Prescott, William H. History of the Conquest of Mexico.

During that battle Putnam may have ordered William Prescott to tell his troops " Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes " ( It is debated exactly who said these words first ; they are attributed to a number of officers ).

In 1843, with the publication of the work of William H. Prescott, it was adopted by most of the world, including 19th century Mexican scholars who saw it as a way to distinguish present-day Mexicans from pre-conquest Mexicans.

He asks Captain Lewis if he knows about Colonel William Prescott.

Democratic state representatives of the county include Barbara Ballard ( 44th District ), and Paul Davis ( 46th District ), Ann Mah ( 53rd District ); Republican state representatives include Terri Lois Gregory ( 10th District ), Anthony Brown ( 38th District ), Tom Sloan ( 45th District ), and William Prescott ( 59th District ).

There has been some specualation on how Prescott was named, whether it was named after William Hickling Prescott, of Salem, Massachusetts, who was a friend of Thomas Allen and Henry Marquand, ( Cairo & Fulton Railroad officials ) or from County Surveyor, W. H. Prescott.

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The effect is named for James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin who discovered it in 1852 following earlier work by Joule on Joule expansion, in which a gas undergoes free expansion in a vacuum.

At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, on April 19, 1775, a company of minutemen from Acton responded to the call to arms initiated by Paul Revere ( who rode with other riders, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, with Prescott the only one of the three who was able reach Acton itself ) and fought at the North Bridge in Concord as part of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

* Pattee, William S., A History of Old Braintree and Quincy: With a Sketch of Randolph and Holbrook, Green & Prescott, 1879, ISBN 978-1-4367-3321-2 ( at Google Books )

A settler of the area ( since as early as 1763-1769 ), Derr had purchased several tracts of land from the William Penn family and other neighboring land owners ; the largest of which was known as " The Prescott ".

Lieutenant Colonel William Barton of Rhode Island captured the British Commander at Rhode Island, General Richard Prescott there.

* William Prescott ( 1892 – 1894 )

The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.

His long-anticipated rescue occurred on 1 February 1709 by way of the Duke, a privateering ship piloted by William Dampier.

William John Clifton " Bill " Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981 ) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians.

Charles William " Bill " Mumy, Jr. (; born February 1, 1954 ) is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community.

Clyde William Tombaugh ( February 4, 1906January 17, 1997 ) was an American astronomer.

In February 2006, a University of California Blue Ribbon Commission that included Lawrence Korb, a former assistant defense secretary during the Reagan administration, William Perry, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration, and professors from the United States Military Academy released their assessment of the GAO's analysis of the cost of DADT released a year earlier.

Based on this work, the first fuel cell was demonstrated by Welsh scientist and barrister Sir William Robert Grove in the February 1839 edition of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science and later sketched, in 1842, in the same journal.

By threatening to withdraw his troops, William in February 1689 convinced a newly chosen Convention Parliament to make him and his wife joint monarchs.

The documents did not excite Woodford and in February 1886 he passed them on to Freemason William Wynn Westcott, who managed to decode them in 1887.

Wycliffe was summoned before William Courtenay, Bishop of London, on 19 February 1377, " to explain the wonderful things which had streamed forth from his mouth ".

* Archbishop William Laud imprisoned 26 February 1641

Beginning February 29, 1928 on NBC, Socony Oil reached radio listeners with a comedy program, Soconyland Sketches, scripted by William Ford Manley and featuring Arthur Allen and Parker Fennelly as rural New Englanders.

The Olney Hymns () were first published in February 1779, and are the combined work of curate John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ) and his poet friend, William Cowper ( 1731 – 1800 ).

On February 7, Henry Smith's stepson, William Butler, was lynched outside Paris.

Pope Blessed Calixtus II ( or Calistus II ) ( died 13 December 1124 ), born Guy de Burgundy, the fourth son of William I, Count of Burgundy, was elected Pope on 1 February 1119 after the death of Pope Gelasius II.

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On February 7, 1845, the vase was shattered by William Lloyd, who, after drinking all the previous week, threw a nearby sculpture on top of the case smashing both it and the vase.

" In February 1962, three years after the 1959 " US Special Survey Team ", a Fort Bragg top-level U. S. Special Warfare team headed by Special Warfare Center commander General William P. Yarborough, visited Colombia for a second survey.

On 1 February 2009, the FARC-EP proceeded with the release of the four security force members, Juan Fernando Galicio Uribe, José Walter Lozano Guarnizo, Alexis Torres Zapata and William Giovanni Domínguez Castro.

With the country now under submission, all the leading Scots, except for William Wallace, surrendered to Edward in February 1304.