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A Sherman Firefly and several Cromwell tanks, supported by a 6 pounder anti-tank gun and infantrymen from 1 / 7th QRR armed with PIAT anti tank weapons, laid in wait for German tanks to move down the town's main street.
The European-American plat of the village of Onondaga was laid out by John Sherman and others, on July 13, 1870.
On of his more elaborate traps was an exquisite chicken dinner laid on good china on a table with linen cloth ( Sherman didn't buy it because he didn't believe red wine should be served with that dish ).

Sherman and great
" Conquering the Landscape ( Gary Sherman explores the life of the great American trailblazer, John Frank Stevens )", History Magazine, July 2008.
Sherman reported that his middle name came from his father having " caught a fancy for the great chief of the Shawnees, ' Tecumseh.
To Sherman's great displeasure and sorrow, one of his sons, Thomas Ewing Sherman, joined the religious order of the Jesuits in 1878 and was ordained as a priest in 1889.
Although Sherman was technically the senior officer at this time, he wrote to Grant, " I feel anxious about you as I know the great facilities Confederates have of concentration by means of the River and R Road, but have faith in you — Command me in any way.
When the city council appealed to him to rescind that order, on the grounds that it would cause great hardship to women, children, the elderly, and others who bore no responsibility for the conduct of the war, Sherman sent a written response in which he sought to articulate his conviction that a lasting peace would be possible only if the Union were restored, and that he was therefore prepared to do all he could do to quash the rebellion:
For the most part, Sherman refused to revise his original text on the ground that " I disclaim the character of historian, but assume to be a witness on the stand before the great tribunal of history " and " any witness who may disagree with me should publish his own version of facts in the truthful narration of which he is interested.
Ohio also produced a number of great Civil War figures, including William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Sheridan, and George Custer.
" If You Need Me " was " the first of several great preaching scorchers ": " Can ’ t Nobody Love You ", " You ’ re Good For Me ", and " Goodbye Baby, Baby Goodbye ", which were all arranged by Gary Sherman, the man behind many Garnet Mimms hits.
However, his resistance to Sherman did little to comfort Georgia civilians and lax discipline within his command caused great dissatisfaction.
He was the maternal grandson of notable founding father Roger Sherman ( the only person to sign all four great state papers of the U. S .: the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution ).
* " Conquering the Landscape " ( Gary Sherman explores the life of the great North American trailblazer, John Frank Stevens ), History Magazine, July 2008.
Great great nephew Roger Sherman Greene II, the son of Daniel Crosby Greene and Mary Jane ( Forbes ) Greene ; was the U. S. Vice Consul in Rio de Janeiro, 1903 – 04 ; Nagasaki, 1904 – 05 ; Kobe, 1905 ; U. S. Consul in Vladivostok, 1907 ; Harbin, 1909 – 11 ; U. S. Consul General in Hankow, 1911-14.
In the great San Fernando Valley development that Sherman, H. J.
Gerald Clery Murphy and Sara Sherman Wiborg were wealthy, expatriate Americans who moved to the French Riviera in the early 20th century and who, with their generous hospitality and flair for parties, created a vibrant social circle, particularly in the 1920s, that included a great number of artists and writers of the Lost Generation.
It is centered on the misadventures of an overweight, lazy great white shark named Sherman, his controlling, hot-tempered wife Megan, and the friends and foes they share their tropical home with.
Although not the most intelligent of all the characters, Sherman is a good-hearted great white shark and often tries to please his friends and family, but most of the time falls short because of his low IQ.
** Sherman Hill Thacher ' great grandson of Sherman Day Thacher and founder of Thacher Winery
His grandfather and great grandfather were both named Henry Sherman.
Evarts married Mehitabel Sherman, a daughter of United States Declaration of Independence signer Roger Sherman, and a member of the extended Baldwin, Hoar & Sherman family that had a great influence on U. S. public affairs.
Sherman, who took over as Handsome Dan XVII, has taken to his job with great enthusiasm and in his brief life has already been photographed with former President George Bush ' 48 and Sir Paul McCartney.
He was the great nephew of William M. Evarts, great grandson of Jeremiah Evarts and the great-great grandson of Roger Sherman.

