When Mexico rejected American annexation of Texas, Polk led the nation to a sweeping victory in the Mexican-American War, which gave the United States most of its present Southwest.

When Polk arrived in Washington, D. C. he roomed in a boarding house with some other Tennessee representatives, including Benjamin Burch.

When it became clear after another six ballots that Van Buren would not win the required majority, Polk emerged as a " dark horse " candidate.

When advised of his nomination, Polk replied: " It has been well observed that the office of President of the United States should neither be sought nor declined.

When he took office on March 4, 1845, Polk, at 49, became the youngest man at the time to assume the presidency.

When the British again refused to accept the 49th parallel boundary proposal, Polk broke off negotiations and returned to the Democratic platform " All Oregon " demand ( which called for all of Oregon up to the 54-40 line that marked the southern boundary of Russian Alaska ).

When the two met at Bragg's headquarters in the evening, Bragg placed Longstreet in command of the Left Wing of his army ; Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk commanded the Right.

) When Polk moved to terminate the joint occupation agreement, the British finally agreed to divide the region along the 49th parallel in early 1846, keeping the lower Columbia basin as part of the United States, and the dispute was settled by the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which the administration was able to sell to congress because the United States was about to begin the Mexican-American war, and the president and others argued it would be foolish to also fight the British Empire.

When the legislature acted to create the county, however, they named it after another grandson, James K. Polk, who was the Speaker of the House in the U. S. House of Representatives at the time, and later, President.

When the " Thirteen Towns ", 13 townships in Polk County, Minnesota, were opened for settlement in 1883, settlers homesteaded the region.

When President James K. Polk visited the NYIB in 1845, Crosby recited a poem she composed for the occasion that praised " republican government ".

When the Mexican-American War began, largely through the actions of his friend and former law partner, Polk, who was now president, Brown issued a call for 2, 800 volunteer soldiers for the war effort.

When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, Mason made a report of the finding to President James K. Polk.

When he was Governor he was opposed to the foreign policy of U. S. President James K. Polk, including the annexation of Texas.

When he had recovered, he sailed to the front, but was shipwrecked ; after coming ashore with a handful of companions, he crossed hostile territory to Caesar's camp, which impressed his great-uncle considerably.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

When the owner of the cargo and the carrier are separate corporations, marine cargo insurance typically compensates the owner of cargo for losses sustained from fire, shipwreck, etc., but excludes losses that can be recovered from the carrier or the carrier's insurance.

When Ribbentrop recovered, he sought a chance for increasing the agency's influence by giving Croatia independence.

When such bodies are subjected to a sinusoidally oscillating stress, the strain is neither exactly in phase with the stress ( as it would be for a perfectly elastic solid ) nor 90 degrees out of phase ( as it would be for a perfectly viscous liquid ) but rather exhibits a strain that lags the stress at a value between zero and 90 degrees: i. e., Some of the energy is stored and recovered in each cycle, and some is dissipated as heat.

When Marianne is recovered, Elinor tells her of Mr. Willoughby's visit.

When he had recovered sufficiently he addressed a standing-room-only convention organized in Washington, D. C. by the National Geographic Society and satisfactorily defended his claims.

When Theseus grew up and became a brave young man, he moved the rock and recovered his father's tokens.

When the patient is judged to have recovered from the anesthesia, he / she is either transferred to a surgical ward elsewhere in the hospital or discharged home.

When his marriage to Elizabeth, who was both a commoner and from a family of Lancastrian supporters, became public, Warwick was both embarrassed and offended, and his relationship with Edward never recovered.

When tensions arise over ownership of the recovered treasure, he tries unsuccessfully to bring the opposing sides to compromise, using a stolen heirloom jewel as a leverage.

When Patel himself came down with the disease, he immediately sent his family to safety, left his home and moved into an isolated house in Nadiad ( by other accounts, Patel spent this time in a dilapidated temple ); there, he recovered slowly.

When he recovered enough to travel, the little one-legged hero was put on a boat to the United States, with General John J. Pershing personally seeing Cher Ami off as he departed France.

