STARK, JOHN

1728–1822, American Revolutionary soldier, b. Londonderry, N.H. He fought in the French and Indian Wars. At the start of the Revolution he distinguished himself at Bunker Hill, and he served in the Quebec campaign and with George Washington at Princeton and Trenton (1776–77). He went home in 1777, disgruntled over some promotions, but later in the year took the field as a commander of the New Hampshire militia in the Saratoga campaign. When General Burgoyne sent a detachment to take the colonial stores at Bennington (now in Vermont), Stark met and repulsed it. The battle of Bennington contributed to Burgoyne's discomfiture at Saratoga. For this service Stark received appointment as brigadier general from the Congress.

See biography by H. P. Moore (1949).

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John Robert Shaw: An Autobiography of Thirty Years, 1777-1807
Book by Oressa M. Teagarden, Jeanne L. Crabtree, John Robert Shaw; Ohio University Press, 1992
Subjects: Lexington (Ky.)--Biography, Shaw, John Robert--1761-1813, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal Narratives
Edmund Cullin Jacob Laudeman John Dudley Thomas MacIlroy Stark Gilliam John Haggerty Newbolt Crockett Wm. McConnell Clement Ferguson Larkin Price U. J. Devore Wm. Kenny John Dillard Wm. Stone James Caruthers Charles Tair...
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Prophecy and Diplomacy: The Moral Doctrine of John Paul II : A Jesuit Symposium
Book by John J. Conley, Joseph W. Koterski; Fordham University Press, 1999
Subjects: Catholic Church--Doctrines--Congresses, Christian Ethics--Catholic Authors--Congresses, John Paul--Ii--Pope--1920-2005--Ethics--Congresses
...of human societies. In millenniarist language, John Paul II underscores the sterility of the individualistic...Vitae (EV 3-4), indicates the depth of this stark anthropological conflict. John Paul Ils teaching on key moral issues in the demographic...
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Book by John Greenleaf Whittier; Macmillan, 1902
Subjects: Whittier, John Greenleaf--1807-1892
...war Sits in his wigwam like a squaw, -- Squando has fled, and Mogg Megone, Struck by the knife of Sagamore John, Lies stiff and stark and cold as a stone." Fearfully over the Jesuits face, Of a thousand thoughts, trace after trace, Like...
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The Other Side of Eden: Life with John Steinbeck
Book by John Steinbeck IV, Nancy Steinbeck; Prometheus Books, 2001
Subjects: Novelists, American--20th Century--Biography, Novelists, American--20th Century--Family Relationships, Steinbeck, John--1902-1968, Steinbeck, John--1902-1968--Family, Steinbeck, John--1946-
...sionless wisdom to be born in us? Will we risk, as John and Nancy have done, the stark and glorious alchemy of honesty and embrace the...rigors of justice. Free to become as Nancy and John Steinbeck became, electric nuisances to all myth...
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John Reed: The Making of a Revolutionary
Book by Granville Hicks, John Stuart; Macmillan, 1936
Subjects: Reed, John--1887-1920
...Sheridan, Clare, 399 Siddall, John, 65 , 75 , 79 , 384 Simmons...7, 304 , 321 -2 Sloan, John, 92 , 95 , 109 , 214 Slobodin...Spaeth, Sigmund, 237 Spargo, John, 92 , 235 , 353 Stalin, Joseph, 297 Stark, Louis, 354 Stearns, Harold...
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Accommodation or Endorsement? Stark V. Independent School District: Caught in the Tangle of Establishment Clause Chaos
Journal article by John W. Huleatt; St. John's Law Review, Vol. 72, 1998
Subjects: Church & state, Constitutional law, Federal court decisions, Judicial process, Supreme Court decisions, United States
...Accommodation or Endorsement? Stark V. Independent School District...Establishment Clause Chaos by John W. Huleatt "Congress shall...rationale.5 Recently, in Stark v. Independent School District...Establishment Clause challenge. In Stark, Minnesota citizens, who had...
