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Personal data Wiley Thompson (Brig. General) 

  • He was born on September 23, 1781 in Amelia Co., The Province of Virginia *13 Colonies).
    The "Colonial Red Ensign Flag"; the first official flag to fly over the Colonies under British rule until 1777. The Province of Virginia became a State on 25 June 1788
  • He died on December 28, 1835 in Fort King, Sumter Co., Florida, United States, he was 54 years old.
    The Dade Massacre: In December of 1835 Osceola began his war in dramatic fashion when his men ambushed the new Indian agent General Wiley Thompson, by his office just outside the gates of Fort King (Ocala), where Wiley was killed.
  • He is buried in the year 1835 in Georgia, United States.
    interment in the private burial ground on his estate at Elberton, Georgia, United States
  • A child of Isham Thompson and Elizabeth Williams

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Wiley Thompson

John Farley Thompson
1728-1791
Elizabeth Farley
1730-????

Wiley Thompson
1781-1835


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Birthday September 23, 1781

  • The temperature on September 23, 1781 was about 14.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: regen hagel . Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1781: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 13 » William Herschel discovers Uranus.
    • March 15 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Court House: Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force numbering 4,400 in a Pyrrhic victory.
    • April 29 » American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
    • September 4 » Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) by 44 Spanish settlers.
    • September 8 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
    • October 19 » American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.

Day of death December 28, 1835

  • The temperature on December 28, 1835 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1835: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 24 » Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
    • February 14 » The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
    • February 15 » Serbia's Sretenje Constitution briefly comes into effect.
    • November 24 » The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
    • November 27 » James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
    • December 29 » The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.


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