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Alexander Spotswood
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Alexander Spotswood Alexander Spotswood (1676-1740), a British soldier, became lieutenant governor of the Virginia colony in America. Alexander Spotswood was born in Tangier, Morocco, where his father was an army...
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Spotswood, Alexander
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Spotswood, Alexander (1676–1740),colonial governor of Virginia (1710–22), was at first popular because of...
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Havighurst, Walter (Edwin)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...Ships Passing (1942), about Great Lakes shipping; Voices on the River (1964), a history of the Mississippi; Alexander Spotswood (1967), biography of a colonial Virginia governor; River to the West (1970), on the Ohio River; and Ohio (1977...
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Dos Passos, John (Roderigo)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...new material on the Spanish Civil War in Journeys Between Wars (1938). Adventures of a Young Man (1939), about Glenn Spotswood, a naïve, idealistic Communist, betrayed by the party when he does not follow its program, is the first of a...
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John Spottiswoode
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...his office, excommunicated, and deposed by the general assembly. He died in London. His History of the Church of Scotland (1655) has passed through several editions. Spottiswoode's name is also spelled Spottiswood and Spotswood.
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Spotsylvania
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Spotsylvania , rural county (1990 pop. 57,403), NE Va., formerly part of the estate of Alexander Spotswood, colonial governor of Virginia. It was the scene of several major engagements of the Civil War, including the battles of Fredericksburg...
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Glasgow
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...livestock, tobacco, timber, and light manufactured products. The area's oil and gas fields add to Glasgow's economy. The Spotswood home, built there in 1795 under the direction of George Washington for his niece, is still occupied. A state fish hatchery...
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Number One
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...in 1943. It is the second volume in the trilogy that also includes Adventures of a Young Man and The Grand Design. Tyler Spotswood is secretary and spokesman for Chuck Crawford, Southern politician and demagogic propagandist of a movement based on his...
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Caruthers, William Alexander
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...romance contrasting Northern and Southern character; The Cavaliers of Virginia (1834–35), a romance of Bacon's Rebellion; and The Knights of the Horseshoe (1845), a romance dealing with the career of Governor Spotswood.
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