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Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve ( July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976 ) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable.
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Holland, minister of the Ottawa church, in 1898, Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association in 1908, Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, minister of the Halifax Universalist Church in 1909, and Horace Westwood, a Unitarian minister in Winnipeg in 1913.
The likes of Bob Dylan, Serge Gainsbourg and The Rolling Stones combined popular musical traditions with modernist verse, adopting literary devices derived from James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, James Thurber, T. S. Eliot, Guillaume Apollinaire, Allen Ginsberg, and others.
Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the presidency, and made the concessions necessary for the passage of the League of Nations treaty in late 1920, the United States would have been much more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler, which began in the following year.
Notable Unitarians include Béla Bartók the 20th century composer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in theology and ministry, Charles Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Linus Pauling in science, George Boole in mathematics, Susan B. Anthony, John Locke in civil government, and Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice, Charles Dickens, John Bowring and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in literature, Frank Lloyd Wright in arts, Josiah Wedgwood in industry, Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics, and Charles William Eliot in education.
Samuel Eliot Morison ( 1971 ) suggested the southern part of Newfoundland ; Erik Wahlgren ( 1986 ) Miramichi Bay in New Brunswick ; and Icelandic climate specialist Pall Bergthorsson ( 1997 ) proposed New York City.
The historian Samuel Eliot Morison wrote " this occurs at Angouleme ( New York ) rather than Refugio ( Newport ).
He also illustrated more than 50 works by other authors, including Samuel Beckett, Edward Lear, John Bellairs, H. G. Wells, Alain-Fournier, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Florence Parry Heide, John Updike, John Ciardi and Felicia Lamport.
It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time, including Charles Darwin, Samuel Colt, members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
b. The Founding of Harvard College, Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1935, pages 91 and 396.
This was a particularly bitter blow because of a change in his family's economic circumstances — the failure of his father, Samuel Atkins Eliot, in the Panic of 1857.
Another son, Samuel Atkins Eliot II ( August 24, 1862-October 15, 1950 ) was a Unitarian minister who became the first and longest-serving president of the American Unitarian Association ( 1900 – 1927 ).
Professor Dennis Showalter, the 2005 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Military History, is an expert on World War II, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at West Point and the United States Air Force Academy, reviewer for the History Book Club, and author of Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, the 1992 winner of the American Historical Association's Paul Birdsall Prize.
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Halsey received much criticism for his decisions during the battle, with naval historian Samuel Morison terming the Third Fleet run to the north " Halsey's Blunder ".
Samuel Loring Morison was a government security analyst who worked on the side for Jane's, a British military and defense publisher.
Historian Samuel E. Morison wrote in 1949 that Spruance was subjected to much criticism for not pursuing the retreating Japanese, and allowing the retreating Japanese surface fleet to escape.
Commager was coauthor, with Samuel Eliot Morison, of the widely-used history text The Growth of the American Republic ( 1930 ; 1937 ; 1942 ; 1950, 1962 ; 1969 ; 7th ed., with William E. Leuchtenburg, 1980 ; abridged editions in 1980 and 1983 under the title Concise History of the American Republic ).
Commager was representative of a whole generation of like-minded historians who were widely read by the general public, including Samuel Eliot Morison, Allan Nevins, Richard Hofstadter, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and C. Vann Woodward.
Commager and his co-author Samuel Eliot Morison received vigorous criticism from African American intellectuals and other scholars for their very popular textbook The Growth of the American Republic, first published in 1930.
* The Growth of the American Republic ( with Samuel Eliot Morison, New York: Oxford University Press, 1930 Oxford History of the United States ; 7th ed., 1980 .. Revised and abridged edition with Samuel Eliot Morison and William E. Leuchtenburg published by Oxford University Press in 1980 as A Concise History of the American Republic, rev.
Samuel Eliot Morison was born July 9, 1887 in Boston, Massachusetts to John Holmes Morison ( 1856 – 1911 ) and Emily Marshall ( Eliot ) Morison ( 1857 – 1925 ).
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# Samuel Philips Lee ( February 13, 1812 – June 5, 1897 ); Rear Admiral ; married Elizabeth Blair, daughter of Francis Preston Blair
Believing that de Grasse would return a portion of his fleet to Europe, Rodney detached Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Hood with 14 ships of the line and orders to find de Grasse's destination in North America.
On April 7, 1863, Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, led an ironclad attack against Fort Sumter that was repulsed by highly accurate artillery fire from Beauregard's forces.
Samuel Francis Du Pont ( September 27, 1803 – June 23, 1865 ) was an American naval officer who achieved the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, and a member of the prominent Du Pont family ; he was the only member of his generation to use a capital D. He served prominently during the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, was superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, and made significant contributions to the modernization of the U. S. Navy.
Many of the monuments from later centuries commemorate notable residents of Beckett Hall, including John Wildman ( c. 1621 – 93 ), Rothesia Ann Barrington ( died 1745 ; monument sculpted by Thomas Paty ), John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington ( 1678 – 1734 ), William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington ( 1717 – 93 ; monument designed by James Wyatt and sculpted by Richard Westmacott ) and Rear Admiral Samuel Barrington ( 1729 – 1800 ; monument sculpted by John Flaxman ).
He was promoted to Rear Admiral in August 1862, and in September passed command of the squadron to Acting Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee.
Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Du Pont, in honor of Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont.
He then spent the next three years as aide to the Superintendent of the U. S. Naval Academy, Rear Admiral Samuel S. Robison.
He was commended for gallantry in action by Rear Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont ; his name was sent to Congress for a vote of thanks by President Abraham Lincoln.
" His son Charles I. du Pont took over management of the wool manufacturing business upon his death, and his other son Samuel Francis du Pont was a Rear Admiral in the U. S. Navy during the Civil War.
His paternal grandfather, Samuel Eliot Morison, was a distinguished naval historian, a Rear Admiral in the Naval Reserve and Harvard University professor.
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