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	War of 1812
		Rodgers would have preferred to keep his command together, and to strike with it at the main course of British commerce, but he was overruled.
		On October 8 Rodgers and Decatur sailed -- the first on a cruise to the east, the second to the south.
		Commodore Rodgers met with no marked success, but on October 25 Captain Decatur in United States captured the British frigate Macedonian (38), which he carried back to port.
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	Rodgers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rodgers is a surname, and may refer to
		John Rodgers (1772 - 1838), U.S. Naval officer during the War of 1812
		John Rodgers (1881 - 1926), U.S. Naval officer during World War I, great-grandson of the first John Rodgers.
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		John Rodgers, born in Maryland in 1773, entered the United States Navy in 1798 as a lieutenant.
		Rodgers continued with his duties on the mainland, and in the summer of 1814, he contributed to the defense of the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas by dispatching several corps of sailors for the defense of the capital.
		Rodgers was soon taken prisoner by the French, and in June 1802 he wrote a lengthy letter to Secretary of State James Madison concerning the terrible treatment he received in their custody.
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	Benjamin Franklin Encyclopedia Article @ Decidedly.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Rodgers shortly avoided his debts and prosecution by fleeing to Enlightenment, leaving Deborah behind.
		With Rodgers' fate unknown, and bigamy illegal, Deborah was not free to remarry formally.
		On John Dickinson, Robert Preston, a storm blowing from the north-east denied Franklin the opportunity of a witnessing a Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts.
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	Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
		He was a leading author, politician, printer, scientist, philosopher, publisher, inventor, civic activist, and diplomat.
		Rodgers shortly avoided his debts and prosecution by fleeing to Barbados, leaving Deborah behind.
		John Trumbull depicts the five-man drafting committee presenting their work to the Congress.
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		I reached St. John on the evening that a great celebration of the commencement of work on the first railway in the province was in progress.
		John D. Runkle, who lived till 1902, was, as I have said, the senior and leading assistant in the office.
		An eminent would-be contributor was a prominent Pennsylvania politician, who had read a long and elaborate article, before some teachers' association, on an arithmetical problem about oxen eating grass, the power to solve which was taken as the highest mark of mathematical ability, among school teachers during the first half of the century.
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		He was a consummate politician but something more than a `puller of threads and a disentagler of skeins.' He helped shape public opinion, as much possibly as any other man in western Pennsylvania in his day, and as a politician was more effective out of Congress than in it.
		I John Finley of the Colony of Virginia and the County of Agusta former being in a low state of health but of perfect mind and memory thanks be to god.
		John FINLEY was b 1 Jun 1725, Prince George Co, MD; m Margaret __________ ; will made 3 May 1750, Kent Co, MD; d 1751 Chestertown, MD. John and Margaret FINLEY had one daughter, Henrietta, and it is there that STOUT shows the end of this line.
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	NPS Historical Handbook: Fort McHenry
		Samuel Smith, merchant, politician, and veteran of the Revolutionary War, it had been preparing for the expected British attack.
		John Stricker to lead his brigade toward North Point to intercept the British.
		His final defense measure was to direct Rodgers to sink vessels across the entrances to both branches of the river.
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	Separate reality from rhetoric Letters to the Editor - The Caledonian-Record News
		It can be misleading to judge a politician by words, smiles, simplistic statements (affordability, property tax "caps") height, clothing, etc., but verifying voting records by logging on to the Vermont Legislative Bill Tracking System [www.leg.state.vt.us] can be very enlightening.
		During the last biennium, John Morley, Republican House member of Orleans-Caledonia 1, voted against: health care for all Vermonters; minimum wage (annual cost-of-living increase); instant runoff voting for statewide and national offices; and prohibition of smoking in all public places.
		John Rodgers and Nancy Potak are two dedicated, bright and energetic individuals that aren't part of the "do nothing and things will get better" mentality.
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	Eidson Family - pafg42.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		LeRoy Eidson (William, John E. George Washington, John, Edward) was born on 5 Jan 1892 in Polk County, Missouri.
		John Washington Eidson (James Harvey, John E. George Washington, John, Edward) was born on 4 Apr 1867 in Polk County, Missouri.
