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John Henry Patterson

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

Jewish Legion

...troops, the Jewish Legion landed on Gallipoli peninsula. Its Commanding Officer was Lt. Colonel John Henry Patterson, DSO, an Irish Protestant, and was met with heavy shelling and machine...

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Hiram Bond

...at the end of their leases. NCR wanted clients to upgrade with new machines under a new lease from NCR. Col. John H. Patterson financed Thomas Watson to set up a front company Watsons which...

Patterson later wrote: "Many of the Zionists whom I thought somewhat lacking in courage showed themselves fearless to a degree when under heavy fire, while Captain Trumpeldor actually revelled in it, and the hotter it became the more he liked it..."

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Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Landing at Cape Helles

...1915, the Jewish Legion landed on Gallipoli peninsula. It was led by the Commander Lt. Colonel John Henry Patterson , DSO and was met with heavy shelling and machine gun fire at the shore...

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German Colony, Jerusalem

...Tory Prime Minister David Lloyd George, British Labor Party leader Josiah Wedgewood, Colonel John Henry Patterson, commander of the Jewish Legion in World War I and the...

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John Patterson (Medal of Honor)

...and as an officer for Mauston. After his wife, Lizzie, died in about 1902, Patterson married Sarah Harris in about 1906. Patterson later lived in Mauston, Wisconsin. He died in 1922.

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Uganda Railway

...," were eventually shot and killed by the bridge construction supervisor, Egr. Lt. Colonel John Henry Patterson , who had their skins made into rugs before selling them, some years...

Ft. Worth Star-Telegram | 3 months ago

Man-eating lions' toll overstated

...than its typical diet. The numbers killed have been disputed since the lions were shot by Col. John H. Patterson, a British engineer who wrote a bestselling book about their reign of...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 4 months ago

About those 135 lion victims

Suppose you had been Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson of the British Army and you'd become a national hero in 1898 by killing two man-eating lions that had halted construction of a railroad in...

USATODAY.com | 4 months ago

Study: Man-eating lions likely consumed 35 people in 1898

Delay of the railroad was even subject to debate in Britain's House of Commons. Engineer Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson finally shot and killed them. He then went on to write a book...

National Public Radio | 4 months ago

Lions In Famed Killings Get Partial Reprieve

Soundbite of movie, i¿½The Ghost and the Darknessi¿½) Mr. VAL KILMER (Actor): (As Colonel John Henry Patterson) Everything is collapsing on me. Every morning, the ground is...

chicagotribune.com - News | 4 months ago

Scientists: They only ate 35 people

...than its typical diet. The numbers killed have been disputed since the lions were shot by Col. John H. Patterson, a British engineer who went on to write a best-selling book about their...

Honolulu Advertiser | 4 months ago

Study says 'Ghost and Darkness' lions killed 35, not reported 135

...reported at the time ranged from 28 reported by the Ugandan Railway Company, to 135, claimed by Lt. Col. John H. Patterson, a British officer who killed the lions in December, 1898. The...