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  WOOD, J. G. - LoveToKnow Article on WOOD, J. G.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wood was attacked by Bishop Burnet in a Letter to the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (1693, 4to), and defended by his nephew Dr Thomas Wood, in a Vindication of the Historiographer, to which is added the Historiographer's Answer (1693), 4to, reproduced in the subsequent editions of the Athenae.
Wood's original manuscript (purchased by the Bodleian in 1846) was first published by John Gutch as The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford, with a con- tinuation (1786-1790, 2 vols.
WOOD, SIR HENRY EVELYN (1838-), British field marshal, was born at Braintree, Essex, on the 9th of February 1838, the youngest son of Sir John Page Wood, Bart.
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 Wood
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 Dramatic Zulu Reversal at Khambula
As night fell on March 28, Wood's badly mauled forces tended to their wounded and awaited the inevitable assault on their encampment on the ridge that was known locally as Ngaba ka Hawana (Hawana's stronghold) but called Khambula by the British.
Wood expressed his concern that the Rangers' horses were too exhausted for such a reconnaissance, but he did agree to Raaff's plan, realizing that he had to find out what the Zulus were up to.
Wood's column had been a thorn in the side of the local Zulu commanders in northwest KwaZulu (as they called their kingdom).
www.thehistorynet.com /mh/blkhambula   (1178 words)

  
 Zulu Mountain Trap Sprung
Wood's goal was the destruction of the stronghold of the abaQulusi, a Nguni clan allied with the Zulus, located on a mountain 20 miles to the southeast, known as Hlobane (pronounced "shlo-BAH-nyeh").
Wood thought that a dismounted cavalry force might be able to lead horses up the western slopes of Zunguin Nek, over the lower plateau, then move on to the upper plateau.
He was accompanied by his personal staff, Lieutenant Henry Lyson and Captain Ronald Campbell, as well as his political agent and interpreter, Llewellyn Lloyd, along with a number of friendly mounted Zulus and eight mounted men from the 90th (Perthshire Volunteers) Light Infantry.
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 The Battle of Majuba - South African Military History Society - Journal
Meanwhile Sir Evelyn Wood, whose previous campaigning in South Africa had earned for him a reputation as a general of considerable ability, had accepted an appointment as Colley's second-in-command, although he was senior to Colley and far more experienced.
Phase three provided for Wood to move into the Transvaal as soon as Colley crossed the Vaal River at Standerton, Wood was then to take command of all troops east of the Vaal, including Newcastle, but would relinquish command of the remainder of the troops in Natal.
Sir Evelyn Wood rushed to Mount Prospect, and Sir Frederick Roberts was appointed in Colley's Command, but in actual fact the First War of Independence ended with Colley's defeat at Majuba and Roberts did not assume active command.
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 The Lonely Graves of Zululand - South African Military History Society - Journal
He was with Colonel Evelyn Wood's column throughout the whole of its operations on the Transvaal frontier and during its subsequent advance into Zululand.
Lt James Henry Scott Douglas was born in Edinburgh on 27 May, 1853, the son of a Scots MP, and was educated at Winchester and Cambridge.
Col Wood was riding along the southern slope of Hlobane with his personal staff and an escort of mounted men from the 90th Regiment and some mounted Zulus.
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 South African War: Sir Evelyn Wood
We ought to call him Sir Henry Wood, and, anyway, we ought never to omit the “Sir.” But there is one kind of familiarity that never breeds contempt.
In 1882 Sir Evelyn Wood commanded a brigade in the Egyptian Expedition, and in the following year was appointed Sirdar of the Egyptian Army.
Field Marshal Sir H. Evelyn Wood served with distinction in the Royal Navy, the Cavalry and Infantry.
www.pinetreeweb.com /saw-wood.htm   (784 words)

  
 Green-Wood Cemetery Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where a cemetery in a naturalistic park-like landscape in the English manner was first established, Green-Wood was able to take advantage of the varied topography provided by glacial moraines.
The cemetery was the idea of Henry Evelyn Pierrepoint, a Brooklyn social leader.
It was a popular tourist attraction in the 1850s and was the place most famous New Yorkers who died during the second half of the nineteenth century were buried.
www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Green-Wood_Cemetery   (1014 words)

