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John Henry had four siblings: Hamilton Faulk ( 1905 – 1905 ), Martha Stansbury ( 1908 – 2008 ), Mary Faulk Koock ( 1910 – 1996 ), and Texana Faulk Conn ( 1915 – 2006 ).
On 20 August, Winder had ordered Brigadier General Tobias Stansbury to move from Baltimore to Bladensburg and "... take the best position in advance of Bladensburg ... and should he be attacked, to resist as long as possible.
At 2: 30 a. m. on 23 August, Stansbury received a message from Winder, announcing that he had withdrawn across the Eastern Branch and that he intended to fire the lower bridge.
Although Smith's brigade was strongly posted behind a creek, Smith had not conferred with Stansbury before deploying his brigade, so there was a gap of a mile between them, and Smith's men could not support Stansbury.

Stansbury and position
From this position, Stansbury dominated the approaches available to the British while controlling all lines of communication.

Stansbury and on
* Stansbury Peninsula, becomes an island when waters are high, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake
For example a number of explorers who visited the area in the mid 1800s ( e. g. Emmanuel Domenech, Howard Stansbury, Jules Rémy ) noted an abundance of yellow-flowered " onions " on several of the islands, which they identified as Calochortus luteus.
* 1839-1843-Fort Stansbury was located on the Wakulla River from St. Marks.
To the north is Stansbury Island, and on the east are the Oquirrh Mountains and the Great Salt Lake and on the west side the Stansbury Mountains.
Benson Grist Mill, north of Stansbury Park, is a restoration of an actual nineteenth-century water-powered ( powered by waterflow from The Mill Pond ) wheat-grinding mill built on that site, and has grown into a recreational and historical interest area.
This organization grants preliminary approval to housing and remodeling plans within the service area ( Tooele County Engineering Department grants final approval ), and organizes outdoor activities such as Stansbury Days every third Saturday in August, Easter Egg hunts, gardening classes and other local celebrations such as fireworks displays on holidays.
Stansbury Park is located on State Route 36 about north of Tooele.
* Merlin C. Dailey, David Stansbury, Utagawa Kuniyoshi: An Exhibition of the Work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi Based on the Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Japanese Prints at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts ( Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, 1980 )
Subsequently Torrey published reports on the plants that were collected by John C. Frémont in the expedition to the Rocky Mountains ( 1845 ), those gathered by Major William H. Emory on his reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to San Diego, California ( 1848 ), the specimens secured by Captain Howard Stansbury on his expedition to the Great Salt Lake of Utah ( 1852 ), the plants collected by John C. Frémont in California ( 1853 ), those brought back from the Red River of Louisiana by Captain Randolph B. Marcy ( 1853 ), and the botany of Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves's expedition to the Zuni and Colorado Rivers ( 1854 ), also memoirs on the botany of the various expeditions for the purpose of determining the most practicable route for a Pacific Railroad ( 1855-1860 ).
She was a daughter of Joseph Stansbury, was born on the Atlantic Ocean on February 23, 1775, and being en route to Philadelphia was christened Lydia Philadelphia Stansbury.
Their acting career started in 1990, when they played " Lucas Stansbury Jones " on the soap opera General Hospital.
On 22 August, Stansbury deployed his force on top of Lowndes Hill, just to the east of Bladensburg.
Port Giles is the newest port on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, between Stansbury and Edithburgh.

Stansbury and western
Stansbury, Carrington, and Hat Islands are extensions of the Stansbury mountain range, and Strongs Knob is an extension of the Lakeside Mountains which run along the lake's western shore.
At the end of his exploration, Stansbury recommended the route from Fort Bridger in western Wyoming through Laramie Plains to the forks of the Platte ( just west of modern North Platte, Nebraska ), which later became part of the Overland Trail and Overland Stage Line.

Stansbury and Branch
Had he held Lowndes Hill, Stansbury could have made the British approach a costly one ( although this would involve fighting with the East Branch at his back, which would not improve his men's morale and might be disastrous in the case of a hasty retreat ).

