Thompson reached the partially constructed Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia, arriving two months after the Pacific Fur Company's ship, the Tonquin.

Frances Benjamin Johnston ( right ) poses with two cross-dressing friends, the " lady " is identified by Johnston as the illustrator Mills Thompson

When Thompson was two, his father died and the financial hardship of this occurrence resulted in his and his brother's placement in the Grey Coat Hospital, a school for the disadvantaged of Westminster.

On December 23, 1788, Thompson seriously fractured his leg, forcing him to spend the next two winters at Cumberland House convalescing.

By 1798 Thompson had completed a survey of from Grand Portage, through Lake Winnipeg, to the headwaters of the Assiniboine and Mississippi Rivers, as well as two sides of Lake Superior.

On July 14, 1811, Thompson reached the partially constructed Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia, arriving two months after the Pacific Fur Company's ship, the Tonquin.

Thompson was educated at two independent schools, being The Dragon School in Oxford and Kingswood School in Bath.

Within the last two decades there have been an onslaught of novels, documentaries, works of art, and websites devoted to Thompson.

J. Lyons and Co., one of the UK's leading catering and food manufacturing companies in the first half of the 20th century, sent two of its senior managers, Oliver Standingford and Raymond Thompson, to the USA in 1947 to look at new business methods developed during the Second World War.

An influential arena for the great split screen movies of the 1960s were two world's fairs-the 1964 New York World's Fair, where Ray and Charles Eames had a 17-screen film they created for IBM's " Think " Pavilion ( it included sections with race car driving ) and the 3-division film To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson, which won the Academy Award that year for Best Short.

The fourth came in St. Joseph, Missouri where Thompson and his hired bodyguard between them shot two men attempting to rob a poker game ( again, the victims were known criminals and no charges were pressed ).

and two of these unofficial codes, United States Compiled Statutes Annotated by West Publishing Co. and Federal Statutes Annotated by Edward Thompson Co.

* February 12 – Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.

Always a flamboyant campaigner, Thompson held a debate between himself and two live rats which he used to portray his opponents.

When police raided Burke's bungalow, they found a large trunk containing a bullet-proof vest, almost $ 320, 000 in bonds recently stolen from a Wisconsin bank, two Thompson submachine guns, pistols, two shotguns, and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

But the biggest achievement of Hird's coaching career would no doubt have to be the win over the previously undefeated ( a win by four points ) in Round 15, whom assistant coach Mark Thompson was coaching against for the first time since his infamous and controversial exit from the club which he coached for 11 years and won two premierships with.

It included an interview with Eye of the Devil director J. Lee Thompson, who expressed his initial doubts about Tate's potential with the comment " We even agreed that if after the first two weeks Sharon was not quite making it, we would put her back in cold storage ", but added he soon realized Tate was " tremendously exciting ".

For example, two freedwomen, Frances Thompson and Lucy Smith, describe their violent sexual assault during the Memphis Riots of 1866.

The primary drafters of 1933 Act were Huston Thompson, a former Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) chairman, and Walter Miller and Ollie Butler, two attorneys in the Commerce Department's Foreign Service Division, with input from Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

In 1853, at the height of British rule, a certain Col. Thompson of the Royal Engineers designed and erected a new gate consisting of two central arches with two smaller ones.

Two sisters, three pairs of brothers and a father and son were among those who died, as were two men about to become fathers for the first time ; 25-year-old Steven Brown of Wrexham and 30-year-old Peter Thompson of Widnes.

The theory was developed by the two psychologists Heiner Rindermann and James Thompson.

Most automatic weapons are classed as long guns ( as the ammunition used is of similar type as for rifles, and the recoil of the weapon's rapid fire is better controlled with two hands ), but handgun-sized automatic weapons also exist, generally in the " submachine gun " or " machine pistol " class.

When the lift started returning to the ground floor, ASIS officers emerged wearing masks and openly brandishing 9mm Browning pistols and Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns, two of them with silencers.

Dillinger immediately started assembling his submachine gun while the two detectives waited.

Notorious bank robber John Dillinger and some accomplices raided Auburn's police station on October 14, 1933, stealing a submachine gun, two steel vests, three rifles, six pistols and over 1000 rounds of ammunition.

For decades, Delco Remy and Guide Lamp, during World War II built the M3, M3a1 submachine gun and the liberator pistol for the allies, ( later Fisher Guide ) were the top two employers in the city.

While flying, it sprouts two more hands, two to fly the helicopter and two to reload and fire the MP5K submachine gun.

