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Edward III issue included….






Margaret

July 20, 1346

1361

Married John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke on May 13, 1359; No issue.




[1]

May 1349: Bubonic Plague Reaches Norway.[2]

May 13, 1382: A synod was held to examine Wheatcliff’s works. (The first translated Bibles in English). It was a show trial. The conclusion was preordained. Two days into their synod they proclaimed Wheatcliff’s pronouncements as outright heresies. It ordered the arrest and prosecution of itinerant preachers throughout the land. Eventually it obtained a parliamentary ban on all English speaking Bibles. Canterbury UK - 5.8 quake strikes during synod – some saw as portentous,[3] [4]

May 13, 1568: Mary Queen of Scots escaped from Loch Leven with the aid of George Douglas, brother of Sir William Douglas, the castle's owner.[140] She managed to raise an army of 6000 men, and met Moray's smaller forces at the Battle of Langside on May 13.[141] She was defeated and fled south..[5]



May 13, 1607: Jamestown, Virginia, becomes the first permanent English colony in America.[6] Their job is to make money for the English trading company that sent them here. [7] The first Bible brought to America (to Jamestown in 1607) was the Geneva Bible.[8] Not all Native Americans succumbed to European diseases. This land was neither empty, nor uninhabited. It is the land of the Powatan. More than 14,000 people living in small communities in around 200 villages on the coast and along rivers in large houses surrounded by cleared forests in mixed fields of squash beans and corn. These are farmers and hunters. There is no gold or silver. For a while the settlers and the natives coexist. This land is rich in resources Europe lacks. There is more than enough for everyone. [9]



Frei Diogo da Assumpcao, a partly Jewish friar who embraced Judaism, burned alive in Lisbon.[10]





1609-1624



“We note in Du Bellet‘s Virginia Families, Volume three, there were two emigrants who bore the name of Thomas Smyth. One was Thomas Smyth, 1624 (Hotten’s List of Emigrants), and one was Sir Thomas Smyth, who came to Virginia in the period July 1609 to November 3, 1609. (Brown’s Genesis of U. S.) Sir Thomas Smyth bore the arms of Thomas Smyth of Ostenhanger, 1s.t Treasurer of the London Company, who inter-married with the famous Dudley and Sydney families. To this family belong John Smith, Thomas Smith, Sons of Sir Thomas Smyth1 also Lawrence Smith, Arthur Smith, Phelps Smith, etc[11]













“Smith, Virginia. Major Lawrence Smith, Abingdon, Gloucester County (Devonshire): Azure, a chevron between three acorns, slipped and leaved or.” tCrosier’s General Armory, p. 120.



“The familiar patronymic Smith has been most worthily represented in Virginia, from its settlement. The capital figure in the line, doughty Captain John Smith, ‘ 'The Father, of the Colony,’ however, returned a bachelor to England. [12]



1609-1610

The Old Testament of the Rheims-Douay Bible was published 1609, 1610 at Douayu, hance the name, “Rheims –Douay Bible.”[13]



May 13, 1629: Charles had nine children, two of whom eventually succeeded as king, and two of whom died at or shortly after birth.[190]


Name

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Death

Notes


Charles James, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay

May 13m 1629

May 13,1629

Born and died the same day. Buried as "Charles, Prince of Wales".[191][14]






VALENTINE CRAWFORD TO GEORGE WASHINGTON.

GIST’S,[15] May 13, 1774.



DEAR SIR :—I write to let you know that all your servants are well, and that none have run away. Mr. Simpson has as many of the carpenters as he can find work for, and has got some of the servants assisting about the seat for the mill, until this storm of the Indians blows over.

We this day received some Cows from Wheeling. Several of the inhabitants of that part are gone back and are planting their corn.

