Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.

Lincoln resolved the issue by releasing the two men and war was successfully averted with Britain.

McClellan's letter incensed Radical Republicans, who successfully pressured Lincoln to appoint John Pope, a Republican, as head of the new Army of Virginia.

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, successfully preserved the Union ( American Civil War ) | Union during the American Civil War.

At age 19 Boole successfully established his own school at Lincoln.

He had successfully lobbied and won the vote to have the County Seat of Mason County moved to the Village of Lincoln which he controlled.

Lincoln successfully persuaded Congress to pass a special act legalizing Dahlgren's appointment to the yard, and, in July 1862, Dahlgren was promoted to the rank of captain and made chief of the Bureau of Ordnance.

* William " Duff " Armstrong, accused murderer of James Preston Metzker, was tried in Beardstown and successfully defended by Abraham Lincoln.

Upon his death his titles and estates were forfeited, but in 1323 his younger brother Henry successfully petitioned to take possession of the Earldom of Leicester, and in 1326 or 1327 Parliament posthumously reversed Thomas's conviction, and Henry was further permitted to take possession of the Earldoms of Lancaster, Derby, Salisbury and Lincoln.

The production successfully transferred to New York City's Lincoln Center in 2004.

Although Douglas successfully secured the seat by election in the Illinois legislature, Lincoln became famous for his position on slavery, which generated national support for him.

In 1531, primarily as a result of the innovative suggestion of Thomas Cranmer, who thought the King's position in the divorce would be strengthened by obtaining favorable opinions from the various universities in England and abroad, Henry VIII sent Dr. Bell, together with the bishop of Lincoln and Foxe, to deliver a letter that he had personally drafted and to canvass Oxford, for a favorable opinion concerning the King's cause ; of which they successfully secured despite the danger, being pelted with stones by the popish opposition, together while overcoming the strong resistance from the junior members of convocation.

On 3 May 2002 Lincoln successfully petitioned to go into administration but the financial crisis would leave the first team squad bereft of players as the day saw five senior players – Jason Barnett, Grant Brown, David Cameron, Steve Holmes and Justin Walker – released at the end of their contracts with a sixth, Lee Thorpe, departing for Leyton Orient.

When the gang successfully escape Lincoln, Billy mentions the Mexican Blackbird ( a broken trail only he and few others know that leads down to Mexico ).

Two days later, President Lincoln, still acting as Commander-in-Chief, directed Flag Officer Goldsborough: " If you have tolerable confidence that you can successfully contend with the Merrimac and the North used the ships ' former name without the help of the Galena and two accompanying gunboats, send the Galena and two gunboats up the James River at once to support General McClellan.

This case was decided two years before the case of Johnson v Weedman ( see infra ) in which Abraham Lincoln successfully argued that a bailee who rode a horse for 15 miles had not incurred enough damage to invoke an action in trover.

Abraham Lincoln successfully defended a case in trover where a bailed horse had been ridden by the bailee, in the case of Johnson v. Weedman.

On 3 May 2002 Lincoln successfully petitioned to go into administration but the financial crisis would leave the first team squad bereft of players as the day saw five senior players – Jason Barnett, Grant Brown, David Cameron, Steve Holmes and Justin Walker – released at the end of their contracts with a sixth, Lee Thorpe, departing for Leyton Orient.

In 1898, at the age of 55, Jessop entered Ontario politics, successfully standing as the Liberal-Conservative candidate for the riding of Lincoln.

The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.

Lincoln's followers organized a campaign team led by David Davis, Norman Judd, Leonard Swett, and Jesse DuBois, and Lincoln received his first endorsement to run for the presidency.

Confederate Vice President Stephens led a group to meet with Lincoln, Seward, and others at Hampton Roads.

" In keeping with that sentiment, Lincoln led the moderates regarding Reconstruction policy, and was opposed by the Radical Republicans, under Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Sen. Charles Sumner and Sen. Benjamin Wade, political allies of the president on other issues.

In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against expanding slavery beyond the states in which it already existed.

Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property, which led to declarations of secession by four more slave states.

Lincoln led the new Republican Party in developing their platform calling slavery a national evil, and insisting Congress end slavery expansion into the territories.

Lincoln had begun putting Reconstruction policies in place during the war, but Northern anger over his assassination and the losses of the war, led to demands for more severe policies toward the Southern states.

* June 16 – Battle of Stoke Field: The rebellion of pretender Lambert Simnel, led by John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, and Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, is crushed by troops loyal to Henry VII.

* May 20 – First Barons ' War in England: Occupying French forces are defeated at the Battle of Lincoln by English royal troops led by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke and survivors forced to flee south.

Garfield became a member of the Radical Republicans, led by Chase, in contrast with the moderate wing of the party, led by Lincoln and Montgomery Blair.

On landing on 4 June 1487, Lincoln was joined by a number of the local gentry led by Sir Thomas Broughton.

The climax was the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860, which led immediately to the secession of South Carolina, followed by six other cotton states.

Northern anger over the assassination of Lincoln and the immense human cost of the war led to vengeful demands for harsh policies.

The combined Danish and English forces defeated the Norman garrison at York, seized the castles and took control of Northumbria, although a raid into Lincolnshire led by Edgar was defeated by the Norman garrison of Lincoln.

After his army was beaten at Lincoln on 20 May 1217, and his naval forces ( led by Eustace the Monk ) were defeated off the coast of Sandwich on 24 August 1217, he was forced to make peace on English terms.

The milestone flivver led parades through most of the towns and cities along the Lincoln Highway.

However, Sigmund Feist ( 1909 ) rejects the theory on etymological grounds, as does Albert Morley Sturtevant ( 1951 ) on the grounds of major difficulties, and their points have led Bruce Lincoln ( 1977 ) to comment that " there is no reason whatever to contend that nagl-does not have its usual meaning of " nail " and that Naglfar is anything other than the nail-ship, just as Snorri describes it.

This led to the establishment of Gladding, McBean & Co., the pottery for which Lincoln is famous, ushering in a new era of prosperity and growth.

, a member of a political group in Illinois in the 1830s led by Abraham Lincoln that advocated moving the state capitol from Vandalia to Springfield.

The Choir has appeared at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC and the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall ( in New York City ) on numerous occasions, performing and premiering works such as John Corigliano ’ s “ Poem On His Birthday ,” “ Too Hot to Handel ” arranged by Broadway composers Bob Christianson and Gary Anderson and Hannibal Lokumbe ’ s “ African Portraits ,” led by music director Leonard Slatkin, as part of the Kennedy Center ’ s African Festival.

Col Abijah Pierce of Lincoln led his troops armed with a cane.

The original boundary between the two towns did not follow natural features, such as the crest of the divide that separates the Pemigewasset River and Saco River drainages, which led to numerous charges and countercharges of cutting over the line between the two owners, the Saunders family in Livermore and James Everell Henry in Lincoln.