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    civil engineer before and after the war. William B. Franklin was born in York, Pennsylvania, to Walter S. Franklin and Sarah Buel. His father was Clerk of...
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  • William Franklin (1731–1813) was the last Royal Governor of New Jersey and son of Benjamin Franklin. William Franklin may also refer to: William Temple...
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    Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor...
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    Interior. Brahms, William B., Franklin Township, Somerset County, NJ: A History, FTPL; ISBN 0-9668586-0-3 page 543 Brahms, William B. Franklin Township, Somerset...
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    into five corps headed by MG Irvin McDowell (I Corps; Franklin's Division: BG William B. Franklin, McCall's "Pennsylvania Reserves" Division: BG George...
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    William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s...
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    Marye's Heights. On December 13, the Left Grand Division of Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin was able to pierce the first defensive line of Confederate Lt. Gen...
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    child of Benjamin Franklin, then the publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette, and Deborah Read. Franklin also had an illegitimate son, William (born c. 1730–31)...
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    of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. Brig. Gen. William B. Franklin's Union division landed at Eltham's Landing and was attacked by two...
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    Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two...
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  • U.S. Air Force lieutenant general Ray Franklin (1934–2017), U.S. Marine Corps major general William B. Franklin (1823–1903), Union Army major general...
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  • forces under Confederate Brig. Gen. Howell Cobb and Union Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin as part of the Battle of South Mountain on September 14, 1862, at...
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  • Crittenden Thomas Leonidas Crittenden Samuel Curtis Abner Doubleday William B. Franklin James A. Garfield Quincy Adams Gillmore Gordon Granger Ulysses S...
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    southeast toward the James River, its rearguard under Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin stopped Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's divisions at the...
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    A. McCall. VI Corps, Brig. Gen. William B. Franklin commanding: divisions of Brig. Gens. Henry W. Slocum and William F. "Baldy" Smith. Reserve forces...
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    The VI Corps, under Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin, consisted of the divisions of Maj. Gens. Henry W. Slocum and William F. "Baldy" Smith, and a division...
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    divisions and the IV Corps detachment and was commanded by Major General William B. Franklin. These three divisions were positioned about a four-hour march away...
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  • William Henry Franklin, DFM and Bar (2 October 1911 – 12 December 1940) also known as Bill Franklin was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and a notable...
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    Eugenia Astor (1824–1902), who married Franklin Hughes Delano (1813–1893), on September 17, 1844 (no issue). William Backhouse Astor Jr. (1829–1892), who...
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    considering the evidence set forth by William B. Brahms in his books Images of America: Franklin Township (1997) and Franklin Township, Somerset County, NJ:...
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    Gens. Darius N. Couch, William F. "Baldy" Smith, and Silas Casey 1st Division of the I Corps, Brig. Gen. William B. Franklin commanding Reserve infantry...
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    Battle of South Mountain (category William McKinley)
    and Fox's Gap in the north. The Left Wing, commanded by Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin, consisting of his own VI Corps and Maj. Gen. Darius N. Couch's division...
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  • Roosevelt Jr. (b. 1936), Texas oilman David Boynton Roosevelt (b. 1942) Livingston Delano Roosevelt (b. 1962, died as an infant) Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
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  • Saturday, July 28, 1945, Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith Jr., of Watertown, Massachusetts, was piloting a B-25 Mitchell bomber on a routine personnel...
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and politician who served...
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    Aretha Louise Franklin (/əˈriːθə/ ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Referred to as the "Queen...
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    2008-09-25. pp. 20–23. Retrieved 2011-09-26. Franklin, Col. William B. "Report of Col. William B. Franklin, Twelfth U. S. Infantry, Commanding First Brigade...
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    President General of the Society and congressman. Major General William B. Franklin – Veteran of the Mexican War and the Civil War. Major General Edgar...
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    Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks 19th Army Corps (Major-General William B. Franklin) Detachment of the 13th Army Corps (Brigadier-General Thomas E. G...
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    our self-made men" with Franklin as the greatest exemplar. Part One of the Autobiography is addressed to Franklin's son William, at that time (1771) Royal...
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