• Cavendish Wells Cannon (February 1, 1895 – October 7, 1962) was a long-time United States foreign service officer and diplomat. During World War II, Cavendish...
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    established an embassy in Rabat, and appointed a ranking ambassador, Cavendish W. Cannon. Morocco – United States relations Foreign relations of Morocco Ambassadors...
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    Husband of Leonora Cannon Taylor Father of John W. Taylor who served in 1883 as a clerk of Cassia County, Idaho, and of William W. Taylor who served from...
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  • football player Catríona Cannon (born 1968), librarian and academic Cavendish W. Cannon (1895–1962), American diplomat Charles Cannon (Manitoba politician)...
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    Charles Yost (redirect from Charles W. Yost)
    Delegate To UN,' New York Times, May 22, 1981, section 1, pg. 21 "Charles W. Yost Papers, 1790-2015 (Mostly 1930-1980) - Finding Aids". "Old Faces and...
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    Robert Guggenheim United States Ambassador to Portugal Preceded by Cavendish W. Cannon Succeeded by James C. H. Bonbright Personal details Born (1885-05-17)May...
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    Grady (Ambassador 1948–50) John Emil Peurifoy (Ambassador 1950–53) Cavendish W. Cannon (Ambassador 1953–56) George V. Allen (Ambassador 1956–57) James Williams...
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    Ambassador to Iran 1946–1948 Succeeded by John C. Wiley Preceded by Cavendish W. Cannon U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia 1949–1953 Succeeded by James Williams...
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    (1889-1954) Eleanor Addy Cannon (1891-1892) Emmeline Cannon (Martineau) (1893-1972) Cavendish Wells Cannon (1895-1962) Katherine Cannon (McKay) (1897-1947)...
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    Penkower, the plans were rejected by Department of State official Cavendish W. Cannon, who called attention to Arab Anti-Zionism. Deletant, p. 117 Final...
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  • Syria In office 1947–1950 Preceded by George Wadsworth Succeeded by Cavendish W. Cannon Personal details Born (1895-11-27)November 27, 1895 Died January...
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Preceded by John Cooper Wiley Succeeded by Cavendish W. Cannon United States Ambassador to Greece In office 1943–1947 President...
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    established an embassy in Rabat, and appointed a ranking ambassador, Cavendish W. Cannon. Mozambique Consulate: Recognized: 1975 Relations established: 1975...
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    getting permission for his proposed raids, Cavendish built a 120-ton sailing ship, with eighteen cannons, named the Desire. He was joined by the sixty...
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    Acheson, Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (NY: W.W. Norton, 1969), 255 Judith Adkins (2016). "These People Are Frightened to...
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    Keeley, Jr. – Career FSO October 8, 1947 August 2, 1948 July 22, 1950 Cavendish W. Cannon – Career FSO September 20, 1950 October 30, 1950 May 8, 1952 James...
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    September 21, 1944 November 17, 1944 Left Belgrade October 25, 1946 Cavendish W. Cannon – Career FSO April 10, 1947 July 14, 1947 October 19, 1949 George...
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    MacVeagh United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia 1944–1946 Succeeded by Cavendish W. Cannon Preceded by Edwin Jackson Kyle United States Ambassador to Guatemala...
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    Ltd. Opie, James (1993). The Great Book of Britains. Great Britain: New Cavendish Books. Wallis, Joe (1981). Regiments of all Nations. Baltimore, Maryland:...
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    Parliamentarians in July 1643. An attempt to recapture Gainsborough by Charles Cavendish and the Royalists was foiled in a battle in which Colonel Oliver Cromwell...
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    Henry Cavendish. Rumford had observed the frictional heat generated by boring out cannon barrels at the arsenal in Munich. At that time, cannons were cast...
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    World War I (redirect from W.W. I)
    In Young, Peter (ed.). Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War I. Vol. ii. New York: Marshall Cavendish. ISBN 978-0-86307-181-2. Holmes...
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    refused to serve under Shelburne, and demanded the appointment of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland. In 1783, the House of Commons forced Shelburne...
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    gunpowder, specifically from Ottoman cannons and bombards, heralding a change in siege warfare. The Ottoman cannons repeatedly fired massive cannonballs...
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    is that the cannons were found loaded. In addition, there were more cannons than would be expected for a ship of this size, and the cannons were of different...
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  • father's heiress. Richard Cannon, Historical Record of the Forty-Sixth, or South Devonshire Regiment of Foot (1851) p. 68. Keith W. Murray, "Murray, Earl...
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     214–231. Cannon & Griffiths (1988), pp. 393–400. Fraser (1975), p. 232. Fraser (1975), pp. 242–245. Cannon & Griffiths (1988), pp. 439–440. Cannon & Griffiths...
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  • 1854 a hydropneumatically delayed-blowback cannon was patented by Henry Bessemer. In 1856 a crank-operated cannon with a blowback-operated cocking mechanism...
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    astra) underwent a different semantic shift and became synonymous with 'cannon'. Although the fire arrow is most commonly associated with its rocket mechanism...
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    for the casting of iron cannon for his garrisons, and for the making of other instruments and engines of war. — Margaret Cavendish, The Life of William Duke...
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