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The hot-tempered de Salaberry was furious that Major General de Watteville and especially Sir George Prevost had arrived on the field too late to take part in the fighting but in time to submit their own dispatches claiming the victory for themselves.
Parkes considered this action a violation of the treaty rights and sent dispatches to the governor of Hong Kong, Sir John Bowring, in which he portrayed the action as an insult to the British flag.
He later joined ( 60 ) under the flag of Sir David Milne, on the North American station, where he was given the command of the Jane, a small vessel carrying dispatches between Halifax and Bermuda.
They were the sons of Major-General Sir Robert Travers ( 1770 – 1834 ) C. B., K. C. M. G., of the 95th Rifle Brigade, who was one of six brothers who again all served in the military, and one of three to be knighted for their services, including Rear-Admiral Sir Eaton Stannard Travers ( 1777 – 1858 ), who was engaged in battle with the enemy upwards of over one hundred times, and was mentioned in dispatches eight times for gallantry.

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Bland's observations at Brandywine supplied General Washington with the correct location of Lord Cornwallis ' and Howe's main armies ; Bland wrote two separate dispatches and Col James Ross of the 8th Pennsylvania wrote another dispatch reporting on the British.
* 1957: James Reston, The New York Times, " for his distinguished national correspondence, including both news dispatches and interpretive reporting, an outstanding example of which was his five-part analysis of the effect of President Eisenhower's illness on the functioning of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
In 1759, Colonel John Hale of the 47th Foot was ordered back to Britain with General James Wolfe's final dispatches and news of his victory in the Battle of Quebec.
Trevor Royle quotes James Turner who in his memoirs reported that after skirmish in Kilwarlin woods, Irish prisoners were given " bad quarter, being shot dead ", but two other eye witness accounts of the skirmish, ( a letter by Roger Pike and the dispatches of Major-General Robert Monro, the Protestant commander ), do not mention the killing of prisoners.
Back at the flophouse, Charlie is prevented from settling down by a loud, singing drunk ( James T. Kelley ) whom he eventually — and somewhat affectionately — dispatches with a champagne bottle.

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Adams depended largely on the dispatches of foreign ambassadors and observers in England, claiming that the reports of such agents had to be accurate because there were no newspapers.
Nelson's first set of dispatches were captured when Leander was intercepted and defeated by Généreux in a fierce engagement off the western shore of Crete on 18 August 1798.
According to Frémont they were carrying Mexican military dispatches.
The most notable examples of these were HMS Pickle, which raced back to England with news of the British victory and the death of Admiral Lord Nelson at the end of the Battle of Trafalgar, and HMS Whiting ( 79 tons and four guns ), which lowered anchor in the harbor of Hampton Roads on 8 July 1812, carrying dispatches.
Laureate letters were once the dispatches announcing a victory.
His dispatches to the Times were collected into three volumes ( A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States ( 1856 ), A Journey Through Texas ( 1857 ), A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853-4 ( 1860 )) which remain vivid first-person social documents of the pre-war South.
His urgent dispatches to Richmond were treated with disbelief — Davis and Robert E. Lee ( now the general in chief of all the Confederate armies ) could not believe that Sherman was advancing without a supply line as quickly as Beauregard was observing him do.
He made a special request for dispatches from Rome, to keep him updated on how his chariot teams were doing.
According to the official returns recorded by each British ship, and repeated in dispatches from Nelson and forwarded by Parker to the Admiralty, British casualties were 264 killed and 689 wounded.
His dispatches, many of which were written before reaching Alaska, incorrectly implied an easy and inexpensive trip.
Still only 21, she spent nearly half a year reporting the lives and customs of the Mexican people ; her dispatches were later published in book form as Six Months in Mexico.
The development of efficient submarine cable networks and the electric telegraph allowed Bly to send short progress reports, though longer dispatches had to travel by regular post and were thus often delayed by several weeks.
If someone dispatches the hero on a quest, the overt reason may be false, with the dispatcher actually sending him on the difficult quest in hopes of his death in the attempt, or in order to remove him from the scene for a time, just as if the claim were sincere, except that the tale usually ends with the dispatcher being unmasked and punished.
He wrote dispatches from the front line which were published in Haaretz and later as a book, In the Fields of Philistia (, Bi-Sdot Pleshet ).
Burgoyne never received Clinton's dispatches following this victory, as all three messengers were captured.
He had trouble socializing while in Spain, however, and amused himself by sending humorous dispatches to his political bosses in the United States, many of which were later collected and published posthumously in 1899 as Impressions of Spain.
Among the items printed were articles about Africa, letters of praise, official dispatches stressing the prosperity and steady growth of the colony, information about emigrants, and lists of donors.
He and three other reporters were expelled in 1923 when Soviet authorities, who routinely censored foreign reporters ' telegraphed dispatches, found articles by the four reporters, disguised as personal letters, being smuggled out in a diplomatic mailpouch to avoid censorship.
Peter Fryer, correspondent for the CPGB newspaper The Daily Worker, reported accurately on the violent suppression of the uprising, but his dispatches were heavily censored ;
In addition to the MM awarded to Powers, GRDEFOs and ADGs were awarded an MBE, eight mentions in dispatches and four Distinguished Flying Medals of the ten awarded to RAAF members.
The rest of the battalion were awarded two Military Crosss ( MC ) and one Military Medal ( MM ), and a number were mentioned in dispatches.
The rest of the battalion were awarded three MCs and one MM, and a number were mentioned in dispatches.