David Shepherd,[16] who lives down at Wheeling, moved his family up to my house, but he has gone back himself, and is planting his corn. I am sure if he can stay at Wheeling, I can go down with your men and go to work on your land; but, until my son, whom I have sent to you returns, I shall let Mr. Simpson keep all the men he chooses both carpenters and servants. As for the laborers I employed for you and Doctor Craik, I have discharged them, and they are gone with my brother William, under pay as militia, to guard the people down about Chartier’s, to enable them to get their stock away;[17] as many of the inhabitants came away and left everything they had behind them. But there are numbers of them since, returning back and planting their corn, but have left their wives and children behind, in our neighborhood. I hope, therefore, to be able yet to go down the river, if we have no worse news, in a short time; but I shall wait for my son’s returning with an answer from you. I wrote you very fully by him, and I write this line or two by Mr. Johnson, who is going straight to Williamsburg, where he will meet with you; so, pray, write me very fully how I am to act. I am, etc.

P. S.—I saw some gentlemen who came very lately from Williamsburg, at my house, last night, and they say there will be a new county set off. They also informed me that Lord Dunmore has issued a proclamation that he will find both men and money to defend our frontier; so, as I gave you a hint before, I hope you will not forget me and my son; as we are determined to stay on the frontier, and a commission would be of great advantage to us, and would add to the favors from you

May 13, 1778, resigned. Thirteenth Regiment 1776-1778. This was the fourth of the six regiments of October 1776. It was raised in West Augusta District, largely through the efforts of Colonel William Crawford of the Seventh Regiment. It formed part of Muhlenberg’s Brigade in September 1778, it was renumbered the Ninth Regiment.[18]\

May 13, 1792: The Democratic-Republican Party is formed by Thomas Jefferson.[19]



William Henry Harrison
Territorial Governor of Indiana
May 13, 1800-December 28, 1812

William Henry Harrison

Artist: Barton Stone Hays, American, 1826-1914
oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 29 1/4 (92.0 x 74.4)
Unsigned

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON was born in Virginia, the son of Benjamin Harrison, who was himself a governor of Virginia and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Educated at Hampden-Sidney College, the young Harrison entered medical school but was forced to leave in 1791 when his father died. From 1792 to 1794 Harrison was Anthony Wayne's aide-de-camp in battles against the Miami Indians, and he was promoted to captain in 1797.

Harrison was appointed secretary of the Northwest Territory on June 26,1798, and in 1799 was elected a territorial delegate to Congress, where he served until May, 1800, when he was appointed governor of the Indiana Territory, an area that initially included all of the original Northwest Territory except Ohio. The twenty-seven-year-old Harrison was to serve as governor of Indiana Territory for twelve years. His dual responsibilities to secure justice for the Indians and to acquire Indian land were often contradictory, but his administration was generally able and honest. With full powers of appointment to office, Harrison was conscientious in seeking out local recommendations for appointees and encouraging the development of representative government in the new territory. During his governorship his military career was enhanced when he defeated the Prophet at Tippecanoe in 1811. He was given command of the Army of the Northwest in the fall of 1812 and resigned as governor a few months later. His forces decisively defeated the British at the Battle of the Thames in 1813.

Harrison served as representative to Congress from Ohio from 1816 to 1819, and was elected to one term in the Ohio legislature in 1819. In 1825 he was sent to the United States Senate from the same state. He served as minister to Colombia from 1828 to 1829. Harrison ran for President as a Whig in 1836 and was defeated by Martin Van Buren, but he was victorious in the 1840 race. Harrison died on April 4, 1841, one month after his inauguration, the shortest term of any President in American history.

Harrison, sometimes described as the "Washington of the West," was the grandfather of the twenty-third President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison.

Source: Peat, Wilbur D. Portraits and Painters of the Governors of Indiana 1800-1978. Revised, edited and with new entries by Diane Gail Lazarus, Indianapolis Museum of Art. Biographies of the governors by Lana Ruegamer, Indiana Historical Society. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society and Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1978.

