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 Siege of Fort Erie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The British under the command of Gordon Drummond followed slowly behind but reached the fort on August 4.
William Drummond, was to attack in the center against the fort.
Drummond lifted the siege and retreated to Chippewa Creek where he in turn established a defensive line.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Erie   (534 words)

  
 The War of 1812
Gordon Drummond had the distinction of being the first Canadian-born officer to take command in both the army and in the civil government when he became administrator of Upper Canada late in 1813.
Drummond proved to be just the sort of determined commander that Prevost had been looking for.
As an administrator, Drummond was harsh on traitors but respectful of the general population, despite having to impose martial law to obtain from them the food to feed his army.
www.galafilm.com /1812/e/people/drummond.html   (612 words)

  
 Gordon Drummond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Educated in Britain as a youth and exposed to the military at an early age becaose of his father's career, young Gordon Drummond made no secret of his intention to sign on with the British Army as soon as possible.
Despite these occaisonal displays of brutal and sudden punishment, Drummond was typically respectful of the citizenry as a whole, recognizing that their help would be essential in driving the Americans out of Canada.
Nontheless, Drummond would insist that Lundy's Lane was a total victory for the British, and tried to smash Scott's army into the ground by chasing them to Fort Erie.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/gordon_drummond   (1198 words)

  
 Sessions.edu Faculty
Gordon is a senior editor and educator with over 10 years experience in instructional design.
Gordon joined the Internet revolution in 1999, working as the senior Knowledge Architect at Boston-based learningbrands.com, creating interactive, adaptive, web-based courses for corporate clients.
Gordon's goal at sessions.edu is to harness the power of the Web to deliver rich learning experiences.
www.sessions.edu /cobrand/faculty/facultysbios/gordon.html   (148 words)

  
 Gordon Drummond -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon Drummond (1772 - October 10, 1854) holds the honour of being the first (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian-born officer to command the military and the civil government.
However, before the first shots were fired in the 1812 campaign, Drummond was reassigned, to (A division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland) Northern Ireland.
Nonetheless, Drummond would insist that Lundy's Lane was a total victory for the British, and tried to smash Scott's army into the ground by chasing them to (Click link for more info and facts about Fort Erie) Fort Erie.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/go/gordon_drummond.htm   (954 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Features - A steady hand keeping store in best of nick
Drummond, though, is undoubtedly well turned out - his grey checked suit with lilac lining is by designer Alexandre - and he displays a degree of charm, which you might think under other circumstances, would be a degree further.
Drummond is the man credited for resurrecting the fortunes of the 364-day-old department store which experienced a rather slow burn after launching in a blaze of publicity when Ewan McGregor and a whole host of London names came north to celebrate it’s opening.
Drummond, 50, was head-hunted from House of Fraser, where he was the regional manager for the north - a job which stretched from Inverness to Leeds - for ten years.
news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=891522003   (1583 words)

  
 Gordon Drummond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Drummond demostró muy rápidamente gran promesa y talento como oficial.
Drummond también vio servicio en el mediterráneo e Indias del oeste 1805, 33 años meros viejos, Drummond habían logrado la fila mayor de principal-general y estaban bien en su manera a una carrera militar extremadamente prometedora.
Drummond, como los comandantes británicos Brock y Henrio Procter del compañero, tenía continuamente hambre para los refuerzos de Prevost, que sujetó a relativamente una gran cantidad de tropas en reserva en de Quebec, a pesar de el hecho de que ningunas tropas incluso habían venido cerca de poner en peligro el capital.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/go/Gordon%20Drummond.htm   (1264 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Top Stories - Harvey Nichols is finally back in fashion
Gordon Drummond, Harvey Nichols’s general manager, insists the Edinburgh store is still finding its feet and tailoring its stock to the clientèle.
Gordon Drummond, who became general manager of the store last month after being headhunted from House of Fraser, said there are still improvements to be made but the store is doing far better than many of its critics suppose.
Mr Drummond said he hoped the success of Harvey Nichols would act as a catalyst for the development of Princes Street and the surrounding areas, admitting that Edinburgh’s much-maligned main thoroughfare needed significant improvements to bring it up to scratch.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=475272003   (907 words)

  
 Lundy's Lane : July 25, 1814 - Action Report
Drummond instructed the artillery gunners to place their guns on the slope near the church and the 89th Foot to support them as quickly as possible.
The Glengarry Lights were on Drummond's right, with the 89th Foot, some Royal Scots, and a company of the 41st Foot on the slope in the centre, behind the guns.
Drummond had scarcely completed his dispositions when the Americans began the action by sending their skirmishers forward to feel out the British position and possibly determine their strength.
www.napoleonicminiatureswargame.com /lundyslane.html   (1725 words)

