SULLIVAN, JOHN

1740–95, American Revolutionary general, b. Somersworth, N.H. He was a lawyer and a delegate (1774–75, 1780–81) to the Continental Congress but is better remembered as a military leader. He served at the siege of Boston, and in 1776, while fighting under George Washington at the battle of Long Island, he was captured by the British. He was exchanged in time to fight at Trenton and Princeton and later at Brandywine and Germantown. In 1778 he was sent to cooperate with the French fleet in an attack on Newport. The fleet was forced to withdraw, however, and the attack had to be given up. The next year, with Gen. James Clinton, he conducted a retaliatory campaign against the Iroquois and Loyalists on the New York frontier. The Native Americans and Loyalists were defeated in the battle of Newtown (near Elmira), and much of the Iroquois country was laid waste. Sullivan was later elected chief executive (1786, 1787, 1789) of New Hampshire. He also helped to put down Shays's Rebellion and was influential in getting the Constitution ratified.

See biographies by T. C. Amory (1868, repr. 1968) and C. P. Whittemore (1961).

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A General of the Revolution: John Sullivan of New Hampshire
Book by Charles P. Whittemore; Columbia University Press, 1961
Subjects: Sullivan, John--1740-1795, United States--History--Revolution--Campaigns And Battles
...19, 1776, in NYPL; Sullivan to Schuyler, May 25...I, 209-10. 21. Sullivan to Schuyler, May 27, 1776 , ibid ., I, 210; John Thomas to Washington...ser., VI, 589-90; Sullivan to John Hancock, June 1, 1776...
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Gilbert and Sullivan: A Dual Biography
Book by Michael Ainger; Oxford University Press, 2002
Subjects: Gilbert, W. S--(William Schwenck)--1836-1911--Criticism And Interpretation, Sullivan, Arthur--Sir--1842-1900--Criticism And Interpretation
...388 391, 393 , 395 , 400 , 404 , 417 , 419 420, 428 , 435 , 441 , 443 , 446 447 Sullivan, Jane, 389 Sullivan, John (ASs uncle), 242 , 389 390 Sullivan, Mary (ASs grandmother), 6 , 22 Sullivan, Mary Clementina, 22 24, 29 30, 56...
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Louis Sullivan
Book by Albert David Bush-Brown, Donald D. Walker; George Braziller, 1960
Subjects: Architects--United States--Biography, Architecture, American, Sullivan, Louis H.--1856-1924
...72, 100, 112 Hugh Morrison, Louis Sullivan , Peter Smith, New York, 1952: 7, 9 Louis Sullivan, A System of Architectural Ornament According...82, 83, 84 From The Idea of Louis Sullivan by John Szarkowski. Copyright 1956 by the University...
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Louis Sullivan as He Lived: The Shaping of American Architecture, a Biography
Book by Willard Connely; Horizon Press, 1960
Subjects: Architecture--United States, Sullivan, Louis H.--1856-1924
13. At the St. Louis Convention of the Western Association of Architects, November 18, 1885; A Daniel H. Burnham, B Louis Sullivan, C John Root, D Dankmar Adler, E William LeBaron Jenney.
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The Gilbert & Sullivan Book
Book by Leslie Baily; Cassell, 1952
Subjects: Gilbert, W. S--(William Schwenck)--1836-1911, Sullivan, Arthur--Sir--1842-1900
...Leighton, Arthur Sullivan, Canon Harford, John Leech, Dicky Doyle...In the same year when Sullivan was enjoying his Bohemian...at the same time as Sullivan was...Terry, the actress. John and Val Gielgud are...
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Richard Fox, John L. Sullivan, and the Rise of Modern American Prize Fighting
Journal article by Guy Reel; Journalism History, Vol. 27, 2001
Subjects: Boxing, Fox, Richard Kyle, History, Journalists, Journals, Sullivan, John L
Richard Fox, John L. Sullivan, and the Rise of Modern American...publisher Richard Kyle Fox and boxer John L. Sullivan. As the story goes, Fox, an...They realized at once that he was John L. Sullivan, the up-and-coming fighter...
