He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

With the financial assistance of his brother Ira, he lived comfortably, if out of action, until August 1777.

There he remained while Vermont declared independence, and John Burgoyne's campaign for the Hudson River met a stumbling block near Bennington in August 1777.

* August 24 – James Carr ( Massachusetts politician ), U. S. Congressman ( b. 1777 )

* August 15 – Nathaniel Claiborne, U. S. politician ( b. 1777 )

* August 26 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer ( d. 1777 )

* August 21 – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician ( b. 1777 )

The Battle of Bennington was a battle of the American Revolutionary War that took place on August 16, 1777, in Walloomsac, New York, about from its namesake Bennington, Vermont.

It was due to Joseph's intervention that, on 30 August 1777, the marriage was officially consummated.

Named for Hans Christian Ørsted ( often rendered Oersted in English ; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851 ), a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism.

The Battle of Bennington in Bennington, fought on August 16, 1777, brought a turning point for the American independence against British.

In August, 1777, the town was bombarded as a diversionary tactic while General Sir William Howe ’ s troops sailed up the Elk River to effect a landing.

The Moland House was General George Washington's headquarters when 11, 000 Continental Army troops camped in Warwick Township from August 10, 1777 until August 23, 1777 while on their way to the Battle of Brandywine.

William Card ( 1710 – 1784 ), born in Rhode Island, settled in Pownal perhaps as late as 1773 ( though his sons settled there between 1762 – 1766 ) fought for the British at the Battle of Bennington on 16 August 1777, along with four of his sons: Jonathan ( 1734 – 1818 ), Elisha ( 1738 – 1805 ), Philo ( 1754 – 1837 ) --- NOTE: This is an error ... No Philo Card has been found to exist.

Chippendale married Elizabeth Davis at Fulham Parish Church on 5 August 1777.

Washington accepted, and Lafayette met him at Moland House in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on 10 August 1777.

Originally part of the Ulva estate of the MacQuarries until 1777, it was brought to the English-speaking world's attention after a visit by Sir Joseph Banks in August 1772.

Barrow was married to Anna Maria Truter ( 1777 – 1875 ) on 26 August 1799, a botanical artist from the Cape.

The Battle of Bennington occurred on 16 August 1777.

*, was one of 13 frigates authorized by the Continental Congress, launched in August 1776 ; and scuttled in November 1777 to prevent capture

* 1777 – Battle of Oriskany ( August 6 )

Following his return, Lincoln continued his campaign for the August 6 election for the Illinois General Assembly.

In late August 1861, General John C. Frémont, the 1856 Republican presidential nominee, issued, without consulting Washington, a proclamation of martial law in Missouri.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

He was named Adjutant General as a colonel in the Republic of Texas Army on August 5, 1836.

The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

In August 1940, the territory responded, with the rest of the AEF, to the call from General Charles de Gaulle to fight for Free France.

After a long history as proprietary software, it was released as free software on 6 August 2012, under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Chiang Ching-kuo orchestrated the controversial court-martial and arrest of General Sun Li-jen in August 1955, for plotting a coup d ' état with the American CIA against his father Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang.

Its last General Secretary was Vladimir Ivashko, chosen on August 24, 1991.

Ivashko remained for five days as acting General Secretary until August 29 when the party's activity was suspended by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

General Krulak was assigned as commanding general, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, on August 24, 1992, and was promoted to lieutenant general on September 1, 1992.

Following the takeover of English football club Aston Villa by MBNA Chairman Randy Lerner in August 2006 and as of September 19, 2006, General Krulak joined the board of Aston Villa as non-executive director, where he quickly earned the approval of the fans by taking the time to post on various Aston Villa messageboards.

In August, an official visit to the territory by then French President, General Charles de Gaulle, was also met with demonstrations and rioting.

During a visit to England he complained of dizziness and had to have his blood pressure checked on August 29, 1959 ; however, before dinner at Chequers on the next day his doctor General Howard Snyder recalled Eisenhower " drank several gin and tonics, and one or two gins on the rocks ... three or four wines with the dinner ".

In May of that year, a group of Quito notables met to dissolve the union with Gran Colombia, and in August, a constituent assembly drew up a constitution for the State of Ecuador, so named for its geographic proximity to the equator, and placed General Flores in charge of political and military affairs.

In the presence of a UN observer team, a referendum was held on August 11, 1968, and 63 % of the electorate voted in favor of the constitution, which provided for a government with a General Assembly and a Supreme Court with judges appointed by the president.

The Sixth General Assembly of the Fatah Movement, nearly 16 years after the Oslo Conference and 20 years since the last Fatah convention began on 4 August 2009, in Bethlehem, West Bank after being repeatedly postponed over conflicts ranging from who would be represented, to what venue would be acceptable.

In early August, Winston Churchill and General Alan Brooke — the British Chief of the Imperial General Staff — visited Cairo on their way to meet Joseph Stalin in Moscow.

In August 1776, British General William Howe launched a massive naval and land campaign designed to seize New York.

On August 8, 1983, Ríos Montt was deposed by his own Minister of Defense, General Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, who succeeded him as de facto president of Guatemala.

General Leclerc liberated Paris between 19 and 25 August 1944.

However, following a visit in early August to Egypt by British prime minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa.