HOWE, RICHARD HOWE, EARL

1726–99, British admiral; elder brother of Viscount Howe. He won early recognition in the Seven Years War for his operations in the English Channel. After the outbreak of the American Revolution, he was given (1776) command of the North American fleet. He and his brother were commissioned to seek a peaceful settlement of the dispute with the colonies, but negotiations at Staten Island in 1776 came to nothing, and he supported (1777) his brother's successful campaign against Philadelphia. In 1778 he outmaneuvered the French fleet under the comte d'Estaing in its attempt to cooperate with land troops to take British-held Newport, R.I. He resigned later that year, but in 1782 he assumed command of the Channel fleet and relieved the siege of Gibraltar. Howe is best remembered for his decisive victory over the French fleet in the battle called the First of June in 1794. Created Earl Howe in 1788, he was popularly known as Black Dick.

See I. D. Gruber, The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution (1972).

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The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army That Won the Revolution
Book by John Buchanan; Wiley, 2004
Subjects: Generals--United States--Biography, Howe, Richard Howe--Earl--1726-1799, Howe, William Howe--Viscount--1729-1814, United States--Continental Army--History, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British Forces, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Manpower, Washington, George--1732-1799--Military Leadership
...Viscount, 1729 1814. 7. Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726 1799. 8. United States...Archibald Robertson 3 Richard, Earl Howe 17 Captain Sir Hyde Parker...commissioner to the colonies. Sack Richard, Earl Howe by Thomas Gainsborough...
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The Man behind Roosevelt: The Story of Louis McHenry Howe
Book by Lela Stiles; World Pub. Co., 1954
Subjects: Howe, Louis M--(Louis Mchenry)--1871-1936, Roosevelt, Franklin D--(Franklin Delano)--1882-1945
...later were to come to fruition in Albany or Washington. Richard Croker, Roscoe Conkling, Thomas "Me Too" Platt, Senator...Sullivan, and Joseph H. Choate were among those Louis Howe came to know as the smell of big-time politics began to...
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The American Journal of Ambrose Serle, Secretary to Lord Howe, 1776-1778
Book by Edward H. Tatum, Ambrose Serle; The Huntington library, 1940
Subjects: New York (N.Y.)--History--Revolution, United States--History--Revolution
...Fleet waited on the Admiral Howe , and received his Lordships...Private Papers of John , Earl of Sandwich , I, 148...New York Papers. Genl. Howe and three of his Aides de Camp dined with the Admiral Howe on board the Eagle, and continued...
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A Quest for Glory: Major General Robert Howe and the American Revolution
Book by Charles E Bennett, Donald R. Lennon; University of North Carolina Press, 1991
...William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and Richard Caswell were elected to represent North...brig Sally , carrying a cargo of tea. Howe, as a resident of Brunswick County...July the governor requested of the Earl of Dartmouth that Howe, Harnett, John...
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Reminiscences, 1819-1899
Book by Julia Ward Howe; Houghton Mifflin, 1899
Subjects: Howe, Julia Ward--1819-1910
...the card which was brought in at the same time. Dr. Howe was not within, and in his absence I entertained the unknown...Milnes." On looking at the card I found that this was Richard Monckton Milnes, afterward known as Lord Houghton. I was...
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journal articles on: Howe Richard Howe Earl  - 132 results

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Slouching toward Beastliness: Richard Wright's Anatomy of Thomas Dixon
Journal article by Clare Eby; African American Review, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: African American authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Analysis, Dixon, Thomas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Race awareness--Social aspects, Race relations--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Stereotype (Psychology)--Analysis, Wright, Richard (Author)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...plot as central to Richard Wright (and other...generally include Howe, Houston A. Baker...the Robert Nixon and Earl Hicks murders by the...Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright. Trans. Isabel...Yale UP, 1997. Howe, Irving. "From Black...
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Reputations Deserved or Otherwise: Richard Wilkinson Questions the Motives of Important Historical Figures, and of Historians Writing about Them
Journal article by Richard Wilkinson; History Review, 2008
Subjects: Churchill, Winston (British prime minister)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Kings and rulers--Behavior, Kings--Behavior, Louis XIV, King of France--Behavior, Prime ministers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Thatcher, Margaret--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...repeatedly insulting Geoffrey Howe. Mrs. Thatchers reputation...and to public insults from Earl Spencer, Dianas brother and...Simon and Schuster, 2007) Richard Wilkinson, Louis XIV (Routledge, 2007). Richard Wilkinson, who used to teach...
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Richard Prescott and Mud Island: Epitomes of the American Revolution as Seen by London's Poets
Journal article by James C. Gaston; Early American Literature, Vol. 11, 1976
Subjects: American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783
...both General Howe, "Sir William," and the Earl of Sandwich, nicknamed...hail the nation! HOWE may now change...Mud Island and Richard Prescott were...nothing. General Howe, who had ignored...Londoners, though, Richard Prescott was not...
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Hazlitt, Horne, and the Spirit of the Age
Journal article by Paul Schlicke; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 45, 2005
Subjects: French Revolution, 1789, Hazlitt, William--Criticism and interpretation, Horne, Richard Henry--Works, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, The Spirit of the Age (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...Centenary Edition, ed. P. P. Howe, 21 vols. (London and Toronto...published in November 1824. (3) Richard Henry Horne, Orion 1843...vi-vii. (17) See especially Richard D. Altick, The English Common...Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3d Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks...
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The Politics of Gender, Puritanism, and Shakespeare's Third Folio
Journal article by Richard Finkelstein; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 79, 2000
Subjects: Dramatists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Family--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Marriage--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Puritans in literature--Analysis, Religion--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sex role--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Shakespeare, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Shepherd, and by Thomas Wilson of Canterbury, William Chiltingworth, Thomas Deane, Obadiah Howe, and the Calvinist yet Royalist Ralph Brownrig. RICHARD FINKELSTEIN SUNY at Geneseo
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Band of Brothers: Stephen Brumwell Examines How the Death of a Charismatic Young British Officer 250 Years Ago This Month-And the Involvement of His Two Younger Brothers in Subsequent Military Operations in North America-Had a Lasting Impact on Anglo-American History
Magazine article by Stephen Brumwell; History Today, Vol. 58, June 2008
Subjects: British history, 1714-1815, Howe, George Augustus--History, Howe, Richard--History, Howe, William--History, United States history, 1600-1775 (Colonial period), United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
...attitude and actions as the crisis escalated. In 1766, Richard Howe, as treasurer of the navy, was among only a handful of...Lord North, and the American Secretary, William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, of his readiness to sail to Boston as second-in-command...
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An Awful, Terrible Dinosaurian Irony
Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 107, February 1998
Subjects: Dinosaurs, Evolution, Fossils, Owen, Richard, Paleontology, Personal profiles
...team lost today." But "terrible," to Howe and her more serious age, embodied...power by the great British anatomist Richard Owen in 1842. In our culture, reptiles...a series generously endowed by the Earl of Bridgewater upon his death in 1829...
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James Burnham 1905-1987
Magazine article by William F. Buckley Jr., Sidney Hook, Jeanne Wacker, John Kenneth Galbraith, Jerzy Giedroyc, Brian Criozier, Miles Copeland, Samuel T. Francis, James B. Burnham, Jeffrey Hart, C.H. Simonds, Joseph Sobran, Linda Bridges, Richard Brookhiser, Kevin Lynch, Priscilla Buckley; National Review, Vol. 39, September 11, 1987
Subjects: Burnham. James--Biography, National Review (Periodical)--Officials and employees, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism (Book)--Excerpts
...still came; the power had gone. After Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, Keynes was...irrationality in politics. Irving Howe, reviewing Suicide of the West, wondered...paragraph on the French elections . . . Richard Brookhiser SOME YEARS AGO, flipping...
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Rebellion at Spithead
Magazine article by Irwin Anthony; Sea Classics, Vol. 42, September 2009
...addressed itself to its one-time idol Richard, Earl Howe. He had received eleven petitions...answer. It was organized to a degree Earl Howe could not suspect. The old Navy...the men, no Irish revolt involved. Earl Howe assented. He would undertake the...
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Hang 'em High! Bloody Mutiny at the Nore!
Magazine article by Irwin Anthony; Sea Classics, Vol. 42, October 2009
...15 May 1797, while Earl Howe and young Quartermasters...Delegates elected Richard Parker as president...scarcely mended matters. Richard Parker was a sailor...was the one thing Earl Spencer had refused...morning of 28 May, Earl Spencer arrived unwillingly...
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Look What You're Missing, Wills; as a Defiantly Dressed Kate Boogies the Night Away at THEIR Favourite Club, Geoffrey Levy and Richard Kay Reveal the Real Reason Behind the Split and Courtiers' Anger over the Shabbyway Wills Treated Her
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 21, 2007
Subjects: Middleton, Kate
...Treated Her. Byline: RICHARD KAY;GEOFFREY LEVY AS A...of the motor-racing 6th Earl Howe, Lady Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe...whose father was the 6th Earl Howe. Blonde Isabella has known...billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard, would not put William...
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Going the Distance
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), September 12, 2009
...00:51:04; 834 Bob Howe 2003 00:49:33; 835...1693 00:49:10; 846 Richard Brownlee 1348 00...48:47; 894 Colin Earl 2870 00:51:20; 895...00:51:01; 942 Ian Richards 1307 00:50:05; 943...1989 00:53:04; 1038 Richard Wagner 1593 00:50...
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Obituaries
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 6, 2007
...Indianapolis. She graduated in 1942 from Howe High School in Indianapolis and worked...and he died May 3, 1982. She married Earl Stewart on Aug. 24, 1983, in Eugene...include two sons, Ken of Creswell and Richard of Eugene; six grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren...
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For the Record&
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), November 9, 2007
...Burial Service, Springfield. Cosner - Richard Cosner, 60, of Springfield, died Oct...Smith-Lund-Mills Funeral Chapel, Cottage Grove. Earl - Harold Earl, 67, of Springfield...God Church. Arrangements by Holman-Howe Funeral Home, Hartville. Shultz - Lowell...
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Boys Soccer
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 29, 2008
Subjects: Soccer
...Conor Joyce (Sr., DB), Doug Key (Sr., DL), Mike Labek (Sr., LB), Earl Delaner (Sr., OL), Dan DiCanio (Sr., QB), Adam Nitsche (Sr...Sr., DB), Tom Supplitt (Sr., LB), Julian Sipiora (Jr., QB), Richard McLoughlin (Jr., WR). Most Valuable Player Tyler Hudetz (Joliet...
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encyclopedia articles on: Howe Richard Howe Earl  - 2 results

 
 
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Howe, Richard Howe, Earl
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HOWE, RICHARD HOWE, EARL 1726 99, British admiral; elder brother of Viscount Howe . He...French fleet in the battle called the First of June in 1794. Created Earl Howe in 1788, he was popularly known as Black Dick. See I. D. Gruber...
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American Revolution
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Chatham, William Pitt, 1st earl of ) and Edmund Burke...British under Gen. William Howe and his brother, Admiral Richard Howe , came to New York harbor...Hudson valley. Gen. William Howe, instead of taking part...


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