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7 unusual facts about Nelson A. Miles


Albert L. Myer

Major Myer was appointed by the first military governor of Puerto Rico, Major General Nelson A. Miles.

Battle of Bear Paw

Some of the Nez Perce were able to escape to Canada, but Chief Joseph was forced to surrender the majority of his followers to General Oliver O. Howard and Colonel Nelson A. Miles.

On September 12, Howard sent a message to Colonel Nelson A. Miles stationed at Fort Keogh (then called the Tongue River Encampment) requesting his assistance.

Luis Porrata-Doría

General Nelson A. Miles had been installed by the President of the United States as the first American military governor of the Island, and Porrata-Doría had been elected mayor by the people of Ponce as was the electoral practice for many decades under the old Spanish system.

Nez Perce War

A majority of the surviving Nez Perce represented by Chief Joseph of the Wallowa band of Nez Perce, surrendered to Brigadier Generals Oliver Otis Howard and Nelson A. Miles.

They believed that they had shaken off Howard and their pursuers, but they were unaware that the recently promoted Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles in command of the newly created District of the Yellowstone had been dispatched from the Tongue River Cantonment to find and intercept them.

Second Battle of Adobe Walls

Controversy prevails over the exact range of the shot; although Baker and Harrison set it at about one thousand yards, a post-battle survey by a team of US Army surveyors, under the command of Nelson A. Miles, measured the distance of the shot: 1,538 yards, or nine-tenths of a mile.


American Boy Scouts

The honorary vice presidents and founders included Col John Jacob Astor, William K Vanderbilt Jr Major General Fred D. Grant, Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, General EA McAlpin, and Lieutenant General Adna R Chaffee.

Dixon S. Miles

Miles died the next day and is buried in St. James Episcopal Church Cemetery in Monkton, Maryland.

Sears, Stephen W. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam.

Henry Howard Whitney

In 1898, under orders from the Secretary of War, he disguised himself as an English sailor, communicated with General Máximo Gómez, and made a military reconnaissance of the island of Puerto Rico, thereby gaining the information upon which General Nelson A. Miles based the Puerto Rican Campaign.

Lawrence D. Miles

Lawrence Delos Miles (April 21, 1904 Harvard, Nebraska – August 1, 1985) was an American engineer, and the creator of Value engineering.

Mario Procaccino

Procaccino and O'Connor were elected, but Beame was defeated by the Republican and Liberal Party of New York joint nominee, John V. Lindsay, a member of the United States House of Representatives and a then ally of fellow New York liberal Republicans Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and United States Senator Jacob K. Javits.

Michael A. Miles

Miles began his career at Leo Burnett & Co. in 1961 as a Media analyst, and progressed to the position of VP Account Supervisor.

Miles! Miles! Miles!

It contains recordings from the October 4, 1981 concert in Tokyo, some of which had appeared on We Want Miles, including the original version of the track "Jean-Pierre", elsewhere edited by producer Teo Macero to remove the first twenty-five seconds of introduction, consisting primarily of a guitar riff and tumbling percussion sounds.

Orwell Award

2006: Steven H. Miles, M.D, author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror

Rick Klaw

Contributors included Timothy Truman, Lewis Shiner, Sam Glanzman, Neal Barrett, Jr., Doug Potter, Marc Erickson, Martin Thomas, Michael Washburn, Paul O. Miles, Steve Utley, Don Webb, John Lucas, John Garcia, and Joe Preston.

Stephen A. Miles

After working as a social worker counseling maximum-security inmates at the Kingston Penitentiary in Ontario, Miles turned his focus to management and leadership, receiving his Masters in Business Administration (1999) from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.


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Albert L. Myer

General Nelson A. Miles had been installed by the President of the United States as the first American military governor of the Island, and Francisco Porrata Doria had been elected mayor by the people of Ponce as was the custom for many decades under the old Spanish system.