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  Charles Lee (Attorney General) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Lee (1758– June 24, 1815) was an American lawyer from Virginia.
Charles was born to Henry (1729-1787) and Lucy (Grymes) Lee on his father's plantation of Leesylvania in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
Lee died in 1815 in Fauquier County, Virginia and is buried in the Warrenton Cemetery in Warrenton.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Lee_(Attorney_General)   (327 words)

  
 Charles Lee (general) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Lee (1732–1782) was a British soldier turned Virginia planter who was a Major General of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.
Lee was born in Cheshire England, on February 6, 1732.
Lee was often considered second in command of the colonial forces, although Artemas Ward, who was not in good health, officially held this position.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Lee_(general)   (875 words)

  
 Charles Lee (general) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lee was born in Cheshire England, on the 6th of February, 1732.
Lee is often considered second in command of the colonial forces, although Artemas Ward officially held this position (Ward was not in good health).
Lee also received some other titles; in 1776, he was named Commander of the, although he never got to serve in this capacity, instead, he was appointed as the first-ever Commander of the Southern Department.
www.huntingtonbeach.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Charles_Lee_(general)   (761 words)

  
 Charles Lee Dibrell
Charles Lee Dibrell was the oldest son born to Anthony and Elizabeth Lee Dibrell on October 24, 1757.
Charles became a part of the 7th Regiment in Madison County and served in the campaign that drove the Indians to the north across the Ohio River and on into the land of Indiana and Illinois.
Charles was on the court that formed the county of Wayne from Pulaski County.
home.southwind.net /~crowther/Dibrell/CLD.html   (4392 words)

  
 Charles Lee
LEE, Charles, soldier, born in Dernhall, Cheshire, England, in 1731; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 October, 1782.
Lee was taken to New York and confined in the city hall, where he was courteously treated, but he well understood that his life was in danger in case the British government should regard him as a deserter from the army.
Lee's extraordinary conduct in failing to grasp the opportunity that all believed within his reach excited indignant comment among officers and soldiers, and he now wrote two angry letters to the commander-in-chief, to which Washington replied by placing him under arrest, he was tried by court-martial on three charges: 1.
www.famousamericans.net /charleslee   (4238 words)

  
 The Patriot Resource: Charles Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lee was then taken to New York and his capture was considered a great blow to the morale of the Americans.
Lee furthered his troubles by writing two letters to General Washington that same day in which he was still disrespectful and asked for a trial to prove his case.
Lee was officially charged with disobedience of orders in attacking the enemy on June 28 as instructed, misbehavior before the enemy on the same day by making an unnecessary retreat and disrespect to the Commander-in-Chief in two letters.
www.patriotresource.com /people/leechas/page3.html   (491 words)

  
 Charles Lee
Charles Lee was one of the most talented American military leaders in the War for Independence, but his erratic performance and loutish behavior forever tarnished his considerable contributions.
Lee was released in an exchange in the spring of 1778, in the wake of the major British defeat at Saratoga the previous fall.
Lee reported to Washington at Valley Forge in May. When word was received of the impending British withdrawal from Philadelphia, Lee argued vigorously for allowing Clinton to depart unimpeded, leading some of his critics to question his judgment and others his loyalty.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1117.html   (1337 words)

  
 Bucknell's Charles Lee Named Honorable Mention All-American by AP :: Senior Co-Captain was Patriot League Player of the ...
Lee, a two-year co-captain and the 2006 Patriot League Player of the Year, helped lead the Bison to a best-ever 27-5 record, a second straight league title and a second straight trip to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Lee was named to the Patriot League All-Tournament Team for the third straight season, and he became the first player in league history to be named Tournament MVP twice.
Lee finished the season ranked sixth in the Patriot League in scoring, second in rebounding (6.0), third in steals (2.19), ninth in field-goal percentage (.435), ninth in 3-point percentage (.374) and 10th in assists (2.84).
bucknellbison.cstv.com /sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/032906aad.html   (332 words)

  
 S. Charles Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Charles Lee (1899-1990) is recognized as one of the most prolific and distinguished motion picture theater designers on the West Coast.
Lee's ultimate legacy, however, is as an early proponent of Art Deco and Moderne style theaters, including Fresno's Tower Theatre.
Charles Lee died January 27, 1990, hailed as a "prominent architect of movie theaters of the Art Deco period." His list of honors include the highest recognition of the Society of Registered Architects, the "Synergy Award," in 1975.
historicfresno.org /bio/lee.htm   (402 words)

  
 Charles Lee
Lee was a practicing physician of the Eclectic school, and had diplomas from two medical societies and quite an extensive practice.
Lee should have had such success under these circumstances is good evidence that he learned to lean on a mightier arm than puny man possesses.
Lee's Case," as it appeared in the eyes of the Advent leaders in 1876; even the Lutheran priest was considered worthy of such a present.
www.ex-sda.com /newpage23.htm   (10211 words)

  
 WPI Department of Military Science - People, Places and Terms Mentioned in Staff Rides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lee, as the second in command of the Continental Army, felt that such a prestigious command should be appointed to himself.
Lee was born a native of England in 1731 and entered his father's regiment as an ensign in 1747.
Lee forsaw the confiscation of his property in Britain as a consequence to his acceptance of his commission and arranged for Congress to compensate him for it.
www.wpi.edu /Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/glossary.html   (8995 words)

  
 GTE's Charles Lee is 1999 Hatfield Fellow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lee is the 1999 Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education, the highest honor Cornell bestows on outstanding individuals from the corporate sector.
Lee plans to merge GTE with Bell Atlantic, and the resultant firm is expected to be a major player in the dynamic telecommunications industry.
Lee's visit to Cornell is organized by the Office of Corporate Relations and supported by the Hatfield Fund for Economic Education, which was established at Cornell in 1981 by the Continental Group Foundation to honor retiring Continental Chairman Robert S. Hatfield.
www.news.cornell.edu /http://www.news.corne/Chronicle/99/9.16.99/Hatfield.html   (510 words)

  
 Charles R. Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lee received his bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from Cornell University and an MBA with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Lee joined GTE Corporation (which merged with Bell Atlantic Corporation to form Verizon Communications in 2000) as Senior Vice President of Finance and in 1986 was named Senior Vice President of Finance and Planning.
Lee is a member of the Board of Overseers of Weill Cornell Medical College.
www.marathon.com /About_Us/Board_of_Directors/Charles_R_Lee   (226 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / The “Military Grimes” of Charles Lee
Lee had blazed back a reply, vowing that he was looking forward to the “opportunity of shewing to America the sufficiency of her respective servants” and warning the Commander in Chief not to let “the tinsel dignity” of office “offiscate the bright rays of truth.”
Lee recalled it as: “The General [Washington] expects you will find means of engaging the enemy, if no powerful consideration prevent you.” Lee put special stress on his battlefield discovery of “the great ravine” that cut across the entire plain before Monmouth Court House and had only a single bridge across it.
Lee was guilty on all counts, but the word “shameful” was deleted from the second charge, which was altered to read, “Guilty of … making an unnecessary, and in some few instances a disorderly retreat.” The penalty more than anything else revealed the court’s sense of embarrassment over the whole affair.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1968/3/1968_3_12.shtml   (6009 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Unshakeable Belief: The Story of Charles Lee, Part 2
In the wake of Charles' arrest, his fellow Falun Gong practitioners around the country raised the issue to their government representatives, and conducted a signature campaign calling for the U.S. government to ensure his release.
Lee has said that he had no intention of injuring equipment, and that the electronics he brought would not have caused any damage.
Lee later noted in a letter that, "During the court trial, the judges repeatedly deprived me of my right to present evidence and defend myself." He wrote that the judge did not allow him to question witnesses from the prosecution, who had given false testimony.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-1-6/36582.html   (1156 words)

  
 Amos and Associates-The Law Firm - Gulfport, MS - Attorneys
Lee is a 1998 graduate of The University of Mississippi School of Law and completed his Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Rust College in Holly Springs, MS.
Lee's undergraduate years, he had the opportunity to conduct research at the University of Missouri-Columbia during the summer of 1993 in Higher and Adult Education.
Lee had the privilege of working as a law clerk for two Chancellors, The Honorable Jerry G. Mason and The Honorable Sarah P. Springer, in the 12th Chancery Court District (Lauderdale and Clarke counties).
yp.bellsouth.com /sites/amosandassociates/page3.html   (432 words)

  
 Bucs: Now Lee is angry over playing time
Lee said he planned to speak to coach Jon Gruden before Wednesday afternoon's practice, but, based on the outcome of previous discussions, was not optimistic.
Lee's knee injury, sustained Oct. 18 in a loss at St. Louis, coincided with the returns of injured receivers Joe Jurevicius and Joey Galloway.
Lee emerged as a playmaker late last season with 33 catches for 432 yards and two touchdowns - all career highs - and five starts in eight games.
www.sptimes.com /2004/11/25/Bucs/Now_Lee_is_angry_over.shtml   (858 words)

  
 The Patriot Resource: Charles Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Charles Lee was an Irishman born in February 1732 in England.
Lee served under Maj. General Edward Braddock along with fellow officers George Washington, Horatio Gates and Thomas Gage during the French and Indian War.
Lee was recalled north to aid General Washington, but during manuevers in New Jersey in December 1776, he was captured by a British patrol.
www.patriotresource.com /people/charleslee.html   (214 words)

  
 Charles McDowell Lee, Secretary of the Senate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
McDowell Lee was elected Secretary of the Senate in 1963, and has held this position continuously since that time.
Lee served in the United States Navy in World War II, seeing action in both the European and Pacific Theaters.
He was a special agent of the FBI for 2 1/2 years, served one term as mayor of Clio, and served in the House of Representatives from 1954 to 1962.
www.legislature.state.al.us /senate/senators/senatebios/lee_cm.html   (133 words)

  
 The Winchester Star-Charles Lee, Man of Contradictions,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Today, Charles’ interest in history spells relief, for it was he who encouraged me to examine the life of one of this nation’s — and this Valley’s — more fascinating yet obscure characters, a man deemed by one writer “one of the most delightful if forgotten figures of the (Revolutionary) war”: General Charles Lee.
The name Charles Lee rekindles memories of childhood, particularly of a favorite volume — “The Golden Book of the American Revolution” — and a picture of George Washington, astride a white charger, galloping to the front at Monmouth Court House to relieve a certain general of his command.
Once back in America, Lee took the advice of Gates and purchased land near his friend in what is now Jefferson County, W.Va. and then, with the colonies in full revolt, offered his services to the Continental Army.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/000118/Area_Lee.asp   (826 words)

  
 Lee, Charles. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When he did cross he was captured (Dec. 13, 1776) by the British at Basking Ridge, N.J. As a captive he gave Gen. William Howe a plan for defeating the Americans, but his treason was not discovered.
Lee was exchanged and joined Washington at Valley Forge (1778).
A court-martial resulted in a year’s suspension from command for Lee, who continued to criticize Washington abusively.
www.bartleby.com /65/le/Lee-Char.html   (351 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Exclusive Interview with Charles Lee
Charles Lee, who returned to America on January 21, 2006, after being in jail in China for the last three years.
Dr. Charles Lee: I was arrested because I intended to tap into the state-run media to broadcast videos that expose the persecution of Falun Gong.
Dr. Lee: When I was arrested in the very beginning, in Canton, and then was transferred to Guangzhou, they tortured me with handcuffs, which cut into my flesh to the bone; it was extremely painful.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-1-26/37437.html   (1609 words)

