Robert Anderson ( Civil War ) | Major Anderson, Ft. Sumter commander

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

Fort Sumter Medal bearing the likeness of Robert Anderson ( major ) | Major Robert Anderson, and presented to Abner Doubleday.

In 1858 he was transferred to Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor, but by the start of the Civil War, he was a captain and second in command in the garrison at Fort Sumter, under Maj. Robert Anderson.

He personally favored Robert Anderson, a Democrat, who rejected his offer ; Eisenhower then resolved to leave the matter in the hands of the party.

" When Robert B. Anderson, Eisenhower's first Secretary of the Navy argued that the Navy must recognize the " customs and usages prevailing in certain geographic areas of our country which the Navy had no part in creating ", Eisenhower overruled him: " We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

The modern meaning of the flag was forged in December 1860 when Major Robert Anderson, acting without orders, moved the U. S. garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in defiance of the power of the new Confederate States of America.

When he began his collaborative film work, he was influenced by Robert Alton and John Murray Anderson, striving to create moods and character insight with his dances.

The close-knit group included Haines and his partner Jimmie Shields, Alan Ladd, writer Somerset Maugham, director James Vincent, screenwriter Rowland Leigh, costume designers Orry-Kelly and Robert Le Maire, and actors John Darrow, Anderson Lawler, Grady Sutton, Robert Seiter and Tom Douglas.

* 1998 ( with John R. Anderson, Lynne M. Reder, K. Anders Ericsson, and Robert Glaser ).

Rock later claimed, however, that the divorce was due to Anderson openly criticizing his mother and sister in front of his son from a previous relationship, Robert Jr., which Rock took offense to.

* 1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground " Rapid Transit Railroad " that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens ' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.

Bust of Robert Menzies by sculptor Wallace Anderson located in the Prime Minister's Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens

Robert Ross, David Anderson.

* 1865: In George MacDonald's novel Alec Forbes of Howglen, the character Annie Anderson is raised by her stingy relative Robert Bruce.

Orchestral conductors such as Gillian B. Anderson, Carl Davis, Carl Daehler, and Robert Israel have written and compiled scores for numerous silent films.

In the last two seasons, Gillian Anderson became the star as David Duchovny appeared intermittently, following a lawsuit, and new central characters were introduced: FBI agents John Doggett ( Robert Patrick ) and Monica Reyes ( Annabeth Gish ).

Along with the addition of Robert Patrick to the main cast, the sequence used new images and updated photos for Duchovny and Gillian Anderson ( although Duchovny only appears in the opening credits when he himself appears in an episode ).

Works by J. C. Bach, Anton Craft, Joseph Haydn, Giuseppe Sammartini, Comenico Dragonetti and J. G. Janitsch were performed by seven instrumentalists including Anabel Brieff, flutist, Josef Marx, oboist, and Robert Conant, pianist and harpsichordist.

George's son Robert had been working in South America from 1824 to 1827 and had returned to run the Forth Street Works while George was living in Liverpool and overseeing the construction of the new line.

During the war, Krupp was allowed to take over many industries in occupied nations, including Arthur Krupp steel works in Berndorf, Austria, the Alsacian Corporation for Mechanical Construction ( Elsaessische Maschinenfabrik AG, or ELMAG ), Robert Rothschild's tractor factory in France, Škoda Works in Czechoslovakia, and Deutsche Schiff-und Maschinenbau AG ( Deschimag ) in Bremen.

In the meantime, the immediate priority was to provide accommodation for the next Parliament, and so the Painted Chamber and White Chamber were hastily repaired for temporary use by the Houses of Lords and Commons respectively, under the direction of the only remaining architect of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Sir Robert Smirke.

His life was the subject of the feature length documentary The Wit of the Staircase: The Life and Works of Robert Jordan, scheduled for release in late 2012.

* Robert Broom: A Short Bibliography of his Evolutionary Works, MPRInstitute. org site.

Category: Works by Robert Bolt

* Works by & about Robert Peel 1788 – 1850 at Internet Archive ( scanned books original editions color illustrated )

This was referenced by Richard Waller in his introduction to The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke, M. D.

He served in various positions under Robert Menzies and Harold Holt, including Minister for the Navy from 1958 – 63, Minister for Works, Minister for the Interior and Minister for Education as well as Leader of the Government in the Senate.

It is also the first story in the retrospective Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master.

Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement, built in 1829 at the Forth Street Works of Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

* The Poetical Works of Robert Stephen Hawker ( 1879 ); now first collected and arranged by J. G. Godwin ; Notice, pp. vii – xviii.

* Carnall, Geoffrey, Writers and Their Works: Robert Southey, ( Longman Group Ltd: London 1971 )

Robert Southey, Poetical Works, 1793-1810, 5 vols.

The Individual at the Crossroads: The Works of Robert Bolt, Novelist, Dramatist, Screenwriter.

Together with Robert Smirke and Sir John Soane, he became an official architect to the Office of Works in 1813, ( the appointment ended in 1832 ) at a salary of £ 500 per annum, following the death in September of that year of James Wyatt, this marked the high point in his professional life.

* Donnelly, John Patrick ( 1990 ) A Bibliography of the Works of Peter Martyr Vermigli ; compiled by John Patrick Donnelly in collaboration with Robert M. Kingdon ; with a register of Vermigli's correspondence by Marvin W. Anderson.

In the century's first decade, poetry still had a large audience ; volumes of verse published in that time included Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts, Christina Rossetti's posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, George Meredith's Last Poems, Robert Service's Ballads of a Cheechako and John Masefield's Ballads and Poems.

The first volume of the Adam brother's Works ( 1773 ) cited Kedleston Hall, designed by Robert in 1761, as an outstanding example of movement in architecture.

During their lifetime Robert and James Adam published two volumes of their designs, Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam ( in 1773-1778 and 1779 ; a third volume was published posthumously, in 1822 ).

Members of the Magnolia Borough Council ( with their committee assignments in parentheses ) are Council President Steve Whalen ( Finance and Administration ), Paula Bonamassa ( Public Works and Technology ), Robert Brandt ( Public Events and Compliance ), Anthony DePrince, III ( Public Safety ), Mary Martz ( Planning, Codes, Licensing & Street Lighting ) and Donald Wilson ( Facilities, Recreation and Community Development ).

The Borough of Bloomsbury was once known as " Johnson's Iron Works ", owned by Robert Johnson, on the north bank of the river.

Members of the Milltown Borough Council ( with their chairmanship listed in parentheses ) are Council President Richard Ryan ( Public Works and Recycling ), Gary Holsten ( Environmental, Health and Social Services ), George Murray ( Public Safety ), Robert Owens ( Parks and Recreation ) and Joseph Pietanza ( Finance, Planning and Administration ).