  
 Paranormal & Ghost Society
Drummond Hill Cemetery is located just a few blocks away from Lundy's Lane Cemetery.
As Riall and his soldiers were retreating, they met British Major General Gordon Drummond along with reinforcement troops on the Portage Road approximately one mile north of Lundys Lane.
On August 2nd 1814, Major General Gordon Drummond and his British forces attacked the supply lines to the Americans at Fort Erie.
www.paranormalghostsociety.org /drummondhillcemetery.htm   (1218 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Features - Looking snappy birthday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mr Drummond proves to be forthcoming after all, it being against his nature, one suspects, to clam up completely on anything with anybody.
Drummond has breathed life into a store that from inception had seemed somewhat breathless.
Mr Drummond progressed from Goldbergs to the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, as operations director at its Borders headquarters in Langholm.
news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=923372004   (1584 words)

  
 Drummond Island Voyageurs.
Rawson, who was born on Drummond Island, and who died recently in Coldwater at an advanced age.) The Government employed the brig Wellington and a schooner named Hackett (Alice), commanded by the owner, Capt. Hackett, for the purpose of conveying the troops, military stores and Indian supplies to the new post.
Gordon and her mother, Widow Landry, whose remains now rest near the ruins of the old Gordon homestead, are therefore fairly entitled to rank as the pioneers of the voyageurs from Drummond Island to Penetanguishene.
While at Drummond Island she furnished music for the officers and gentry at halls and parties, and was frequently called away to Mackinaw and other points for the same purpose.
my.tbaytel.net /bmartin/drummond.htm   (16512 words)

  
 GHRS - Niagara Region - Reports
Drummond, too, was wounded and decided to stay put allowing the Americans to reach the safety of the fort and to burn the town of Bridgewater Mills in the process.
Drummond seized the chance believing the Americans would have suffered heavy casualties and were now off balance.
Drummond had made one of the more fatal errors of a commander during the Napoleonic period assuming that the bayonet would be a better weapon for the attackers than the musket.
www.torontoghosts.org /niagara/historyforterie.htm   (2530 words)

  
 Sessions.edu: Visualizing the Learning Management System: Campus Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gordon Drummond, Sessions.edu Director of Curriculum reports: "This conversion was a big project management challenge for us.
Drummond's closing comments offer good advice for all organizations selecting their LMS: "Choose a system based on your educational model.
Gordon Drummond (Drummond@Sessions.edu), Director of Curriculum, for additional information on Sessions.edu (http://sessions.edu.com) and their management of the LMS conversion process.
www.campus-technology.com /print.asp?ID=9564   (1032 words)

  
 New Jersey Obituaries - May 18, 1898 - Gordon Drummond
Gordon Drummond of Asbury Park died of heart disease and paralysis on Sunday of last week.
Drummond was born at Eatontown, where he lived for fifty years.
Drummond was aged 67 years and 9 months.
distantcousin.com /obits/nj/1800/1898/may/18/drummondgordon.html   (115 words)

  
 UKRD Group Latest News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gordon Drummond's career in radio has spanned more than twenty years which includes long stints with Capital Radio Sales, EMAP and latterly GWR where his interest in non traditional revenue streams saw increases in both small and major markets.
Gordon's primary task will be to maximise revenue generation in the UKRD South East stations of Star 106.6, 96.4 The Eagle and County Sound 1566, working closely with Regional Managing Director Valerie Handley and the existing management team on the ground.
In his training role, Gordon will be responsible for devising, planning and implementing all sales training for the Group's seventy strong sales force which will include Account Managers, Sales Managers and Sales Directors, bringing his skill, knowledge and years of practice direct to the teams.
www.ukrd.com /news/news_15092003.html   (267 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 42
James Drummond Gordon is the son of Sir David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Beatrice Mary June Boissier.
She married James Drummond Gordon, son of Sir David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Beatrice Mary June Boissier, in 1985.
Mary Katherine Gordon is the daughter of Sir David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Beatrice Mary June Boissier.
www.thepeerage.com /p42.htm   (738 words)

  
 The Siege of Fort Erie 1814 by Frederick Carsted  -
It was therefore surprising that Drummond decided on a three-pronged night assault only two days later.
While Sir Gordon Drummond accepted responsibility for the failure, he attempted to shift most of the blame to De Watteville's Regiment.
Drummond continued to stand his ground, though the siege became an affair of small attacks and counter-attacks, all taking their toll of lives.
www.warof1812.ca /forterie.htm   (1562 words)

