This refusal to accept any renunciation of allegiance to the Crown led to conflict with the United States over impressment, and then led to further conflicts even during the War of 1812, when thirteen Irish American prisoners of war were executed as traitors after the Battle of Queenston Heights ; Winfield Scott urged American reprisal, but none was carried out.

During one game in the 1980s, Hamilton Tiger-Cats wide receiver Earl Winfield was unable to field a punt properly ; in frustration, he kicked the ball out of bounds.

The good times continued to fade out as Winfield signed a 10-year contract with the New York Yankees after the 1980 season.

Steinbrenner consulted Jackson about signing then-free agent Dave Winfield, and Jackson expected Steinbrenner to work out a new contract for him as well.

He had determined to be more aggressive after coming out on the wrong side of an altercation with Dave Winfield in 1980.

Mattingly won out by. 003 points on the last day of the season ; Winfield finished with a. 340 average.

He hit. 343 and beat out teammate Dave Winfield in a close race for the American League batting title with a 4-for-5 game on the last day of the season.

President Martin Van Buren sent Brigadier General Winfield Scott to work out a compromise.

Setting up Gooden, NL Pitcher Fernando Valenzuela had already struck out the side in the fourth, putting down future Hall of Famers Dave Winfield, Reggie Jackson, and George Brett.

Surveys were carried out in North Dakota protected by 600 troops under General Winfield Scott Hancock.

Witte was not the only victim of violence, as a larger brawl broke out, with two other Gophers, Jim Brewer and future Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield, attacking other Ohio State players.

The Republicans had staged a very hard-fought primary race of their own, but had come out of it largely united behind the candidacy of Memphis dentist Dr. Winfield Dunn, former chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party.

Leo Burnett ’ s creative director was awed when he first saw Winfield: “ I had seen cowboys, but I had never seen one that just really, like, sort of scared the hell out of me .” Winfield ’ s immediate authenticity led to his 20 year run as being the Marlboro Man, which lasted until the late 1980s, upon Winfield ’ s retirement.

General Winfield Scott received reports that the trees masked a foundry for casting cannon, and there were rumors that Antonio López de Santa Anna, leader of both the Mexican government and military, in desperate need of ordnance, was sending out church and convent bells to have them melted down and converted to cannon.

On June 18, 2010, Cooper, aged 44, made a successful comeback after eight years out of the ring, a sixth round knockout of Corey Winfield in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

One of the company's steamships, the Winfield Scott, acquired when the New York and California Steamship Company went out of business, ran aground on Anacapa Island in 1853.

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

Well known for his philanthropic work, Winfield began giving back to the communities in which he played from the beginning of his professional athletic career.

Winfield would recall late in his career that as a young actor he had played one of the two leads in Of Mice and Men in local repertory, made up in whiteface, since a black actor playing it would have been unthinkable.

Throughout his career, Winfield frequently managed to perform in the theater.

Winfield Scott Hancock ( February 14, 1824 – February 9, 1886 ) was a career U. S. Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880.

* General Winfield Scott ( 1786 – 1866 ), United States Army General serving from the War of 1812 to the American Civil War, a fifty year career

Only four people have ever been awarded two or more gold medals: Winfield Scott ( 1814 for War of 1812 and 1848 for Mexican – American War ), Zachary Taylor ( 1846, 1847, and 1848 for Mexican-American War ), Lincoln Ellsworth ( 1928 and 1936 for polar exploration ), and Hyman G. Rickover ( 1958 for the " Nuclear Navy " and 1982 for his entire career ).

Chitwood started his racecar driving career in 1934 at a dirt track in Winfield, Kansas.

During his career, he set a record by hitting grand slams with five different teams ( a mark subsequently tied by Dave Kingman and Dave Winfield ).

In 1972, Sounder was made into a film starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal, and Eric Hooks.

Paul Edward Winfield ( May 22, 1939 – March 7, 2004 ) was an American television, film, and stage actor.

In 1973, Winfield was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1972 film Sounder, and his co-star in that film, Cicely Tyson, was nominated for Best Actress.

Winfield also took on roles as gay characters in the films Mike's Murder in 1984 and again in 1998 in the film Relax ... It's Just Sex.

