* December 4 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General Sherman's campaign of destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to Savannah, GA ( Union forces suffer more than 3 times the casualties as the Confederates, however ).

By 1931, much of Mohenjo-Daro had been excavated, but excavations continued, such as that led by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, director of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1944.

Following the Partition of India, the bulk of the archaeological finds were inherited by Pakistan where most of the IVC was based, and excavations from this time include those led by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in 1949, archaeological adviser to the Government of Pakistan.

The excavations at Maiden Castle, Dorset, in October 1937 were led by Mortimer Wheeler.

Rohrabacher was led to Afghanistan by his contact with the mujahideen, Jack Wheeler.

, the commission claims 700 members led by Chairman Keith Wheeler.

This belief, coupled with the lure of the advantages of the tutorial system and the fact that the Baptist Church remained the only Free Church denomination without a college in one of the ancient universities, led Wheeler Robinson to decide to relocate the College to Oxford.

In recent years several further realisations of the symphony have been attempted: Remo Mazzetti initially made his 1989 version from dissatisfaction with the existing Cooke, Carpenter, and Wheeler editions, though the spur of preparing a performance of Wheeler's version in 1997 led him to recant his earlier view.

Seeing the ' spontaneous advance ' of the 1st Infantry Brigade led by the 10th Cavalry, General Wheeler ( having returned to the front ) gave the order for Col. Kent to advance with his whole division while he returned to order the 3rd Brigade into the attack.

In 1874 Cope was employed with the Wheeler Survey, a group of surveys led by George Montague Wheeler that mapped parts of the United States west of the 100th meridian.

At Wheeler, he was named " Mr. Basketball " in back-to-back seasons, and he led the school to a state title as a junior in 1994.

The Gillette Stadium food service, instead of being outsourced like most NFL teams, is run in-house and is led by the Patriots executive director of foods and beverage David Wheeler.

Increasing construction costs and financing problems ( caused primarily by the inability of local governments to contribute their share of Metro's funding ) led WMATA to consider whether to shift the Green Line to a more southerly route along Wheeler Road SE to terminate near Rosecroft Raceway.

In 1878, a Wheeler Survey topographical party led by rancher Charles Thomas of Garner Valley climbed the peak.

Increasing construction costs and financing problems ( primarily caused by the inability of local governments to contribute their share of Metro's funding ) led Metro to consider whether to shift the Green Line to a more southerly route along Wheeler Road SE to terminate near Rosecroft Raceway.

It was led for many years by Rob Wheeler, a New Zealand Evangelist and Peter Morrow, an Australian evangelist.

Named in honor of Major George Montague Wheeler ( 1842 – 1905 ) who for ten years led a party of surveyors and naturalists collecting geologic, biologic, planimetric and topographic data in New Mexico and six other southwestern states.

In the 1940 presidential election, there was a large movement to " Draft Wheeler " into the presidential race, possibly as a third party candidate, led primarily by John L. Lewis.

On 12 April 1915 at Shaiba, Mesopotamia, Major Wheeler led his squadron in an attempt to capture a flag which was the centre-point of a group of the enemy who were firing on one of his troop's picquets.

On 13 April Major Wheeler led his squadron to the attack of the North Mound.

Major Wheeler at once led a charge, receiving in the process a severe bayonet wound in the head.

It flies above the prison's walls as Brigadier General Wheeler arrives and Colonel Winter is led away in handcuffs.

Wexford led by four points with seventeen minutes left to play, however, history was against Wheeler ’ s team.

Wheeler fought at the Battle of Perryville in October and after the fight performed an excellent rearguard action protecting the army's withdrawal.

" Bragg dealt with this rivalry in the Tullahoma Campaign by assigning Wheeler to guard the army's right flank while Forrest guarded the left.

Wheeler and his troopers guarded the army's left flank at Chickamauga in September 1863, and after the routed Union Army collected in Chattanooga, Gen. Bragg sent Wheeler's men into central Tennessee to destroy railroads and Federal supply lines in a major raid.

