... succeeded from the Union, he submitted his resignation of the U.S. Army. On April 23 he became commander in chief of the military and naval forces of Virginia. For a year he was military adviser to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, and was then placed in command of the Army in northern Virginia. In February 1865 Lee was made commander in chief of all Confederate armies; two months later the war was virtually ended by his surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. The masterly strategy of Lee was overcome only by the superior resources and troop strength of the Union. His campaigns are almost universally studi ...

... Galicia. His mother Amalie Nathanson was Galician and was Jakob's second wife. Sigmund was the oldest son out of eight children. Sigmund also had two half-brothers from his father's first marriage. In October 1859 the family moved to Vienna where Sigmund grew up. He lived there until June 1938. Freud attended high school at Leopoldstadter Communal-Real- und Obergymnasium. While in high school he got the idea of becoming a scientist when he heard, a lecture delivered about Goethe. In 1873 he registered at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Vienna. (Jones,1957) In 1878 he changed his name from Sigismund to Sigmund. He obtained his doctorate in medicine ...

... the arrangements fell through. As a last resort she sent Charles to school in Terre Haute, Indiana. Mrs. Manson failed to make the payments for the school and once again Charles was sent back to his mother's abuse. At only fourteen, Manson left his mother and rented a room for himself. He supported himself with odd jobs and petty theft. His mother turned him into the juvenile authorities, who had him sent to "Boys Town," a juvenile detention center, near Omaha, Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys Town" before running away. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois for robbing a grocery store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plain ...

... college, Cambridge. He went on a walking tour with Robert Jones, a Cambridge student, over the French and Swiss Alps in 1790 and another such tour in 1791. In 1792, Wordsworth went to France, amidst the tumult of the French Revolution, where he met Michel Beaupuy, a French officer who is spoken of in The Prelude. In France, he also met Annette Vallon, with whom he had an illegitimate child, Caroline. Wordsworth returned to England in 1793 and published An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. During a walking tour that year, Wordsworth journeyed across the Salisbury Plain and to Tintern Abbey, both of which are subjects of later poems. By 1794, he was finally reuni ...

... U.S. Senate in 1952. In 1953 he married Jacqueline Bouvier. During recuperation from spinal surgery, Kennedy completed Profiles in Courage (1956), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1957. Kennedy attempted to win the Vice-president presidential nomination and failed; Kennedy began to plan for the presidential election in 1960. He won the nomination on the first ballot. He campaigned with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson his running mate, against Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican nominee. The issues of defense and economic standards were raised in four televised debates. Kennedy won the election with 113,000 votes out of 680,000 cast. Kennedy's wit a ...

... same time, they gave us a good education - not only in school, but at home as well (Gardiner, 1975, p.13). As a child, thrift and practicality were instilled in Margaret's character. The Methodist church played an active part in the lives of the Roberts. She attended good schools as a child and spent her years studying with the intent of attending Oxford. Margaret arrived at Oxford in the autumn of 1943. During her years here, Margaret worked in a canteen for the war effort, continued her interest in music by joining various choirs and joined the Oxford University Conservative Association where she became very active in it's political activities. After ...

... of "Dissertations on the History of Ireland." "TO CHARLES O'CONNOR, ESQ.1 "SIR, "I HAVE lately, by the favour of Mr. Faulkner, seen your account of Ireland, and cannot forbear to solicit a prosecution of your design. Sir William Temple complains that Ireland is less known than any other country, as to its ancient state. The natives have had little leisure, and little encouragement for enquiry; and strangers, not knowing the language, have had no ability. "I have long wished that the Irish literature were cultivated.2 Ireland is known by tradition to have been once the seat of piety and learning; and surely it would be very acceptable to all those who ...

... a court official in Salem, she still gets up early in the morning to clean the Proctors’ house. While in court, Mary passes the time by making Goody Proctor a present of a small rag doll called a poppet. Upset by the court proceedings, Mary tells Mr. Proctor that she is "all shuddery inside" because Goody Osburn will hang. When the poppet becomes false proof of witchcraft against Elizabeth, Mary willingly explains that the poppet is hers. She also makes a vain attempt to comfort John Proctor as the court officials drag his wife away in chains. A basic sense of honesty is another of ’s traits. In Act I she goes to Salem to convince Abigail to tell the t ...

... 11 times in 12 years (bdd 1). They finally settled in Beaufort, South Carolina. Pat finished high school there in 1963(Disc. Auth. 1). He attended the Citadel on a basketball scholarship (Castro 2). While there, he became the literary editor for the school magazine (Disc. Auth. 1). He also became captain and MVP of the basketball team (Bdd 1). While he was attending the Citadel, he learned many important lessons of life (Burns 5). Pat Conroy gained a lot of inspiration for his writing while attending college. His first book, The Boo, was published in 1970. It is based on a relationship with Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Nugent Courvoise, Assistant Commandan ...

... John's childhood, his family often moved. Some of these moves sent the family into New York. All of the Kennedy children developed a strong competitive spirit. The boys enjoyed playing touch football together. John Kennedy's education included elementary schools in Brookline and Riverdale. By the age of thirteen his father sent him to the Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. He then transferred to Choate Academy in Wallingford, Connecticut, and graduated in 1935 at eight-teen years old. In 1936, after a summer in England, John entered Princeton University. After Christmas, of that same year, he developed jaundice. Then in 1936 he entered Harvard Un ...