Hail to the Chief
Hail to the Chief. March played at formal Amer. events to announce arrival of the President. Comp. c.1812 by James Sanderson (1769–?1841), an Englishman. Words (never now sung) from Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake (1810). First used at a pres. inauguration 1837 ( Martin Van Buren).
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The Lady of the Lake, an enchantress also known as Vi… VAN, LAKE , VAN, LAKE
Salt lake in eastern Turkey.
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Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
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BORN: 1771, Edinburgh, Scotland
DIED: 1832, Abbotsford, Scotland
NATIONALITY: Scottish
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Modern scholars… Ivanhoe , Ivanhoe
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A novel set in twelfth-century England; published in 1820.
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The knight Ivanhoe returns home from the Crusades to fi…
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