North Carolina Patriot militia leaders Isaac Shelby and John Sevier, from the Washington District ( now present day northeast Tennessee ), met after receiving Ferguson's " fire and sword " message and agreed to lead their militia against him.

McCoy, who still wanted to make a career in music, applied for the vacant job as guitarist in John Ferguson's band.

John Ferguson's band was unsuccessful and shortly they disbanded.

On General Ferguson's death, the colonelcy of the regiment passed to John Borthwick, the lieutenant-colonel, in October.

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.

Roy Mason is essentially a landscape painter whose style and direction has a kinship with the English watercolorists of the early nineteenth century, especially the beautifully patterned art of John Sell Cotman.

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

In 1805, English instructor and natural philosopher John Dalton used the concept of atoms to explain why elements always react in ratios of small whole numbers ( the law of multiple proportions ) and why certain gases dissolved better in water than others.

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

* 1954 – John Lloyd, English tennis player

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1925 – John Dexter, English director ( d. 1990 )

The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.

* 1692 – John Henley, English clergyman ( d. 1759 )

* 1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician ( d. 1929 )

* 2007 – John Gardner, English author ( b. 1926 )

* 2012 – John Berry, English motorcycle racing promoter and manager ( b. 1944 )

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

While Wesley freely made use of the term " Arminian ," he did not self-consciously root his soteriology in the theology of Arminius but was highly influenced by 17th-century English Arminianism and thinkers such as John Goodwin, Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond of the Anglican " Holy Living " school, and the Remonstrant Hugo Grotius.

* 1944 – John Renbourn, English guitarist and songwriter ( Pentangle )

* 1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician and inventor of the octant ( d. 1744 )

Gen. John Gibbon's brigade against a larger Confederate force, fighting it to a standstill.

In the town, the Marine brigade, still under the command of the British admiral Sir John Leake, and the governor, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt ( who had commanded the land forces in August ), and reinforced shortly before by a further 400 Royal Marines, held the fortress against repeated attacks.

Gen. John Buford's brigade, Col. Thomas T. Munford's 2nd Virginia Cavalry was overwhelmed until Stuart sent in two more regiments as reinforcements.

The York Factory Express trade route evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.

In one of the most daunting logistical efforts of the Confederacy, Longstreet, with the divisions of Lafayette McLaws and John Hood, a brigade from George Pickett's division, and Porter Alexander's 26-gun artillery battalion, traveled over 16 railroads on a route through the Carolinas to reach Bragg in northern Georgia.

Confederate troops under John Brown Gordon formed a bucket brigade to save the town from fire.

During the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), York became the largest Northern town to be occupied by the Confederate army when the division of Major General Jubal Anderson Early spent June 28 – 30, 1863, in and around the town while the brigade of John B. Gordon marched to the Susquehanna River at Wrightsville and back.

Historian John C. Waugh wrote of Pickett, " An excellent brigade commander, he never proved he could handle a division.

The brigade commanded by Major General John Lambert was held in reserve.

The fort was supplied by ships from the Pacific and by the overland York Factory Express trade route, which evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria, founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.

In the centre, the infantry brigade of Sir John Meldrum was drawn up on the left of the front line and Colonel Charles Essex's brigade on the right.

The line faced generally south-west towards the city, the reserve division under Major-General Sir John Moore on the right, the Foot Guards brigade in the centre, and three other brigades on the left.

Capell was replaced in December by Lord John Byron, who had been a successful cavalry brigade commander in the King's main " Oxford Army ".

Following them were John Cadwalader's brigade and then Daniel Hitchcock's.

When Ponsonby's command, the 5th Dragoon Guards, arrived in the Peninsula in October 1811, it became part of John Le Marchant's heavy cavalry brigade.

In 1759 he was made brigade major to Brigadier General John Stanwix, a position he continued when General Robert Monckton took over Stanwix's command in 1760.

Abercrombie commanded a brigade at Louisbourg in 1757 and became commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America after the departure of John Campbell in March 1758 ( see Commander-in-Chief, North America ).

The North Carolina lawmakers ordered judges to hold court in the western counties and arranged to enroll a brigade of soldiers for defense, appointing John Sevier to form it.

At the start of the battle, Taylor had approximately 9, 000 troops consisting of Brigadier General Alfred Mouton's Louisiana / Texas infantry division, Major General John G. Walker's Texas infantry division, Brigadier General Thomas Green's Texas Cavalry Division, and Colonel William G. Vincent's Louisiana cavalry brigade.

While Biron's troops were manoeuvring, the leading British infantry brigade had arrived, under the inexperienced but gifted John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll.

In 1989 he created the first learning algorithm for neural networks based on principles of the market economy ( inspired by John Holland's bucket brigade algorithm for classifier systems ): adaptive neurons compete for being active in response to certain input patterns ; those that are active when there is external reward get stronger synapses, but active neurons have to pay those that activated them, by transferring parts of their synapse strengths, thus rewarding " hidden " neurons setting the stage for later success.

His brigade joined Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia in late June.

In the morning light, the brigade discovered that its right flank was exposed by the distance of John French's cavalry and that Long Hill was unoccupied.