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Wolfe's and regiment
Wolfe's regiment was involved in heavy fighting, as the two sides exchanged volley after volley of musket fire.
Wolfe's activities as acting adjutant of his regiment at Battle of Dettingen came to the attention of the Duke of Cumberland who had been close to him during the battle when they came under enemy fire.
Wolfe's regiment was left behind to garrison Ghent, which meant they missed the Allied defeat at the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745 during which Wolfe's former regiment suffered extremely heavy casualties.
In October 1745, Wolfe's regiment was urgently recalled to Britain to deal with the Jacobite rising which had broken out.
In 1757, while with Wolfe's regiment, he participated in the unsuccessful attack on Rochefort.
The following year the regiment took part in General Wolfe's victory over the French at Quebec.

Wolfe's and was
It was during Wolfe's period as SNP leader in the 1970s that the SNP became clearly identified as a social-democratic political party.
The reason for the change was purportedly to make the show more episodic and open to casual viewing since Wolfe's version — although episodic — had many continuing plotlines and story arcs.
* Commenting on Nero Wolfe's prolonges struggle with the powerful crime boss Arnold Zeck, Michael Dirda – book critic for The Washington Post – wrote " I was thrilled when Wolfe finally encountered his own Moriarty in the archvillain Arnold Zeck ,".
Wolfe's article was later turned into the 1973 movie The Last American Hero, starring Jeff Bridges and Valerie Perrine.
Camp Hiawatha was opened in 1967 on property formally known as Wolfe's Lodge.
The town was originally named Wolfe's Point.
The following day, Wolfe's troops landed on the south bank of the river at Point Levis, nearly directly across the river from Quebec ; an artillery battery was established there in early July that nearly leveled the lower town by bombardment.
Wolfe's family were long settled in Ireland and he regularly corresponded with his uncle Major Walter Wolfe in Dublin ; Stephen Woulfe, the distinguished Irish politician and judge of the next century, was from the Limerick branch of the same family.
During 1964, he served as the main driver of the bus Further on the iconic first half of the journey from San Francisco to New York, which was immortalized by Tom Wolfe's book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Despite this, Perkins served as Wolfe's literary executor after his early death in 1938 and was considered by Wolfe to be his closest friend.
In 1969 he replaced Arthur Donaldson as SNP National Convenor, and it was during Wolfe's period as leader that the party had its greatest electoral success to the Westminster parliament, winning 30 % of the vote in Scotland and 11 of the 71 Scottish seats in the October 1974 General Election, though Wolfe failed to win a seat of his own.
In December 1757, while cutting firewood near Fort Anne, John Weatherspoon was captured by Indians — presumably Mi ' kmaq — and was carried away to the mouth of the Miramichi River, from where he was sold or traded to the French, taken to Quebec and was held until late in 1759 and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, when General Wolfe's forces prevailed.
The novel was a bestseller and a phenomenal success, even in comparison with Wolfe's other books.
Bonfire was Wolfe's first novel.
Murray believed Wolfe's plan to land the army at Anse au Foulon was foolish and absurd, and succeeded " only by Providence ".
That same year, Vance was also in the original cast of George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum ; she would go on to reprise some of her performances therein for a 1991 Great Performances restaging of the play.
Wolfe's book was the basis for the popular film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman.

Wolfe's and main
* In Tom Wolfe's novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, Larry Kramer, a Bronx District Attorney and one of the novel's main protagonists, prides himself on his strong sternocleidomastoids, which he " fans out " in front of women to help give himself a more tough, masculine appearance.
* In Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series, the city which Severian, the main character originates from is called " Nessus.
There are several works of fiction where the main character delivers pizzas, including Tom Wolfe's novel I Am Charlotte Simmons ( 2004 ), and Neal Stephenson's postcyberpunk novel Snow Crash ( 1992 ), which posits a future in which pizza delivery is organised by the Mafia as one of the US's two major industries.

Wolfe's and army
Faribault was a first cousin of Jean-Baptiste, father of Alexander, founder of the city of Faribault, Minnesota, U. S. A .. After attending a school taught by a Scottish veteran of Wolfe's army, he completed by personal efforts the course preparatory to the study of law and was admitted to the Bar in 1811.

Wolfe's and now
The surrounding islands bear the names of Wolfe's generals: Howe, Carleton, Amherst and Gage ( now Simcoe ).
The Freedom Outlaw's Handbook ( 2004 ) is a compilation of ideas from Wolfe's first two books, both of which are now out of print.

Wolfe's and under
Wolfe's childhood home in Westerham, known in his lifetime as Spiers, has been preserved in his memory by the National Trust under the name Quebec House.
For example, when Wolfe's Borough Coffee, Inc., a New Hampshire-based coffee company, sold its coffee under the trademarks that included the words “ Charbucks Blend ” and " Mr. Charbucks ," Starbucks Corporation sued, claiming that the use of the word “ Charbucks ” diluted the “ Starbucks ” mark by both blurring and tarnishment.
Later, Seth quits the wrestling team at Wolfe's prompting, confessing that he is in The Sound of Music after Murney catches him under the bleachers, practicing his dancing.

Wolfe's and Duke
The basketball star, Jojo Johanssen, is a jock / celebrity character, derived from colleges like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Kentucky, Duke, Stanford, Indiana University and the University of Florida, where, in Wolfe's perception, student athletes are treated as superior.

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A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.
By contrast, Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities ( 1987 ) portrays a wealthy, white protagonist, Sherman McCoy, getting lost off the Major Deegan Expressway in the South Bronx and having an altercation with locals.
" In the same article, the Reverend Al Sharpton ( whose fictional analogue in the novel is " Reverend Bacon ") asserts that " twenty years later, the cynicism of The Bonfire of the Vanities is as out of style as Tom Wolfe's wardrobe.
* Jonas the ( star ) sailor in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun novels.
* Several of Gene Wolfe's novels are written in the forms of diaries, letters, or memoirs.
* 1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
In Italy, the term " radical chic " ( borrowed from American journalist Tom Wolfe's satirical 1970 book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers ) is used.
The realm of Mspellsheimr appears as ' Muspel ' in Gene Wolfe's book series, The Wizard Knight.
* June 12 – Seven Years ' War – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
* September 13 – Seven Years ' War ( French and Indian War ): Quebec falls to British forces following General Wolfe's victory in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham just outside the city.
* Many events of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities center on Wall Street and its culture.
Their early escapades were documented in Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Although this model has received much criticism, it is still widely cited and spawned similar theories with modification, such as Jeremy Wolfe's Guided Search Theory.
Wolfe's troops were supported by a fleet of 49 ships and 140 smaller craft led by Admiral Charles Saunders.
Wolfe's part in the taking of Quebec in 1759 earned him posthumous fame and he became an icon of Britain's victory in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion.
Wolfe's boyhood friend George Warde would later achieve fame as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland when he defeated a rebellion in 1798, as well as an attempted French invasion.

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