* Universe: The Definitive Visual Dictionary, Robert Dinwiddie and others., DK Adult Publishing, ( 2005 ), pg.

Thanks also to Lawrence's involvement in the Ohio Company, a land investment company funded by Virginia investors, and Lawrence's position as commander of the Virginia militia, Washington came to the notice of the new lieutenant governor of Virginia, Robert Dinwiddie.

The new governor, Robert Dinwiddie, had imposed a fee for the certification of land patents, which the House of Burgesses strongly objected to.

Robert Dinwiddie commissions 21-year-old militia Maj. George Washington to dissuade the French from occupying the Ohio Country.

Robert Dinwiddie, British lieutenant governor of Virginia

Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia was an investor in the Ohio Company, which stood to lose money if the French held their claim.

The plan to occupy the strategic forks was formed by Virginia Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie with the advice of Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, who Dinwiddie had sent on a mission to warn French commanders in late 1753, and who had made a military assessment of the site.

The county is named for Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1751 – 58.

Scotland rugby union internationalists Duncan Hodge, Nick De Luca and Craig Hamilton were born in Dumfries as were professional golfers Andrew Coltart and Robert Dinwiddie.

Frazier settled his family on the location, and in 1753 Christopher Gist and General George Washington met with Fraser while delivering messages from Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia to French commanders in the Pittsburgh region.

In the same year he wrote to Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia as follows: " The people are all leaving the section around Frankfort in fear of the Indians and fear that in a short time it will be as desolate as all Hampshire County.

* Universe: The Definitive Visual Dictionary, Robert Dinwiddie et al., DK Adult Publishing, ( 2005 ), pg.

In the following decades, pioneer settlers arrived in the Alleghenies, especially during Colonial Virginia's Robert Dinwiddie era ( 1751 – 58 ).

The Ohio Company was composed of Virginians, including Thomas Lee as president, Nathaniel Chapman as treasurer ( 1709 – 1760 ), John Mercer as the company's secretary and general counsel, John's son George Mercer as the company's agent to England, two of George Washington's brothers, Lawrence Washington ( who succeeded to the management upon the death of Lee ) and Augustine Washington, Jr., as well as Englishmen, including the Duke of Bedford, Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie, and John Hanbury, a wealthy London merchant.

Robert Dinwiddie, governor of Virginia as well as a shareholder of the Ohio Company, responded by sending a military unit under the command of George Washington to the region, which led to the outbreak of the French and Indian War.

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Governor Robert Dinwiddie had promised bounty land to the men of the Washington's Virginia Regiment for their service in the French and Indian War.

Robert Dinwiddie, the lieutenant governor of Virginia, sent a young George Washington to travel to the French outposts and demand that the French vacate the Ohio Country.

On March 29, 1865, in the opening moves of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's spring offensive, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan marched with the army's cavalry followed by the V Corps toward Dinwiddie Court House, to turn the right flank of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Petersburg defenses.

Robert Dinwiddie, the governor of Virginia, sent Washington to Fort Le Boeuf to deliver a message to the French demanding they leave the Ohio Country.

Robert E. Lee considered that the Union troops at Reams Station represented not only a threat to his supply line, but also to the county seat of Dinwiddie County ; if Dinwiddie Court House were to fall, the Confederates would be forced to evacuate both Petersburg and Richmond because it represented a key point on the army's potential retreat route.

", was attacked by Robert South in Animadversions on Dr. Sherlock's Vindication ( 1693 ).

Newton was well known as being highly sensitive to criticism, such as the numerous instances when he was criticized by Robert Hooke, and his admitted reluctance to publish any substantial information regarding Calculus before 1693.

Thomas Hales predeceased his father, Sir Robert Hales, and his first son Sir Thomas Hales, 2nd Baronet ( Stephen Hales ' brother ) therefore succeeded to the baronetcy in December 1693.

Lord Bristol was married twice: firstly to Isabella ( died 1693 ), daughter of Sir Robert Carre, 3rd Baronet, of Sleaford, and secondly to Elizabeth ( died 1741 ), daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Felton, 4th Baronet, and his wife Lady Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk and 3rd Baron Howard de Walden.

In 1690 and 1693 he published works on the doctrine of the Trinity which helped rather than injured the Socinian cause, and involved him in a controversy with Robert South and others.

Wimpole Hall's grounds were laid out and modified by landscape designers such as George London and Henry Wise ( 1693 – 1705 ), Charles Bridgeman ( 1720s ), Robert Greening ( 1740s ), ' Capability ' Brown ( 1767 ), and Humphry Repton ( 1801 – 1809 ).

* The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, from an English version of Robert Grosseteste's 13th century Latin translation, printed from the 1693 edition with its introduction plus a modern glossary.

Robert Montagu ( d. 1693 )

* Robert Gould, The Corruption of the Times by Money ( London: Matthew Wotton, 1693 ).

* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

* 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.

* 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer ( d. 1883 )

* 1974 – Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer

* 1981 – Robert Earnshaw, Zambian-Welsh footballer

* 1893 – Robert Harron, American actor ( d. 1920 )

* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 1921 – Robert Cliche, Canadian politician and magistrate ( d. 1978 )

* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.

* 1908 – Frank Robert Miller, Canadian airman and politician ( d. 1997 )

* 1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor ( d. 1999 )

* 1955 – Robert Richardson, American cinematographer

* 1964 – Robert Bogue, American actor

* 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor ( d. 1997 )

* 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, English naval officer ( d. 1855 )

* 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1293 – Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.

* 1994 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer ( b. 1912 )

* 2005 – Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and educator ( b. 1923 )

* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )

* 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist

* 1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

* 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.