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...very annoyed with the Barbary pirates, who kept nibbling at U. S. trade in the Mediterranean. William Eaton, a Connecticut schoolteacher, and Presley O'Bannon, a lady-loving, fiddle-playing marine, raised an army of eight marines, 38 Greeks, 91 Arabs, a few footmen, cavalry, and camel drivers, and planned a fantastic march from the Nile across 500 miles of desert to subdue the Barbary pirate chief at Dérna. They actually made the march and took the town. Presley O'Bannon was the first man to raise the U. S. flag on African soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: On to Derna | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Revolutionary days will come back to Harvard Square tomorrow night when two positions of costumed Harvard and Radcliffe students, sparked by liveried, bewigged footmen, will set out for a Faneuil Hall meeting, sponsored by the Council for Democracy. The meeting is scheduled for 7:45 o'clock and will be broadcast by the Colonial Network...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wigs and Ruffles Mark Faneuil Hall Meeting | 11/19/1940 | See Source »

...Secretary." Since he became so busy, Lord Beaverbrook has stopped giving big dinners, now has a few aircraft men to dinner once or twice a week. When he tells them they have done "first rate" they glow. Dinner at Stornoway House (13 Cleveland Row, London) is served by four footmen at 9 or 10 o'clock. Sometimes the host is late, sometimes he doesn't appear. Some times he rushes in for the soup course, dashes out, returns with an Air Marshal. After dinner he sinks into a big blue chair, turns a spotlight on himself, leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Shirts On | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...heart is nothing but a bad digestion") wrote Caroline saying: "Correct your vanity which has be come ridiculous . . . and leave me in peace." Caroline had convulsions for a fortnight. She offered herself to any young man who would fight a duel with Byron. She put new livery on her footmen with buttons engraved: "Ne crede Byron" ("Do not believe Byron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caroline Lamb's Husband | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Royal train was met by Lord Tweedsmuir and his Lady, an escort of Princess Louise Dragoons in scarlet tunics and brass hats, and a landau with two postillions and two footmen-something dug out and refurbished from the Governor General's livery stable. A London-like overcast cloaked the scene, and from the Houses of Parliament sounded a bell that looked and rang like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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