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"For Not in Words Can It Be Spoken": John Sullivan Dwight's Transcendental Music Theory and Herman Melville's Pierre; or, the Ambiguities
Journal article by Aaron Mcclendon; ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly), Vol. 19, 2005
Subjects: American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Dwight, John Sullivan--Criticism and interpretation, Melville, Herman--Criticism and interpretation, Music criticism--Criticism and interpretation, Musical criticism--Criticism and interpretation, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...in Words Can It Be Spoken": John Sullivan Dwights Transcendental Music Theory...inaugural volume of The Harbinger, John Sullivan Dwight, the foremost music critic...Similarly, in "Music," John Sullivan Dwight contended that music...
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Reply to Richard Gaillardetz on the Ordinary Universal Magisterium and to Francis Sullivan
Journal article by Lawrence J. Welch; Theological Studies, Vol. 64, 2003
Subjects: Bishops--Powers and duties, Sullivan, Francis--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Theology, Catholic
...taught definitively. Sullivan quite clearly argues...abortion, and euthanasia. Sullivan admits there are good reasons to think that Pope John Paul II nevertheless...Rather than seeing Pope John Paul IIs recent confirmations...critique of the work of Sullivan, Livio Melina made an...
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Amandla! the Sullivan Principles and the Battle to End Apartheid in South Africa, 1975-1987
Journal article by James B. Stewart; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 96, 2011
Subjects: African National Congress, Apartheid, Automobile industry--International economic relations, Botha, P.W., Motors Liquidation Co., Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America, Reagan, Ronald, Sullivan, Leon H., United Nations, United States. Congress. House
...1988). (24) See John Kane Berman, "Recent...Ira Wells to Rev. Leon Sullivan, 6 October 1978, Acc...the board were Rev. Sullivan, Rev. Gus Roman, Dr...William McGill, Rev. John Ridyard, and Dr. Paul...Activities of Reverend Leon Sullivan in South Africa, 1979...
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John Steinbeck, War Reporter: Fiction, Journalism and Types of Truth
Journal article by Christopher C. Sullivan; Journalism History, Vol. 23, 1997
Subjects: Journalism, Novels, Reporters, Steinbeck, John (1902-68), World War II, Writers
John Steinbeck, War Reporter: Fiction...and Types of Truth by Christopher C. Sullivan Before Pearl Harbor, John Steinbeck was content to look at the...thing called the War Effort."3) Thus John Steinbeck, unlikely at age forty to...
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John Sullivan to Assume TCG Leadership
Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 12, April 1995
Subjects: Sullivan, John--Selection, appointment, resignation, etc., Theatre Communications Group--Officials and employees
John Sullivan to assume TCG leadership Theatre Communications Group announced in February that John Sullivan will become its new executive director...said Fichandler. "We believe that, in John Sullivan, we have found that leader. He is a...
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Sullivan in Oklahoma
Magazine article by John Gizzi; Human Events, Vol. 57, December 24, 2001
Subjects: Keating, Cathy, Oklahoma, Political parties, Public officials, Republican Party, State elections, Sullivan, John
Sullivan in Oklahoma by John Gizzi Three days after placing a poor second in the three-candidate...run-off January 8, making stalwart conservative State Rep. John Sullivan, who had outpointed her by 46% to 30%, the GOP nominee. The 36...
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The Conservatism of Andrew Sullivan
Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2003
Subjects: Sodomy--Laws, regulations, etc., Sodomy--Religious aspects, Sullivan, Andrew--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
The Conservatism of Andrew Sullivan. by Richard Neuhaus "As a simple...social stigma." Thus says Andrew Sullivan in a long article in the New Republic...has done many times before, Mr. Sullivan presents himself as a Catholic who...
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Louis Sullivan after Functionalism
Magazine article by Michael J. Lewis; New Criterion, Vol. 20, September 2001
Subjects: Architects--Conduct of life, Architecture--Personalities, Modernism (Aesthetics)--Social aspects, Sullivan, Louis H.--Conduct of life
...treated sympathetically. John Szarkowski, then beginning...published The Idea of Louis Sullivan, an exquisite portfolio...1) The Idea of Louis Sullivan, by John Szarkowski; Bulfinch...60. (2) Louis Sullivan: The Poetry of Architecture...
