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Antonio Diabelli
Antonio Diabelli , 1781-1858, Austrian music publisher. He published works by Beethoven and Schubert and composed the waltz theme of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. ... Read more
Brown, Thomas
Brown, Thomas (1750–1825) Revolutionary War soldier and superintendent of the Southern Indian Department, born in Whitby, England. A conspicuous Loyalist, Brown was an early target of the Georgia Whigs. He promoted the strategy of recruiting Indian allies to fight revolutionaries, and recrui... Read more
Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey
Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey , 1781-1841, English sculptor, famous for his portrait busts and statues. Among his many well-known works are equestrian statues of Wellington and George IV (London); and a statue of George Washington (Statehouse, Boston). ... Read more
Ferdinando Fuga
Ferdinando Fuga , 1699-1781, Italian architect. Fuga is best known for his rebuilding of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. He served as papal architect during the pontificate of Clement XII and worked later in Naples. He was considered a virtuoso in the synthesis of classical, baroque, and mannerist sty... Read more
battle of Guilford Courthouse
battle of Guilford Courthouse in the Carolina campaign of the American Revolution, fought Mar. 15, 1781. The site is included in a national military park near Greensboro, N.C. (see National Parks and Monuments , table). ... Read more
Richard Hurd
Richard Hurd 1720-1808, English theologian, editor, and critic. From 1781 until his death he was bishop of Worcester. His best-known works are Moral and Political Dialogues (1757) and Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762), an examination of knight-errantry and Gothic literature. ... Read more
Andrew Pickens
Andrew Pickens 1739-1817, American Revolutionary soldier, b. near Paxtang, Pa. He moved (1752) to South Carolina and took part (1761) in frontier warfare against the Cherokee . During the American Revolution , Pickens rose in rank from captain of militia to brigadier general. He took part in the ... Read more
Anna Letitia (Aikin) Barbauld
Anna Letitia (Aikin) Barbauld , 1743-1825, English poet and editor. In 1774 she married Rochemont Barbauld and with him opened a boarding school. Her Hymns in Prose for children, widely read and translated into several languages, was followed by Early Lessons (both 1781). She edited works of Col... Read more
Jean Antoine Chaptal
Jean Antoine Chaptal , 1756-1832, French chemist, industrialist, and statesman. He became (1781) professor of chemistry at Montpellier, and during the Revolution he was active in gunpowder production. Later, as minister of the interior (1801-9) and director-general of commerce and manufactures (1815... Read more
George Washington Parke Custis
George Washington Parke Custis 1781-1857, American dramatist, b. Mt. Airy, Md., educated at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton). The grandson of Martha Washington, he grew up at Mt. Vernon and became heir to part of the Washington estate. He wrote several plays, including The Indian Prophecy... Read more

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Swaminarayan, Shree (1781-1830)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Swaminarayan, Shree (1781-1830) Famous saint of nineteenth-century India, born as Nilakantha at Capaiya...immigrants. Sources: Dave, H. T. Life and Philosophy of Shree Swaminarayan, 1781-1830. London: Allen & Unwin, 1974.
Hare, Robert (1781-1858)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Hare, Robert (1781-1858) Nineteenth-century professor of chemistry at the University...political and moral questions. Hare was born in Philadelphia January 17, 1781, and studied at the University of Philadelphia, where he filled the...
Brewster, Sir David (1781-1868)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Brewster, Sir David (1781-1868) Famous nineteenth-century scientist whose brief investigation...1855 led to bitter public acrimony. Brewster was born on December 11, 1781, in Jedburgh, Scotland. His formal education was as a divinity student...
SIC 1781 Water Well Drilling
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries SIC 1781 WATER WELL DRILLING This category covers special trade contractors primarily engaged in water well drilling. Establishments primarily...
Carolina campaign
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Banastre Tarleton at Cowpens (Jan. 17, 1781). Cornwallis pushed north and at Guilford Courthouse (Mar. 15, 1781) won a Pyrrhic victory over Greene; the...Lord Rawdon at Hobkirks Hill (Apr. 25, 1781) and by Col. Alexander Stewart at Eutaw...
Yorktown, Battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History Yorktown, Battle of (1781).The entry of France into the Revolutionary...operated. Yet it was not until the autumn of 1781 that four factors combined to produce...operations in Virginia during the summer of 1781 put his 10,000‐man army...
Robert Mills
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Robert Mills Robert Mills (1781-1855), American architect, helped...Charleston, S.C., on Aug. 12, 1781. He studied at Charleston College...Architect of the Washington Monument, 1781-1855 (1935), which offers new information...
Dickinson, John
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...congress from 1774 to 1776 and from 1779 to 1781. He still hoped for reconciliation with...representatives." — John Dickinson From 1781 to 1785, Dickinson was a participant in...administrator of the Supreme Council of Delaware in 1781 and performing the same duty for the Supreme...
Morris, Robert
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...with financial and military collapse in 1781, it turned to Morris, by now the most...superintendent of finance, from February 1781 to November 1784, he raised money and...eds., The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781–1784 , 9 vols., 1973...
George Crabbe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Crabbe of any possible profit. In March 1781 he appealed in desperation to Edmund Burke...published three long poems: The Library (1781), The Village (1782), and The Newspaper...stories of rural and village folk. In 1781 Crabbe took orders, and the following...

