary ), and vested executive power in the King when acting through the Council of State.

In 1805 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he served until 1808, when he succeeded a Crowninshield to become one of Essex County's representatives in Congress, serving from December 1808 to March 1809, during which he led the successful effort to put an end to Jefferson's Embargo against maritime commerce.

In 1809 as troops returned from Spain several ships put in to Plymouth and he helped bring ashore hundreds of men suffering diverse fevers.

During 1807 – 1809 Iffland put out two volumes of Neue dramatische Werke.

The outbreak of the Winter War put Sweden in one of the worst political crises since the secession of Finland in 1809.

Thomas Jefferson's Presidency of the United States, from March 4, 1801 to March 4, 1809, carried out what Jefferson called the " Revolution of 1800 ", as he attempted to put into action the principles of his Democratic-Republican Party.

Phelps died on February 21, 1809 in debtors prison in the town he sold and helped develop.

The French finally took the city December 10, 1809, after many deaths on both sides from hunger, epidemics, and cold ; Álvarez de Castro died in prison one month later.

The most senior officer on parole from the prison was General Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes who resided with his wife in Cheltenham from 1809 until they escaped back to France in 1811.

However Foulley's model, depicting the prison as it was in about 1809, shows a theatre in the south west quadrangle.

* In England, Richard Carlile ( 1790 – 1843 ) is convicted of blasphemy and sent to prison for publishing The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ).

She was converted to a prison ship in 1809, a powder hulk in 1814, and broken up in 1825.