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unusual facts about Benjamin W. Lee


Burt Ovrut

His doctoral advisors were Benjamin W. Lee and Yoichiro Nambu, and his thesis was on an Sp(4) x U(1) Theory of the Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions.


Alvin A. Lee

He received honorary doctorates from Victoria University in the University of Toronto, and from McMaster University, and was made an honorary professor at Beijing University, the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and Heilongjiang University.

Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy

A goddaughter of Robert E. Lee and a granddaughter of the engineer and senator William Cabell Rives, who had also been American ambassador to France, she was born in Richmond, Virginia and named after her aunt Amélie, a goddaughter of French Queen Marie-Amélie.

American armored fighting vehicle production during World War II

The US version in British service was the Lee (named after General Lee); the British specification version (a different turret) was the Grant (named after General Grant).

Aquarena Center

Spring Lake has been visited by notable individuals including Robert E. Lee, Jay Gould, and Helen Miller Shepard because of its beauty.

Attempts to make the Potomac River navigable

There was a large conflict with Virginia Governor Henry Lee (father of Robert E. Lee), who purchased 500 acres of land around Great Falls (he named it “Matildaville” after his wife) to build a warehouse for goods being transported down the Potomac (predicting the route would quickly become profitable after the project’s completion).

Battle of Hanover

Stuart was forced to continue north and east to get around the Union cavalry, further delaying his attempt to rejoin Robert E. Lee's army, which was then concentrating at Cashtown Gap west of Gettysburg.

Benjamin W. Crowninshield

His health began to fail in 1891, and he died January 16, 1892, at age 55, in Rome, having travelled to Europe for a rest.

Berkeley Township, New Jersey

In the 1920s, Benjamin W. Sangor purchased the area, intending to create a resort town catering to wealthy urban vacationers.

Bruce Chadwick

Chadwick’s newest books are 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See (Sourcebooks, 2008), about the causes of the Civil War.

Conspiracy and siege of the Mountain Meadows massacre

He met with many of the eventual participants in the massacre, including William H. Dame, Isaac C. Haight, and John D. Lee.

CSS Robert E. Lee

From January 13 to January 22, 1865 she aided in the bombardment of Fort Fisher's batteries and landed ammunition supplies for the Union forces.

David L. Lee

In 1981, he joined a company that was acquired by the satellite communications firm Comsat, where he held a variety of executive positions before joining TRW Information Systems Group in 1986.

Debra L. Lee

In March 1996, Lee became President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of BET Holdings, Inc., replacing departing network founder, Robert L. Johnson.

Dennis Hart Mahan

Mahan also founded the Napoleon Seminar at West Point, where advanced under-graduates and senior officers including Lee, Reynolds, Thomas and McClellan, studied and discussed the great European wars, Napoleon and Frederick the Great.

Francis Preston Blair

On April 17, 1861, just three days after the surrender of Fort Sumter, Lincoln asked Francis Blair to convey his offer to Colonel Robert E. Lee to command the Union Army.

Frank Crawford Armstrong

In February 1864, Armstrong requested a transfer to the command of Maj. Gen. Stephen D. Lee.

Gary A. Lee

He later relocated to Fort Myers, Florida, where he remained active in politics, including serving as Chairman of the Lee County Republican Party.

Harold B. Lee

Lee focused on music the first few years and played the alto, French, and baritone horns.

Heck Thomas

On September 1, 1862, Union General Philip Kearny was killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Young "Heck" was entrusted with the general's horse and equipment and was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee to take them through the lines to General Kearny's widow.

Henry A. G. Lee

In December 1847 when word of the attack reached the Willamette Valley, the Provisional Government and Gov. George Abernethy called for volunteers to fight against the Cayuse, with Lee volunteering and being selected as captain of a 50 man unit to be dispatched immediately to The Dalles.

Howard V. Lee

In September 1955, he entered the 14th Officer Candidates' Course, Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia, and upon completing the course the following December, was commissioned a Marine Corps Reserve second lieutenant.

Infiltration Art

Artists whose work incorporates elements of infiltration include Banksy, Christian Cummings, Nikki S. Lee, Taryn Simon, Jeffrey Vallance, David Hildebrand Wilson, Fred Wilson.

Ismail Abdul Rahman

When the British High Commissioner Donald MacGillivray met with the Tunku, Ismail, and the MCA's representative of H. S. Lee, he accused them of playing into the hands of the Malayan Communist Party, which was waging an armed insurgency against the British.

