On the morning of November 17th, Cornwallis and 2,000 men had left Philadelphia with the object of capturing Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

* Keiō 4: On the 17th day of the 7th month ( September 3, 1868 ), Edo was renamed Tokyo.

On 17 January 2008, the Judge of the 17th Federal Court of Minas Gerais State forbade the sales of the game in the whole Brazilian territory.

This last phrase ( from 1 Timothy 6: 20 ) is the origin of the title of the book by Irenaeus, On the Detection and Overthrow of False Knowledge, that contains the adjective gnostikos, which is the source for the 17th Century English term " Gnosticism.

On 5 September 2012 the excavators announced that they had identified the Greyfriars church, and two days later that they had identified the location of Robert Herrick's garden where the memorial to Richard III stood in the early 17th century.

On 15 April 1746, the day before the Battle of Culloden, at Dunrobin Castle, a party of the William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland ’ s militia conducted the last siege fought on the mainland of Great Britain against Jacobin members of clan MacLeod.

On the Human Poverty Index the United States ranked 17th, one rank below the United Kingdom and one rank above Ireland.

On May 20, 1995, primarily as a response to the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, the United States Secret Service closed off Pennsylvania Avenue to vehicular traffic in front of the White House from the eastern edge of Lafayette Park to 17th Street.

On February 3, 1757, the 17th Foot was ordered to march from its garrison at Galway and prepare to be deployed overseas.

On May 5, Montgomery and the 17th Foot sailed from Cork for Halifax, Nova Scotia, arriving in July.

On the first floor are divisions covering the art and cultural history of Bayreuth's margravial period ( 17th and 18th centuries ).

On Nosy Boraha, a small island off the northeastern coast of Madagascar, Captain Misson and his pirate crew allegedly founded the famous pirate utopia of Libertalia in the late 17th century.

On 17th Boedromion, the participants began the Epidauria, a festival for Asklepios named after his main sanctuary at Epidauros.

On September 17, 1984, on the 17th anniversary of the day he hit his first home run, he hit his 500th, at Anaheim Stadium off Bud Black of the Royals.

On July 1, 2010, Brother Norman W. Hipps, O. S. B., Ph. D., began his service as the 17th President of Saint Vincent College.

On top of that, they listed him as the 17th best Mario enemy.

On the South Quay is a 17th century Merchant's House, as well as Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings.

On the 17th August 2011, to remember the 75th anniversary of Lorca ´ s assassination and to celebrate his life and legacy, this event included dance, song, poetry and dramatic readings and attracted hundreds of spectators.

On the 17th day of the Great War when Karna is trying to extricate his chariot from the mud, Arjuna ( in spite of all the cruelty and unchivalrous acts previously meted out by Karna to the Pandavas ) hesitates to kill Karna.

On the 17th day of July they sailed from Liverpool harbor on board a sailing vessel named the Republic, and after a voyage of six weeks and two days arrived safely in New York City on the 30th of August, 1845..

On the 17th, speeches by Bush and UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw explicitly declared the period of diplomacy to be over, as declared by Resolution 1441's prohibition on giving Iraq new opportunities for compliance, and that no further authorization from the UN would be sought before an invasion of Iraq ( see 2003 invasion of Iraq ).

On July 1, 1963, the wing was re-designated the 17th Bombardment Wing ( Heavy ) and continued its mission under this unit until July 7, 1975, when the last of its 11 B-52s was transferred to Beale Air Force Base, California.

On the left is the preserved 17th century townhouse Gladstone's Land owned by the National Trust for Scotland.

On February 16, Steele took his seat in Parliament.

On February 17, Russell and Cook were sent to the Pena Flor community on the Vermejo to see about renting out ranches the company had purchased.

On these bonds, price rises since February 21 easily outnumber price declines.

On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

On February 23, 1861, he arrived in disguise in Washington, D. C., which was placed under substantial military guard.

On February 7, 1837, he fought in a duel with Texas Brig.

On February 6, 1862, Union Navy gunboats quickly reduced the defenses of ill-sited Fort Henry, inflicting 21 casualties on the small remaining Confederate force.

On 22 February 1945, " speaking from London, Agatha Christie introduced the initial broadcast of the Poirot series via shortwave.

On 18 February a " confession " was extorted from Alexei which implicated most of his friends, and he then publicly renounced the succession to the throne in favour of the baby grand-duke Peter Petrovich.

On 22 February 896, Formosus led the king into the church, anointed and crowned him, and saluted him as Augustus.

On 6 February 1890, an underground explosion at Llanerch Colliery killed 176.

On April 22, 1971, syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported allegations that Capp made indecent advances to four female students when he was invited to speak at the University of Alabama in February 1968.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

On February 15, 1993, Clinton made his first address to the nation, announcing his plan to raise taxes to cap the budget deficit.

On February 11, 2010, he was rushed to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City after complaining of chest pains, and had two coronary stents implanted in his heart.

On February 8, 2010, Edward Sazonov, Physical Activity Innovations LLC, was awarded the title of Bluetooth Innovator of the Year for 2009.

On February 8, 2006, Borland announced the divestiture of their IDE division, including Delphi, JBuilder, and InterBase.

On 9 February 1953, Bedlington Grammar School pupil Charlton was spotted playing for East Northumberland schools by Manchester United chief scout Joe Armstrong.

On February 4, the Orioles signed free agent Vladimir Guerrero to be the team's designated hitter.

On February 5, 2002, George W. Bush visited the RODS laboratory and used it as a model for a $ 300 million spending proposal to equip all 50 states with biosurveillance systems.

On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history.

On February 14, 1899 the name " Broadway " was extended to the entire Broadway / Bloomingdale / Boulevard road.

On February 18, 1964, J. Armand Bombardier died of cancer at age 56.

On 15 February 2007, the first issue of a monthly comic entitled BeanoMAX was published.