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	Biography and pictures of George Bancroft
		GEORGE BANCROFT was born at Worcester, Mass., Oct. 3, 1800.
		At this time, Bancroft began to gather material for his "History of the Colonization of the United States." The three volumes of this part of his famous "History of the United States" appeared from 1834 to 1840.
		Bancroft afterward took up his residence in Washington and revised his great work, which he completed in 1885, when the great historian laid down his pen for the last time.
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	George Bancroft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, at Harvard University, at Heidelberg, Göttingen and Berlin.
		Bancroft concluded his years of preparation by a European tour, in the course of which he received kind attention from almost every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art; among others, from Goethe, Humboldt, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Byron, Niebuhr, Bunsen, Savigny, Cousin, Constant and Manzoni.
		In 1866, Bancroft was chosen by Congress to deliver the special eulogy on Lincoln; and in 1867 he was appointed minister to Berlin, where he remained until his resignation in 1874.
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	George Bancroft
		Bancroft was also influential in obtaining additional appropriations for the Washington observatory and in introducing some new professors of great merit into the corps of instructors, and he suggested a method by which promotion should depend, not on age alone, but also on experience and capacity; but this scheme was never fully developed or applied.
		Bancroft gave the order, in the event of war with Mexico, to take immediate possession of California, and constantly renewed the order, sending it by every possible channel to the commander of the American squadron in the Pacific; and it was fully carried into effect before he left the navy department.
		Bancroft has been correspondent of the royal academy of Berlin, and also of the French institute; was made District of Columbia L. at Oxford in 1849, and Doctor Juris by the University of Bonn in 1868, and in September 1870, celebrated at Berlin the fiftieth anniversary of receiving his first degree at Gottingen.
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	George Bancroft: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		George Bancroft (October 3, 1800–January 17, 1891) was an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) historian (A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it) and statesman (A man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs).
		George was educated at Phillips Academy (additional info and facts about Phillips Academy), Exeter (additional info and facts about Exeter), at Harvard University (A university in Massachusetts), at Heidelberg (additional info and facts about Heidelberg), Göttingen (additional info and facts about Göttingen) and Berlin (Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany).
		Instinctively a humanist (A classical scholar or student of the liberal arts), Bancroft had little patience with the narrow curriculum of Harvard in his day and the rather pedantic spirit with which classical studies were there pursued.
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	Daily Celebrations ~ George Bancroft, Crowns of Glory ~ April 30 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		With a distinctive crown of glorious gray hair, George Bancroft (1800-1891) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and was considered one of the first great American historians of the 1800s.
		Bancroft observed: "If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth." In 1834, he completed the first of ten volumes of History of the United States, a patriotic celebration of freedom and democracy.
		Bancroft was a strong supporter of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and delivered the official eulogy for Lincoln to Congress.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /043003.htm (269 words)