  
 29 March: This Date in History
At Khambula in northwest Zululand, a force of 2000 British and Colonial troops under the command of British Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood defeats 20'000 Zulus under King Cetshwayo, turning the tide in the favor of the British in the Zulu War.
Henry Ford and other leaders of the automotive industry were instrumental in encouraging the federal funding of national highways.
Although Sofia Kovalevskaia had been awarded a doctorate in mathematics in absentia from Göttingen in 1874 after submitting a thesis, the rules for doctoral degrees had become stricter, and Grace was required to take courses and pass a difficult examination showing broader knowledge as well as prepare a thesis in order to receive her degree.
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 Palmer Family British Military Careers
Henry Wellington was born on 18 June 1828 at Tallaght House, County Dublin, Ireland, the son of Major James Palmer, Sr., and Eliza Nash.
Henry Wellington died on 14 January 1891 at Ailesbury, County Dublin, Ireland, and was buried 17 January 1891 at Mount Jerome Cemetery.
Henry Wellington was not on this ship, but he must have been inspired by the story of his comrades.
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 Combat Information Center analysis, facts and figures about military conflicts and leaders - Military History
Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood (1838-1919) was one of the most famous soldiers of the British Empire.
It transpired that though the regiment had been issued new “colours” in 1870, the tattered banners that these had replaced were still in storage.
So Wood was asked to make arrangements with the City of Perth, so that the veteran colors could be displayed in the town’s cathedral.
www.strategypage.com /cic/docs/cic110b.asp   (584 words)

  
 Famous Historic Battles
Sir Henry Bartle Frere and the Army Commander, Lieutenant-General Sir Frederic Thesiger soon to be the new Lord Chelmsford, decided that war with the Zulus was unavoidable.
Khambula: Fought March 29, 1879, when Colonel Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood V.C., with 2,000 British and native auxiliaries, was attacked in his laager by a Zulu impi.
The war turned in 1758, first with the capture of Louisburg and then Fort Ticonderoga, followed on 13 September 1759 by the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Canada), in which General de Montcalm was killed and by the fall of Quebec on 18 September.
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 Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood
Under him served Colonel Redvers Buller and also the Boer leader, Piet Uys, who fell at Ilhlobana, but the re­pulse at that place was more than counterbalanced by the successful battle of Kambula.
But in January 1881 he was again in South Africa with the local rank of major­general, and after Sir G. Colley's death at Majuba it fell to his lot to negotiate the armistice with General Joubert.
Sir Evelyn Wood's military career is summarized in the History of The XIII.
www.pinetreeweb.com /wood.htm   (943 words)

  
 Today In Alternate History: de la Billiere Captures New York
The falls and the artistic dam are one of the many wonders tourists flock to see in the North American Confederation.
in 1879, the vastly outnumbered troops under the command of Henry Evelyn Wood are slaughtered by Zulu King Cetshwayo’s warriors at Kambula.
Henri Plantagenet Born In Anjou; Sheridans Depart For Titan
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 Today In Alternate History: March 2005
Through her influence and possessions, Henri raises himself to the papacy in 1154, rules the Holy British Empire until his death in 1189.
In spite of initial trepidation at her rule, she turned out to be one of the greatest Popes the Empire had ever known, expanding Christendom across the oceans and onto all other known continents.
Pope Henry V, while a miserable ruler in most ways, was a military genius, and recaptured many of the continental possessions lost by his weaker predecessors.
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 List of British Field Marshals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
HRH Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1793)
Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1846)
HRH The Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester (1955)
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/List-of-British-Field-Marshals.htm   (543 words)

  
 ED WOOD unofficial HOME PAGE
In the biggest Ed Wood news of the past year, the film, "The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr." has been released by Wood-Thomas pictures.
Especially memorable is the leader of the gang unbuttoning her June Cleaver shirtwaist dress as she prepares to molest the victim.
I think that Ed Wood hoped that Bunny would get the sex change operation that he was always planning and Ed could finally make the sex change movie that he had wanted Glen or Glenda to be.
garnet.acns.fsu.edu /~lflynn/edwood.html   (3146 words)

