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The Battle of Crysler's Farm, also known as the Battle of Crysler's Field, [4] was fought on 11 November 1813, during the War of 1812, in the British province of Upper Canada. A British and Upper Canadian force defeated a much larger American invasion force, prompting the US to abandon the Saint Lawrence Campaign , its plan to capture Montreal ...
This led to an extended stint (1957-66) in professional wrestling under the name of The Minnesota Farm Boy. [6] His mother was worried that he was on a path toward delinquency and had Willie Bryant and Sammy Davis Jr. talk to him, and they got him a job as a "band boy". He would set up the music stands for a band at shows, he was paid $50 for ...
Walter Chrysler's father, Henry (Hank) Chrysler, was a Canadian, of German, English and Dutch ancestry. He was an American Civil War veteran who was a locomotive engineer for the Kansas Pacific Railway and its successor, the Union Pacific Railroad. [4] Walter's mother was born in Rocheport, Missouri, and was also of German ancestry. [5]
Hugh Hefner, the man who created a magazine empire, died Wednesday at the age of 91. His legacy includes some of the most famous Playboy playmates ever to grace the cover and go one to become ...
The Regiment of Riflemen was a unit of the U.S. Army in the early nineteenth century. Unlike the regular US line infantry units with muskets and bright blue and white uniforms, this regiment was focused on specialist light infantry tactics, and were accordingly issued rifles and dark green and black uniforms to take better advantage of cover.
The couple had no children, and Jean Chrysler predeceased her husband on January 26, 1982, aged 60. [16] Chrysler maintained a residence in New York and a home in Key West, but he died near his museum in Norfolk after a long struggle with cancer. Upon Chrysler's death, the Chrysler Museum received three-quarters of the Chrysler Family Trust. [7]
His new film – the quietly released but loudly acclaimed ‘The Boy and the Heron’ – comes first; Louis Chilton hears the story behind it Behind The Boy and the Heron: The myths and magic of ...
In 1969, Chrysler redesigned the C-Body platform to incorporate its new “Fuselage” styling that brought the upper and lower sections of body into one uniformly shaped design, in turn changing the look of all the models. This new C-Body design saw Chrysler ditching the last stylistic remnants of the early-to-mid 1960s in favor of a more ...