T. C. Steele painted a portrait of Harrison as one of the epochal governors chosen for the centennial celebration in 1916.

IN State Seal[20]





May 13, 1824: Senate approved an amended tariff bill, Jackson voting yea. [21]



May 13, 1830: Zebulon Baird Vance

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Zebulon Baird Vance


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37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina


In office
January 1, 1877 – February 5, 1879


Preceded by

Curtis Hooks Brogden


Succeeded by

Thomas Jordan Jarvis


In office
September 8, 1862 – May 29, 1865


Preceded by

Henry Toole Clark


Succeeded by

William Woods Holden


United States Senator from North Carolina


In office
March 4, 1879 – April 14, 1894


Preceded by

Augustus S. Merrimon


Succeeded by

Thomas Jordan Jarvis


Personal details


Born

(1830-05-13)May 13, 1830
Weaverville, North Carolina


Died

April 14, 1894(1894-04-14) (aged 63)
North Carolina


Political party

Whig/American (pre-Civil War)[1]
Conservative Party of NC (c. 1862–1872)[2][3]
Democratic (1872–1894)


Spouse(s)

Harriette Vance


Children

4


Profession

lawyer, colonel, politician


Zebulon Baird Vance (May 13, 1830 – April 14, 1894) was a Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, and U.S. Senator. A prodigious writer, Vance became one of the most influential Southern leaders of the Civil War and postbellum periods.


Contents

[hide]

· 1 Childhood

· 2 Civil War

· 3 Post-War career

· 4 Quotes

o 4.1 About Vance

o 4.2 By Vance

o 4.3 Unconfirmed

· 5 Legacy

· 6 Notes

· 7 Further reading

· 8 External links


[edit] Childhood

Zebulon Vance was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina near present-day Weaverville,[4] the third of eight children. His family is known to have owned a relatively large number of slaves (18). His uncle was Congressman Robert Brank Vance, for whom his elder brother, Robert B. Vance, was named. At age twelve he was sent to study at Washington College in Tennessee, now known as Washington College Academy.The death of his father forced Vance to withdraw and return home at the age of fourteen. It was during this time that he began to court the well-bred Miss Harriette Espy by letter.[5]

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Zebulon Vance birthplace

To improve his standing, Vance determined to go to law school. At the age of twenty-one, he wrote to the President of the University of North Carolina, where he was a member of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, former Governor David L. Swain, and asked for a loan so that he could attend law school. Governor Swain arranged for a $300 loan from the university, and Vance performed admirably. By 1852 Vance had begun practicing law in Asheville, and was soon elected county solicitor (prosecuting attorney). By 1853, he and Harriette Espy were married, and they would subsequently have four sons.

[edit] Civil War

By the time the ordinance of secession had passed in May 1861, Vance was a captain stationed in Raleigh, commanding a company known as the "Rough and Ready Guards," part of the Fourteenth North Carolina Regiment. That August, Vance was elected Colonel of the Twenty-sixth North Carolina. The Twenty-sixth engaged in battle in New Bern in March 1862, where Vance conducted an orderly retreat. Vance also led the Twenty-sixth at Richmond. The Twenty-sixth was ultimately destroyed at the Battle of Gettysburg, losing more than 700 of its original 800 members, though Vance at that time was no longer in military service.

In September 1862, Vance won the gubernatorial election. In the Confederacy Vance was a major proponent of individual rights and local self-government, often putting him at odds with the Confederate government of Jefferson Davis. For example, North Carolina was the only state to observe the right of habeas corpus and keep its courts fully functional during the war. Also, Vance refused to allow supplies smuggled into North Carolina by blockade runners to be given to other states until North Carolinians had their share. Vance's work for the aid and morale of the people, especially in mitigating the harsh Confederate conscription practices, inspired the nickname "War Governor of the South." Vance was re-elected in 1864.