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Repeat Performance: The Art of Catherine Sullivan
Magazine article by Margaret Sundell; Artforum International, Vol. 42, October 2003
Subjects: Keller, Helen--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sullivan, Catherine--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sullivan, Catherine--Works, Video artists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Video artists--Works
...of Keller and her teacher, Sullivan turns to its famous enactment...historical circumstance. While Sullivan similarly extricates her characters...excerpts from a 1943 production of John Fords Jacobean drama at the...culled from disparate sources. Sullivan drew one task each from The...
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The Luvvly Jubbly Life of John; HE'S THE COMIC GENIUS BEHIND ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES AND CITIZEN SMITH, AMONG OTHERS. IAN HYLAND MEETS JOHN SULLIVAN
Newspaper article by Ian Hyland; Sunday Mirror (London, England), July 5, 1998
Subjects: Sullivan, John
...AMONG OTHERS. IAN HYLAND MEETS JOHN SULLIVAN. by Ian Hyland Think of every...chances are that 52-year-old John Sullivan was responsible. Among British...staggering 25 million viewers, but John Sullivan is not a man to rest on his comedy...
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Sullivan-4150497
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 25, 2009
Subjects: Sullivan, John Lawrence
Sullivan-4150497. John L. Sullivan of Hanover Park Visitation for John L. Sullivan, 76, will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday, at the Countryside Funeral Home, 1640 Greenmeadows Blvd. (at Barrington Road), Streamwood/ Schaumburg. Funeral...
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"We at Notre Dame and Ultimately I, as President Are Responsible. Words Cannot Express Our Sorrow to the Sullivan Family and to All Involved." the Rev. John Jenkins, University of Notre Dame President NotreDameapology
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 6, 2010
Subjects: College presidents, Universities and colleges, University of Notre Dame
...Express Our Sorrow to the Sullivan Family and to All Involved." the Rev. John Jenkins, University...in heavy wind. Declan Sullivan, 20, was working for...afternoon, the Rev. John Jenkins said the junior...will say this: Declan Sullivan was entrusted to our...
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Arts Diary: Gilbert and Sullivan Are Really Swinging Swinging; Philip Key Reports on Director John Doyle's Return to Liverpool
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 1, 2004
Arts Diary: Gilbert and Sullivan Are Really Swinging Swinging; Philip Key Reports on Director John Doyles Return to Liverpool. Byline...really need to know your Gilbert and Sullivan to recognise HMS Pinafore as it takes...
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Culture: Sullivan & Gilbert Doesn't Have the Same Ring about It; Amateur Stage by John Slim
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 18, 2006
Culture: Sullivan Gilbert Doesnt Have the Same Ring about It; Amateur Stage by John Slim. Byline: By John Slim Have you...easy and comfortable about saying Gilbert Sullivan? That is to say, that it trips off the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sullivan John  - 27 results

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Sullivan, John Lawrence
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SULLIVAN, JOHN LAWRENCE 1858 1918, American...the Boston Strong Boy, as Sullivan came to be called, toured...1878 boxed professionally. Sullivan, with a devastating right...City, Miss. The "Great John L." met all comers. Sullivans...
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Sullivan, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SULLIVAN, JOHN 1740 95, American Revolutionary general, b. Somersworth, N.H...Newtown (near Elmira), and much of the Iroquois country was laid waste. Sullivan was later elected chief executive (1786, 1787, 1789) of New Hampshire...
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Macy, Anne Sullivan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MACY, ANNE SULLIVAN 1866 1936, American educator, friend...death. As Helen Kellers teacher, Anne Sullivan pioneered in techniques of education for...experience it directly. In 1905 she married John Macy, who later became a noted writer...
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Butler, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was thereafter anathema to the patriots. John Butler was defeated (1779) by the expedition of Gen. John Sullivan at Newtown near the present Elmira, N.Y.; later in the war Butler joined with Sir John Johnson in frontier raids. See H. Swiggett...
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Corbett, James John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CORBETT, JAMES JOHN kor b t, 1866 1933, American boxer, b. San Francisco. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett won (1892) the heavyweight boxing championship from John L. Sullivan at New Orleans and lost (1897) the title to Robert L. Fitzsimmons...
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