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Correspondence Leading to Surrender (1781)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History CORRESPONDENCE LEADING TO SURRENDER (1781) George Washington, commander in chief of the American Continental Army, had taken a rocky road to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis...
Yorktown Campaign
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...CAMPAIGN YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN (August – October 1781). On 19 October 1781, American and French troops forced the surrender...northward — seemed to bear fruit. By early 1781, the tide was turning. Lord Charles Cornwallis...
Southern Campaigns
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...American Revolution (1780 – 1781) were a vigorous effort by the British...destroyed at the Battle of Cowpens (17 January 1781). Nathanael Greene had succeeded Gates...blow at Guilford Courthouse on 15 March 1781. The British commander then retired to...
Dundonald, Archibald Cochrane, Earl of
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...considerable technical but little commercial success. In 1781 he returned to Culross Abbey, where he associated...coal, and he built kilns at Culross Abbey. In 1781 he was granted a patent (B.P. 1781 No. 1291) covering not only coal tar but...
Hindenburg, Carl Friedrich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...where he became a private lecturer and, in 1781, extraordinary professor of philosophy...for mathematics and allied fields. From 1781 to 1785, with C. B. Funck and N. G...ac variationum primae lineae (Leipzig, 1781); and Der polynomische Lehrsatz, das...
Leonhardi, Johann Gottfried
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...extraordinary professor of medicine in 1781. In 1782 he moved to the University of...xE4; tzen vermehrt, 6 pts. (leipzig, 1781-1783), his authoritative translation...recent pneumatic discoveries as Aerologie (1781). The notational underbrush grows thickest...
Plana, Giovanni
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...GIOVANNI ( b. Voghera, Italy, 6 November 1781; d Turin, Italy, 20 January 1864) mathematics...astronome royal de Turin, Giovanni Plana (1781 – 1864); un homme, une carri...Tricomi, “ Giovanni Plana (1781 – 1864). Cenni commemorativi...
Arnold's Raid in Virginia
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...occupied following a skirmish on 5 January 1781. After destroying the iron foundry at...Phillips died at Petersburg on 13 May 1781, and the chief command momentarily devolved...detachment for the campaign of the summer of 1781. BIBLIOGRAPHY Comtois, Pierre. "Virginia...
Cavallo, Tiberius
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...and Other Permanently Elastic Fluids (1781), was a judicious examination of contemporary...Electricity (London, 1780; 2nd ed., 1781); A Treatise on the Nature and Properties...Elastic Fluids … . (London, 1781); “ Description of art Air...
Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacques de
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...continued under his successor Richard Brinsley Sheridan, but in 1781 he left Drury Lane and launched his own theatrical entertainment...painter at the Royal Academy exhibitions (he became an RA in 1781). He travelled widely in England and Wales, and although his...

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Revolutionary march of 1781.
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA); 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...descendants of people who witnessed the 1781 march, they've stayed at inns where...following the schedule of the original 1781 march. Events have been held or are planned...been going on for six years, from 1775 to 1781, when the bold Franco-American plan...
Mozart: The Early Years, 1756-1781.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/22/2006; 630 words ; Mozart: The Early Years 1756-1781. Stanley Sadie. Oxford University Press...816529-3. Mozart: The Golden Years 1781-1791. H.C. Robbins Landon. Thames...the edge of Mozart's greatest period (1781 to his death in 1791). Mr Sadie's great...
Where a Man Can Go: Major General William Philiips, British Royal Artillery, 1731-1781
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...of the British army in Virginia in early 1781, is one such individual. Thus, a biography...Jefferson. After being exchanged in early 1781, Phillips was given his own independent...early stages of the Virginia campaign of 1781, will find Davis's book of interest...
The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Loyalist Gazette; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781 Author: Jerome A. Greene New York: Savas...constricted until he surrendered on 19 October 1781, ending the last major battle between...New York in those fateful autumn days of 1781. I highly recommend this book to our Loyalist...
The Day the Revolution Ended: 19 October 1781
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...The Day the Revolution Ended: 19 October 1781 * William H. Hallahan * Hoboken, NJ...sealed. His army surrendered on 19 October 1781. The Day the Revolution Ended has strengths...army of Continentals in Virginia in spring 1781, the Revolution would have ended there...
Security Council Extends 0bserver Mission In Georgia Until 15 April2008, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1781 (2007).
M2 Presswire; 10/16/2007; 700+ words ; ...April2008, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1781 (2007)(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...2008. Unanimously adopting resolution 1781 (2007), the Council called upon the...Resolution The full text of resolution 1781 (2007) reads as follows: "The Security...
France America's foreign friend: two mighty navies--the French and the British--faced one another at the Battle of the Capes in September 1781. The outcome of this naval battle helped determine what ultimately would happen at the siege of Yorktown.
Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...in charge. During the winter of 1780-1781, Rochambeau's troops trained at Newport...concentrate on the war in the South. In early 1781, John Laurens, a lieutenant colonel and...Laurens got the help he sought. In May 1781, the Comte de Barras arrived in Newport...
Matthäus-Passion 1781
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 1/1/2008; ; 631 words ; C. P. E. BACH Matthus-Passion 1781 * Karl-Friedrich Beringer, cond; Marcus Ullmann (Evangelist...On first hearing, this work is even more impressive than the 1781 setting, largely because the performance by the boys and men of...
US House makes 1781 march to Revolutionary War victory a national historic trail
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/10/2008; ; 551 words ; ...eight states from Rhode Island to Virginia, commemorates the 1781 march of Washington's Continental Army and the Expedition Particuliere...marched through Rhode Island and Connecticut in June and July, 1781, joining Washington's 4,000-man army north of New York...
Qld: Opposition wants acess to 1781 "Smart State" documents
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/24/2005; 242 words ; ...General News (Australia) 01-24-2005 Qld: Opposition wants acess to 1781 "Smart State" documents The Queensland opposition has called on the BEATTIE government to release 1781 documents held by cabinet examining the success of its Smart State campaign...