Much to the embarrassment of the President, Mary Todd Lincoln prevented Robert Lincoln from joining the Union Army until shortly before the war's conclusion in 1865.

Lincoln prevented this by praising Eckert to Stanton.

Allan Nevins is particularly scathing in his analysis: " A President more exact, systematic and vigilant than Lincoln, a Secretary more alert and clearheaded than Cameron, would have prevented these difficulties.

Butler's status as a key political ally of President Abraham Lincoln prevented General Grant from removing him from military service prior to the presidential election of November 1864.

Kentucky's constitution prevented a governor from serving consecutive terms, so Shelby retired to Traveler's Rest, his Lincoln County estate, at the conclusion of his term in 1796.

Confident of victory, and believing that Maitland would be prevented from reaching Savannah by Lincoln, he offered Prevost the opportunity to surrender.

President Abraham Lincoln prevented this order from taking effect and relieved Burnside of his command instead.

In fact, there are " almost no gynecological conditions resulting from childbirth " other than a prolapsed uterus ( which would have produced other noticeable effects on Mrs. Lincoln ) that would have prevented intercourse, and in the 1850s " many middle-class couples slept in separate bedrooms ".

Lincoln was opposed to the expansion of slavery, but held that the federal government was prevented by the Constitution from banning slavery in states where it already existed.

In addition to local supporters, the bill was also supported by the Corporations of Boston and Lincoln, as it included a clause the enable the channel beneath Lincoln High Bridge, a medieval structure which prevented navigation from the River Witham to the Brayford Pool, to be made deeper.

Matters came to a head in 1863 when Lord prevented the granting of an honorary degree to President Lincoln.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

In Taverne's case, he had been fighting efforts by the Lincoln Constituency Labour Party to deselect him largely over his support for British membership of the European Communities.

* September 14 – Andrew Lincoln, British actor

Aware that the British were housing American prisoners in the area, Lincoln decided to test the British defenses.

Huddersfield Town's Iain Dunn became the first British player to settle a match in this way-his 107th-minute goal beat Lincoln City 3-2 in the Auto Windscreens Shield on 30 November 1994.

In 2002, British author Pete Davies wrote American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age, about the 1919 Army Convoy on the Lincoln Highway.

Although the battle was tactically inconclusive, it had significance as enough of a victory to give President Abraham Lincoln the confidence to announce his Emancipation Proclamation, which discouraged the British and French governments from potential plans for recognition of the Confederacy.

* British History Online Bishops of Lincoln accessed on 28 October 2007

Paul Revere was captured by British soldiers in Lincoln on the night of April 18, 1775.

Several British soldiers who fell in Lincoln are buried in the town cemetery.

At least one other recent Lincoln Rector, Sir Maurice Shock, enjoyed a prior career in British intelligence, although there is little evidence to substantiate the college's reputation as a recruiting ground for spies.

In August 1758, the Northern Trail was improved, initially for the British military use, and renamed the Forbes Trail, later known as the Pennsylvania Road, the Lincoln Highway, and now U. S. Route 30.

* British History Online Chancellors of Lincoln accessed on October 28, 2007

* British History Online Precentors of Lincoln accessed on October 28, 2007

At Lincoln, for example, he identified three phases of urban development, beginning with a British settlement at the top of the hill ( close to which " much Romaine mony is found "), the Saxon and medieval town further south, and a more recent riverside development at Wigford.

Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister, and Dr Lancelot Ware, a British scientist and lawyer, founded Mensa at Lincoln College, in Oxford, England, in 1946.

The British had asked for the traditional Honors of War ( marching out with dignity, flags waving, muskets shouldered, and playing an enemy tune as a tribute to the victors ), but remembering that the British, on taking Charleston earlier in the war, had refused the Americans ( under Benjamin Lincoln ) the same privilege, Washington firmly denied their request.

O ' Hara offered it to Washington, but he refused to accept it, and motioned to his second in command, Benjamin Lincoln, who had been humiliated by the British at Charleston, to accept it.

Historian Richard A. McFarlane has called Rhodes " as integral a participant in southern African and British imperial history as George Washington or Abraham Lincoln are in their respective eras in United States history .... ost histories of South Africa covering the last decades of the nineteenth century are contributions to the historiography of Cecil Rhodes.