  
 Susan Evelyn Wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
she was the daughter of Henry and Emily Wood She came to Oregon in 1864
Mrs Michael's maiden name was Susan Evelyn Wood.
She came with her parents Mr and Mrs Henry Wood to Oregon 75 years ago when 8 years old..
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 Timeline Great Britain 1860-1910
It later became part of Wood and Son and from 1890-1894 used a rope identification mark.
In 1835 he had begun examining the ancient inscriptions on the rock of Behistun in the Kurdish foothills of the Zagros mountain range and found that they had been made to honor Darius the Great, Persian ruler in the 5th century BCE.
1898 Jul 8, Alec Waugh (d.1981), novelist (Island in the Sun); brother of Evelyn, was born in London.
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 South Africa
17 Jun 1909 - 21 Sep 1909 Sir Henry Jenner Scobell (b.
27 Feb 1881 - 3 Apr 1881 Sir Henry Evelyn Wood (acting) (b.
8 Mar 1845 - 23 Jul 1852 Henry Douglas Warden (b.
www.worldstatesmen.org /South_Africa.html   (4364 words)

  
 British & Imperial Field Marshals
F.M. Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, KG, PC, GCB, GCH
Henry William (Paget), 1st Marquess of Anglesea, KG, PC, GCB, GCH
F.M. The Rt Hon Henry Maitland (Wilson), 1st Baron Wilson of Libya, GCB, GBE, DSO
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 Countries Se-So
Denis Henry Widcham 1948 Eric Armar Vully de Candole (b.
1881) 17 Aug 1880 - 14 Sep 1880 Henry Alexander (acting for Colley) 27 Feb 1881 - 3 Apr 1881 Sir Henry Evelyn Wood (acting) (b.
1856) 23 Jul 1852 - 11 Mar 1854 Henry Green Chairman of the Provisional Government 23 Feb 1854 - 29 Mar 1854 Josias Philippus Hoffman (b.
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 ArtMagick: Links
Christopher Wood Gallery: Christopher Wood is England’s leading expert and writer on Victorian art, especially the Pre-Raphaelites.
De Morgan Centre: The De Morgan Centre for the study of 19th century art and society in south west London is a permanent home for work by William De Morgan, the Victorian ceramic artist and his wife Evelyn, the painter.
It houses an archive of papers relating to their lives and their circle, a reserve collection and a temporary exhibition space.
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 Timeline 1879-1882
1879 Henry George, economist, authored "Progress and Poverty." He laid out tax ideas that were based on a single tax on the value of land.
He argued that the value of land was based on its location and that the value of the land should flow to society as a whole rather than the person who holds title.
Mencken's criticism was often directed at the American middle class and members of what he called...the "boobeoisie (BOOB-WA-ZEE)." Very popular in the post-WWI period, Mencken’s literary criticism was instrumental in bringing writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford and Sherwood Anderson to the fore.
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 Bookmania!
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Henry Evelyn Wood is my hero because he has so many horrible illnesses and wounds, but keeps on stumbling around Africa with his troops, for Queen and Country.
Then he tries to ride that giraffe and it steps on his face.
www.darkshire.org /~lizzard/bookmania/bookmania-1998.html   (3742 words)

  
 Sir John Grenfell Maxwell Papers
Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo (1861-1936): ca.1927
Asquith, Herbert Henry, first Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852-1928): 1916-1917
Wood, (Henry) Evelyn M. Wormser, J. and S.: 1901
libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/maxwell.html   (2170 words)

  
 YOUR GLOBAL HERMITAGE WEBSITE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Scroll down until you reach her photograph and eulogy.
Our bodies, minds, souls, in harmony and as gift to God, build better communities through prayer, through sacred conversation, than can any building of stone and brick and wood.
Ecco, sto alla porta e busso/ Behold I Stand at the Door and Knock
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 Sir John Grenfell Maxwell
8 Asquith, Herbert Henry, first Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852-1928): 1916-1917
23 White, A. 24 White, Henry (1850-1927): 1898-1920
32 Wood, (Henry) Evelyn M. 33 Wormser, J. and S.: 1901
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 Main Page For Wood & Van Dusen U-V
Main Page For Wood & Van Dusen U-V
Clyde Leonard Wood & Ruth Evelyn Van Dusen Wood
Van Dusen, Thomas J. (See Enoch Van Dusen)
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