According to Daniel Wheeler's Life and Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 1 ( of 10, Vincent & Parke, 1908 ) pp. 26-27: Thomas Paine accompanied Colonel John Laurens to France and is credited with initiating the mission.

Historians have questioned the relationship of Henry Laurens and Thomas Paine to Robert Morris as Superintendent of Finance and his business associate Thomas Willing.

The credit for obtaining the critical loans in 1781 and 1782, and first " organizing " the Bank of North America for approval by Congress in December 1781 should certainly include Henry or John Laurens and Thomas Paine.

He was the son-in-law of John Witherspoon and Henry Laurens, and thus was also related ( by marriage ) to South Carolina Governor Charles Pinckney, Ralph Izard, John Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, Daniel Huger and Lewis Morris.

In Nagisa Oshima's film the same year, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, based on Laurens van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower, Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp.

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It was written by Oshima and Paul Mayersberg and based on Laurens van der Post's experiences during World War II as a prisoner of war as depicted in his works The Seed and the Sower ( 1963 ) and The Night of the New Moon ( 1970 ).

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At this time most thoughts were concentrated on the ongoing World War I, and Laurens made his contribution to the war effort serving his time with the 16th Regiment Engineers ( Railway ) American Expeditionary Force in France.

Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE ( 13 December 1906 – 16 December 1996 ) was a 20th-century Afrikaner author, farmer, war hero, political adviser to British heads of government, close friend of Prince Charles, godfather of Prince William, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist.

* 16 December – Laurens van der Post, author, farmer, war hero, political adviser, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer, and conservationist, dies at the age of 90

* 13 December — Laurens van der Post, author, farmer, war hero, political adviser, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer, and conservationist, is born in Philippolis.

Afrikaner author and war hero Sir Laurens van der Post worked closely with Dr.

In March 1779 Congress approved the concept, commissioned John Laurens as Lieutenant Colonel, and sent him south to recruit a regiment of 3000 blacks.

Captain Henry Bird of the 8th Regiment led a British and Native American siege of Fort Laurens in 1779.

Resources were scarce on the frontier, however, and Fort Laurens was abandoned in 1779.

Fort Laurens was abandoned in 1779.

Meanwhile his colleague and commander of the New York fleet, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves, had spent several weeks trying to intercept a convoy organized by John Laurens to bring much-needed supplies and hard currency from France to Boston.

In this he was assisted by a Dutch captain, Laurens Heemskerck, who had fled to England after having been condemned to death for cowardice shown during the Battle of Lowestoft.

Paton's writer colleague Laurens van der Post, who had moved to England in the 1930s, helped the party in many ways.

More importantly, much was made of a draft treaty of commerce, secretly negotiated between the Amsterdam banker Jean de Neufville and the American agent in Aix-la-Chapelle, William Lee, with the connivance of the Amsterdam pensionary Van Berckel, and found among the effects of Henry Laurens, an American diplomat who had been apprehended by the British cruiser HMS Vestal in September, 1780, on the high seas.

A treaty of amity and commerce was however concluded with the Americans in October, 1782, after John Adams, who succeeded Henry Laurens, had managed to obtain diplomatic recognition of the American republic from the States-General in April, 1782.

Dublin is the principal city of the Dublin Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Johnson and Laurens counties and had a combined population of 53, 434 at the 2000 census.

The town, along with a reference to the Oconee river and Laurens County, is mentioned in the opening paragraph of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: " nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselves to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time.

Governor had assisted in getting the Greenville Laurens Railroad Company to come through the village.

Dessert Company on Brunel Drive closed in March 2000 with the loss of 700 jobs when Laurens received the Tesco order which they had supplied.

The apparent dissent between the D66 cabinet ministers opinion ( that Verdonk did not have to go ) and the D66 parliamentary group opinion ( that Verdonk had to go ) resulted in some tense hours where it appeared that the two D66 cabinet ministers Laurens Jan Brinkhorst and Alexander Pechtold had broken away from their party, supporting the cabinet but not their party member Lousewies van der Laan.

John Laurens was born in 1754 to Henry Laurens and Eleanor Ball in Charleston, South Carolina ; both their families were planters who had grown wealthy through cultivation of rice based on slave labor.

