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Rockingham wrote to Augustus Keppel on 3 November 1779, saying that he believed the war against American could not be won, that the government was corrupt but not unpopular, and that the longer this continued the greater the danger to the liberties and the constitution of Britain: " Perhaps a total change of men and measures, & system in the Government: of this country might have effect on the councils of some foreign countries ... who might think that it was no longer a Court system to combat, but that the whole nation wd ; united & make the utmost efforts ".
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Rockingham did this without parental consent and Cumberland wrote to Rockingham's father, saying that his " zeal on this occasion shows the same principles fix't that you yourself have given such strong proofs of ".
Rockingham wrote to his father that Cumberland " blamed me for my disobedience, yet as I came with a design of saving my King and country ... it greatly palliated my offence ".
Rockingham wrote to Newcastle:
Rockingham wrote to Burke on 14 February 1771: " I fear indeed the future struggles of the people in defence of their Constitutional Rights will grow weaker and weaker.
Burke wrote to him on 3 July 1782: " You are Lord Rockingham in every thing.
He wrote to Rockingham that the troop movement was likely to be problematic, and the government and other reforms were more likely to succeed.
Edmund Burke wrote to Fitzwilliam on 3 July 1782: " You are Lord Rockingham in every thing.
With the mass-resignation from the Whig Club of Burke and other conservative Whig MPs, Fitzwilliam wrote to Lady Rockingham on 28 February 1793 and spoke of the Whig party split into three factions: those who wholeheartedly support the Revolution ; those who wholeheartedly condemn it, support the government and wish for a war to destroy it ; and the third ( which Fitzwilliam identified with ) " thinking French principles ... wicked and formidable, are ready to resist them " by supporting the government's " measures of vigour " but " engaging for nothing further ".
On 6 December he wrote to Lady Rockingham:
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Under the management of James Augustus Thomas from Rockingham, North Carolina, USA, by 1919 the Shanghai factory was producing more than 243 million cigarettes per week.
Keppels Column built in 1778, by the Marquis of Rockingham, built to commemorate the acquittal of Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel | Admiral Keppel on charges of Treason.
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A 115 ft ( 35 m ) Tuscan column built to commemorate the acquittal of the court-martialed Admiral Keppel, a close friend of Rockingham.
* G. Thomas, earl of Albemarle T. Keppel, Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham and His Contemporaries, 2 vols.
Keppel was by family connection and personal preference a strong supporter of the Whig connection, led by the Marquess of Rockingham and the Duke of Richmond.
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Earnhardt's team was re-christened as the No. 29 team, with the same sponsor but with a new look ( a reversed color scheme-white with black numerals and a black stripe on the bottom ) for the following races at Rockingham and Las Vegas.
Fans began honoring Earnhardt by holding three fingers aloft on the third lap of every NASCAR Cup race, and the television coverage of NASCAR on Fox and NASCAR on NBC went silent for each third lap from Rockingham to the following year's race there in honor of Earnhardt For the first three weeks after Earnhardt's death, on-track incidents brought out the caution flag on lap three.
Park won the very next NASCAR Winston Cup race: The Dura Lube 400 at North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, NC held on February 26, 2001.
Rockingham supporters protested the elections to the territorial governor, on the grounds the laborers from Dubuque were not Scott County residents.
Rockingham assumed the Premiership " on the distinct understanding that measures were to be changed as well as men ; and that the measures for which the new ministry required the royal consent were the measures which they, while in opposition, had advocated.
Settlement of the county began in 1727, when Adam Miller ( Mueller ) staked out a claim on the south fork of the Shenandoah River, near the line that now divides Rockingham County from Page County.
Rockingham is bi-sected by another geographic formation, Massanutten Mountain stretching from just east of Harrisonburg, VA to a few miles southwest of Front Royal, VA in Warren County, VA. Massanutten Mountain splits the central Shenandoah Valley as the German River and the North Fork of the Shenandoah River flow on its western side and the South Fork flows on the eastern.
Rockingham is working on developing a 10-mile " Blue Trail " for paddling and canoeing along Hitchcock Creek and a four-mile stretch of the Pee Dee River, with camping allowed at the final portage point-Diggs Tract.
It was created on December 3, 1832 and was named for George Rockingham Gilmer.
Rockingham is a small mining village along Dark Shade Creek on State Route 160.
The village is located on the site of the old Rockingham Iron Furnace, erected in 1841.
Concord was chartered on September 15, 1780 to Reuben Jones and others from Rockingham, Vermont.
Located on Rockingham Street, the Miller-Kite House was the headquarters of General Stonewall Jackson at the start of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign during the Civil War.
It is located on the northeast portion of Rockingham County, Virginia.
Cumberland's final years were lived out during the first years of the reign of his nephew, George III, who acceded to the throne on the death of William's father on 25 October 1760: Cumberland became a very influential advisor to the King and was instrumental in establishing the First Rockingham Ministry.
But Rockingham, after finally acknowledging the independence of the former Thirteen Colonies, died unexpectedly on 1 July.
Arms of Watson, Earl of Rockingham: Argent, on a chevron azure between three martlets sable as many crescents or.
Grenville was replaced as Prime Minister on July 10, 1765, by Lord Rockingham, the first lord of the treasury.
When Parliament reconvened on January 14, 1766, the Rockingham ministry formally proposed repeal.
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Richmond County Airport ( ICAO: KRCZ, FAA LID: RCZ ), formerly known as Rockingham-Hamlet Airport is located approximately 3 miles southeast of Rockingham.
Rockingham resigned as Lord of the Bedchamber on 3 November 1762 in protest at the King's policies and other Whigs associated with the Duke of Newcastle did the same.
Phase 2 brought in many updates, including the first real cars ( The BMW Sauber F1 car being included in those ), however for Phase 3 the first real-world circuit has been announced-The Rockingham Motor Speedway.
Despite failing to qualify the second race of the season at Rockingham, Harvick would go on to win the NASCAR Busch Series Rookie of the Year with 3 wins, 8 top-five finishes and 16 top-tens as well as garnering a third place points finish.
Therefore on 3 July Fitzwilliam agreed to join the coalition government as Lord President of the Council for the time being, writing that day to Lady Rockingham: " It is a time when private affection must give way to public exigency ".
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November 2003: The very secret service Michael Meacher, former member of the Blair government, discusses the role of Operation Rockingham
* Lewis Watson, 2nd Earl of Rockingham 17 November 1737 – 4 November 1745
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Alannah McTiernan, then the Opposition Transport spokesperson, attacked the plan, saying that the government should instead build a railway to Rockingham.
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