[edit] Post-War career

Governor Vance was arrested by Federal forces on his birthday in May 1865 and spent time in prison in Washington, D.C. Per President Andrew Johnson's amnesty program, he filed an application for pardon on June 3, and was paroled on July 6.[6] After his parole, he began practicing law in Charlotte, North Carolina. Among his clients was accused murderer Tom Dula, the subject of the folk song "Tom Dooley." Governor Vance was formally pardoned on March 11, 1867, though no formal charges had ever been filed against him leading to his arrest, during his imprisonment, nor during the period of his parole.[6]

In 1870, the state legislature elected him to the United States Senate, but due to the restrictions placed on ex-Confederates by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, he was not allowed to serve. In 1876, Vance was elected Governor once again (during which time he focused on education), and in 1879 the legislature again elected him to the United States Senate. This time he was seated, and he served in the Senate until his death in 1894. After a funeral in the U.S. Capitol, Vance was buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Asheville.[6]

Starting in about 1870, Vance gave a speech hundreds of times he called "The Scattered Nation," which praised the Jews and called for religious tolerance and freedom amongst all Americans. In 1880, Vance married Florence Steele Martin of Kentucky.[7][8]

[edit] Quotes

[edit] About Vance

"He was the Mount Mitchell of all our great men, and in the affections and love of the people, he towered above them all. As ages to come will not be able to mar the grandeur and greatness of Mount Mitchell, so they will not be able to efface from the hearts and minds of the people the name of their beloved Vance."

– T. J. Jarvis, Governor from 1879 to 1885

[edit] By Vance

"The purpose of war is to explore each other."

[edit] Unconfirmed

"A vale of humility between two mountains of conceit."

Supposedly said by Vance about North Carolina. The two mountains of conceit are Virginia and South Carolina. This is also attributed to Alexander Hamilton, but probably predates both Hamilton and Vance.

[edit] Legacy

There are several monuments dedicated to Vance:

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Vance Monument in Asheville, North Carolina, with the Merrill Lynch building in the rear

· An obelisk similar to the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. is dedicated to Vance in Pack Square, Asheville.

· A statue on the south grounds of the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh

· A bronze in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, D.C.

· A small monument located where his post-war home once stood (1865–1894), at Sixth and College Streets, in Charlotte

· One of the administrative buildings at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is named Vance Hall in his honor.

· A portrait of Vance hangs behind the President's chair of The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

· His birthplace is a state historic site in Weaverville.[9]

Several locations and schools in North Carolina bear Vance's name:

· The town of Zebulon, in Wake County

· The town of Vanceboro, North Carolina

· Vance County on the North Carolina – Virginia border

· Zebulon B. Vance High School in Charlotte

· Zeb Vance Elementary School in Kittrell

· Vance Masonic Lodge A.F.&A.M. #293 in Weaverville

In World War II, the United States liberty ship SS Zebulon B. Vance was named in his honor.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Holden, W. W. (1911). Memoirs of W. W. Holden. Durham, NC: The Seeman Printery. p. 19. http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/holden/holden.html.

2. ^ 1862 Gubernatorial election. Ourcampaigns.com (2005-01-21). Retrieved on 2012-04-03.

3. ^ 1872 U.S. Senate election. Ourcampaigns.com (2006-12-26). Retrieved on 2012-04-03.

4. ^ Vance Birthplace, official website. Ah.dcr.state.nc.us. Retrieved on 2012-04-03.

5. ^ University of North Carolina, Zebulon Baird Vance, edited from the DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY. Docsouth.unc.edu. Retrieved on 2012-04-03.

6. ^ a b c Zebulon Baird Vance, 13 May 1830-14 Apr. 1894. Docsouth.unc.edu. Retrieved on 2012-04-03.

7. ^ Rasmussen, Steve. Mountain Xpress – Asheville's Monument to Tolerance, May 7, 2003. Mountainx.com. Retrieved on 2012-04-03.

