In 1813, Williamson Dunn, Henry Ristine, and Major Ambrose Whitlock noted that the site of present-day Crawfordsville was ideal for settlement, surrounded by deciduous forest and potentially arable land, with water provided by a nearby creek, later named Sugar Creek.

Major General Richard K. Sutherland became Chief of Staff ; Brigadier General Richard J. Marshall, Deputy Chief of Staff ; Colonel Charles P. Stivers, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1 ; Colonel Charles A. Willoughby, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 ; Brigadier General Stephen J. Chamberlin, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 ; Colonel Lester J. Whitlock, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4 ; Brigadier General Spencer B. Akin, Signal Officer ; Brigadier General Hugh J. Casey, Engineer Officer ; Brigadier General William F. Marquat, Antiaircraft Officer ; Colonel Burdette M. Fitch, Adjutant General ; and Colonel LeGrande A. Diller, Public Relations Officer.

In 1800 Abram Maury laid out Franklin, the county seat, which was carved out of part of a land grant he purchased from Major Anthony Sharp.

Its fortifications had been laid out by Major Joseph Gilbert Totten, Izard's senior Engineer officer, and consisted of three redoubts and two blockhouses, linked by other fieldworks.

Colonel Seishirō Itagaki, Lieutenant Colonel Kanji Ishiwara, Colonel Kenji Doihara, and Major Takayoshi Tanaka had laid complete plans for the incident by May 31, 1931.

Major Alexander Henderson, the Laird of Westerton, drew up plans of how he wanted the village to be laid out in 1850.

As retaliation to the loss of Madras, the British, under Major Lawrence and Admiral Boscawen, laid siege to Pondicherry but were forced to raise it after thirty-one days.

" Ruhge concluded, " When Major Garnett laid out the seal, he included a number of sailing ships and on the middle left side of the seal he also drew in a steam bark.

Queen's Park, was one of Britains first municipal parks created in 1846 ; designed and laid out by Joshua Major in 1845.

Major building works took place for the 400th anniversary celebrations in 1964, when the Queen Mother laid the foundation stone for the then new Music School, subsequently opened by Felsted governor Lord Butler of Saffron Walden, ( formerly Rab Butler ).

The Atlanta Braves laid claim to the name due to their games being broadcast on cable television systems nationwide on WTBS, building a fan base in areas of the United States far removed from a Major League Baseball team.

* Fort Scott ( Plattsburgh, New York ), one of three American forts laid out by Major Joseph Totten prior to the 1814 Battle of Plattsburgh

Quark falls for a trap laid by FCA Liquidator Brunt intended to bring about Quark's utter ruin, if not death ; others cope with the fetal transplant of the O ' Brien's baby from Keiko to Major Kira.

The theme was in the air: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson's Sissinghurst Castle Garden was laid out as a sequence of such spaces, without, it seems, direct connection with the reclusive and shy Major Johnston.

The first foundation stone was laid on Saturday 3 February 1917 by Queensland Governor ( Major Sir Hamilton J. Goold-Adams ) in advance of the building's construction.

The terms are fairly safe to use on this side of the ocean, but before you start spouting them to your date, it might be best to find out if he was a member of Major Pockmanster's Delhi Regiment, since resentment toward the natives was reportedly very high in that outfit.

After receiving the Austrian letter, Serbia arrested Major Voja Tankosić ( a member of the Black Hand committee who had been pointed out by the assassins ) but then promptly released him and returned him to his unit.

Major combat in the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with Kuomintang ( KMT ) pulling out of the mainland, with the government relocating to Taipei and maintaining control only over a few islands.

The US first obtained U-2 photographic evidence of the missiles on October 14, when a U-2 flight piloted by Major Richard Heyser took 928 pictures, capturing images of what turned out to be an SS-4 construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province, in western Cuba.

Major Wheeler-Nicholson remained for a year, but cash-flow problems continued, and he was forced out.

The Red Sox have sold out every home game since May 15, 2003 ; in 2008, the park sold out its 456th consecutive Red Sox game, breaking a Major League Baseball record.

Labour Party and opposition leader Neil Kinnock made endless calls for a general election throughout 1991, but Major held out and decided not to call the election until he finally set an election date of 9 April 1992.

Since Major's election as leader, Kinnock spent the end of 1990 and most of 1991 putting pressure on Major to hold the election that year, but Major had held out and insisted that there would be no general election in 1991.

Major conservation work has been carried out since, due to the effects of London's air pollution, and extensive repairs took place after the Second World War, including the reconstruction of the Commons Chamber following its bombing in 1941.

Others, such as Major Strangways ( 1658 ) and John Weekes ( 1731 ), refused to plead, even under 400 pounds ( 180 kg ), and were killed when bystanders, out of mercy, sat on them.

Major protests and demonstrations against the constitutional amendment broke out, with large support gaining for the opposition leader Kim Dae-jung, but Park was again re-elected in the 1971 presidential election.