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Religious Conversion of Adolescents: Testing the Lofland and Stark Model of Religious Conversion
Journal article by Willem Kox, Wim Meeus, Harm 'T Hart; SA. Sociological Analysis, Vol. 52, 1991
Subjects: Church And Social Problems--Catholic Church, Religion And Sociology, Sociology, Christian (Catholic)
...Adolescents: Testing the Lofland and Stark Model of Religious Conversion...adolescents we tested the Lofland and Stark model of religious conversion...network . The model offered by John Lofland and Rodney Stark has been studied more than most...
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Willie Stark and the Long, Thinning Shadow of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: American Politics and the New Populism
Journal article by Sanford Pinsker; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 80, 2004
Subjects: Novels, Politics, Populism, United States, Warren, Robert Penn
Willie Stark and the Long, Thinning Shadow...and-grayslacks-bedecked John Kerry to match. At this point...not be true, however, for John Kerry, who would look as odd...now. True enough, Willie Stark has Jack Burden, his all...
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Between Death and a Hard Place: Hopkins V. Reeves and the "Stark Choice" between Capital Conviction and Outright Acquittal
Journal article by Peter A. Barta; American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 37, 2000
Subjects: Beck v. Alabama--447 U.S. 625 (1980), Capital punishment--Analysis, Convictions (Law)--Laws, regulations, etc., Due process of law--Laws, regulations, etc., Hopkins v. Reeves--524 U.S. 88 (1998), Instructions to juries--Laws, regulations, etc.
...whereby juries were forced to make the "stark choice" between conviction on a capital...a capital jury is presented with the "stark choice" of convicting the defendant on...this perception by presenting an even starker choice: if the jury does not vote to...
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Stark Realities and Eurocentric/Androcentric Bias in the Sociology of Religion
Journal article by Michael P. Caffoll; Sociology of Religion, Vol. 57, 1996
Subjects: Religion And Sociology
...AMERICAN Commenting on the S/B theory, John Simpson ( 1990 :371) characterized it...flavor of his theorizing. For example, Stark and McCann ( 1993 ) begin their analysis...The sentence just cited suggests that for Stark and McCann "religiosity" is something...
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General John Stark-The Man, the Motto, and the "Coverup": General Stark's Name Should Come Readily to Schoolchildren's Lips for His Accomplishments in the Revolutionary War and His Very American Motto
Magazine article by Jack Kenny; The New American, Vol. 27, July 4, 2011
Subjects: American Revolution, 1775-1783--Personalities, Generals--Biography, Stark, John (American army officer)--Biography, United States history--Personalities, United States history--Revolution, 1775-1783
General John Stark-The Man, the Motto, and the "Coverup...desperately needed experienced men like John Stark to command regiments in the Continental...Maynard may have made the message of John Stark all the more emphatic. The message...
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Pete Stark: Raving Lunatic
Magazine article by Michelle Malkin; Human Events, Vol. 59, July 28, 2003
Subjects: Courtesy, Debates, Etiquette, Legislators, Public speaking, Stark, Fortney H
Pete Stark: Raving Lunatic by Michelle Malkin Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark, (D.-Calif.), is the...official committee transcript, Stark physically taunted fellow Ways...Texas Rangers baseball player John Rocker called a couple of restaurant...
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Counting China's Christians: There Are as Many Christians in China, According to Rodney Stark, Byron Johnson, and Carson Mencken, as There Are Members of the Communist Party
Magazine article by Rodney Stark, Byron Johnson, Carson Mencken; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 2011
Subjects: China--Religious aspects, Chinese (Asian people)--Religious aspects, Chinese (Asian people)--Surveys, Chinese--Religious aspects, Chinese--Surveys, Christians in China--Surveys, Christians--Surveys, Demographic surveys
...China, According to Rodney Stark, Byron Johnson, and Carson...Communist Party. by Rodney Stark , Byron Johnson , Carson Mencken...of a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Of these...continues to experience. Rodney Stark and Byron Johnson are distinguished...
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Attack on the USS Stark
Magazine article by John H. Parker; Sea Classics, Vol. 39, June 2006
Attack on the USS Stark by John H. Parker In order for the novice to understand the attack on the USS Stark and the ramifications and consequences...areas rules of engagement. THE USS STARK The USS Stark (FFG-31) was the 24th...