		John was born on 23 Jan 1838 in Saratoga, County, New York.
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	Rodgers Richard Charles: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Rodgers studied at Columbia and the Institute of Musical Art, New York City.
		Rodgers wrote his first song at 14 and had his first Broadway show, a flop, produced when he was 18.
		Perhaps the most performed American composer, Rodgers is famous for his inventive and intensely melodic compositions.
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	Imperialism - People
		Appointed a midshipman in 1809, he first served under his brother on the Revenge and then was aide to Commodore John Rodgers on the President, which defeated the British ship Little Belt before the War of 1812 had been formally declared.
		For his successful expedition Perry was awarded $20,000 by Congress, which also paid for publication of the official Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan (3 vol., 1856), compiled under Perry's supervision.
		Hobson was nonetheless an accomplished author, journalist, historian, economist and critic of the materialist methodology of both Classical and Neoclassical economics, he is the closest thing to the American iconoclast Thorstein Veblen that the British Isles produced.
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	Welcome to Founders of America!
		Rodgers, second in command, felt that Samuel Barron, who was in ill health, was not up to leading the attack.
		Rodgers arrived, ready to defend his honor, sending to Barron a note, “From an honorable motive I am induced to acquaint you that I have at length arrived in America.
		Rodgers, who had earlier challenged Barron, but never fought him, and Porter, former captain of Essex (and later, step-father of Admiral Farragut of Civil War fame) both refused to act as seconds, saying Decatur did not need to fight the duel to preserve his honor.
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	O.E.S. Project Web Log (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		That left the USS John Rodgers in Mexico minus the financial backing to get her back to the United States—which hopefully will be rectified soon.
		After so many conversations with a number of politicians, staffers, and "agency officials", I am convinced that they are not trying to "shine us on" or mislead us, but that MARAD officials have finally crossed the line with their actions.
		The USS John Rodgers veterans are in Mobile for their reunion and will be visiting Pensacola today to see the Navy's National Naval Aviation Muesum.
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	Robert F. Stockton Summary
		Robert Field Stockton (1795-1866), American naval officer, politician, and promoter of internal improvements in the nation, was very important in the conquest of California and served briefly in the U.S. Senate.
		Born on Aug. 20, 1795, at Princeton, N. J., Robert F. Stockton was the son of a prominent lawyer and U.S. senator.
		During the War of 1812 Stockton was aide-de-camp to Rodgers and was cited for his conduct.
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	Rogers talk
		After the Minutemen were fired on in 1774, he headed a committee of the Synod of New York and Philadelphia, and on their behalf wrote a letter, giving ministers permission to speak regarding the revolution.
		However, John Witherspoon did write a short preface to the Plan of Government which is still in our Book of Order, beginning with the statement from the Westminster Confession that God alone is Lord of the conscience.
		In May of 1789, Witherspoon was the preacher and acted as moderator until the General Assembly elected John Rodgers as its first American Moderator.
	www.witherspoonsociety.org /03-may/rogers_talk.htm (0 words)

	Franklin, Benjamin
		While Franklin was stranded in London, Deborah married a man named John Rodgers, who shortly after absconded to avoid his debts and prosecution by fleeing to Barbados, left Deborah legally married but without a husband.
		With bigamy an offense punishable by public whipping and imprisonment, Deborah was not free to remarry.
		He owned a pew in the Episcopal Church, he built a church for evangelist George Whitfield when he came to Philadelphia, and he contributed to the building of the first Jewish synagogue.
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	Mountain 'publican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		John Wilder has served in the legislature all of those same 16 years and Ron Ramsey 14 of the 16 years.
		Hinton was on probation at the time the Shelby County Election Commission allowed her to participate as a poll worker in the election to fill the State Senate seat vacated by John Ford,[Junior's Uncle John], who resigned after his arrest and indictment for public corruption in the Tennessee Waltz scandal.
		Politicians and those who write about them are masters at the use of connotation.
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		John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
		John I Stanley of the Isle of Man
		John II Stanley of the Isle of Man
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	General Information - Commodore Perry - 1852-4 - Japan Expedition - Lithographs
		Captain John Kendrick in the brig Lady Washington (Boston) and Captain William Douglas in the sloop Grace (New York) are generally cited as the first ships under American flag to enter Japanese waters.