	MSN Encarta - George Bancroft
		Bancroft was born on October 3, 1800, in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was educated at Harvard University and the University of Göttingen, where he prepared for the ministry.
		Meanwhile Bancroft had become prominent in Democratic Party circles in Massachusetts, and in 1838 President Martin Van Buren appointed him collector of the Port of Boston, a position he held until 1841.
		Although marred by a pretentious, dogmatic style popular in his time and flavored by his personal partisan philosophy, Bancroft's history was the first one of the United States that was both comprehensive and thoroughly researched.
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	GEORGE BANCROFT - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE BANCROFT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		His heart was in the work of Heeren, easily the greatest of historical critics then living, and the forerunner of the modern school; it was from this master that Bancroft caught his enthusiasm for minute pains-taking erudition.
		The nature and extent of his studies, the solidity of his work, and the philosophic spirit which animates both, explain the enthusiasm with which the earlier volumes of Bancroft were received.
		Bancrofts historical creed is best set forth in the address he delivered on.
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	Encyclopedia: George Bancroft (actor)
		Bancroft’s father was a Unitarian, and he had devoted his son to the work of the ministry; but the young man's first experiments at preaching, shortly after his return from
		Bancroft treaties " in his honor, which he negotiated successively with Prussia and the other north German states were the first international recognition of the right of expatriation, a principle since incorporated in the law of nations.
		The Bancroft treaties, also called the Bancroft conventions, were a series of agreements between the United States and other countries that 1) recognized the right of each partys nationals to become naturalized citizens of the other; and 2) defined circumstances in which naturalized persons were legally presumed to have...
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	How Britain's treason machine made war against Mexico
		Bancroft's false reputation as a ``patriotic'' writer, and the textbooks' silence on his perfidy in the fateful 1840s, are due to the continued power of Bancroft's own treason faction of historians at Harvard and other locations (see article).
		George Bancroft was born into a nest of treason, and was bred an agent of the bitterest enemies of American nationhood and independence.
		George Bancroft's scheme having nominated James Polk, Polk was elected President, took office in March 1845, and appointed George Bancroft as Secretary of the Navy.
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	George Bancroft
		George Bancroft (3 October 1800-17 January 1891) was an important factor in the flowering of New England Romanticism in the early nineteenth century.
		Bancroft was appointed secretary of the navy, and in 1846 was sent by Polk as ambassador to Great Britain.
		A strong advocate of President Abraham Lincoln's policies, Bancroft was an advisor and speechwriter for President Andrew Johnson, and was rewarded in 1867 by an appointment as minister to Berlin.
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	Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.65 (1994)
		George Bancroft had written his undergraduate thesis on astronomy and had done graduate work at Göttingen in oriental languages and philology, fields that were considered no less scientific than chemistry.
		Bancroft was not the first physical chemist on the faculty; another of Ostwald's students, Joseph E. Trevor, had been hired in 1892 to assist in teaching elementary chemistry and to start elective courses in physical chemistry.
		Bancroft thought he had the answer: a slightly acidified albumin sol, treated with sodium sulphate until it was on the verge of precipitating, would begin to flocculate with the addition of one drop of alcohol or chloral hydrate.
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	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		George Bancroft was born in 1800 in Worcester, Massachusetts.
		By 1818, Bancroft was in Europe studying theology and philosophy at Gottingen University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1820; he was also at the University of Berlin, where he studied with Georg F. Hegel and Alexander von Humboldt.
		Though Bancroft had expressed an interest in becoming the U.S. minister to Prussia, President James K. Polk, in 1841, tapped Bancroft to become his secretary of the Navy, a post Bancroft held from 1845 to 1846.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/jamespolk/cabinet/SecretaryoftheNavy/GeorgeBancroft/email.html (305 words)

	George Bancroft -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Bancroft was the first scholar to plan a comprehensive study of the nation's past, from its colonial foundations through the end of its struggle for independence.
		Although Bancroft neglected economic and social forces and wrote what are essentially political and military narratives, he was nevertheless the first to recognize the importance of the colonial period, foreign relations, and the frontier as forces in the history of the United States.
		George Bancroft was the first American to plan a comprehensive study of the nation's past—from the colonial era through the Revolutionary War.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9012106 (1114 words)

	USS George Bancroft (SSBN-643) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS George Bancroft (SSBN-643), a Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarine, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft (1800–1891), the founder of the United States Naval Academy.
		The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 1 November 1962 and her keel was laid down on 24 August 1963.
		George Bancroft was decommissioned on 21 September 1993 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 21 September 1993.
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	Bancroft and the Treason School of History
		George Bancroft made himself a favorable place in history, not by his great works, but by the control that he and his Anglophile faction have exercised over the historical profession itself.
		Bancroft goes on to describe the Salem village witch-hunting hysteria, and the court trials, mainly blaming Cotton Mather for fanning the flames of hysteria.
		Bancroft calls it ``spontaneous.'' But royalist Edward Randolph wrote that ``this [Cotton] Mather had a meeting of Arm'd men at his house the night before they entred upon their strange worke'' of the uprising.
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	BANCROFT FLORIST \| Bancroft Florist – Bancroft flower shop
		Bancroft Florist has over a 100 varieties of flora and fauna so we can create the arrangement that is right for you.
		Bancroft Florist will also add an expression of thanks card free of charge, which we will give you your confirmation of delivery without having to call back.
		Bancroft Roses and Florist is a Canadian Florist offering flower delivery to most towns and cities across Canada.
	www.canadaroses.com /Bancroft-Florist.htm (840 words)