8. ^ University of North Carolina – Asheville, Ramsey Library, Special Collections. Toto.lib.unca.edu (2007-01-05). Retrieved on 2012-04-03.

9. ^ Cultural Resources, North Carolina Department of (2010-01-11), NC Historic Sites – Vance Birthplace, http://www.nchistoricsites.org/vance/vance.htm, retrieved 2010-02-14

[edit] Further reading

· Clement Dowd, Life of Zebulon B. Vance (Charlotte, N. C., 1897), outdated

· Gordon McKinney, Zeb Vance : North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader (Chapel Hill, N. C., 2004), standard scholarly biography

· Sharyn McCrumb, "Ghost Riders" (Signet, May 4, 2004)includes a fictionalized account of Vance's life told in first person.

· Yates, Richard E. "Zebulon B. Vance: as War Governor of North Carolina, 1862‑1865," Journal of Southern History (1937) 3#1 pp 43‑75 online

[edit] External links

· Vance Birthplace

· North Carolina State Library Biography

· Congressional Biography

· Learn NC


Political offices


Preceded by
Henry T. Clark

Governor of North Carolina
1862–1865

Succeeded by
William W. Holden


Preceded by
Curtis H. Brogden

Governor of North Carolina
1877–1879

Succeeded by
Thomas J. Jarvis


United States Senate


Preceded by
Augustus S. Merrimon

United States Senator (Class 3) from North Carolina
1879–1894
Served alongside: Matt W. Ransom

Succeeded by
Thomas J. Jarvis







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May 13, 1830




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NC Office of Archives and History


Zebulon Baird Vance, best known as North Carolina's Civil War Governor, was born in Buncombe County in the North Carolina mountains on May 13, 1830. His family was Scotch-Irish on both sides and he was the third of eight children of David and Mira Baird Vance.

Zeb Vance was born into a family with a history of military and public service. During the American Revolution, his grandfather, Colonel David Vance, had suffered through a bitter winter with Washington's Army at Valley Forge and had fought at Germantown, Brandywine, and the Battle of Monmouth. His uncle, Dr. Robert Brank Vance, was a congressman from 1824 to 1826 and Vance's father was a captain during the War of 1812.

The family lived in the house that Colonel David Vance had built in the 1790s and while the family was 'long on tradition,' they were often short of cash. Young Zeb was sent to Washington College in East Tennessee when he was about twelve; Zeb returned home when he was just fourteen because his father had died.[23]







May 13, 1861: England declares its neutrality in the Civil War.[24]



May 13, 1863: Next morning we crossed the creek and discovered the enemy's pickets about two and one-half miles beyond. Our division (Hovey's) formed in line of battle, and threw out a skirmish line nearly two miles in length and drove in the enemy's pickets. The remainder of the force withdrew in the direction of Raymond. Skirmishing continued until noon, at times very severe, there being several wounded in the division. Meanwhile the Pioneer Corps were busily engaged in cutting a road through the woods to the right. The whole force of the enemy, probably 25,000 strong, were not more than two miles in advance of our line. Had they been apprised of our position and number, they might very easily have captured, or at least utterly routed, our little force of 4,000 men. About 1 o'clock an order was received to move out by the right flank through the road cut out by the pioneers. When the column had gotten finely in motion the long line of skirmishers was withdrawn, and followed quickly after. This feint which resulted so successfully was made to prevent the enemy from sending reinforcements towards
Jackson, in which direction the columns of McPherson and Sherman were pressing. Marching rapidly, we encamped about dark in a corn-field about seven or eight miles from where we had been menacing the enemy. Scarcely had we broken ranks when a terrible rain-storm set in, flooding the ground and drenching us completely. We had no reason to complain of the lack of softness in our beds that night. The wet and newly ploughed ground yielded to the pressure of tired limbs rather more readily than was desirable. Still there was no help for it, and each comprehending the necessity submitted to the soft embrace of his muddy couch without a murmur. [25]



May 13, 1846: Congress authorizes $10 million for the recruitment of 50,000 soldiers to serve in the Mexican War.[26]



May 13, 1851: On his twenty-first birthday, Zebulon Baird Vance wrote to former Governor David L. Swain, who was the president of the University at Chapel Hill, and asked for a loan so he could enter Law School. Governor Swain arranged for a $300 loan from the University and after a reportedly brilliant academic year, Vance was granted his County Court license in Raleigh in late 1851. The next year he went to Asheville and began to practice law.

