Catalon Language

Title:War of 1812: Miscellaneous Records (Microform:h-1664):

Catalon (Image 107)

"...the inhabitants speak a horrid language, a mixture of Spanish and French called Catalon...".

March Of The Army In Spain

Title:War of 1812: Miscellaneous Records (Microform:h-1664):

March of the Army

Also see an anecdote of Charles The Fifth here.

If Hennery Would Build Us A Fordnag

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"About the time that Hank Ford's peace ark flivvered its hopeful way towards the ballyhoo in Europe, the bird who tambourines on the end interrupted the interlocutor long enough suggest that if Hank really wanted the world to have peace, he would build another spring in the back of that tin lizard he manufactures around Detroit way."

If Hennery would...build us candidates a flivverhorse or a fordnag...". 

Scandinavia Monarchs

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Cameron Of Fassifern

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"When wild and high the Cameron's gathering rose."

A Messy Courtship And Subsequent Divorce

From The Yelverton marriage case, Thelwall v. Yelverton...:

However it appears that after ten days or a fortnight he [Captain Yelverton] became a constant visitor at the hut of General Straubenzee. The inmates were Mrs. Straubenzee and Maria Theresa Longworth. Maria Theresa Longworth says: "He visited as my accepted lover. Madame Straubenzee was perfectly aware of all this, and she made opportunities for our being alone, which she would not have done if she did not know the relation in which we stood."

She says he was her honourable accepted lover but still that his circumstances were such that marriage could not then take place. That when he told her about his circumstances she said, "There, in God's name, let us part--visit me no more;" but that, to her great surprise, he visited her the same evening.

A book of letters between Yelverton and Maria Theresa:  Correspondence between the Honourable William Charles Yelverton ... and ..., by William Charles YELVERTON (Viscount Avonmore.), Maria Theresa LONGWORTH (calling herself Maria Theresa Yelverton, Viscountess Avonmore.)

Also see Crimean War Letters:

"Mrs. Straubenzee is differently situated from you my love. In the first place she has no children; next, her husband is a General Officer, and can command much more accommodation and comfort than I can. 

Crimean War Letters

The Crimean War per Wikipedia.

An Officer's Letters to His Wife During the Crimean War, By Richard Denis Kelly (1815-1897):

"The Queen has sent two silk handkerchiefs, hemmed by herself, to be given to two wounded men in each regiment. We got ours today, one black and the other coloured, and very neatly worked; they are to be given to Sergeant Smith of the Grenadiers who was wounded in eight places and to Private Boyce...". 

5 November 1855:

"Mrs. Straubenzee is differently situated from you my love. In the first place she has no children; next, her husband is a General Officer, and can command much more accommodation and comfort than I can. He has both a marquee and a hut at his disposal has stables and coach-houses built for him, and is surrounding his premises with a wall to make him more private.

 This I can't do, as we haven't the space in our camp. But with all this, Mrs. S. is exposed to a great many discomforts to which a lady must find it hard to submit. I know my dear Ellie, that you can rough it with anyone, and that you would willingly submit to any hardship to prove your love to me; but, believe me, it is best for both of us that you should remain where you are at present.

 I can well imagine what you went through in that agonizing time in April; it showed the deepness of your attachment to me and God grant you may never be exposed to such a fearful trial again.

I hope I shall get the books by the mail due today, but not in yet. I have just read "Sunny Memories," by Mrs.Beecher Stowe, and liked it very much. I have never heard of the other."

WWII D-Day Map

World War II Map at the 6th Cavalry Museum showing the Allied Forces assault routes into Normandy for D-Day or Operation Overlord:

Tombstone Tuesdays - Killed In Battle Was Richard F. Kirkpatrick

There is a monument honoring Richard F. Kirkpatrick in the Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee. Mr. Kirkpatrick, from Flat River, Missouri, was killed in Europe in World War I. His remains were transported from Hoboken, NJ, to Washington, D.C. and then taken to Knoxville in 1921. He was originally from Knoxville.

In Honor of My Son
Richard F. Kirkpatrick
2nd Lieutenant of Infantry
Co. L 306th Infantry 77th Division
Killed In Battle
Argonne
St. Jovin Hill
182
September 15, 1892 October 15, 1918

1910 TN Knox Co.
Kirkpatrick, Helen F., head, 42, wd, 2children/2living, PA Scot Scot
", Richard F., son, 17, TN TN PA
", Frances B., daughter, 14, TN TN PA
Ferguson, Ida, sister, 40, PA Scot Scot

Helen Ferguson married Frank B. Kirkpatrick on 30 September 1891 in Knox Co., Tennessee. Helen taught deaf children in Knoxville.