The latter title is especially suggestive of his role in forming several Franciscans who later became influential thinkers in the faculty, among them Saint Bonaventure, John of La Rochelle, Odo Rigaldus, William of Middleton and Richard Rufus of Cornwall.

He used itinerant officials to curb the abuses of power at the local and regional level that had characterized William Rufus ' unpopular reign, garnering the praise of the monkish chroniclers.

* William Rufus received the Kingdom of England and became King William II

The view of Henry and his advisors did not encompass a long view into constitutional history: the Coronation Charter was one of several expedients designed to distance him from the extraordinary and arbitrary oppressions of William Rufus ' reign, claiming to return to the practices of Edward the Confessor, made clear in clause 13, a statement of general principles.

( 2008 ) King Rufus: The Life and Murder of William II of England.

William Rufus, " the Red ", King of the English ( 1087 – 1100 ).

When William Rufus became king of England after his father's death, Malcolm did not intervene in the rebellions by supporters of Robert Curthose which followed.

In 1091, however, William Rufus confiscated Edgar Ætheling's lands in England, and Edgar fled north to Scotland.

Malcolm sent messengers to discuss the question and William Rufus agreed to a meeting.

Malcolm arrived there on 24 August 1093 to find that William Rufus refused to negotiate, insisting that the dispute be judged by the English barons.

It does not appear that William Rufus intended to provoke a war, but, as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports, war came:

They also note that in 1756, in Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Ben Jonson, William Rufus Chetwood concludes on the basis of performance records " at the end of the year of, or the beginning of the next, ' tis supposed that took his farewell of the stage, both as author and actor .".

The early membership of the SPR included philosophers, scholars, scientists, educators and politicians, such as Henry Sidgwick, Arthur Balfour, William Crookes, Rufus Osgood Mason and Charles Richet.

Henry seized power in England following the death of his elder brother William Rufus.

The problem was further complicated by the sequence of unstable Anglo-Norman successions over the previous sixty years — William the Conqueror had gained England by force, William Rufus and Robert Curthose had fought a war between them to establish their inheritance, and Henry had only acquired control of Normandy by force.

Roosevelt appointed three Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ( 1902 ), William Rufus Day ( 1903 ), William Henry Moody ( 1906 ).

William is commonly known as William Rufus, perhaps because of his red-faced appearance.

According to William of Malmesbury, William Rufus was " well set ; his complexion florid, his hair yellow ; of open countenance ; different coloured eyes, varying with certain glittering specks ; of astonishing strength, though not very tall, and his belly rather projecting.

Great Seal of William Rufus, King of England ( 1087 – 1100 ).

Thus William Rufus was secure in what was then the most powerful kingdom in Europe, given the contemporary eclipse of the Salian emperors.

* July 17 – Spanish-American War – Battle of Santiago Bay: Troops under United States General William R. Shafter take the city of Santiago de Cuba from the Spanish.

* Paul H. Carlson, William R. Shafter: Military Commander in the American West, unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 1973

* Paul Carlson, " Pecos Bill ", a Military Biography of William R. Shafter.

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On June 29, 1875, Col. William R. Shafter, accompanied by eighty-one men and officers, tracked the Comanche Indians into county lands, when Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie conducted a campaign to drive them from the area.

" Pecos Bill " was also the nickname of Civil War general William Shafter, although this was before O ' Reilly created the legend.

The community was named for General William Rufus Shafter who commanded US Forces in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

* William Rufus Shafter, United States military officer

The lot awaited orders for departure from Major General William Rufus Shafter.

He sailed for Cuba and was charged with scouting for the U. S. advance by General William Rufus Shafter, overall commander of V Corps.

Upon taking the heights, Wheeler assured General William R. Shafter that the position could be held against a possible counterattack.

Wheeler also appeared in an early film called Surrender of General Toral ( 1898 ) with William Rufus Shafter.

After capturing the surrounding hills, General William Rufus Shafter laid siege to the city.

At about 08: 45, just as his ships had slipped their moorings, Admiral Sampson and two ships of his command, his flagship, the armored cruiser, and the torpedo boat had left their positions for a trip to Siboney and a meeting with Major General William Shafter of the U. S. Army.

General William Rufus Shafter commanded 5th Corps of about 15, 000 troops in three divisions.

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

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With the beginning of the Spanish – American War, Thompson was promoted to lieutenant colonel and sent to Tampa, Florida as Chief Ordnance Officer under the top commander for the Cuban campaign, General William R. Shafter.

SR 24 is designated as both the Grove Shafter Freeway ( named after streets the route travels along-Grove Street was later renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Way ) and the William Byron Rumford Freeway from the Caldecott Tunnel to the I-580 interchange segment of the MacArthur Maze, continuing henceforth as I-980 to the terminus with I-880.

When the post opened in 1907, it was named for Major General William Rufus Shafter ( 1835 – 1906 ), who led the United States expedition to Cuba in 1898.

He was criticized for the inadequate preparation and inefficient operation of the department during the Spanish-American War, especially for his appointment of William R. Shafter as leader of the Cuban expedition.