Lincoln was diplomatic enough to allow him to operate independently against the rear of General John Burgoyne's British army.

Construction of a footpath and cycleway beside the canal from Lincoln to Saxilby has been carried out by the Lincolnshire Waterways Partnership, a joint initiative by Lincolnshire County Council, the Environment Agency and British Waterways.

In 1874 and again in 1875, he presided over the Reunion Conferences held at Bonn and attended by leading ecclesiastics from the British Isles and from the Oriental non-Roman Churches, among whom were Bishop Christopher Wordsworth of Lincoln ; Bishop Harold Browne of Ely ; Lord Plunket, archbishop of Dublin ; Lycurgus, Greek Orthodox archbishop of Syros and Tenos ; Canon Liddon ; and the Russian Orthodox Professor Ossmnine of St. Petersburg.

Once in Confederate hands, Lincoln would be exchanged for the release of Confederate Army prisoners of war held captive in Northern prisons and, Booth reasoned, bring the war to an end by emboldening opposition to the war in the North or forcing Union recognition of the Confederate government.

From the beginning of their relationship, Mills arranged recording sessions on nearly every label including Brunswick, Victor, Columbia, OKeh, Perfect, Pathe, the ARC / Plaza group of labels ( Cameo, Romeo, Lincoln, Oriole, Domino, Jewel, Banner ), Hit of the Week, and Columbia's cheaper labels ( Harmony, Diva, Velvet Tone, Clarion ) labels which gave Ellington popular recognition, as well giving Ellington's fans the opportunity of hearing multiple versions of the same song.

Lincoln flatly denied recognition of the Confederacy, and said that the slaves covered by his Emancipation Proclamation would not be re-enslaved.

Encountering both insufficient endowment and trouble from the Wars of the Roses ( for their charter was from the deposed Lancastrian ), the College seems only to have survived thanks to tireless efforts by its fellows in gaining recognition of the college's validity and the munificence of a second Bishop of Lincoln, Thomas Rotherham.

Main Street was eventually renamed Lincoln Way in recognition of the new federal highway.

* Idaho tribe touts ‘ Mrs. Swing ’ s ’ Indian heritage in bid for Lincoln Center recognition.

Lincoln rejected any negotiations with the Confederate agents because he did not consider the Confederacy a legitimate nation and making any treaty with it would be tantamount to recognition of it as a sovereign government.

Lincoln balanced that rejection of triumphalism, however, with a recognition of the unmistakable evil of slavery, which he described in the most concrete terms possible.

In 1776 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Brownlow, of Belton in the County of Lincoln, chiefly in recognition of his father's services, and chose the title of the barony from the surname held by his grandmother's ancestors.

While Lloyd ’ s band was where he received international recognition for the first time, it was not the only group DeJohnette played with during his early years in New York, as he also worked with groups including Jackie McLean, Abbey Lincoln, Betty Carter, and Bill Evans.

The Lincoln Service is a rebranding of the former State House route, which was named in recognition of the train's passing through Illinois ' capital, Springfield.

Unable to win any decisive victories or to obtain foreign recognition, its main strategy by this point was merely to hold on and hope that enormous Union casualties might result in a war-weary Northern public voting Abraham Lincoln out of office in November.

" We welcome the UNESCO recognition, which highlights the importance of the holy places of a religion that in 150 years has gone from a small group found only in the Middle East to a worldwide community with followers in virtually every country ," said Albert Lincoln, secretary-general of the Baha ' i International Community.

However, by effectively declaring the Confederate States of America to be belligerents — rather than insurrectionists, who under international law would not be legally eligible for recognition by foreign powers — Lincoln opened the way for European powers such as Britain and France to recognize the Confederacy.

17092 Sharanya is a minor planet or asteroid discovered by the LINEAR programme of MIT Lincoln Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and named by researchers there for a young girl, S. Sharanya, from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, a student at Avila Convent in that town, in recognition for reaching the finals of the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

17091 Senthalir is a minor planet or asteroid discovered by the LINEAR programme of MIT Lincoln Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and named by researchers there for a young girl, P. Senthalir, from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, a student at Avila Convent in that town, in recognition for reaching the finals of the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

Following the battle in recognition of his support Ranulf was created Earl of Lincoln by King Henry III of England on 23 May 1217.