* The song is played ( in instrumental form ) in the film Gettysburg as General Winfield Scott Hancock watches the Irish Brigade receive Fr.

Stan Lathan directed the film, with Paul Winfield starring as Gabriel in his adulthood and Ving Rhames playing Gabriel in his youth.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raúl Juliá, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Winfield, and Greta Scacchi.

He directed ABC's Wonderful World of Disney's TV remake of the film, with Paul Winfield, his co-star from the original, playing a different role.

* Winfield R. Sheehan ( 1883 – 1945 ), American film producer and executive, Fox Studios chief of production 1927 – 1935

Winfield portrayed Captain Terrell of the Starship Reliant in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and he also portrayed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the television miniseries King, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Winfield first became well-known to television audiences when he appeared for several years opposite Diahann Carroll on the groundbreaking television series Julia.

In the 1970s, he advertised Winfield cigarettes in television, print and billboard advertisements in which he wore a formal dinner suit.

Darrell H. Winfield, was a rancher and model ( best known as " The Marlboro Man " in television commercials and magazine advertisements for Marlboro cigarettes ), was born in Oklahoma on July 30, 1929.

Provine appeared as Laura Winfield in the episode " The Bitter Lesson " ( January 3, 1959 ) on NBC's western television series Cimarron City.

After habeas corpus was suspended by General Winfield Scott in one theater of the Civil War in 1861, Lincoln did write that Scott " could arrest, and detain, without resort to ordinary processes and forms of law, such individuals as he might deem dangerous to public safety.

A treaty was signed in 1832 by Sauk Indian tribe chief Keokuk and United States Army General Winfield Scott to end the Black Hawk War.

* 1990 – George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to " get dirt " on Dave Winfield.

* 1847 – Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.

Winfield was also drafted by the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League, the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association and the Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association.

* March 29 – Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.

The idea of the special draft was conceived by Hall of Famer Dave Winfield.

In the general election, Garfield defeated the Democratic candidate Winfield Scott Hancock, another distinguished former Union Army general, by 214 electoral votes to 155.

Filled with guilt, he is prone to binges involving alcohol and prostitutes, yet tries to repent for his sins and guilt by spoiling Ruthie and Winfield with candy when he can.

Winfield Scott Stratton Monument by Nellie Walker

* Winfield Scott Stratton Post Office in Colorado Springs ; named by an act of Congress in 1995 ; Stratton had sold the land the post office was built on to the federal government at a fraction of its value with the understanding that it would be used for the post office.

Secretary of War Lewis Cass dispatched General Winfield Scott to end the violence by forcibly removing the Creeks to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

Nevertheless, the treaty, passed by Congress by a single vote, and signed into law by President Andrew Jackson, was imposed by his successor President Martin Van Buren who allowed Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama an armed force of 7, 000 made up of militia, regular army, and volunteers under General Winfield Scott to round up about 13, 000 Cherokees into concentration camps at the U. S. Indian Agency near Cleveland, Tennessee before being sent to the West.

Michael Landon made his TV-movie directorial debut in the 1974 movie It ’ s Good to Be Alive, in which Campanella was portrayed by Paul Winfield.

It also shows the garrison's naval commander dying of wounds and the defense of the island being directed by Marine officers ; in fact, Commander Winfield S. Cunningham survived the war.

Scott County was formed by an act of the General Assembly on November 24, 1814 from parts of Washington, Lee, and Russell Counties and was named for Virginia born General Winfield Scott.

Following college, Winfield was drafted by four teams in three different sports.

In, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner made headlines by signing Winfield to a 10-year, $ 23 million ($ today ) contract, making him the game's highest-paid player.

On August 4,, Winfield accidentally killed a seagull by throwing a ball while warming up before the fifth inning of a game at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium.

In 1985, a bitter Steinbrenner derided Winfield by saying to New York Times writer Murray Chass, " Where is Reggie Jackson?

This makes Winfield the only player in major league history to be traded for a dinner, though official sources list the transaction as a sale ( sold by the Minnesota Twins to the Cleveland Indians ).

In 1998, Winfield was inducted by the San Diego Hall of Champions into the Breitbard Hall of Fame honoring San Diego's finest athletes both on and off the playing surface.