, Harvey Mudd College is tied for 14th with Grinnell College, United States Military Academy, and Washington and Lee University among liberal arts colleges in the United States as rated by the U. S. News and World Report and as of 2011, is ranked as the best undergraduate engineering program at a school whose highest degree is a bachelor's or master's by U. S. News & World Report.

Stuart volunteered to be aide-de-camp to Col. Robert E. Lee and accompanied Lee with a company of U. S. Marines from the Washington Navy Yard and four companies of Maryland militia.

* 2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.

After the war, as President of what is now Washington and Lee University, Lee supported President Andrew Johnson's program of Reconstruction and intersectional friendship, while opposing the Radical Republican proposals to give freed slaves the vote and take the vote away from ex-Confederates.

* McCaslin, Richard B. Lee in the Shadow of Washington.

* Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University where Robert E. Lee is buried

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* 1914 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician, 17th Governor of Washington ( d. 1994 )

Lee had sent Early up the Shenandoah Valley to attack Washington, DC and draw troops away from Grant's Army of the Potomac.

The University of Tulsa College of Law Review ranks in the top 15 % of most cited legal periodicals as ranked by Washington and Lee University.

In March 1961, Lee enrolled at the University of Washington, majoring in drama according to the university's alumni association information, not in philosophy as claimed by Lee himself and many others.

Lee is best known as a martial artist, but he also studied drama and philosophy while a student at the University of Washington.

Harold Lee Washington ( April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987 ) was an American lawyer and politician who became the first African-American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.

There is also a cultural partnership with the state of Burgenland, Austria, and a university partnership between the University of Bayreuth and the Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

Jubal Early, in a speech at Washington College, exonerated Lee of his failure at Gettysburg and falsely accused Longstreet of attacking late on the second day and of being responsible for the debacle on the third.

He graduated with honors and enrolled at Washington and Lee University, where he majored in history.

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Washington received the appointment, and Lee was offered the subordinate rank of Major General.

When he arrived in New York to join General Washington and the main part of the Continental Army, Washington chose to show his appreciation of General Lee ( who was a very popular general officer among not only the army, but Congress ) by changing the name of Fort Constitution, which was located on the New Jersey side of the Hudson opposite Fort Washington, to Fort Lee.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;

This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.

But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.

There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.

Nathanael Greene told Washington that `` Lafayette was charmed with the spirited behavior of the militia and riflemen ''.

The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.

Washington evidently was anxious for Morgan to be cautious as well as aggressive, for on May 17th, 18th and 20th he admonished the leader of the riflemen-rangers to be on the alert.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

When it was not, one of the great dramas of Washington would be presented.

Eventually the dispute made its way to George Washington, who essentially agreed with Stark since he desperately needed the general's services.

Affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution, it was long essentially a traveling exhibit until it found a permanent home in 2011 on a former Army communications base outside Washington.

In this election, the enormously popular Washington essentially ran unopposed.

from the divorce of his own parents ; Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called the film " essentially a spiritual autobiography, a portrait of the filmmaker as a typical suburban kid set apart by an uncommonly fervent, mystical imagination ".

While Washington had essentially acceded to the British threat to burn Boston, and had not hindered their departure from the city, he did not make their escape from the outer harbor entirely easy.

As the 1909 Act did not comply with the automatic protection of the Berne Convention, statutory copyright could only be obtained by completing the necessary formalities, i. e. by registering the work with the Registrar of Copyrights in Washington, D. C .. CBS argued that Dr. King had not complied with the statute, and thus, by performing the work, he essentially granted it to the public domain.

Financially, becoming officially part of the United States made sense since British Columbia was economically essentially a satellite of San Francisco, Washington, and Oregon.

Highway 13 essentially serves the function of quick access from Washington state to the central Fraser Valley, and vice versa.

Created in 1971, it essentially consists of the Occidental Avenue S. right-of-way between S. Washington and S. Jackson Streets, plus half a city block between S. Main and S. Jackson Streets.

The way this was implemented was that every telephone in Maryland and Virginia that was in the Washington Metropolitan area was given a ' hidden ' phone number consisting of the same number in the District's area code 202, essentially making area code 202 an overlay over the entire region.

Entering his fourth season, Washington knew the only thing keeping him in the league was his guaranteed contract and that the Lakers had essentially written him off.

KGO's signal is received essentially free of static at night in locations such as Vancouver, Washington, Seattle, Washington, and San Diego, but is difficult to receive in Reno, Nevada, and other points east of the Sierra Nevada mountains due to its signal directionality.

Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post wrote that " The Brothers Grimm looks terrific, yet it remains essentially inert.

While testifying at a congressional hearing in Washington, D. C., computer expert Winn Schwartau said that “ Government and commercial computer systems are so poorly protected today they can essentially be considered defenseless-an Electronic Pearl Harbor waiting to happen .” Whether it be banking, business or social networking, most people have various amounts of personal information online.

Rita Kempley of the Washington Post described it as " a high-class tear-jerker " and a " literate hankie sopper " and added, " William Nicholson's screenplay brims with substance and wit, though it's essentially a soap opera with a Rhodes scholarship.

In 1952 he presented his work at a conference in Washington, DC, some six years before Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments was awarded a patent for essentially the same idea.