Robert Howe (1732–86) was a Continental Army general from North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War. He was one of only five general officers, and the only major general, in the Continental Army from that state. At the outset of the war, he was appointed a brigadier general in the Continental Army, and eventually became commander of the Southern Department. His early military career was contentious and consumed by conflict with political and military leaders in Georgia and South Carolina. These confrontations, including a 1778 duel with Christopher Gadsden, and Howe's reputation as a womanizer eventually led to his removal from command over the Southern Department. Prior to the formal turnover of his command, Howe commanded the Continental Army and Patriot militia forces in defeat in the First Battle of Savannah. He later sat as a senior officer on the court-martial board that sentenced British officer John André, a co-conspirator of Benedict Arnold, to death. Howe himself was accused of attempting to defect to the British, but the accusations were cast aside at the time as a British stratagem. He died in December 1786 after being elected to the North Carolina House of Commons.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1860:

To counter the French Navy's La Gloire, the world's first ironclad warship, the British Royal Navy launched the world's first iron-hulled armoured battleship, HMS Warrior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warrior_(1860)

1890:

The United States Army killed over 150 members of the Great Sioux Nation at the Wounded Knee Massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre

1911:

Sun Yat-sen was elected in Nanjing as the Provisional President of the Republic of China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen

1930:

Muhammad Iqbal introduced the two-nation theory outlining a vision for the creation of an independent state for Muslim-majority provinces in northwestern British India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-nation_theory

1992:

President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello resigned in an attempt to stop his impeachment proceedings from continuing, but the Senate of Brazil continued anyway, finding him guilty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Collor_de_Mello

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

nobble: 1. (UK, Australia, slang) To injure or obstruct intently; batter. 2. (UK, slang) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nobble

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

 Saints are not made by accident. Still less is a Christian martyrdom the effect of a man's will to become a Saint, as a man by willing and contriving may become a ruler of men. Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. Not so in Heaven. A martyr, a saint, is always made by the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways. A martyrdom is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in submission to God. The martyr no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of martyrdom.   --T. S. Eliot https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot