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French General de Bazelaire decorating Colonel Douglas MacArthur with the Croix de Guerre, March 18, 1918. The 42nd Division entered the line in the quiet Lunéville sector in February 1918. On 26 February, MacArthur and Captain Thomas T. Handy accompanied a French trench raid in which MacArthur assisted in the capture of a number of German ...
MacGregor was born in Hillockhead, parish of Towie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the eldest son of John MacGregor, a crofter, and his wife Agnes, daughter of William Smith of Pitprone. [1] MacGregor was educated at the school at the Strathmore manse, [2] later a teacher at Tillyduke [3] and worked as a farm labourer. [1]
He competed in eight events at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics.He won a silver medal in the 100-metre freestyle in 1964, and finished fourth in the 100-metre freestyle and 4×100-metre freestyle relay in 1968. [1]
The remains of Rob Roy MacGregor's house in upper Glen Shira Factor's Island, Loch Katrine, where Rob Roy once imprisoned the Duke's factor Grave site of Rob Roy MacGregor, marking his wife (Helen) Mary, and sons Coll and Robert (Balquhidder) Rob Roy's Putting Stone, a boulder he supposedly used for stone putting, near Lochan nan Eireannaich at the head of Kirkton Glen where the pass leads ...
Hackworth was born in Ocean Park, California (now part of Santa Monica), on November 11, 1930, the son of Leroy E. Hackworth and Lorette (Kensly) Hackworth. [3] His parents both died before he was a year old, so he and his brother and sister were raised by Ida Stedman, their paternal grandmother.
Macgregor Laird (1808 – 9 January 1861) was a Scottish merchant pioneer of British trade on the River Niger.Laird's commercial expedition between 1832 and 1834 to navigate the Niger and initiate trade between Europeans and Africans northwards of the coast was considered a failure: the majority of the passengers died and the volume of trade realized was minimal.
McGregor is a Scottish surname. It is derived from the Gaelic Mac Griogair / Mac Greagair meaning 'son of Griogar', the Gaelic form of the given name Gregory . [ 1 ] Clan MacGregor were a famous Highland Scottish clan.
MacGregor at command of the rests of the army resolved to retreat hundreds of miles east to Barcelona. [16] Two pursuing royalist armies harried MacGregor constantly as he retreated across country, but failed to break his rearguard. MacGregor's party was helped the rest of the way east to Barcelona by elements of the main revolutionary army.