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Wallace and leads
A trail in the canyon leads to a stone cabin built in the early 1930s, formerly the vacation home of Wallace Pratt, a petroleum geologist who donated the land in order to establish the park.
In the 1954 musical film White Christmas his picture is used to depict an Army buddy ( named " Freckle-Faced Haynes ") of lead characters ( Wallace and Davis ) played by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, and also the brother of the female leads ( the Haynes Sisters ) played by Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.
2000: Rusty Wallace leads 114 laps, and is leading late when Bobby Labonte charges down the back stretch.
Wallace is known for his somewhat reckless style of play that leads to his frequent injuries .< ref >
In 1967, Wallace V. Whipple, owner of a vast manufacturing corporation, decides to upgrade his plant to increase output by installing a machine named the " X109B14 modified transistorized totally automated machine ," which leads to layoffs.
That, along with the revelation about his father, leads Wallace to leave town to go live with his biological father in Chicago.

Wallace and army
Leading the English army himself, Longshanks confronts the Scots at the Battle of Falkirk where noblemen Lochlan and Mornay betray Wallace.
The following year William Wallace and Andrew de Moray raised forces to resist the occupation and under their joint leadership an English army was defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
The film incorrectly showed him taking the field at Falkirk as part of the English army ; he never betrayed William Wallace ( despite having changed sides ).
Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297, and was Guardian of Scotland, serving until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk.
On 11 September 1297, an army jointly led by Wallace and Andrew Moray won the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
They plundered Lothian and regained some castles, but failed to bring Wallace to combat ; the Scots shadowed the English army, intending to avoid battle until shortages of supplies and money forced Edward to withdraw, at which point the Scots would harass his retreat.
* July 22 – Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England defeats a Scottish army led by William Wallace.
Grant's superior, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, was concerned about Confederate reinforcements retaking the forts, so Grant left Wallace with his brigade in command at Fort Henry while the rest of the army moved overland toward Fort Donelson.
At about 6 a. m. on April 6, 1862, when Grant's army was surprised and virtually routed by the sudden appearance of the Confederate States Army under Albert Sidney Johnston, Grant sent orders for Wallace to move his division up to support the division of Brig.
Wallace was the youngest general of his rank in the army and was something of a " golden boy.
Wallace resigned from the army on November 30, 1865.
The disorderly Scottish army of 1296 was gone: Wallace and Moray's hold over their men was tight.
Wallace went on to lead a destructive raid into northern England which did little to advance the Scots objectives, whatever effect it had on the morale in his army.
On Saturday they and Wallace rode on to the bridge, which was of good plain board, well made and jointed, having placed watches to see that none passed from the army.
On 11 September 1297, a large English force under the leadership of John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, and Hugh de Cressingham was routed by a much smaller Scottish army led by Wallace and Andrew Moray at Stirling Bridge.
As the English army retreated, Wallace chased them down and killed 500 of them.
Some parts of it are at variance with contemporary sources e. g. the work describes Wallace leading an army to the outskirts of London, and it includes some episodes of doubtful accuracy before Wallace enters history with the Action at Lanark.
Led by King Edward I of England, the English army defeated the Scots, led by William Wallace.
In 1848, after her father was elected president, Mary Elizabeth married William Wallace Smith Bliss, an army officer who had served with her father.
On December 8, 1848, Mary married William Wallace Smith Bliss, an army officer who had served with her father.
Sir Alexander Schyrmeschur, Hereditary Royal Standard Bearer, served as Standard Bearer for the army of Sir William Wallace, the Guardian of the Kingdom of Scotland.
He subsequently merged his forces with those led by William Wallace and jointly led the combined army to victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Surrey now mustered an army and marched into central Scotland ; Moray and Wallace responded by entrusting the ongoing siege of Dundee castle to the townspeople and marching with their army to Stirling, where they waited for his arrival.

