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By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.
Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS ( 14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875 ) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day.
He devoted much time to his plantations and other business interests, including his distillery which produced its first batch of spirits in February 1797.
San Marino finally had to make a choice on February 5, 1797, when, with the arrival of a letter from General Louis Alexandre Berthier addressed to the Regents, it was required to arrest and consign the Bishop of Rimini, Monsignor Vincenzo Ferretti, accused of instigating crimes against the French, who fled with all his possessions to San Marino.
Spanish rule over the island, which nominally began in 1498, ended when the final Spanish Royal Governor, Don José Maria Chacón surrendered the island to a British fleet of 18 warships under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on 18 February 1797.
* February 14 – The Battle of Cape St. Vincent ( 1797 ), part of the Wars of the French Revolution.
* February 1 – Mary Shelley, English author ( b. 1797 )
* February 17 – Heinrich Heine, German writer ( b. 1797 )
* Willem Frederik Karel ( b. Berlin, 28 February 1797 – d. Wassenaar, 8 September 1881 ).
Article 5 of the Treaty of Tolentino ( 19 February 1797 ) definitively sanctioned the annexation, stating that " The Pope renounces, purely and simply, all the rights to which he might lay claim over the city and territory of Avignon, and the Comtat Venaissin and its dependencies, and transfers and makes over the said rights to the French Republic.
In 1797 Chodowiecki was appointed director of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, where he died on 7 February 1801.
Pius VI sued for peace, which was granted at Tolentino on 19 February 1797 ; but on 28 December of that year, in a riot blamed by papal forces on some Italian and French revolutionists, the popular brigadier-general Mathurin-Léonard Duphot, who had gone to Rome with Joseph Bonaparte as part of the French embassy, was killed and a new pretext was furnished for invasion.
Known as " the Fort ," it was set off and incorporated by the Massachusetts General Court in February 1797 as Harrington.
The Battle of Cape St Vincent ( 14 February 1797 ) was one of the opening battles of The Anglo-Spanish War ( 1796 – 1808 ) where a British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeated a larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal.
Plan of the fleet deployment during the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 </ br > by Alfred Thayer Mahan During the night came the sounds that the English fleet had been waiting to hear – the signal guns of the Spanish ships in the fog.
Horatio Nelson | Nelson receiving the surrender of the Spanish ship San José | San José at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Daniel Orme, painted 1799
The trial of Babeuf and the others, begun at Vendôme on 20 February 1797, lasted two months.
Work was begun on " The Great Stone Church " ( the only chapel building in Alta California not constructed out of adobe ) on February 2, 1797.
Heinrich Heine ( born Harry Heine, changed to Christian Johann Heinrich Heine following his conversion to Christianity from Judaism ) ( 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856 ) was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century.
Both East Windsor Township and West Windsor Township were formed when Windsor Township was split on February 9, 1797, while the area was still part of Middlesex County.
West Windsor Township was established by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 9, 1797, and incorporated on February 21, 1798.
Robert Dickey conveyed Hermitage to Joseph Baldridge by deed dated February 18, 1797.

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She wrote her " Recipe Redux " feature for the Times magazine until February 27, 2011.
In February 1903, two followers of Muhammad ` Alí, including Badi ' u ' llah and Siyyid ` Aliy-i-Afnan, broke with Muhammad ` Ali and wrote books and letters giving details of Muhammad ` Ali's plots and noting that what was circulating about ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was fabrication.
General George C. Marshall, in a memorandum to President Franklin D. Roosevelt dated 3 February 1944, wrote
On February 17, 1835, after the committee had selected the book's contents, the committee wrote that the resulting work represents " our belief, and when we say this, humbly trust, the faith and principles of this society as a body.
The specific cause is not known, but in January 1580 Oxford wrote and challenged Sidney ; by the end of the month Oxford was confined to his chambers, and was not released until early February.
In February he again wrote for his support, this time for the office of President of Wales.
Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.
Gioachino Antonio Rossini ( ( Giovacchino Antonio Rossini in the baptismal certificate ) ( 29 February 179213 November 1868 ) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces.
On February 13, 1610, Galileo wrote to the Grand Duke ’ s secretary:
In February 2009, the Polish paper Polska wrote that over one third of the Federation top officials were former Nazi activists, and based this on an article published by the German magazine Der Spiegel in 2006.
In public, Goebbels remained confident of German victory: " We live at the most critical period in the history of the Occident ," he wrote in Das Reich in February 1943.
When Servetus mentioned that he would come to Geneva if Calvin agreed, Calvin wrote a letter to Farel on 13 February 1546 noting that if Servetus were to come, he would not assure him safe conduct: " for if he came, as far as my authority goes, I would not let him leave alive.
He wrote the foreword and published in February of the following year.
Following a 1 – 0 victory against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in February 2011, described by Alan Smith as " a quite brilliant display in terms of discipline and spirit " and a " defensive masterplan " by David Pleat, Henry Winter wrote, " it can only be a matter of time before he is confirmed as long-term manager ".
Marcellus of Sida, who wrote under the Antonines, gives an account of a disease which befell people in February ; but a pathological state seems to be meant.
In February 2010, the Australian judge ruled that " Down Under " did contain a flute riff based on " Kookaburra " but stipulated that neither was it necessarily the hook nor a substantial part of the hit song ( Colin Hay wrote the song years before the flute riff was added by a later member of the band ).
Finally, in February 1311, Philip IV wrote to Clement V abandoning the process to the future council of Vienne.
In January and February 1926 Rilke wrote three letters to the Mussolini-adversary Aurelia Gallarati Scotti, in which he praised Benito Mussolini and described fascism as a healing agent.
One of the oldest records of the word samba appeared in Pernambuco magazine's O Carapuceiro, dated February 1838, when Father Miguel Lopes Gama of Sacramento wrote against what he called the samba d ' almocreve – not referring to the future musical genre, but a kind of merriment ( dance drama ) popular for black people of that time.
Jefferson wrote on February 12 1798:
George Howell wrote to Gladstone on 12 February: " There is one lesson to be learned from this Election, that is Organization ... We have lost not by a change of sentiment so much as by want of organised power ".
She also wrote a children's book, I, Lorelei, which was published by HarperCollins in February 2009.
* February 11, 1826 – Swaminarayan wrote the Shikshapatri, an important test within the Swaminarayan faith.
Charles Dickens wrote an article about her life in February 1865 in his literary magazine All the Year Round that emphasised the difficulties she had overcome, especially the scepticism of her fellow townspeople.
They had three children, Beatrice Smith ( March 19, 1911 – October 24, 1952 ), Ruth Ellen Patton Totten ( February 28, 1915 – November 25, 1993 ), who wrote The Button Box: A Loving Daughter's Memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton, and George Patton IV ( December 24, 1923 – June 27, 2004 ), who followed in his father's footsteps, attending West Point and eventually rising to the rank of Major General as an armor officer in the United States Army.

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