	Encyclopedia: George Bancroft
		George Bancroft, best known as a historian and diplomat, was one of the first of the New England Transcendentalists to study at the University of Göttingen, Germany, from 1818 to 1820.
		Bancroft continued to contribute to Transcendentalism by writing significant translations and reviews of German literature.
		Bancroft has been written about as follows by Octavius Brooks Frothingham, the first historian of American Transcendentalism.
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	George Bancroft
		George was a student in Göttingen, Germany, where he earned a doctorate in 1820.
		Bancroft was dissatisfied with this achievement, and he soon moved on.
		Bancroft established the Naval Academy in Annapolis, gave the orders which led to the occupation of California, and pleaded for the annexation of Texas.
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	Bancroft, George. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He taught briefly at Harvard and then at the Round Hill School in Northampton, Mass., of which he was a founder and proprietor.
		As a reward for his speeches and writings for the Democratic cause he was appointed (1837) collector of the port of Boston by President Martin Van Buren, and as the dispenser of the patronage of that office Bancroft was the Democratic boss in Massachusetts.
		Bancroft, an antislavery Democrat, came to support Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War and on Feb. 12, 1866, delivered the official memorial address on Lincoln before the Congress (he had also been the official eulogist of Andrew Jackson in 1845).
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	USS George Bancroft (SSBN 643)
		USS GEORGE BANCROFT was the fourth BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - class nuclear powered fleet ballistic missile submarine and the fourth ship in the Navy named after George Bancroft.
		The GEORGE BANCROFT was both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on September 21, 1993.
		George Bancroft was born in Worcester, Mass., 3 October 1800.
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	TheStar.com - George Bancroft, 82: Mentor and role model (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bancroft was also the founder of the Harry Gairey scholarship awards (which has now been folded into the Harry Jerome Awards for outstanding fl youth), one of the founders and a board member of Caribana as well as the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews.
		Bancroft graduated from McGill with degrees in French and English, and moved to Toronto where he received his Master's degree and his PhD in educational theory.
		George Bancroft met his wife in 1976 at a Chopin fl tie affair at Casa Loma.
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		George Bancroft (SSB(N)-643) was laid down by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, Conn., 24 August 1963; launched 20 March 1965; sponsored by Mrs.
		A few weeks later, George Bancroft got underway for her second patrol which ended toward the close of the year.
		Early in 1967, George Bancroft began her third patrol.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/g4/george_bancroft.htm (178 words)

	Custom written biography on George Bancroft \| Essays on George Bancroft
		George Bancroft (1800-1891) was an eminent American historian and a diplomat and politician.
		For much of his life Bancroft was important in acquainting Americans with German culture.Bancroft had left the school in 1831, having been drawn to politics and history.
		An excellent analysis of Bancroft's writing is in David Levin, History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley and Parkman (1959).Handlin, Lilian, George Bancroft, the intellectual as Democrat, New York: Harper and Row, 1984.
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	simonpublications.com :: George Bancroft
		Bancroft attended Exeter academy and later at the age of 13 entered Harvard College.
		Bancroft is also credited with issuing the standing orders to Captain John D. Sloat, Commander of the Pacific Squadron to seize the California ports during the Mexican War.
		Bancroft started working on the book in 1834 and completed the first set of books (10-volumes) in 1874.
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