  
 Gallery 2 - Sense of belonging and taking roots into Greater Madawaska (1860-1960)
Drummond`s potatoes and those of the surrounding areas earned early an excellent reputation and this crop rapidly grew.
The work of the ancestors bore the fruit of their labour as the farmers were owners of their land and with time became financially comfortable.
Helping each other, autonomy and pride of their peaceful and prosperous parish are some characteristics of the people from Drummond.
www.cuslm.ca /hoteldieustbasile/en/expositions/cat2.php?id_cat=16   (269 words)

  
 Author : works by Gordon Drummond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gordon E Bigelow Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Frontier Eden - 0813006724
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Aggressive and willing to take chances, December saw Drummond launch a surprise attack on Fort Niagara, surprising the American garrison and taking the fort easily.Drummond also took after Brock as a civil leader, but there were some cardinal differences.
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 Gordon Drummond
Drummond GB Comparison of sedation with midazolam and ketamine: effects on airway muscle activity.
Inspired oxygen and oxygen transfer during artificial ventilation for respiratory failure.
Nimmo AF, Drummond GB Respiratory mechanics after abdominal surgery measured with continuous analysis of pressure, flow and volume signals.
www.anaes.med.ed.ac.uk /univ/gordon.html   (258 words)

  
 Battle of Lundy's Lane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was the bloodiest battle ever fought in Canada.
Lieutenant-General Gordon Drummond, with about 2200 British, Irish, Swiss mercenaries, Canadian and native troops, engaged an invading American army of approximately equal strength under General Winfield Scott, who had won the Battle of Chippawa on July 5.
The Americans emerged from a forest into an open field, and were easily picked off by the British artillery.
www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Battle_of_Lundy's_Lane   (412 words)

  
 Canadian Military Heritage
The defeat worried General Gordon Drummond, in command of the British troops in Upper Canada.
Of the three regiments engaged in the battle, two - the 1St, the famous Royal Scots, and the 8th, the King's - were famed for their bravery and excellence.
Drummond immediately requested reinforcements from Lower Canada and had troops brought in from Kingston to Fort George and to York (Toronto).
www.cmhg.gc.ca /cmh/en/page_395.asp   (399 words)

  
 Gordon Drummond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gordon Drummond was born in 1921 in Sale, Cheshire, England, and became interested in art at an early age, participating in national children's art competitions.
His parents encouraged him to pursue a career in architecture, however, and Drummond attended the Manchester College of Art.
Since then, Drummond has created stamps for some 70 postal authorities throughout the world.
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 Cook's Mills (Lyon's Creek) : October 19, 1814 - Action Report
After Sir Gordon Drummond's unsuccessful siege of Fort Erie, his army fell back to the prepared positions at Chippawa.
On the American commander, General Jacob Brown was replaced by Major General George Izard who moved his reinforced army south of Chippawa, setting up camp in the same location prior to the action at Chippawa on 5 July.
Drummond declined and Izard unwilling to attack the strong enemy position withdrew south on 17 October.
www.napoleonicminiatureswargame.com /cooksmills.html   (537 words)

  
 genealogy - InfoLanka Forum
Cara Annie Drummond Gordon White travelled with her sister Muriel who married Robert Forsyth Smith in 07,July1916, staying in New Zealand for the rest of her life.
James Gordon White father and two sons Preston and Neville served in some degree in the British Military Service of that particular period, in Sri Lanka, possibly the Ceylon Planters Rifles Corp.
James Gordon White was the lessee of Theydon Bois Estate, Nawalapitiya of which the agents were Alstons, Scott & Co. He was also a Justice of the Peace.
www.infolanka.com /ubb/Forum2/HTML/000046.html   (494 words)

  
 Migration of the Voyageurs from Drummond Island to Penetanguishene 1828
Migration of the Voyageurs from Drummond Island to Penetanguishene 1828
the pioneers of the voyageurs from Drummond Island to Penetanguishene.
Drummond Island in August, in a bateau, towed by the schooner Alice,
www.bussineau.com /penetanguishene.htm   (12025 words)

  
 Edinburgh Evening News - Sport - Other Sport - Drummond guides Watsonians to victory through the showers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A half century from Watsonians vice captain Gordon Drummond guided his side to victory after they were set a reduced target of 164 from 31 overs to win.
Early-morning showers meant the match was reduced to 45 overs a side and Renfrew batted first making 217 for three from 41 overs before the rain intervened.
Now chasing 164 off 31 overs Watsonians had a setback when Easton was out lbw but a 73-run partnership between Drummond (56) and captain/pro James Henderson (31) edged them towards the target.
edinburghnews.scotsman.com /othersport.cfm?id=648402005   (323 words)

  
 Bibliography 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Ibritumomab tiuxetan radioimmunotherapy for patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and mild thrombocytopenia: a phase II multicenter trial.
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www.medicine.northwestern.edu /divisions/hematology_oncology/info/bibliography/biblio_2002.html   (4119 words)

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