In the summer of 1777, after the Revolutionary War had started, Laurens accompanied his father to Philadelphia, where the senior man was to serve in the Continental Congress.

After his father Henry Laurens returned from his own imprisonment in London, he had his son's remains moved to his plantation, called Mepkin, near Moncks Corner.

Henry Laurens ( John Laurens ' father ) had been ambassador to the Netherlands but was captured by the British on his return trip there.

By 1773, Williams had started a farm and built a mill in the Ninety-Six District on the western frontier ( in what is modern Laurens County, South Carolina ), and was an officer in the local militia.

He was trained in Haarlem, where his earliest paintings show the influence of Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne, who became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1649, and whose son Laurens van der Vinne listed " Evert Colier " in 1702 as one of the Haarlem guild members who had known his father.

They were nephews of Daniel Laurens Barringer, who had previously been a Congressman from North Carolina.

Ramsay was also the author of several minor works, including a memoir ( 1812 ) of his third wife Martha Laurens Ramsay, a well-educated woman who had served as a political hostess for her father, Henry Laurens, during the 1780s.

Alvin Ray Straight ( October 17, 1920 – November 9, 1996 ) was a resident of Laurens, Iowa, who gained fame for traveling on a 1966 John Deere riding lawn mower to visit his 80-year-old brother Henry in Blue River, Wisconsin who had recently had a stroke.

Paul Revere was descended from Huguenot refugees, as was Henry Laurens, who signed the Declaration of Independence for South Carolina ; Jack Jouett, who made the ride from Cuckoo Tavern to warn Thomas Jefferson and others that Tarleton and his men were on their way to arrest him for crimes against the king ; Francis Marion, and a number of other leaders of the American Revolution and later statesmen.

Laurens was reported to have told the French that without aid for the Revolution, the Americans might be forced by the British to fight against France.

They lived in Laurens, South Carolina for two years, where Andrew found work as a tailor.

* 1906 – Sir Laurens van der Post, South African author ( d. 1996 )

The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company.

About 30 years later American engineer and inventor Laurens Hammond filed U. S. Patent 1, 956, 350 for a new type of " electrical musical instrument " that could recreate a pipe organ-type sound.

Laurens as he appears in the National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C.

A 1568 history by Hadrianus Junius of Holland claims that the basic idea of the movable type came to Gutenberg from Laurens Janszoon Coster via Fust, who was apprenticed to Coster in the 1430s and may have brought some of his equipment from Haarlem to Mainz.

* 1895 – Laurens Hammond, American inventor ( d. 1973 )

John Chrysostom confronting Aelia Eudoxia, in a 19th Century painting by Jean-Paul Laurens.

Statue of Laurens Janszoon Coster on the Grote Markt in Haarlem, where he was born.

Laurens Janszoon Coster ( ca.

1440 ), or Laurens Jansz Koster, is the name of an inventor of a printing press from Haarlem.

There are no known works printed by Laurens.

Statue of Laurens Janszoon Coster designed by Romeyn de Hooghe.

He is said to have printed several books including Speculum Humanae Salvationis with several assistants including the letter cutter Johann Fust, and it was this letter cutter Fust ( often spelled Faust ) who, when Laurens was nearing death, broke his promise of secrecy and stole his presses and type and took them to Mainz where he started his own printing company.

* 1724 – Henry Laurens, American merchant, slave trader, and political leader ( d. 1792 )

Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology — the astrological ' judgement ', or assessment, of the ' quality ' ( and thus potential ) of events such as births, weddings, coronations etc .— but was heavily criticized by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl for incompetence and for assuming that " comparative horoscopy " ( the comparison of future planetary configurations with those accompanying known past events ) could actually predict what would happen in the future.

Jean-Paul Laurens, Le Pape Formose et Étienne VII (" Pope Formosus and Stephen VII "), 1870.

Jean-Paul Laurens, Le Pape Formose et Étienne VII (" Pope Formosus and Stephen VII "), 1870.

Tadema is an old Frisian patronymic ( meaning ' Adam-son ', the suffix ma being ' son of '), while the names Laurens and Alma came from his godfather.

His father died when Laurens was four, leaving his mother with five children: Laurens, his sister, and three boys from his father ’ s first marriage.