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See also:SAMPSON, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1840–1902) , See also:American See also:naval See also:commander, was See also:born at See also:Palmyra, New See also:York, on the 9th of See also:February 1840, and graduated at the See also:head of his class from the U.S. Naval See also:Academy in 1861. In this See also:year he was promoted to See also:master, and in the following year was made See also:lieutenant. He was executive officer in the " Patapsco " when she was blown up in See also:Charleston Harbor in See also:January 1865. He served on distant stations and (1868–1871 and 1876–1878) at the Naval Academy, and became lieutenant-commander in 1866 and commander in 1874. He was a member of the See also:International See also:Prime See also:Meridian and See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
Time See also:Conference in 1884, and of the See also:Board of Fortifications in 1885–1886; was See also:superintendent of the Naval Academy frcm 1886 to ago; and was promoted to See also:captain and served as delegate at the International Maritime Conference at See also:Washington in 1889. He was See also:chief of the See also:Bureau of See also:Ordnance in 1893–1897. About 95 of the guns employed in the See also:Spanish-American See also:War were made under his superintendence. His See also:influence was See also:felt decisively in the See also:distribution of guns and See also:armour, and in the training of the personnel of the See also:navy. He superintended the gunnery training and prepared a new See also:drill-See also:book for the See also:fleet. In February 1898 Sampson, then a captain, was See also:president of Board of Inquiry as to the cause of destruction of the " See also:Maine." At the outbreak of the war with See also:Spain he was placed in See also:charge of the N. See also:Atlantic See also:squadron, and conducted the See also:blockade of See also:Cuba. When it was known that See also:Admiral See also:Cervera, with a Spanish fleet, had See also:left the Cape Verde Islands, Sampson withdrew a force from the blockade to cruise in the Windward Passage, and made an attack upon the forts at See also:San Juan, See also:Porto Rico. After his return to the See also:coast of Cuba he conducted the blockade of See also:Santiago, and the See also:ships under his command destroyed the Spanish vessels when they issued from the harbor of Santiago and attempted to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape (see SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR). Sampson himself was not actually See also:present at the See also:battle, having started for Siboney just before it began to confer with See also:General Shafter, commanding the See also:land forces. He reached the See also:scene
are narrated in the chapters immediately following (Judg. xvii.-xviii.).
On the mythological interpretations, see further Ed. Stucken, Mitteil. d, vorderasiat. Gesells. (1902), iv. 54 (with references) ; Vol ter, Agypten and See also:die Bibel (See also:Leiden, 1909), pp. 119-132; A. f eremias, Alte Testament See also:im Lichte See also:des See also:alien Orients (See also:Leipzig, 1906), pp. 478 sqq., and the commentaries on the Book of See also:JUDGES (q.v.). (S. A.
End of Article: SAMPSON, WILLIAM THOMAS (1840–1902)
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