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During this time he wrote regular dispatches to his superiors in Florence, many of which have survived and are published in Machiavelli's Collected Works.
* The London Gazette Extraordinary, 6 November 1805 original published dispatches, Naval History: Great Britain, EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe, Brigham Young University Library.
It is involved in research and analysis of a variety of issues of importance to contemporary Jewry, and its findings are published in the form of policy dispatches.
* In time of war, dispatches from the various conflicts are published in The London Gazette.
:" Press dispatches having been sent for political purposes, from Salt Lake City, which have been widely published, to the effect that the Utah Commission, in their recent report to the Secretary of the Interior, allege that plural marriages have been contracted in Utah since last June or during the past year, also that in public discourses the leaders of the Church have taught, encouraged and urged the continuance of the practice of polygamy —
The visits from June 2007 to June 2008 to eastern Afghanistan to the Korengal Valley with Tim Hetherington resulted not only in their reports and pictures published in Vanity Fair in 2008 and the film Restrepo ( 2010 ), but also in Junger's best-selling book War ( 2010 ), which rewrites and expands upon his Vanity Fair dispatches.
He received a Stern Fund Magazine Writers ' Award ( 1964 ) for his dispatches from South Vietnam, published in The Nation ; a Verville Fellowship ( 1989 – 90 ) at the National Air and Space Museum to work with Japanese accounts of the air war in Southeast Asia ; and an Aviation-Space Writers ' Association Award of Excellence ( 1992 ) for his history of the Flying Tigers.
and wrote dispatches, submitted tapes and photos for both the local newspaper and CBS's local affiliate that were published under " Bill's Excellent Adventure.

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Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire, learning about the expulsion of Jews from Spain, dispatches the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of Thessaloniki ( currently in Greece ) and İzmir ( currently in Turkey ).
With his help, the Assembly supported a proposal to build a relay line from Paris to Lille ( fifteen stations, about 120 miles ), to carry dispatches from the war.
He then thinks about the gentlewoman at whose house Mr Allworthy is accustomed to lodge when in town and dispatches Partridge to the house where he is able to secure two rooms.
In one of the more amusing dispatches, Pollitt ( 1936 ) informed his Soviet contact about a recent visit to France to make campaign appearances for candidates from the French Communist Party.
When Gates sent him to Congress with official dispatches about the victory at the Battle of Saratoga, Wilkinson kept Congress waiting while he attended to personal affairs.
In 1768, the eastern islands were visited by French explorer Bougainville, who named them the Navigator Islands, a name used by missionaries until about 1845 and in official European dispatches until about 1870.
Graydon dispatches one of his followers to infect a baseline humans in contact with a number of known mutants and begins making public announcements about the dangerous plague carrying mutants.
His dispatches about the suppression of a slave revolt in Honduras were seen by William Wilberforce and other philanthropists, and contributed in no slight degree to the 1834 abolition of slavery within the British Empire.
His dispatches were hugely significant: for the first time the public could read about the reality of warfare.
In his dispatches after the battle, Chares complained so bitterly about Iphicrates and Timotheus that the Athenians put them on their trial.
After conferring with Governor Patrick Henry about frontier defenses, he returned to Pittsburgh with dispatches for General Edward Hand, who greeted him with suspicion.
Wanting to complete the sequence properly, but worried about a repeat of the earlier response to the radar scan, the crew dispatches a robotic rover to reproduce the completed signal close to the humanoid structure.
* That have not been asked: ten dispatches about endurance in face of walls, 2005
Foreign office press director Mikhail Kharlamov cautioned that, although pre-approval of reports would no longer be required, foreigners were still required to keep copies of all dispatches for future review, and that persons who " circulated unfounded rumors about the Soviet Union " were still subject to expulsion.
There were about five and a half days rations of coffee, and less than two days of bread and salt left ; the distance to the Black Hills was definitely not known, and the Ree Indian scouts, who alone knew anything of the intervening country, left us at this point to carry dispatches to Fort Lincoln.
In his dispatches to Party leadership Končar bragged about causing " such panic among Italians, that 200 armed men could have liberated Split without shots being fired ".
Virtually all of Ōshima's dispatches were intercepted: approximately 75 during the 11 months of 1941, some 100 in 1942, 400 in 1943, 600 in 1944, and about 300 during the just over four months of 1945 when Germany was at war.
The files contain copies of dispatches about an audience he had with Pope Leo XIII and a proposed exchange of diplomats between Russia and the Vatican with particular view to the unrest in Catholic Poland.

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