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Van Rensselaer's effect on the history of the United States cannot be underestimated: the American van Rensselaers all descend from Kiliaen's son Jeremias and the subsequent family is noted for being a very powerful and wealthy influence in the history of New York and the Northeastern United States producing multiple State Legislators, Congressmen, and two Lieutenant Governors in New York.
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Possibly hoping to get Van Rensselaer out of the way, New York Governor Daniel Tompkins had put Van Rensselaer's name forward to command the American army, and he officially took command on 13 July.
The terms of the armistice permitted the use of the river by both powers as a common waterway and Brock could only watch as American reinforcements and supplies were moved to Van Rensselaer's army, without being able to take action to prevent it.
The armistice ended on 8 September, by which time Van Rensselaer's army was considerably better supplied than it had been before.
Even with Hull's failure and Dearborn's inaction, Van Rensselaer's position appeared strong.
However, Smyth, who was a regular officer although originally a lawyer by trade, steadfastly refused to obey Van Rensselaer's orders or respond to his summons.
However, Smyth made no reply to Van Rensselaer's plan.
" The same tempestuous weather drenched Van Rensselaer's troops as they stood and waited to embark.
Instead, he was met by a man who claimed to be General Stephen Van Rensselaer's secretary, Toock.
Toock was probably Major John Lovett ( Van Rensselaer's private military secretary ) in disguise, and he repeatedly stated that no exchange could be arranged until " the day after tomorrow ".
Little more than a thousand of General Van Rensselaer's men had crossed the Niagara River.
As Sheaffe's force began their advance, Scott and Wadsworth received Van Rensselaer's message.
The 80 surviving wounded in the American hospital and the 90 surviving wounded prisoners were presumably the basis for General Van Rensselaer's statement, in a letter to Dearborn on 20 October, that " the aggregate " of his information would indicate that 170 Americans had been wounded in the battle.
Stephen Van Rensselaer's popularity remained high enough that he was able to make an ( unsuccessful ) attempt to unseat Daniel Tompkins as Governor of New York, and he later served in the United States House of Representatives.
* Van Rensselaer's explanation to Gen. Dearborn as to why the Americans lost the Battle of Queenston
* October 13-Stephen Van Rensselaer's command is repulsed, on Queenston Heights by Gen. Sheaffe and Governor Brock, who is killed.
Though the military was not Van Rensselaer's major pursuit, he was a militia major-general by 1801, a path which would come to a head during the War of 1812.
To make matters worse, Brigadier-General Alexander Smyth, Van Rensselaer's subordinate, had a large force of trained regulars that was theoretically under Van Rensselaer's overall command.
On 13 October 1812, Van Rensselaer launched an attack on the British position that would evolve into the Battle of Queenston Heights, in which van Rensselaer's forces were badly beaten by the British generals Isaac Brock and, after Brock's death, Roger Hale Sheaffe.
Van Rensselaer's political ambitions were far from over, but, as Daniel Tompkins had hoped, Van Rensselaer would never become Governor of New York: He lost the gubernatorial election in April 1813 to Tompkins – Tompkins 43, 324 votes, Van Rensselaer 39, 718.
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* 1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
* In Charles Dickens's novel " The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit " the character of Augustus leaves a note addressed to his betrothed to the effect that he has sailed away to Van Diemen's Land, " Ere this reaches you, the undersigned will be -- if not a corpse -- on the way to Van Dieman's Land ".
Another method for building Van de Graaff generators is to use the triboelectric effect.
French recalled that the musicians ' contract with Van Vliet's company stipulated that Van Vliet and the managers were paid from gross proceeds before expenses, then expenses were paid, then the band members evenly split any remaining funds — in effect making band members liable for all expenses.
Van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer or Jonker ( etymologically, " young gentleman ," derivation of old German jung and Herr ; in effect, " Esquire "), a word from which the name " Yonkers " is directly derived.
Van Halen had a notable effect on the modern rock music tour with their use of the concert technical contract rider.
An English Millerite, James William Bonham, apparently sent copies of The Midnight Cry to Van Diemen ’ s Land ( now Tasmania ), though no record remains of their effect.
Such belts would be similar in effect to the Van Allen radiation belts.
In Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen, the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) ruled that the provisions of the then EEC treaty were capable of having direct effect before the national courts of EEC member states.
The story in effect combines the Rip Van Winkle-type fairy tale — where a person goes underground in the company of dwarves or elves, spending an apparently brief time but on emerging finding whole generations had elapsed — with modern science fiction having the same effect through relativity and the time dilation resulting from traveling at near-light velocities.
Not explicitly stated in any of the EU Treaties, the principle of direct effect was first established in relation to provisions of those treaties by the European Court of Justice in Van Gend en Loos v. Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen.
The ECJ first articulated the doctrine of direct effect in the case of Van Gend en Loos, the European Court of Justice laid down the criteria ( commonly referred to as the " Van Gend criteria ") for establishing direct effect.
Direct effect is applicable when the particular provision relied on fulfils the Van Gend en Loos criteria.
Leading case law for the direct effect of Directives is Van Duyn v UK which established vertical direct effect of Directives and also Marshall v Southampton & South West Health Authority which established that there is no horizontal direct effect of Directives.
In several studies examining the effect of losses in decision making under risk and uncertainty no loss aversion was found ( Erev, Ert & Yechiam, 2008 ; Ert & Erev, 2008 ; Harinck, Van Dijk, Van Beest, & Mersmann, 2007 ; Kermer, Driver-Linn, Wilson, & Gilbert, 2006 ; Nicolau, 2012 ; Yechiam & Telpaz, in press ).
Blumhofer suggests their estrangement was because Van denied Crosby the romantic love she desired due to the effect of the death of their daughter in 1859, and because their housing choices offered them little privacy.
Van and on
Not long after Colonel Van Hamm had foisted me on the Watson staff I received a salary raise and a contract on the Hetman's recommendation.
and, in contrast, are present to a relatively immense degree on a segmental basis in the dog where lobules are absent ( Van Allen and Lindskog, '31 ).
In the past the club depended largely on Van Brocklin's aerials.
Van Emde Boas observes " even if we base complexity theory on abstract instead of concrete machines, arbitrariness of the choice of a model remains.
At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan.
Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.
Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.
Depending on the distance Van Helden assumes Aristarchus used for the distance to the Moon, his calculated distance to the Sun would fall between 380 and 1, 520 Earth radii.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
Johnson supported Martin Van Buren and early on expressed an interest in the public lands, eventually being considered a father of the Homestead Act of 1862.
* 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
* 1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
A revival opened in the West End on October 6, 1989 at the Piccadilly Theatre, directed by Ian Judge, designed by Mark Thompson, and choreographed by Anthony Van Laast.
Tourists frequent the numerous white sand beaches, visit The Baths on Virgin Gorda, snorkel the coral reefs near Anegada, or experience the well-known bars of Jost Van Dyke.
Shielded as they were from observation by a slight fold in the land, their commander, Brigadier-General Van Pallandt, ordered the regimental colours to be left in place on the edge of the plateau to convince their opponents they were still in their initial position.
Broadway crosses the Harlem River on the Broadway Bridge to Marble Hill and then enters The Bronx, where it is the eastern border of Riverdale and the western border of Van Cortlandt Park.
A year later, while promoting Van Helsing, he mentioned on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that he wanted to make the movie soon.
Under some circumstances, the signal radiated from the electron guns, scanning circuitry, and associated wiring of a CRT can be captured remotely and used to reconstruct what is shown on the CRT using a process called Van Eck phreaking.
Van der Heul went on to become a master's mate on a merchant vessel, and was never convicted of piracy.
An alternative system based on six recurring narrative themes was designed by Raymond Van Over:
* Clement, Russell T. and Houze, Annick, Neo-Impressionist Painters: A Sourcebook on Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, Theo Van Rysselberghe, Henri Edmond Cross, Charles Angrand, Maximilien Luce, and Albert Dubois-Pillet ( 1999 ), Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-30382-7
Van Doesburg mainly focused on poetry, and included poems from many well-known Dada writers in De Stijl such as Hugo Ball, Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters.
), Schwitters read his poems, Vilmos Huszàr demonstrated a mechanical dancing doll and Nelly Van Doesburg ( Theo's wife ), played avant-garde compositions on piano.
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