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4 unusual facts about Basil H. Johnston


Basil H. Johnston

He attended elementary school at the Cape Croker Indian Reserve school until the age of 10, after which he attended St. Peter Claver's Indian Residential School in Spanish, Ontario.

By Reingard M. Nischik; Sam Shepard; Basil Johnston; Tom Clark; Richard Brautigan; Jayne Anne Phillips; T Coraghessan Boyle; Ray Bradbury; William Saroyan; Charles Johnson

From 1955 through 1961, Basil Johnston was employed by the Toronto Board of Trade.

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

Acclaimed Canadian authors Basil H. Johnston (Ojibway), Marilyn Dumont (Métis) and Gregory Scofield (Métis) are among those who have published books through Kegedonce Press.


43rd Sustainment Brigade

Operation Restore Hope was declared a success in May 1993 and President Clinton celebrated on the White House lawn with Marine Corps Lieutenant General Robert B. Johnston and other Somalia veterans.

Alexander P. Stewart

What was left of the Army of Tennessee was sent east and fought in the Carolinas Campaign in 1865, once again under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who placed the Army of Tennessee (by this time fewer than 5,000 men) under the command of Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart.

Alexander Porter

He was elected as a Whig to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Josiah S. Johnston, and served from December 19, 1833, until January 5, 1837, when he resigned due to ill health.

Army of the Peninsula

In April 1862 Magruder's army was incorporated into the right wing of the larger army of Joseph E. Johnston, preparing defenses against an expected attack by George B. McClellan in what would become the Peninsula Campaign.

Army of the South

However, both Confederate President Jefferson Davis and general-in-chief Robert E. Lee questioned Beauregard's ability to handle the situation in the Carolinas, so on February 23 Lee appointed General Joseph E. Johnston to command the Confederate forces in the Carolinas.

Battle of Alcatraz

Warden James A. Johnston now called upon the expertise of two platoons of Marines under the direction of General "Vinegar" Joe Stilwell to guard the general population of convicts and to take the cell house from the outside.

C.W. Johnston

Clarence Woods Johnston, M.C., M.D. (November 19, 1888 - October 13, 1949) was the fourteenth mayor of the Canadian Village of Elkhorn.

Clarence H. Johnston, Sr.

Gilbert wrote to Johnston urging him to make a similar trip, but around that time, Johnston received a job offer from Herter Brothers in New York.

Collins H. Johnston

He was also the health officer for Suttons Bay Township for two years.

He was also physician at the Michigan Masonic Home, surgeon to the Butterworth Hospital, president of the Michigan State Anti-Tuberculosis Society, and a member of the Michigan State Board of Health.

Confederate Memorial Day

She chose April 26, the first anniversary of Confederate General Johnston's final surrender to General Sherman at Bennett Place, NC.

Deadroom

Deadroom is an award-winning film from 2005 codirected by James M. Johnston, David Lowery, Nick Prendergast and Yen Tan.

Donald Johnston

Donald R. Johnston (1947–1969), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Harold Johnston

Harold I. Johnston (1892–1949), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Henry Johnston

Henry S. Johnston (1867–1965), US politician and lawyer, 7th Governor of Oklahoma

Howard Johnston

Howard W. Johnston (1913–2005), principal founder of the Free University of Berlin

Ian Johnston

Ian R. Johnston (born 1949), Australian human factors engineer and road safety advocate

International Peace Garden

The Arma Sifton bells is a chime of 14 bells cast by Gillett & Johnston bellfounders.

James A. Johnston

In 1937 he was attacked by Burton Phillips from behind in the Dining hall who beat him in anger at a worker's strike, but he continued to attend meals unguarded.

Johnston wrote several books during his lifetime including "Prison Life is Different" where he documents his time spent as warden at Folsom, San Quentin, and Alcatraz.

James S. Johnston

Johnston was born in Church Hill, Mississippi in 1843, the son of a local attorney and cotton planter.

Jeremy Francis Gilmer

He soon became chief engineer on the staff of General A. S. Johnston as a lieutenant colonel.

Joseph E. Johnston

The 1988 alternate history novel Gray Victory by Robert Skimin imagines a scenario in which Johnston is left in command during the Atlanta Campaign.

He served in the 46th Congress from 1879 to 1881 as a Democratic congressman, having been elected with 58.11% of the vote over Greenback William W. Newman; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1880.

He defended the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, withdrawing under the pressure of a superior force under Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan.

He consoled the despairing Brig. Gen. Barnard Bee and urged him to lead his men back into the fight.

Joseph Johnston

Joseph F. Johnston (1843–1913), governor of Alabama, 1896–1900

Joseph E. Johnston (1807–1891), United States and Confederate Army general

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, fought here between General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union army and Joseph E. Johnston of the Confederate army, took place between June 18, 1864, and July 2, 1864.

Lunsford L. Lomax

Assigned to the prestigious 2nd Cavalry regiment, Lomax fought on the frontier and served in Bleeding Kansas during the years immediately preceding the conflict, Lomax resigned from the army in April 1861, and shortly thereafter accepted a captain's commission in Virginia state militia and was assigned to Joseph E. Johnston's staff as assistant adjutant general.

Marshall Parker

Parker did not challenge Thurmond in the Republican primary but instead attempted in a special election for a two-year term to succeed former Senator Olin D. Johnston, who died in office in 1965.

MPEG-1

--at ???--> Optimum Coding in the Frequency domain (OCF) the doctoral thesis by Karlheinz Brandenburg at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Perceptual Transform Coding (PXFM) by J. D. Johnston at AT&T Bell Labs, and Transform coding of audio signals by Y. Mahieux and J. Petit at Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT/CNET).

President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate

Henry S. Johnston, of Perry, was sworn into office as the first president pro tempore on November 16, 1907, the same day Oklahoma was admitted U.S. state.

R. G. Collingwood

William M. Johnston, The Formative Years of R. G. Collingwood (Harvard University Archives, 1965)

Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry

As interest in carillons increased, Johan Eijsbouts purchased bells from two English foundries, John Taylor Bellfounders and Gillett & Johnston, and installed them in carillons.

Sequoyah Constitutional Convention

Henry S. Johnston (Constitution Convention President Pro Tempore, seventh Governor of Oklahoma, first President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate)

Stoneman's 1865 Raid

They then traveled west plundering Statesville, Lincolnton, Taylorsville, and Asheville, North Carolina before re-entering Tennessee on April 26, the same day Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to General Sherman at Bennett Place, in Durham, North Carolina, the site of the largest surrender of Confederate soldiers, which ended the war.

Thomas E. Johnston

Johnston is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.

Thomas L. Johnston

Thomas Lothian Johnston FRSE (9 March 1927 in Whitburn, West Lothian – 2009 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish economist.

Wayne Johnston

Wayne A. Johnston, president of Illinois Central Railroad in the mid-20th century

William A. Brockett

In 1950, he co-authored with Robert M. Johnston Elements of Applied Thermodynamics, which was required reading by naval engineering students of the United States Naval Academy for over forty years.

William H. Loucks

Additionally, he was present for the surrender of the Army of Tennessee by Joseph E. Johnston at Bennett Place.

William J. Johnston

A section of Connecticut Route 16 between Colchester and Lebanon is named in his honor, as is Colchester's public middle school.

William L. Johnston

In addition to his Philadelphia buildings, Johnston was commissioned in 1847 to design the Orange Grove Plantation House in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.

William Pope McArthur

Among the passengers was future American Civil War General Joseph E. Johnston who accompanied the vessel as a civilian topographical engineer.


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