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Donald Westlake's Stark Assessment
Magazine article by John Knebels; Book, November 2000
Subjects: Authors--Conduct of life, Westlake, Donald--Conduct of life
Donald Westlakes Stark Assessment. by JOHN KNEBELS A veteran of nearly ninety...including 1990s The Grifiers with John Cusack, Annette Bening and Anjelica...unforgettable characters like genius burglar John Dortmunder, a likeable but hapless...
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Democrats Won't Discipline Stark over Remark on Watts
Newspaper article by Dave Boyer; The Washington Times, June 11, 2001
Subjects: McCain, John, Stark, Fortney H.
Democrats wont discipline Stark over remark on Watts by Dave...against Democratic Rep. Pete Stark of California, who has accused...one Republican staffer. Mr. Stark, who has not apologized to...a sarcastic taunt from Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican...
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A Sobering Introduction to Stark Matters of Survival; John Griffiths, the Assembly Government's Counsel General, Has Returned Inspired from Africa, Having Seen How Welsh Men and Women Are Transforming Lives and Communities
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 24, 2010
Subjects: Global temperature changes, Wales. National Assembly
A Sobering Introduction to Stark Matters of Survival; John Griffiths, the Assembly Governments Counsel General, Has...facing our society today. However, these are particularly stark matters of survival for people living in developing countries...
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My Warning to Gordon; as the Blair Years End and John Reid Says He Is Quitting, a Longstanding Ally of the PM Issues a Stark Challenge to His Party
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 8, 2007
...to Gordon; as the Blair Years End and John Reid Says He Is Quitting, a Longstanding Ally of the PM Issues a Stark Challenge to His Party. TONY Blair will...crime. By 1994, when the partys leader John Smith died, he had already launched a...
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Bank Left Reeling as Deputy Quits; Inflation Warning: Bank of England Governor Mervyn King Delivers His Stark Message to the City at Mansion House, Watched by Chancellor Alistair Darling. Below: Deputy Governor Sir John Gieve Who Resigned Last Night
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 19, 2008
Subjects: Banks (Finance), Inflation (Economics), Inflation (Finance)
...Governor Mervyn King Delivers His Stark Message to the City at Mansion...Below: Deputy Governor Sir John Gieve Who Resigned Last Night...collapse ofNorthern Rock. Sir John quit last night in a move that...billion oftaxpayers money. Sir John came under fire after it emerged...
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Health Care Revamp Not a Dead Issue: Kennedy, Stark Think Long-Term
Newspaper article by Patrice Hill; The Washington Times, July 6, 1996
Subjects: Kennedy, Edward M., Stark, Fortney H.
...not a dead issue: Kennedy, Stark think long-term by Patrice...must be incremental." Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia...insurance, he said. And Rep. Pete Stark of California, a leading proponent...Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Stark have powerful allies in labor...
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Stark, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
STARK, JOHN 1728 1822, American Revolutionary soldier...stores at Bennington (now in Vermont), Stark met and repulsed it. The battle of Bennington...discomfiture at Saratoga. For this service Stark received appointment as brigadier general...
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Langdon, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LANGDON, JOHN 1741 1819, American political leader, b. Portsmouth, N.H. A prosperous...Saratoga campaign (1777) he financed the New Hampshire militia under Gen. John Stark in the expedition against General Burgoyne, and he saw action himself...
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Bunker Hill, Battle Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...colonial militia under Artemas Ward , Nathanael Greene, John Stark , and Israel Putnam laid siege to Boston shortly after...by troops led by William Howe , Sir Henry Clinton , and John Burgoyne . The Continental forces learned of the British...
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Saratoga Campaign
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of the American Revolution. Lord George Germain and John Burgoyne were the chief authors of a plan to end the American...by troops (including the Green Mountain Boys ) under John Stark and Seth Warner . Meanwhile, the force under St. Leger...
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Manchester , Cities, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...industry. St. Anselm College, a branch of the Univ. of New Hampshire, and the Currier Gallery of Art are there. John Stark lived and is buried in Manchester. A number of ski areas are in the vicinity...
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