James A. Roberts

In 1864, he enlisted as a private in the 7th Maine Battery, and fought at the Siege of Petersburg, and later participated in the campaign ending with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House.

James H. Madole

The Beast Reawakens by Martin A. Lee (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1997, ISBN 0-316-51959-6)

John C. H. Lee

This section of the Ohio River Division of the Corps was tasked with completing a water-resources survey, as part of the Johnson Administration's War on Poverty.

Jon Gries

In the historical Western film September Dawn, he played executed murderer John D. Lee, in a performance praised by critics who otherwise panned the film.

Kate Ferguson

She was born Catherine Sarah Lee, to the southern poet Eleanor Percy Lee and William Henry Lee, cousin of General Robert E. Lee.

Little Round Top

At around 4 p.m. on July 2, 1863, Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's First Corps began an attack ordered by General Robert E. Lee that was intended to drive northeast up the Emmitsburg Road in the direction of Cemetery Hill, rolling up the Union left flank.

Mark C. Lee

Lee also initiated a unique distinction with STS-47: his wife at that time, N. Jan Davis, was a mission specialist on the flight, making Lee and Davis the first married couple to be in space at the same time.

Milt G. Barlow

He would later serve with several Virginia cavalry companies before surrendering at Appomattox Court House in April 1865 along with the remnants of General Robert E. Lee’s army.

Nikki S. Lee

After earning B.F.A. at Chung-Ang University in South Korea in 1993, she moved to New York in 1994 to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Organization of Black American Culture

Among those associated at various times with the OBAC Writers Workshop are founding member Don L. Lee (now Haki Madhubuti), Carolyn Rodgers, Angela Jackson, Sterling Plumpp, Sam Greenlee, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, and many other writers of national stature.

Rex Lee

Rex E. Lee, US Solicitor General under President Reagan and later president of Brigham Young University

Robert C. Lee

On 1918-06-15, he married Elsie Francis Calder, daughter of Senator William M. Calder.

Robert H. Foglesong

Foglesong was the second retired general to hold the office of president at the university; Confederate lieutenant general Stephen D. Lee was the first.

Robert H. Lee

He is also a trustee of the Bank of British Columbia, a directorship of the Real Estate Institute of Canada, Vancouver Foundation, B.C. Paraplegic Foundation and of the Port Authority of Vancouver.

Robert V. Lee

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and continued graduate studies in journalism at the University of Georgia.

Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia

This unit was also known as the Second Division and was eventually subsumed into general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as a reserve in Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill's Division.

Shockoe Hill Cemetery

The cemetery holds the graves of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, attorney John Wickham, Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco, famed Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, Virginia Governors William H. Cabell, John Munford Gregory (acting), and John M. Patton (General George S. Patton's great-grandfather), Judge Dabney Carr, United States Senators Powhatan Ellis and Benjamin W. Leigh, and dozens of Confederate soldiers.

Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet

Fludyer died in 1768 and was buried in the churchyard of St Margaret's, Lee.

Snowsquall warning

These will reduce visibilities to less than 1 km and produce large accumulations of snow on the ground along narrow corridors in lee of the waters.

The Beast Reawakens

The Beast Reawakens is a book by investigative journalist Martin A. Lee.

Throckmorton County, Texas

Captain Robert E. Lee served as commander of the camp from April 9, 1856, to July 22, 1857.

Tommy Laurendine

Tommy Laurendine (born c. 1968) is the head coach of the Sewanee: The University of the South (Sewanee) college football team in Sewanee, Tennessee, and previously served as an offensive coordinator at Washington & Lee, West Alabama, Southern Arkansas, Lenoir–Rhyne and The Citadel.

United States Penitentiary, Lee

He remains a fugitive and has been profiled on the television program America's Most Wanted.

Virgil City, Missouri

Virgil City has been the home of two members of the United States House of Representatives: Charles Germman Burton (a Republican) and Frank H. Lee (a Democrat).

Virginia Field

Her mother was a cousin of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and her aunt was British stage actress and director Auriol Lee.

Wells–Bennett–Grant family

He married seven wives: Eliza Rebecca Robison; Louisa Free, former wife of John D. Lee; Martha Givens Harris; Lydia Ann Alley; Susan Hannah Alley, sister of Lydia; Hannah Corrilla Free, sister of Louisa; and Emmeline Blanche Woodward


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