Sherman and store
Another civilian was added to the list on October 11, when storekeeper Howard Hall was killed during a robbery of his store in Sherman, Texas.
Whitley first intended the town be named " Otis ", after Harrison Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times, and streets as Otis, Sherman, Letts ( the Broadway store ) and Ross ( after his son, Ross Whitley ) show the connections.
With the arrival of the railroad, Scales Mound's first building was constructed in the late fall 1854 ; a store built by Sherman Eddy.
The Sherman Brothers owned the first hardware store and J. T.
There were three major grocery stores in Seymour — White's, which was connected with a general store, and owned by Charles White ; the MFA supermarket, which was part of the MFA complex ( feed and agriculture, hardware and groceries ); the MFA general manager was Sherman Eddings, and two of the ladies who worked in the office were Dorothy Herman and Lucille Brown ; and Williams ', which was owned by the Williams family, who also had a variety store.
The first structure in town was a small store building moved to the site by Henry Verfurth from the nearby village of Sherman, 5 miles northwest of Creston.
The first store of any consequence in the place was established in 1867 by John Sherman.
The Nat Sherman store, located on 42nd Street in New York City.
The island also has a store, fire house, and the Sherman C. Burnham meeting hall.

Sherman and by
Sherman had accomplished this much of his job and then inexplicably nullified it by his thirty-mile retreat from Lovejoy's to Atlanta.
This claim, as submitted to the District Court and dismissed by it, 126 F.Supp.235, alleged violation not only of 7 of the Clayton Act, but also of 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act.
His contention was denied by several bankers, including Scott Hudson of Sherman, Gaynor B. Jones of Houston, J. B. Brady of Harlingen and Howard Cox of Austin.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman that he became somewhat unnerved, overestimated Johnston's forces, and had to be relieved by Brig.
The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, the experimental use of the first usable predecessor of the machine gun and of trench warfare around Petersburg, all foreshadowed World War I in Europe.
Outraged at learning that black troops had been billeted in his house in Nashville, he nullified an arrangement by Gen. Sherman to allow an abandoned coastal strip in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida be allocated to freedmen for their agricultural use.
* 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
The most commonly used grading systems are the Fontainebleau system which ranges from 1 to 8c +, and the John Sherman V-grade system, beginning at V0 and increasing by integers to a current top grade of proposed V16 ( The Wheel of Life by Dai Koyamada in the Grampians, Australia ; The Game, by Daniel Woods, Boulder Canyon, CO ; Lucid Dreaming, by Paul Robinson.
The faction led by John Marshall Harlan and Rufus Peckham embraced a small-producer ethic and a fully competitive market ; these justices used the Sherman Act's prohibition of " restraint of trade " to outlaw price fixing by businesses.
The federal government acquired no substantial new powers until the acceptance by the Supreme Court of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
* Geocaching: Hike and Seek with Your GPS by Erik Sherman ( ISBN 978-1590591222 )
The first, championed by Roger Sherman Loomis, Alfred Nutt, and Jessie Weston, holds that it derived from early Celtic myth and folklore.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
* M4 Sherman, the primary tank used by the Americans in World War II
* Underground ( 1941 film ), a war drama by Vincent Sherman
United States v. Microsoft was a set of civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation pursuant to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 Sections 1 and 2 on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice ( DOJ ) and 20 states.
The " Vulcan Soul " Trilogy, written by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, told the story that it was Surak's idea that some of the Vulcan population should leave their homeworld to find a new home so that the Vulcan race could be preserved due to the endless wars then raging on the homeworld.
* Star Trek: Vulcan's Soul is a trilogy written by Sherman and Shwartz between 2004 and 2007 ; set in the aftermath of the Dominion War, it focuses on members of Kirk's original crew becoming involved in a war between the Romulans and a fellow Vulcan off-shoot, the Watraii.
Skinheads have been known to wear long-sleeve or short-sleeve button-up shirts or polo shirts by brands such as Ben Sherman, Fred Perry, Brutus, Warrior or Jaytex ; Lonsdale or Everlast shirts or sweatshirts ; collarless grandad shirts ; V-neck sweaters ; sleeveless sweaters ; cardigan sweaters or T-shirts ( plain or with text or designs related to the skinhead subculture ).
* 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.

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