Wheeler transferred to the cavalry branch and commanded the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the Left Wing in the Army of Mississippi from September to October.

Jacob F. Kent commanded the 1st Division, Henry W. Lawton commanded the 2nd Division, and Joseph Wheeler commanded the dismounted Cavalry Division but was suffering from fever and had to turn over command to General Samuel S. Sumner.

V Corps – Major General William Rufus Shafter, Corps Executive Officer – Major General Joseph Wheeler ( Cavalry Division )

* Cavalry Division ( Dismounted ) – Major General Joseph Wheeler, Division Executive Officer Samuel S. Sumner ( 1st Brigade ) was in command of the division when the battle began as General Wheeler was ill. Wheeler returned to the front once the battle was underway.

The Cavalry Corps of Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, reinforced by a brigade under Brig.

Kilpatrick slipped by the defensive line that Wheeler had placed near Brier Creek, but on the night of November 26 Wheeler attacked and drove the 8th Indiana and 2nd Kentucky Cavalry away from their camps at Sylvan Grove.

At the Battle of Buck Head Creek on November 28, Kilpatrick was surprised and nearly captured, but the 5th Ohio Cavalry halted Wheeler's advance, and Wheeler was later stopped decisively by Union barricades at Reynolds's Plantation.

Commanding a division that included the 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry and the 10th Regular Cavalry, Wheeler engaged a rearguard under Major General Antero Rubín.

* Fisher, John E. They Rode With Forrest and Wheeler: A Chronicle of Five Tennessee Brothers ' Service in the Confederate Western Cavalry.

While Confederate Cavalry commander Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler was absent raiding Union supply lines from North Georgia to East Tennessee, Union Army commander Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman sent cavalry Brig.

When Joseph Wheeler fell ill, Sumner temporarily assumed command of the Cavalry Division.

* Wheeler's Cavalry Corps, commanded by Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, 8967 effective total present.

In June 1876, Jacob Wheeler Jr. ( Tyler Christopher ) is still a scout for Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer ( Jonathan Scarfe ) and the 7th U. S. Cavalry.

Robert Wheeler, who was attached to the 7th Cavalry in supplying Big Foot's men with blankets and food, survives the massacre but was injured by artillery.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

By 1940, Wheeler Field had evolved into a primary base for Army Air Corps pursuit ( i. e., " fighter ") aircraft such as the P-40 Warhawk, responsible for air defense of the Hawaiian Islands Territory.

The First commander of Wheeler Field was Major George E. Stratemeyer, who by 1941 was a brigadier general and Acting Chief of the Army Air Corps.

* December 27 – U. S. Army Air Corps bombers from Wheeler Field bomb lava tubes to divert a flow of lava from Mauna Loa that is threatening Hilo, Hawaii.

* June 28 – 29 – U. S. Army Air Corps Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger make the first transpacific flight from North America to the Hawaiian Islands, flying an Atlantic-Fokker C2 transport plane 2, 407 statute miles ( 3, 876 km ) from Oakland, California, to Wheeler Field, Territory of Hawaii, in 25 hours 50 minutes.

The influence of the United States in the Committee ’ s formation can also been seen in development studies of General Raymond Wheeler, the former Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers, the role of C. Hart Schaaf as the Mekong Committee ’ s Executive Agent from 1959 to 1969, and President Lyndon Johnson ’ s promotion of the Committee as a having the potential to " dwarf even our own T. V. A.

On 28 June, about a month after Dole posted the prizes, Air Corps Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger flew a three-engine Atlantic-Fokker C-2 military aircraft from Oakland Municipal Airport to Wheeler Army Airfield on Oahu in 25 hours and 50 minutes.

Dole disqualified both of them from his prizes because they did not land in Honolulu ( the Air Corps flight had been planned months prior to the prize announcement and had no intent to land other than at Wheeler ).

Historical missions include the Japanese Navy's surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor, defense of Pearl Harbor by a handful of Army Air Corps P-40 Warhawks based at Wheeler Field, fighter / bomber combat during the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Battle of Coral Sea, and the assassination of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.