The young lawyer first ventured into electoral politics when he was only twenty-four years old as the Whig candidate for a seat in the State House of Commons. He won that election against an opponent twice his age. Like many North Carolinians in public life, Vance was an outstanding public speaker. His gift of ready humor and oratorical skills on the stump resulted in a remarkable success rate in elections. During his entire career, he was only defeated once at the polls (in 1856) when David Coleman, and not Vance, became the State Senator from Buncombe.[27]





May 13, 1864: William McKinnon Goodlove, on March 7, 1864 enlisted in the Union Army, K Co. 57th Inf Reg. in Ohio at the age of 18.

Battle at Resaca, Georgia on May 13, 1864





Fri. May 13[28][29], 1864:

Started for the east at 8 am

Went 7 miles east of Alexandra[30]’[31]

Camped on red river near the boat[32]



May 13-14, 1864: Battle of Resaca, GA.[33]



May 13, 1897

Mrs. Margie Goodlove was quite sick the last of the week.[34]



On board Convoy 50 was Leizer Gotlieb born November 6, 1891 from Russie, (Russia), and Charles Gottlieb, born May 13, 1898 from Fulda, Germany. [35]



The routine telex, dated March 4 (XXVc-211), was signed by Rothke. It annoced to the recipients, among them Eichmaann, that on the same day 1,000 Jews left the station at Le Bourget/Drancy (see section below on destination) for Cholm, the word Auschwitz is crossed out, under the supervision of Lieutenant Ott.



One deportee, Jacob Silber, escaped from this convoy. His escape and transfer to Auschwitz after drecapture are related in documents XXVc-216 and 220.[36]



Convoy 50 took close to a thousand people, some to Maidanek and the great majority to Sobibor, the former for immediate killing and the latter for slave labor. Indications are that most were killed at Sobibor; only four people from this convoy were alive at the end of the war. Convoy 50 included 10 children.[37]



May 13, 1922: Two things seem to have hastened the coming of the political stage in the evolution of the Klan in Oregon, namely, the political ambitions of the Klan leaders and the proclamation of Governor Olcott on May 13, 1922, condemning the Klan because of its alleged connection with night riding outrages in Medford and other places. This proclamation precipitated a bitter political fight in which Governor Olcott lost his office, the Klan using its influence to secure the election of the Democratic candidate, Walter N. Pierce, besides putting through the so called “compulsory school bill” aimed at the Catholic schools. While the campaign for the school bill was primarily a fight for political power, religious issues were drawn into it.[38]

…Though this measure was proposed by a Scottish Rites Mason it seems to have been drafted by Klansmen and put through by their support. Leading Masons have condemned it…

…The story of the Klan in Oregon is is most instructive as throuwing light upon the significance of this order in American life. Here is a state composed of eighty five percent native Americans. It has no race problem. It is predominantly Protestant in faith, the Catholics forming but eight percent of the population. It is not torn by industrial conflict. It is not threatened by radicalism in any form. It has progressive laws, an admirable educational system, less than two percent of illiteracy. Yet this typical American state hasx been completely overrun and, for a time at least, politically dominated y a secret oath bound organization preaching religious bigotry and racial animosity and seeking primarily its own political aggrandizement. One asks how this is possible.[39]




May 13, 1940:

Germany invades France.[40]




May 13, 1943: Tunisia is liberated by the Allies.[41]