Stansbury and .
Drawing in pencil by Arthur Joseph Stansbury, digitally restored.
* Don Stansbury.
Stansbury also published a formal report of his survey work which became very popular.
The Bonneville Salt Flats lie to the west, and the Oquirrh and Stansbury Mountains rise to the south.
From largest to smallest, they are Antelope Island, Stansbury Island, Fremont Island, Carrington Island, Dolphin Island, Cub Island, and Badger Island, and various rocks, reefs, or shoals with names like Strongs Knob, Gunnison Island, Goose, Browns, Hat ( Bird ), Egg Island, Black Rock, and White Rock.
The lake is deepest in the area between these island chains, measured by Howard Stansbury in 1850 at about 35 feet ( 10. 7 meters ) deep, and an average depth of 13 feet ( four meters ).
Stansbury Island and Strongs Knob remain peninsulas unless the water level rises well-above the average.
SR-138 passes through the city, heading northwest to intersect with I-80 and east to Stansbury Park.
Stansbury Park is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Tooele County, Utah, United States.
Stansbury Park is located in the northern end of Tooele Valley at the base of the Oquirrh Mountains.
Traveling by Interstate 80, Stansbury Park is 35 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.
Stansbury Park was proposed by the original developer ( Terracor ) as a planned community with a lake for sailing and canoeing, an eighteen-hole golf course, clubhouse, swimming pool, and parks.
The parks throughout Stansbury Park include baseball diamonds, soccer fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, play areas for children, skateboard park, and an astronomical observatory.
The 18-hole public golf course runs through the center of Stansbury Park.
In the winter time, Stansbury Park is often the only course open in the greater Salt Lake City area.
The Harmon's astronomical observatory, the Stansbury Park Observing Complex, is at the north end near the skateboard park.

had and chosen
They had chosen this night purposely.
At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.
Even earlier than that he had resented the fact that I had been chosen to edit the club's Reporter.
In describing it to Professor Baker after it had been chosen for production, he defended his great array of characters by declaring that he had included that many not because `` I didn't know how to save paint '', but because the play required them.
Sedgwick had chosen to follow the philosophy of Epicurus whom, with his followers, Dante put in hell ; ;
These would be two human beings, whom God had chosen.
they had chosen Catatonia because of its reputation for excellent schools, beaches, and abundance of names.
The first speaker was Amos C. Barstow who had been unanimously chosen president of the meeting.
She had chosen the spot well.
Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene -- having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 -- left that august body ( voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen to run again last November ), as the oldest man ever to serve in the Senate.
The better part of gallantry might be, perhaps, to honor her perennial good looks and her gorgeous rainbow-hued gown, and to chide the orchestra for not playing in the same keys in which she had chosen to sing.
I hadn't chosen medicine -- it had chosen me.
Since the deciding bodies he had chosen were more concerned with the former, the prizes went to scientists and not to engineers, technicians or other inventors.
After a comparison of the substances half-lives determined by Debierne, Hariett Brooks in 1904, and Otto Hahn and Otto Sackur in 1905, Debierne's chosen name for the new element was retained because it had seniority.
When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as the leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government.
Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).
Ealdred was succeeded by Wulfstan, chosen by Ealdred, but John of Worcester relates that Ealdred had a hard time deciding between Wulfstan and Æthelwig.
Instead, all services had names which, being chosen by humans, could be expected to be meaningful to users, and also could be sufficiently long enough to minimize the chance of conflicts.
Cubby Broccoli had chosen to recast the character using actor Timothy Dalton, in an attempt to re-root the Bond-brand back to a more Sean Connery-like feel.
Phillip soon decided that this site, chosen on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied James Cook in 1770, was not suitable, since it had poor soil, no secure anchorage and no reliable water source.
Artemis believed that she had been chosen by the Fates to be a midwife, particularly since she had assisted her mother in the delivery of her twin brother, Apollo.

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