  
 Charles Lee Fine Art
Charles Lee was born in Korea in 1948; His mother introduced Charles to the arts and at an early age he demonstrated an incredible skill in many types of art, from pencil portraits to tranquil landscapes each with his own unique style.
In the execution of his designs, Charles embraces oils, water colors and acrylics.
He also has a penchant for a bright and eye catching palette (including gold foil.) that demonstrates his keen sense of color, yet in spite of such vibrant imagery he presents his subjects in a calm, reflective and almost ethereal way.
charlesleefineart.com   (203 words)

  
 The Lee Family Branch
"As for the Lee family, the info I have is that Charles Lee (my grandfather) was from an English plantation owner in Virginia, or one of that family, who moved to Maryland and owned a plantation at the time Maryland was opened to non-Catholics (sometime before the revolution).
His son 'Light Horse Harry' Lee was a hero of the Revolutionary War and later was elected to Congress from Virginia and was elected to write and present the eulogy to Washington when the first president died (first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of this countrymen).
"The Rev. Charles A. Lee was pastor of the United Brethern Church in Esbon, Kansas, 1896 to 1899.
borntoexplore.org /home/lees.htm   (899 words)

  
 Charles Lee's Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Charles Lee received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Manchester, England, in 1987.
Lee, L. C., and Farrell, P. G., 'Error performance of maximum likelihood trellis decoding of high rate (n, n-1) convolutional codes: A simulation study', IEE Proc.
Lee, L. C., and Farrell, P. G., 'Performance of phase-invariant trellis coding for differentially-encoded coherent MPSK signals on Rayleigh fading channels', Elect.
www.elec.mq.edu.au /~cl   (513 words)

  
 Chasing Tales - Charles Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unbelievable as it may seem, 12 of the finest short stories ever written by Charles Lee have languished, unnoticed and undiscovered, in a cardboard box for almost a century.
Charles Lee combined an individual and enduring wit, a passionate love of the natural world, musical virtuosity, an acute eye for mannerisms and speech, an unrivalled grasp of Cornish dialect and the talent for telling a good yarn, to produce some of the tenderest and funniest stories ever written about Cornwall.
Also within the Biography we find that Lee left Cornwall in 1907 to live in Letchworth at 113 Willbury Road (an exhibition cottage), working as a senior editor for publisher J M Dent, and was involved in the early social life of the Garden City composing scores for pantomimes, and teaching piano.
www.letchworthgardencity.net /tales   (699 words)

  
 Lee Charles Kelley; Dog Trainer, Author
Lee Charles Kelley is not only a dog trainer and mystery novelist, he's also a respected New York voiceover actor.
Lee came over and Tiki did her usual routine and within a few minutes she began to calm down.
Lee Charles Kelley has been training dogs in New York City for over fifteen years.
www.leecharleskelley.com   (6820 words)

  
 Biography - Dr. Charles Lee
Charles Lee is vice president for agriculture, forestry and veterinary medicine at Mississippi State.
He was professor and head of the forest science department at Texas AandM from 1983 to 1989 and also has served as associate director and interim director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.
Lee holds a bachelor's degree in forestry and a Ph.D. in forestry/genetics from North Carolina State University.
www.adec.edu /admin/bios/lee_c.html   (218 words)

  
 FalunInfo.Net - American Charles Lee Free, Safe in California
Charles Lee, an American citizen, takes questions from reporters upon returning to California after three years of illegal imprisonment and torture in China.
Lee’s ordeal began in January 2003, when he traveled to China wishing to expose human rights violations against practitioners of the Falun Gong.
During his imprisonment, Lee was subjected to beatings, sleep depravation, forced labor, and other forms of torture and abuse.
www.faluninfo.net /displayAnArticle.asp?ID=9339   (494 words)

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