William Howe

Examples of William Howe in the following topics:

• Philadelphia and Saratoga

  • Following his unsuccessful attempt to draw Continental Army General George Washington into a battle in northern New Jersey, British General William Howe instead turned his attention towards Philadelphia.
  • In 1777, General Howe began mobilizing his forces for an assault on the city-state.
  • "Residence of Washington in High Street, Philadelphia" by William L.
  • Howe made this house his headquarters during the British occupation of Philadelphia.
  • General Howe was supported by Hessian troops as he took Philadelphia.

• Quebec, New York, and New Jersey

  • In the summer of 1776, General William Howe and 30,000 British troops attacked and defeated General George Washington's Continental forces in the Battle of Long Island.
  • In September, General Howe landed about 12,000 men in lower Manhattan, quickly taking control of New York City.
  • News of the capture of New York was favorably received in London, and General Howe was awarded the Order of the Bath for his work.
  • The British lost more than a quarter of their forces in the battle and convinced General Howe to withdraw most of his army from New Jersey, with only outposts at New Brunswick and Perth Amboy remaining.
  • General George Washington rallying his troops at the Battle of Princeton, by William Ranney, 1848

• The Election of 1852

  • Pierce and running mate William R.

• The Year of Blood

  • In May 1782, Colonel William Crawford led a campaign to destroy enemy Native American settlements along the Sandusky River in the Ohio Country with the hope of ending Native American attacks on American settlers.

• The Holy Experiment

  • They hoped it would show to the world how well they could function on their own without any persecution or dissension.
  • William Penn was a well-educated landlord of valuable Irish estates and an evangelist for Quakerism .
  • William Penn and his fellow Quakers imprinted their religious values on the early Pennsylvanian government.
  • William Penn founded and governed his "Holy Experiment", the province of Pennsylvania.
  • This painting depicts William Penn treating with Native Americans, and the lion sitting down with the lambs.

• The Last Days of the Federal Presidency: The Midnight Judges

  • This appointment of the so-called "midnight judges" to the Supreme Court angered Democratic-Republicans, and Jefferson refused to allow the midnight judges (including William Marbury) to take office .
  • According to the Constitution, there is one simple provision that "the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court. " What this judicial power was or how the Court was to wield it is left remarkably blank in the rest of the document.
  • William Marbury (1762–1835) was one of the "midnight judges" appointed by United States President John Adams the day before he left office.

• The Southern Renaissance

  • The Southern Renaissance included famed writers such as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Robert Penn Warren.
  • The second was the South's conservative culture, specifically addressing how an individual could exist without losing a sense of identity in a region where family, religion and community were more highly valued than one's personal and social life.
  • Among the writers of the Southern Renaissance, William Faulkner is arguably the most influential and famous as the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
  • Beyond Faulkner, playwright Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie), author Robert Penn Warren (All the King’s Men), and others including Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, and Allen Tate were classified as Southern Renaissance writers.
  • William Faulkner, author of the 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, was a leading voice in the Southern Renaissance movement.

• The Election of 1936

  • At the 1936 Republican National Convention (held in Cleveland, Ohio), many candidates sought the Republican nomination but Kansas Governor Alfred “Alf” Landon and Iowa Senator William E.
  • His vice presidential candidate was William Franklin Knox, a newspaper editor and publisher from Illinois, who was also one of the minor candidates for the presidential nomination,
  • Congressman William Lemke (R-North Dakota) ran as the candidate of the newly-created populist Union Party and Earl Browder represented the Communist Party.
  • Evaluate how positive attitudes towards Roosevelt’s programs led to the landslide election of 1936

• The British Strategy

  • On July 12, 1812, General William Hull led an invading American force of about 1,000 untrained, poorly-equipped militia across the Detroit River and occupied the Canadian town of Sandwich, now a neighborhood of Windsor, Ontario.
  • The early disasters were brought about chiefly by American unpreparedness, and a lack of leadership drove United States Secretary of War William Eustis from office.
  • They were decisively defeated by General William Henry Harrison's forces on their retreat towards Niagara at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813.
  • After Napoleon abdicated in 1814, the British could send veteran armies to the United States, but by then the Americans had learned how to mobilize and fight.

• The Glorious Revolution

  • The Glorious Revolution was the peaceful overthrow and replacement of King James II with William III and Mary II of England.
  • In February 1689, William and his wife became joint monarchs as William III and Mary II of England .
  • King James was deposed in the Revolution of 1688 by William III.
  • Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay, engraving by William Miller after J M W Turner, 1852
  • William of Orange successfully invaded England with a Dutch fleet in the Glorious Revolution of 1688