Wallace and victory
In 1869 the Wallace Monument was erected, very close to the site of his victory at Stirling Bridge.
The First War of Scottish Independence can be loosely divided into four phases: the initial English invasion and success in 1296 ; the campaigns led by William Wallace, Andrew de Moray and various Scottish Guardians from 1297 until John Comyn negotiated for the general Scottish submission in February 1304 ; the renewed campaigns led by Robert the Bruce following his killing of The Red Comyn in Dumfries in 1306 to his and the Scottish victory at Bannockburn in 1314 ; and a final phase of Scottish diplomatic initiatives and military campaigns in Scotland, Ireland and Northern England from 1314 until the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328.
The revolts which broke out in early 1297, led by William Wallace, Andrew de Moray and other Scottish nobles, forced Edward to send more forces to deal with the Scots, and although they managed to force the nobles to capitulate at Irvine, Wallace and de Moray's continuing campaigns eventually led to the first key Scottish victory, at Stirling Bridge.
This gave the city defenses time to organize and repel Early, who arrived at Fort Stevens in Washington at around noon on July 11, two days after defeating Wallace at Monocacy, the northernmost Confederate victory of the war.
... General Wallace contributed on this occasion by the defeat of the troops under him, a greater benefit to the cause than often falls to the lot of a commander of an equal force to render by means of a victory.
A great propaganda victory was achieved in 1305 when Wallace was betrayed by Sir John de Menteith and turned over to the English, who had him taken to London where he was publicly executed.
The teams split the first four games before Miami took an 88 – 76 victory in Game 5, but in the process lost Wade to a strained rib muscle which he suffered in an attempt to take a charge against Pistons forward Rasheed Wallace.
Toward the end of a Pacers victory over the Detroit Pistons at The Palace of Auburn Hills on November 19, 2004, the Pacers ' Ron Artest committed a hard foul against Ben Wallace.
They were dislodged the following year, after the victory of Andrew Moray and William Wallace at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Treen attributed Boggs's victory to the supporters of former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace Jr., who ran for president on the American Independent Party ticket.
Wallace was elected governor in a landslide victory in November 1962.
However, it was Wallace, not Folmar, who made the victory speech on election night.
Chandler endorsed dark horse candidate Wallace G. Wilkinson in the 1987 Democratic primary, and his endorsement was considered crucial to Wilkinson's victory in the race.
On April 4, Bremer attended a Wallace victory rally at the ballroom of a Holiday Inn in Milwaukee.
The sole editor for Chronicles awards was Andrew I. Porter, while David Pringle earned Interzones, Ann VanderMeer and Stephen H. Segal were the editors for Weird Taless victory, David Langford was the editor when Ansible was awarded, and Clarkesworld Magazines winning year was under Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, and Cheryl Morgan.
William Wallace is said to have led the Scots to victory over the English at Dunnottar in 1296.
Treen attributed Boggs ' victory to the supporters of former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, who ran for president on the American Independent Party ticket.
The Scottish victory exposed the north of England to Scottish raids led by William Wallace.
On April 26, 2008, Sara Tucholsky, a reserve outfielder on the Wolves softball team ( 2005 – 08 ), hit the first home run of her college career in a victory over Central Washington University, but injured her knee rounding first base ; Central Washington's Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace carried Tucholsky around the rest of the bases to home plate.
Some historical examples of the tactical use of choke points are King Leonidas's defense of the Pass of Thermopylae during an invasion led by Xerxes I of Persia, William Wallace's victory over the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge ( Wallace had around 2, 300 men against the English army of about 9, 000 to 12, 000 men and the bridge collapsed during the battle ), and the Battle of Agincourt, where Henry V of England decisively defeated the French when they were forced to attack his smaller army through a narrow gap in the Agincourt Woods.
For instance, the film depicts a heroic charge under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore at the end of the battle that destroys the Vietnamese reserve, ending the battle in an American victory ( a fact that director Randall Wallace noted in the DVD commentary ); in fact, there was no heroic final charge in the book, nor were the forces of the North Vietnamese destroyed, though, it should be noted, 1800 out of 4000 Vietnamese soldiers were killed to 72, out of 395, American fatal casualties.
Wallace had another good performance in a victory against the New York Jets in week 16, but lost to the eventual NFC champion Arizona Cardinals in week 17.

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