Titled Major Effects, Jittlov's work stood out as the best part of the special.

However, the Giants would rebound and put out a solid effort all season long, culminating with a division title and the best record in the Major Leagues.

At the beginning of the 2010 Major League Baseball season only one ( Jim Caple of ESPN. com, although he later recanted his pick before the NLCS, saying the Philadelphia Phillies would beat the Giants and advance to the World Series ) out of literally dozens of baseball writers and pundits picked the Giants to even reach the World Series, with most not expecting the Giants to even make the playoffs.

Major land reforms were carried out by Christian Democracy in the poorer rural regions in the early postwar years, with farms appropriated from the large landowners and parcelled out to the peasants.

* July 2 – Major John Talcott and his troops begin sweeping Connecticut and Rhode Island, capturing large numbers of Native Americans from Algonquian tribes and exporting them out of the Thirteen Colonies as slaves.

His cavalry captured a Union artillery battery and then he broke out of a Union Army siege headed by Major General Ulysses S. Grant.

The French garrison of Fort Vaux, led by a Major Raynal, finally surrendered on 7 June when the defenders had run out of water.

In 1737, planter William Byrd II commissioned Major William Mayo to lay out the original town grid.

Major urban fires broke out in the city in the following days, destroying what little remained of historical significance.

Major floods in 1935 and 1936 resulted in a number of deaths, and washed out the Ferry Street Bridge ( now the Clinton Street Bridge ).

Stebbins states he used to think the Major was unaware of his existence, but it turns out that the Major has numerous illegitimate children nationwide.

Orange Alternative ( Pomarańczowa Alternatywa ) is a name for an underground protest movement which was started in Wrocław, a town in south-west Poland and led by Waldemar Fydrych ( sometimes misspelled as Frydrych ), commonly known as Major ( Commander of Festung Breslau ) in the 1980s.

Major employers in the town include the NFU Mutual Insurance Company ( and Avon Insurance ), AMEC, Tesco, Morrisons, Marks & Spencer, Debenhams, B & Q and Pashley Cycles.

Most of the historical buildings are located in the diminutive old town, around the Plaça Major ( Main Square ).

Ten years later, residents leveled an Indian mound in the middle of town to make the public square and Major John McCollough built the second courthouse, the first brick structure in Milan, on this site during 1857 – 1858.

Major John Gray contributed funding for a county courthouse which was erected on the town square.

General N. Bedford Forrest and General Abel Streight skirmished briefly in the town on May 1, 1863, and Major General Lovell H. Rousseau and his cavalry occupied the town in July 1864.

Days later, on 23 May 1945, Streicher was captured in the town of Waidring, Austria, by a group of American officers led by Major Henry Plitt – who was Jewish.

There are a few Civil War monuments in town, including a statue of Major John Pelham in the city cemetery and a statue of Gen John H. Forney in the middle of the square.

Major annual community events largely reflect traditional small town American life and include the Easter Egg Hunt, Buck Creek Festival, 4th of July Picnic, concert and fireworks, Fall Carnival, Spring Fling, and the Christmas Parade.

Major roadways serving the town include Interstate 10, State Route 85, Maricopa County Route 85 and the Sun Valley Parkway.

On December 7, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed along the Arkansas River in and around the town of Van Buren resulting in a defeat for the Confederate army driving them south across the river with minimal casualties, however the Union forces captured 100 prisoners, as stated in a battle report by Samuel R. Curtis, Major General of the Union forces.

The town of Marmaduke was named for Confederate Major General John Sappington Marmaduke, who later served as Governor of Missouri.

* Israel Putnam ( 1718 – 1790 ), a Major General serving George Washington, lived in the town.

Major Rook named the town Fruitland Park for the nurseries, and the main street Berckmann Street for this friend.

Major agricultural products from the town and surrounding county include peanuts, corn, tobacco, and cotton.

The first mayor of Jakin, James Morris " Major " Bivings, named the town Jakin after one of the columns of Solomon's temple.

When the first charter of the town was secured by an attorney representing the railroad ( Middleton P. Barrow ), the name was changed to Cornelia in honor of his second wife ( and daughter of Confederate Major General Henry R. Jackson ), and so it has remained.

Major routes running through the town include:

The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway built a 66-mile branch to What Cheer via Thornburg in 1879 The town was founded by the railroad and named in memory of Major Thomas T. Thornburgh, who died in the Meeker Massacre.

Major Zach Williams, who was visiting when the town changed its name in 1849, wrote in his journal: " Muscatine in English is Fire Island ," in his list of the meanings of Sioux Indian names.

His guardian, Major Marquis Calmes, named the town after Versailles, France, in honor of General Lafayette, a family friend.

Major features of the town include the courthouse, jail, county office building, board of education, and a lake with walking path.