The crew was equipped with two PPSh submachine guns and twenty five F1 grenades for short-range self-defence.

The crew were given two PPSh submachine guns with 1491 rounds and 20 F-1 grenades for short range self-defence.

While at the Babylon, Tony is almost assassinated when two men attempt to kill him with submachine guns.

As they did, two gunmen hidden in a nearby rooming house opened fire with a submachine gun and shotgun.

The terrorists removed submachine guns from hand luggage bags and began firing throughout the terminal, shattering windows and killing two.

Allow players to carry two submachine guns which cause the damage of 1 per shot and with more rapid firing than Heavy Machine Guns.

Wolfwood's friend Livio wields the Double Fangs, two cross-shaped submachine guns with dual barrels that make them capable of firing forward and backward at once ; these guns are typically strapped to his wrists and, later, carried in low-slung shoulder holsters when not in use.

During that same year, the HPD purchased newer weapons to arm their officers: standard issue. 44 caliber revolvers and two Thompson submachine guns.

# Double Clip Baretta ( A submachine gun design loosely based on the Beretta M12 also supplied with two magazines.

Afghans with two captured artillery field guns in Jaji, 1984.

Historically, the use of two guns at once, one in each hand, is most associated with the American Old West, where revolvers holding only six rounds of ammunition were the highest capacity handguns available and reloading was a slow process.

Use of two guns was therefore a reasonable compromise, as this allowed one gun to be cocked as the other is being fired, in practical terms doubling the rate of fire and the available number of bullets.

A possible example of actual use of two guns firing at the same time is " Dual wield ", practiced by Russian special forces.

Using modern full capacity firearms, a shooter can fire more shots with greater accuracy using a single gun in a two-handed grip than two guns with one-handed grips.

To the south the Dutch Guards, under the command of Colonel Wertmüller, came forward with their two field guns to seize the hamlet of Franquenée.

During the First World War, on the Western front, the two sides had been locked in a trench war, where kill zones by overlapping fire of machine guns and barbed wire prevented either side from breaking through.

General Edmund Allenby used infantry, to successfully attack the strong Ottoman front line, under cover of an artillery barrage. This creeping barrage lifted and moved forward at a rate of between 50 yards ( 46 m ), 75 yards ( 69 m ) and 100 yards ( 91 m ) per minute, while 4. 5-inch howitzers fired on points beyond the barrage augmented by the guns of two destroyers firing from the Mediterranean Sea.

Twelve men survived the sinking of the submarine: the crews of her two deck guns and those who had been on the conning tower.

Strong points armed with heavy machine guns were set up around the island, particularly around the island's two airports.

For example, he painted two rail-mounted coastal guns, one in conventional style, one countershaded.

Her displacement was 380 tons, and she was armed with one 90 mm Hontoria gun, four 57 mm Nordenfelt guns, two 37 mm Hotchkiss cannons and 3 Schwarzkopf torpedo tubes.

In the simplest case an economy can produce just two goods ( say " guns " and " butter ").

ETC technology offers a medium-risk upgrade and is to the point, currently, where changes for maturity are so minor that it can be considered as a realistic replacement for current solid propellant guns within the next two decades.

They were armed with one or two Maxim or Vickers machine guns, which were easier to synchronize than other types, firing through the propeller arc.

These could be warships carrying their principal battery of carriage-mounted guns on a single deck or on two decks ( with further smaller carriage-mounted guns usually carried on the forecastle and quarterdeck of the vessel ).

In the definition adopted by the British Admiralty, they were rated ships of at least 28 guns, carrying their principal armament upon a single continuous deck — the upper deck, while ships-of-the-line possessed two or more continuous decks bearing batteries of guns.

Two of these feathers allow his guns to swivel and fire automatically ( often while Tex's hands are raised ) and the other two allow his horse ( Rocky ) and his dog ( Dusty ) to speak English.

Machine guns of this type were originally defensive firearms crewed by at least two men, mainly because of the difficulties involved in moving and placing them, their ammunition, and their tripod.

Still, possessing, manufacturing and import / exporting airsoft guns with a muzzle energy that no more than or above two joules of kinetic energy is legal to citizens in China's SARs.

The northern fortress of Eger was famously defended in the autumn of 1552 during the 39 day Siege of Eger against the combined force of two Ottoman armies numbering circa 120, 000 men and 16 ultra-heavy siege guns.

The situation in Ireland had become critical, with the two large militia organisations openly drilling, unionists having illegally imported guns, and the reliability of the British armed forces uncertain.