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William Campbell William Campbell
William Campbell 1745-81, American Revolutionary soldier, b. Augusta co., Va.; brother-in-law of Patrick Henry. He fought in Lord Dunmore's War (1774) and helped expel the royal governor from Williamsburg in 1776. Campbell and his group of Virginia riflemen in 1780 joined Sevier and Shelby at Kings... Read more
William Prescott William Prescott
William Prescott 1726-95, American Revolutionary officer, b. Groton, Mass. He saw service in the French and Indian Wars . In the American Revolution , he fortified (1775) Breed's Hill for the colonists and was prominent in the subsequent battle that was erroneously called the battle of Bunker... Read more
William Ackerman William Ackerman
ACKERMAN, CARL WILLIAM 1890-1970 D EAN OF COLUMBIA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Freedom of the Press One of the first systematic instructors of journalism in the United States, Carl William Ackerman was moved by the belief that if the press does not police itself, it will be... Read more
Thomas Pinckney Thomas Pinckney
Thomas Pinckney 1750-1828, American political leader and diplomat, b. Charleston, S.C.; brother of C. C. Pinckney and cousin of Charles Pinckney. At the outbreak of the American Revolution he joined the militia; he saw action in Florida, took part in the defense of Charleston (1780), and was... Read more
William Joseph Slim 1st Viscount Slim William Joseph Slim 1st Viscount Slim
William Joseph Slim Slim, 1st Viscount 1891-1970, British field marshal. He saw service in several campaigns, notably Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, in World War I. After the war he joined the Indian army, rising in rank to brigadier in 1940. He commanded (1940) British forces in Sudan and led (1941) a... Read more
Saw palmetto Saw palmetto
Saw Palmetto Definition Saw palmetto is an extract derived from the deep purple berries of the saw palmetto fan palm (Serenoa repens ), a plant indigenous to the coastal regions of the southern United States and southern California. There is an estimated one million acres of wild saw palmetto... Read more
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). The largest and most politically orthodox organization associated with the two waves of mass agitation against the British nuclear deterrent and US nuclear bases in Britain during the late 1950s and again in the early 1980s. It was formed in 1958 by... Read more
Disestablishment Disestablishment
Disestablishment. The 19th cent. saw the questioning of the right and propriety of a church which represented only a minority of Christian believers to be the established church, its clergy supported and maintained by law by parishioners who did not sympathize with or belong to it.The Irish church,... Read more
William Alexander William Alexander
William Alexander known as Lord Stirling , 1726-83, American Revolutionary general, b. New York City. Although the House of Lords rejected his claim to succeed as the 6th earl of Stirling, in America he was generally considered a nobleman. He served in the French and Indian Wars and joined the... Read more
Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis Cornwallis, 1st Marquess , 1738-1805, English general and statesman. He was commissioned an ensign in the British army in 1756 and saw service in Europe in the Seven Years War. As a member of Parliament (which he entered in 1760), he opposed the tax measures that helped bring on... Read more

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