Charles Vallancey, for example, published a work in 1772 attempting to prove that the Irish language was Phoenician, while John Pinkerton's A Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths ( 1787 ) attempted to show that the Scots were Scythians who had originated in Central Asia.

Railroad contracts were subsequently a mainstay of Pinkerton's until railroad companies gradually developed their own police departments in the years following the Civil War.

Pinkerton's agents in Europe were instructed to meet every steamship that arrived from New York to see if she had made the transatlantic crossing.

Among mourners at the funeral were Screaming Lord Sutch and Pinkerton's Assorted Colours group members.

The contract specified the terms and conditions under which Pinkerton's services were purchased.

McKeown has also appeared on numerous television series including: Yes Minister ( 1980 ), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1981 ), Pinkerton's Progress ( 1983 which he also wrote for ) and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ( 1992 ).

Pinkerton's agency solved a series of train robberies during the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with George McClellan and Abraham Lincoln.

The story opens with Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where the protagonists Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in Russell Square.

Pinkerton's business insignia was a wide open eye with the caption " We never sleep.

Following Pinkerton's service with the Union Army, he continued his pursuit of train robbers, such as the Reno Gang and the famous outlaw Jesse James.

After James allegedly captured and killed one of Pinkerton's young undercover agents, who was foolish enough to gain employment at the farm neighboring the James farmstead, he finally gave up the chase.

Some consider this failure Pinkerton's biggest defeat.

Pinkerton's Tomb, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.

Pinkerton's role in foiling the assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln was dramatized in the 2012 film Saving Lincoln, which tells President Lincoln's story through the eyes of Ward Hill Lamon, a former law partner of Lincoln who also served as his primary bodyguard during the Civil War.

Pinkerton's agents performed services which ranged from undercover investigations and detection of crimes to plant protection and armed security.

The historian Sharon Turner later used Pinkerton's research and identified the Saxons as being Scythian.

Onarga was also the location of Allan Pinkerton's weekend estate, The Larches.

In early 1901, through the American detective agency Pinkerton's, he negotiated a return of the painting for $ 25, 000.

Pinkerton's agents performed services ranging from security guarding to private military contracting work.

* Abraham Lincoln, B. F. Pinkerton's ship in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly

A railroad bridge over the Monongahela near the site of the battle is named Pinkerton's Landing Bridge in honor of the dead.

* Allan Pinkerton ( 1819 – 1884 ), who achieved fame in the United States by establishing Pinkerton's detective agency.

It is not known to have been printed before 1786, when it appeared in Pinkerton's Ancient Scottish Poems.

Pinkerton's ship eventually sets sail from Japan.

Weeks pass with Cho-Cho-San anxiously scanning the horizon for the arrival of Pinkerton's ship.

After the founding of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in 1863, Pinkerton's and the new railroad police agencies became instrumental in crushing strikes of rail workers.

However, Pinkerton's renumbering of the War on Terrorism as the " Twelfth Crusade " has been overshadowed by references to the title of the Cockburn column.

These patrons were intrigued by the novelty of a female writer and had her compose texts about their romantic exploits.

Allen wrote accounts of his exploits in the war that were widely read in the 19th century, as well as philosophical treatises and documents relating to the politics of Vermont's formation.

Throughout the 19th century, these anti-Napoleonic Freikorps were greatly praised and glorified by German nationalists, and a heroic myth built up around their exploits.

His exploits were legendary, making him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniards to whom he was known as El Draque, Draque being the Spanish pronunciation of " Drake ".

His continental exploits required troops from Britain, and it appears that forts at Chester and elsewhere were abandoned in this period, triggering raids and settlement in north Wales by the Irish.

Its exploits during its eight-month cruise through the Mediterranean were a major morale booster for the Ottomans.

The large production, using the finest French artists, of propaganda paintings glorifying the exploits of Napoleon, were matched by works, showing both victories and losses, from the anti-Napoleonic alliance by artists such as Goya and J. M. W.

Moreover, the ease with which the Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula was directly and immediately continued by the exploits of conquistadors beyond the Atlantic clearly shows that for Spaniards at the time, conquest of non-Christian territory and its transformation into a Catholic, Spanish-speaking land were legitimate, whether or not a claim of prior possession of the land could be advanced.

Each of these exploits were used in his paintings, as he often incorporated some of his designed furniture into the composition, and must have used many of his own designs for the clothing of his female subjects.

His successes as President were over shadowed by the " Ohio Gang " criminal exploits, the detrimental image of his social drinking and his alleged extramarital affairs.

Georgia's political and cultural exploits of Tamar's epoch were rooted in a long and complex past.

In the 1940s and early 1950s there were several films made about the exploits of Allied agents in occupied Europe, which could probably be considered as a sub-genre.

The heroic exploits of Wallace were passed on to posterity mainly in the form of tales collected and recounted by the poet Blind Harry, the Minstrel (?- 1492 ) whose original, probably oral sources were never specified.

His reckless courage and fighting spirit were known far beyond Connecticut's borders through the circulation of folk legends celebrating his exploits.

During World War II, various British and Commonwealth units, including the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ), the No. 1 Demolition Squadron or ' PPA ' ( Popski's Private Army ), and the Special Air Service ( SAS ) were noted for their exploits in the deserts of Egypt, Libya and Chad using unarmored motor vehicles, often fitted with machine guns and cannons of various types.

' It is still debated as to what extent the exploits of notable knights and historical figures such as Saladin, Godfrey of Bouillon, William Marshal and Bertrand du Guesclin set new standards of knightly behavior, or were instead reflections of existing models of conduct.

Notable exploits during the campaign were the seizure of the Dagu Forts commanding the approaches to Tianjin, and the boarding and capture of four Chinese destroyers by Roger Keyes.

* In the Graphic Art Novel The Last Coiner, authored by Peter M. Kershaw in prelude to The Yorkshire Coiners film aka The Last Coiner, and the interactive game Coins and Nooses, were produced with their basis taken from the exploits of the prolific maestros of 18th Century milling, the Cragg Vale Coiners who smelted King George III's currency which ultimately lead to the Monarch ordering their execution by hanging at Tyburn.

Friese-Greene's later exploits were in the field of colour in motion pictures.

There were efforts in 2008 to create a dry glue that exploits the effect, and success was achieved in 2011 to create an adhesive tape on similar grounds.

Officers like De Jesus Antonio, TT D Abreu Capt Ndume and Da Costa were the forefront because of their combat and language skills and also the exploits of South African pilot Neall Ellis and his MI-24 Hind gunship.

The X-wing comic series, written by Michael A. Stackpole and published by Dark Horse Comics, were the first works of Star Wars literature to focus on the adventures and exploits of the squadron.

Wells ' novel The War of the Worlds exploits invasion panics that were common when science fiction was first emerging as a genre.