The first mention of an electric plant in Manchester seems to be one installed in Reuben Colvin's and Houghton's gristmill on the West Branch in Factory Point.

But he is a West Point graduate and therefore must be born to command ''.

McClellan, a young West Point graduate, railroad executive, and Pennsylvania Democrat, took several months to plan and attempt his Peninsula Campaign, longer than Lincoln wanted.

In 1826 Johnston graduated eighth of 41 cadets in his class from West Point with a commission as a brevet second lieutenant in the 2nd U. S. Infantry.

One of the persistent myths of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time.

Doubleday was a cadet at West Point in the year of the alleged invention and his family had moved away from Cooperstown the prior year.

Doubleday Field at West Point, New York, where the Army Black Knights play at Johnson Stadium, is named in Doubleday's honor.

He attended and graduated from West Point, and later was married with two sons.

His later decision to attend West Point saddened his mother, who felt that warfare was " rather wicked ," but she did not overrule him.

Eisenhower requested consideration for either Annapolis or West Point with his U. S. Senator, Joseph L. Bristow.

He then accepted an appointment to West Point in 1911.

At West Point, Eisenhower relished the emphasis on traditions and on sports, but was less enthusiastic about the hazing, though he willingly accepted it as a plebe ; he was also a regular violator of the more detailed regulations, and finished school with a less than stellar discipline rating.

In athletics, Eisenhower later said that " not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

Controversy persists over whether Eisenhower played minor league baseball for Junction City in the Central Kansas League the year before he attended West Point, where he played amateur football.

Eisenhower ( 2nd from left ) and Omar Bradley ( 2nd from right ) were members of the 1912 West Point football team.

John, coincidentally, graduated from West Point on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Eisenhower, far right, with three unidentified friends, in 1919 four years after graduating from West Point.

Eisenhower Hall, the cadet activities building at West Point, was completed in 1974.

In 1983, the Eisenhower Monument was unveiled at West Point.

She continued to make minor and frequently nostalgic period musicals such as Starlift, The West Point Story, On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and Tea For Two for Warner Brothers.

* Francis Goes to West Point ( 1952 )

On May 4, 2008, while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen addressed the graduating cadets at West Point, a cadet asked what would happen if the next administration were supportive of legislation allowing gays to serve openly.

The prisoners were eventually transported to West Point, where they remained in " easy imprisonment ".

In 1895, Nikola Tesla was able to detect signals from the transmissions of his New York lab at West Point ( a distance of 80. 4 km / 49. 95 miles ).

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

The location of this famous battle is now claimed by some to be the village of Great Wratting, in Suffolk, which lies in the Stour Valley on the Icknield Way West of Colchester, and by a village in Essex.

Group litigation survived in the United States only thanks to the influence of Supreme Court Associate Justice Joseph Story, who imported it in a rather mangled form into U. S. law through summary discussions in his two equity treatises as well as his famous opinion in West v. Randall ( 1820 ).

At club level, Banks came up with his second most famous save when spectacularly palming a vicious penalty from his England team-mate Hurst over the crossbar as Stoke defeated West Ham United in the semi final of the 1972 League Cup.

Kansas City is most famous for its steak and barbecue. The American Hereford Association bull and Kemper Arena and the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange Building in the former Kansas City Stockyard of the West Bottoms as seen from Quality Hill, Kansas City | Quality Hill During the heyday of the Kansas City Stockyards, the city was known for its Kansas City steaks or Kansas City strip steaks.

The most famous of the steakhouses is the Golden Ox in the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange in the stockyards in the West Bottoms.

Lequien cites twenty-nine bishops from the fourth to the 18th centuries ; the most famous is Jermias II, who occupied the Patriarch of the West until 733, when the Emperor Leo III the Isaurian annexed it to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

In 1961 East Germany began to erect a wall between East and West Berlin, which became famous as the Berlin Wall.

Ghost in the Shell is a famous anime in the West based on his work, hence his popularity.

Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture ; in the famous words of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells: " As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.

Elquemedo Willett, born 1 May 1953, famous Nevisian cricket player and former Leeward Islands and West Indies left-arm spinner, was the first Leeward Islander to play Test cricket for the West Indies in 1973, when he was 19 years old.

By the 1930s, talkies brought in a range of powerful new draws: Miriam Hopkins, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, Bing Crosby, the band leader Shep Fields and the famous Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel among them.

Desmond reportedly owned a Baldwin grand piano, which he loaned to Bradley Cunningham, owner of the famous Bradley's piano bar in Greenwich Village, with the condition that Mr. Cunningham had to move the large piano back to Desmond's Upper West Side apartment to become part of Desmond's estate.

Among these are the. 22 rimfire, a caliber popular for target shooting and teaching novice shooters ;. 38 Special and. 357 Magnum, known for its police use ; the. 44 Magnum, famous from Clint Eastwood's " Dirty Harry " films ; and the. 45 Colt, used in the Colt revolver of the Wild West.

This example was made famous in the stage musical West Side Story and its film adaptation.

* Benaud was in charge for the inaugural 1960-61 Frank Worrell Trophy against the West Indies, a series that included the famous Tied Test.

This famous bay was the center of American settlement in the Far West during the 19th century.

Officially, the trip was supposed to allow Eisenstein and company to learn about sound motion pictures and to present the famous Soviet artists in person to the capitalist West.

Osmond arrived at Huxley ’ s house in West Hollywood on May 3, and recorded his impressions of the famous author as a tolerant and kind man, although he had expected otherwise.

* The English poet John Milton popularizes the Chinese sailing carriage in a famous poem ; this peculiar Chinese invention was first written of in the West by Abraham Ortelius in his atlas of 1584.

* October 9 – ( a famous treasure wreck ) is sunk in the West Frisian Islands.

The 1962 film How the West Was Won has a whole segment devoted to the construction ; one of the movie's most famous scenes, filmed in Cinerama, is of a buffalo stampede over the railroad.

The number of monks rose to over two hundred, and the library, the manuscripts produced in the scriptorium and the school of manuscript illuminators became famous throughout the West.