Thomas Young during the Revolutionary War, Rush had all the grounding he required for a ruinously misguided campaign that greatly extended recovery time of those it did not kill. But, yes, he had his theory, and he believed in it. In the early 19th century, Napoleon, sweeping through ...
Lexington’s Virginia Military Institute (VMI) claims the other two generals in the town’s heritage. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a teacher at VMI, in natural philosophy (physics) and artillery tactics for ten years prior to the Civil War. In Lexington, besides teaching here, he ...
Thomas J. Fleming; author, historian March to Boston Along the way to Massachusetts, Stark gathered several militia units already in arms, including former colleagues who fought alongside Stark in the French and Indian War. Once at Medford, just outside Boston, the New Hampshire men gathered ...
Freeman’sNovember 12 auction of American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts will feature, by direct descent in the Pinckney family, an important Portrait of Major General Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828) of Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1820, by the artist/ inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse...
young Thomas. Like Capron, Thomas was the fifth in line from father to son who had served in the American army, though in his case it was in the volunteer and not the regular service; the four preceding generations had furnished soldiers respectively to the Revolutionary War, the War of 18...
Before the Revolutionary War “My Father was a man of great Piety, had an excellent understanding; and was govern’d in his conduct by humanity and kind Benevolence.”~Nathanael Greene reflecting on his youth. Nathanael was born in Potowomut, Rhode Island on August 7, 1742; the fourth son ...
Testimonies by Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin unsheathe their rhetorical knives drawn to strike at England's tyrannies. Sir William lost the war; England lost the thirteen colonies. And General George Washington emerged the greatest military commander in the history of warfare.Roy Cini ...
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Madison had been notable figures in the War of Independence, and in the formation of the U.S. Constitution. Monroe had fought in the Revolutionary War. John Q. Adams was the son of John Adams. Jackson's election represented a significant ...
19, 1807, at "Stratford" in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the fifth child born to Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee and his second wife, Ann Hill (Carter) Lee. He grew up in an area where George Washington was still a living memory. Robert had many ties to Revolutionary War ...
Thomas S Cullen,21 who is generally credited with devising the technique.22 Warren worked at a time when German investigators dominated pathology but it is note- worthy that one medical historian considered him one of the five most significant American contribu- tors to the growth of clinical ...