When the video game market recovered by, the leading player was Nintendo's NES, with a resurgent Atari battling Sega's Master System for the number-two spot soon after.

When he recovered the rest of the text in 1843, he and others were gradually able to translate the Elamite and Akkadian sections of it, starting with the 37 signs he had deciphered for the Old Persian.

When the Phylloxera arrived, this caused a lot of people of the wine field to go bankrupt, due to a major crisis with the Cervera wine trade, which recovered somewhat with the creation of the Sindicat Agrícola ( 1919 ).

When Willus unexpectedly died, he inherited the gold watch and chain, in a collection of his personal belongings, which shortly disappeared, and he never recovered it.

When he recovered his reason in January 1455, Henry lost little time in reversing York's actions.

When Alcmaeon returned, he rescued his daughter and recovered his son.

When he is sufficiently recovered, he hurries home.

When these exiles recovered the cities, they ' no longer took a middle course '.

When Ptolemy returned to Egypt, Seleucus recovered Northern Syria and the nearer provinces of Iran.

When recovered at crime scenes or on items of evidence, sole and toe impressions can be used in the same manner as finger and palm prints to effect identifications.

When the Seleucids lost Mesopotamia to the Parthians in 141 BC, Uruk again entered a period of decline from which it never recovered.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

When Zeus ' wife Hera discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Zeus was the father, she banned Leto from giving birth on " terra firma ".

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When Abu Bakr was 10 years old, he went to Syria along with his father with the merchants ' caravan.

When my father, who had been appointed by his country as public notary in the customs at Bugia acting for the Pisan merchants going there, was in charge, he summoned me to him while I was still a child, and having an eye to usefulness and future convenience, desired me to stay there and receive instruction in the school of accounting.

When his father was slain with the priests of Nob, he escaped, and bearing with him the ephod, he joined David, who was then in the cave of Adullam ( 1 Sam.

When Högni comes to fight Heðinn on an island, Hildr comes to offer her father a necklace on behalf of Heðinn for peace ; but the two kings still battle, and Hildr resurrects the fallen to make them fight until Ragnarök.

When assured by Mersenne that it was, indeed, the product of the son not the father, Descartes dismissed it with a sniff: " I do not find it strange that he has offered demonstrations about conics more appropriate than those of the ancients ," adding, " but other matters related to this subject can be proposed that would scarcely occur to a sixteen-year-old child.

When Bixby was eight, his father enlisted in the U. S. Navy during World War II and traveled to the South Pacific.

When the character was spun off into Frasier, his father became a central character with, in a case of retroactive continuity, the explanation that Frasier was embarrassed about his father's lowbrow attitudes and thus claimed his death.

When Urgulanilla gave birth after the divorce, Claudius repudiated the baby girl, Claudia, as the father was one of his own freedmen.

When the couple married, McKinzie's father gave him the of farm land he owned.

When Camille was twelve his father sent him to boarding school in France.

When the business failed, his father would quietly turn the huge stacks of useless stationery and pencils over to his children, requiring them to use up all the material as fast as possible.

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.

When he was five, his mother took him back to Massachusetts after his father died in an unexplained plane crash.

When his father died in 1272, Edward felt in a safe enough position to wait until 1274 before returning home to claim the throne.

When Danny did return to New York, his father did not pressure him to return to school or to get a job, giving his son the chance to mature and discover his own abilities.

" When she was very young, Dena did not like seeing her father perform because she did not understand that people were supposed to laugh at what he did.

When he was about nine his father was killed in a duel and his mother left him with his prosperous architect uncles.

When his father prepared to move again, Dave decided to stay in Fort Wayne, dropping out of high school to work full-time at the restaurant.

When he was two years old, his father died of a heart attack.

When Elizabeth was 3 years old, the family moved to 142 Long Acre, where they were to live for 2 years, whilst two more children were born and her father moved up in the world, becoming not only the manager of a larger pawnbroker ’ s shop, but also a silversmith.

When Satie was four years old, his family moved to Paris, his father having been offered a translator's job in the capital.