		The prominent politician, statesman and negotiator, Caleb Cushing, was dispatched to obtain a "most favored nation" type trading status with China for the United States.
		Nakahama Manjiro (John Mung), a Japanese sailor who was ship wrecked in 1841 and subsequently educated in the United States, returned to Japan via Okinawa in January of 1851.
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	War of 1812
		In 1815 in "The War of 1812 and Slavery" John Quincy Adams specifically complains that the War of 1812 was instigate by "British Naval Commanders" who "carried away from the United States" and liberated slaves".
		On October 8 Rodgers sailed east, and Decatur sailed to the south.
		Commodore Rodgers met with no marked success, but on October 25 Captain Decatur in USS United States captured the British frigate HMS Macedonian, which he carried back to port.
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	O.E.S. Project Web Log: November 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The combat record for the USS John Rodgers and her DesRon 25 sister ships was equal to and at times, even more impressive than that of DesRon 23.
		The USS John Rodgers was built by Consolidated Steel Corp., LTD in Orange, Texas from 1942 to 1943.
		The USS John Rodgers and the rest of her squadron swept into Suruga Wan, near Tokyo, and under the very shadow of Mount Fujiyama, bombarded railroad yards and an aluminum plant at Shimizu, Honshu, firing over 1,600 five inch shells onto the Japanese mainland without the loss of a single ship or sailor.
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	The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Admiral John H. Towers - Feb. 16th, 2004
		John Henry Towers graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1906 and requested to be assigned to aviation duty.
		Between the wars, John Tower’s career paralleled the growing strength of Naval Aviation and he became the first Naval Aviator to achieve flag rank as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics in 1939.
		John Towers quickly learned the importance of his extensive Navy sea training when bad weather forced him and his Curtiss NC flying boat to make an emergency landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
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	continental and colonial currency
		On the reverse is the signed endorsement of John Clowes, Jr.
		Letter also mentions Loockerman, probably referring to Vincent Loockerman, a politician and large landowner in the town of Dover and Kent County.
		ADS, Lebanon (Connecticut), April 6, 1774 to John Lawrence, Esq., Treasurer of the Colony about reimbursement for the transportation of a woman “greatly infected with the foul disease.” “Wm.
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	Catalog
		JOHN C. Congressman and Senator from South Carolina, US Secretary of War under President James Monroe 1817-1825, US Vice-President under Presidents John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
		JOHN J. US Senator from Kentucky, author the last-ditch “Crittenden Compromise” designed to avoid the Civil War by restoring most of the Missouri Compromise and limiting Federal authority to abolish slavery where it already existed.
		Great partially printed arrest warrant for John Husbands, accused of an armed home invasion in the middle of the night “to the great terror and annoyance of (the victim) and his family…” Dated August 26, 1772, set with a wax and paper seal and boldly signed “Tho.
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	University of North Carolina Libraries
		Letters relating to medical, financial, and family matters of Dr. John Young Bassett, physician of Huntsville, Alabama, and family correspondence of his wife, Isaphoene (Thompson) Bassett. The correspondence includes letters from editors Theodore Parker and William Gilmore Simms, 1849-1850, criticizing Bassett's article on race ethnology.
		John Mercer Brooke was a U.S. and Confederate naval officer, scientist, inventor, and professor at Virginia Military Institute.
		Daily logbooks of USS North Carolina, cruising the Mediterranean under the command of Captain John Rodgers, noting daily position, weather, activities on board, and places sighted and visited. One volume covers the period 14 November 1825-31 March 1827; the second, kept by W. Ogden, 4 February-16 August 1826.
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		Commander Rodgers had at his disposal the powerful 3,400-ton monitor USS Monadnock armed with 2 dual turrets, each with 2x15 inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns.
		Kilpatrick insisted but Rodgers new that the recommendations of the former Civil War federal cavalry officer, whom once General William T. Sherman branded "a damned fool", could not be taken seriously.
		The defenses of the port, under command of the Minister of War, the brilliant liberal politician Jose Galvez, consisted in a series of batteries located from North to South.
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