May 13, 1943: Al-Husseini's attempts to block Jewish refugees

Husseini intervened on May 13, 1943, with the German Foreign Office to block possible transfers of Jews from Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, after reports reached him that 4,000 Jewish children accompanied by 500 adults had managed to reach Palestine. He asked that the Foreign Minister "to do his utmost" to block all such proposals and this request was complied with.[137] According to Edith Zertal, none of the documents presented at Eichmann's trial prove that it was the Mufti's interference, in these 'acts of total evil,' that prevented the children's rescue.[138[42]

May 13, 1981: 5:15 PM. Shots rang out. Pope John Paul II has been shot four times at close range. At a nearby hospital doctors operate for five hours. The gunman is a 23 year old Turk, a trained sniper, who had escaped a Turkish prison while serving a sentence for murder. Pope John Paul makes a remarkable recovery.



[43]

On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot in St. Peter s Square by a Turkish political extremist, Mehmet Ali Agca. After his release from the hospital, the pope famously visited his would-be assassin in prison, where he had begun serving a life sentence, and personally forgave him for his actions. The next year, another unsuccessful attempt was made on the pope s life, this time by a fanatical priest who opposed the reforms of Vatican II.

Although it was not confirmed by the Vatican until 2003, many believe Pope John Paul II began suffering from Parkinson s disease in the early 1990s. He began to develop slurred speech and had difficulty walking, though he continued to keep up a physically demanding travel schedule. In his final years, he was forced to delegate many of his official duties, but still found the strength to speak to the faithful from a window at the Vatican. In February 2005, the pope was hospitalized with complications from the flu. He died two months later.

Pope John Paul II is remembered for his successful efforts to end communism, as well as for building bridges with peoples of other faiths, and issuing the Catholic Church s first apology for its actions during World War II. He was succeeded by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI. Benedict XVI began the process to beatify John Paul II in May 2005.[44]









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[1] Wikipedia


[2] http://www.twoop.com/medicine/archives/2005/10/bubonic_plague.html


[3] mike@abcomputers.com


[4] The Reformation, The Adventure of English. 12/10/2003, HISTI


[5] Wikipedia


[6] On This Day in America by John Wagman.


[7] America before Columbus, NTGEO, 11/22/2009


[8] Trial by Fire, by Harold Rawlings, page 135.


[9] America before Columbus, NTGEO, 11/22/2009


[10] www.wikipedia.org


[11] .”*The Sydney-Smith, Leggett-Price and Allied Families, by Lucy Smith Price.




[12] Torrence and Allied Families, Robert M. Torrence, pg 299


[13] Trial by Fire, by Harold Rawlings, page 141.




[14] Wikipedia


[15] Now Mount Braddock, Fayette county, Pennsylvania the former home, it will be remembered of Christopher Gist, the first white settler west of the Alleghany mountains. Gist was not alive at the above date.


[16] David Shepherd was long a prominent citizen of the West. As Lieutenant of Ohio county, Virginia, he rendered very efficient service, during the Revolution in Protecting the country along the OhioError! Bookmark not defined. river, above and below Wheeling, from savage incursions In April, 1781, he commanded one hundred and thirty-four militia, in the campaign against Coshocton, an Indian town, now the site of Coshocton Ohio, under the lead of Colonel Daniel Brodhead.


[17] This was only a small part of the design in Captain Crawford’s movement down the Ohio, early in May, 1774. The principal object was to go as low as Wheeling, to watch the movements of the Indians. It will be recollected that he proceeded as far as Grave creek, but saw no savages.


[18] The Brothers Crawford


[19] ON This Day in America by John Wagman.


[20] http://www.in.gov/history/2746.htm


[21] The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume V, 1821-1824


[22] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebulon_Baird_Vance


[23] http://thomaslegion.net/zebulon_baird_vance.html


[24] On This Day in America by John Wagman.


[25] http://www.mobile96.com/cw1/Vicksburg/TFA/24Iowa-1.html


[26] On This Day in America by John Wagman.


[27] http://thomaslegion.net/zebulon_baird_vance.html


[28] Retreat to Morganza May 13-22.

UNION IOWA VOLUNTEERS, 24th Regiment, Iowa Infantry: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/template.cfm?unitname=24th%20Regiment%2C%20Iowa%20Infantry&unitcode=UIA0024RI




[29] The army remained at Alexandria until May 13, as the Red River was unseasonably low and the Union fleet was stranded above the falls. To make matters worse, the enemy established a blockade below the city in an effort to cut the Federal supply line. In response to the critical situation, Union engineers constructed dams in hopes of creating a pool of water sufficient in depth to float the boats over the rapids. Thus, Banks had to delay farther retreat in order to enable the engineers to finish their work and protect the fleet.

"The rebel blockade on Red River was so well maintained" lamented Rigby, "that we were quite shut out from the rest of the world while we lay at Alexandria. After one large mail going out had been captured Gen. Banks would allow no more to go out & soon after this the river was closed to us entirely not until after at least 3 transports & two of the Musketo Boats (Signal and Covington) had been captured & burned by the enemy." Life in the beleaguered city soon became unpleasant as the Union soldiers lived on reduced rations and under threat of an attack. The captain recalled, "At Alexandria we were continually expecting an attack from the enemy & Gen. Banks kept our corps oscillating backwards & forwards between Alexandria and Middle Bayou 7 m. from town. Letter, WTR to brother May 23, 1864.


[30] On May 13, Porter and Banks resumed their retreat from Alexandria.

http://www.civilwarhome.com/redrivercampaign.htm


[31] In point of fact, except as a location on the map, A. J. Smiths gorillas had burned it at the outset. Looking back over their shoulders as they set out they had a similar satisfaction, similar not only to Simsport, but also to Grande Ecore three weeks ago, as well to an number of lesser hamlets in their path before and since of seeing Alexandria aflame. It burned briskly under a long wind tattered plume of greasy smoke while over the levy and down by the bank of the river as one federal would recall; “thousands of people, mostly women, children and old men, were wringing their hands as they stood by little piles of what was all of their worldly possessions.” They had been driven there by the sudden press of heat from a score of fires that had quickly merged after starting simultaneously with the help of a mixture of turpentine and camphine which the soldiers slopped on houses with mops and brooms. Experience had greatly improved their incinderary techniques. (The Civil War by Shelby Foote, Cassette 3, side 2)


[32] By May 13 the fleet was over the rapids and the retreat was resumed as Union soldiers took up the line of march at 3 p.m. and headed southeast toward Simmesport on the Atchafalaya River. When they reached the area below Alexandria where the enemy had blockaded the river, the men were surprised to find the captured mail strewn along the riverbank. Rigby related in a letter to his brother:

The bank of the river was covered with letters they [the Confederates] had opened & read. Some of the boys found letters they had themselves written at Alexandria. I warrant you the Rebs had a jolly time reading them & that they found some not flattering opinions expressed of Gen. Banks. The worst of it is we had received pay & some of the boys sent their money by mail & it is probably lost. [48] ] Letter, WTR to brother May 23, 1864.




[33]


[34] Winton Goodlove papers




[35] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 399.


[36] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 395


[37] French Children of the Holocaust, A memorial by Serge Klarsfeld, page 406.


[38] The Ku Klux Klan, A Study of the American Mind, by John Moffatt Mecklin, Ph. D, 1924, page 45-46.


[39] The Ku Klux Klan, A Study of the American Mind, by John Moffatt Mecklin, Ph. D, 1924, page 45-49.


[40] (Based on Ian Ousby, Occupation: The Ordeal of France, 1940-1944 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998)


[41]Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1776


[42] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini


[43] Secret Access: The Vatican, 12/22/10


[44] www.history.com