December 2 – 1745 Somewhere between Preston and Wigan in Lancashire and Derby. Charles (the Bonnie Prince) [Stewart] might be said to be at the very crisis of his fate. [Charles Edward] was within 127 miles of London, and, at the same time, less than a day’s march of an [English] army of 10,000 and upwards, which had been originally assembled under General Ligonier, [TG79-225] and was now commanded by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland (Prince William Augustus, age 24 and youngest son of the King George 2nd), who had his headquarters at Litchfield, somewhat farther from the metropolis [London] than those of Charles Edward.1 On the other hand, another English army, equal in numbers to their own, was moving up along the west side of Yorkshire, being about this time near Ferrybridge, two or three marches in the rear of the Scottish invaders, who were thus in danger of being placed between two fires (the double envelopment). A third English army, under King George 2nd’ guards came out of London. [TG79-228]. [Cumberland’s tutor was Edmond Halley of Halley’s comet fame.]

     Tom Jones, fictional hero of Henry Fielding, enlists in the Duke of Cumberland’s regiment to fight Jacobites, printed for Andrew Miller VI, (1705-1768 clans Stewart, Lockhart, and Hunter) Publishing house in ‘London by the Strand.’

The History of Tom Jones a Foundling etc. London Printed by A. MILLAR over against Catherine street in the Strand. MCCCxlix.

1751 Amelia – novel, 1751, was advertised on 2 December 1751 by the publisher, Andrew Millar, in The General Advertiser. Henry Fielding (Sharpham, 22 April 1707 – near Lisbon, 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist. In Amelia, Millar claimed that “to satisfy the earnest Demand of the Publick, this Work is now printing at four Presses; but the Proprietor not-withstanding finds it impossible to get them bound in Time without spoiling the Beauty of the Impression, and therefore will sell them sew’d at Half a Guinea a Sett.”

  • Millar ordered William Strahan to print the work on two of his printing presses in order to produce a total of 5,000 copies for the first run of the work (in comparison, only 3,500 copies of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling were printed for the first and second edition). This amount proved to be enough for Millar to sell, although he had to back down from a second printing of 3,000 copies immediately after the first edition to ensure that the originals were completely sold. The work had two German translations published in 1752, a Dutch translation in 1756, and a French edition in 1762.

Amelia by Henry Fielding, Efq. Etc. London Printed for A. Millar in the Strand. MLDCCLII

1805 Battle of Austerlitz, covered in Sir Walter Scott’s “The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte” (above), took place on December 2, 1805.  It was Napoleon’s greatest victory, in which combined Russians and Austrians were defeated. ‘The Battle of Austerlitz, fought against an enemy of great valour but slender experience, was not of a very complicated character.  The Russians, we have seen, were extending their line to extend the French flank.  Marshal Davoust, with a division of infantry, and another of dragoons, was placed behind the convent of Raygern, to oppose the forces destined for this manoeuver, at the moment when they should conceive the point carried. [TG].

Sir Walter Scott bust.

1813 Soult attacks Lord Wellington. Tytler’s Britannica 271 of Scottish History.

1829 Scots Roman Type, prepared in Glasgow Scotland, and shipped to a foundry in Albany New York, then delivered to the E. B. Grandin Printing company in Palmyra New York, according to the Crandall Gutenberg Printing Museum in Provo Utah. Palmyra Temple Art. The Scots Roman type is the font used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The contract with E. B. Grandin’s print shop to print the book was signed on Tuesday 25 Aug 1829, and the completed book was on sale by Friday 26 March 1830. Typesetter John H. Gilbert selects type and inserts commas, periods, and other punctuation as Gilbert reads Oliver Cowdery’s hand written copy. One form signature of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed per 6 day, 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html  14th   form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in Alma.

1864 Robert Sibbald Calderwood (born 1864) served as Minister at Cambuslang auld Parish Church until his death. He was chaplain to His Majesty’s Prison Edinburgh from 1905 until 1908. (clan Calderwood).

1912 sometime this month. A Canine Sherlock Holmes is a lost 1912 English silent short film crime drama.

1912 film poster.

 

1941 Tuesday, Release date, movie shown coast to coast for the weekend movie goers of 6th and 7th. Last movie before Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War Two. The Ball of Fire is Ruby Catherine Stevens, born in Brooklyn, New York on July 16, 1907, (died January 20, 1990) was the fifth and youngest child of Catherine Ann (née McPhee) and Byron E. Stevens. Scots descent. Stanwyck received one of five Academy Award nominations Best Actress in a Leading Role for Ball of Fire. Classic, classic, classic love story remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

1949 The Hasty Heart released. The movie is placed in Burma in September 1945 at an allied mobile surgery unit. After most are immediately sent home, 5 remain in the unit because a fellow soldier,’Corporal Lachlan McLachlan, a Scot, is dying. ‘Sorrow is born in the Hasty Heart.’

The film stars, among others, Ronald Wilson Reagan as the non combat (ambulance driver) Yank (American) veteran of Scots descent (clan Wilson), Patricia Neal as the beautiful nurse, Richard Todd as Lachie the Scot (Irish born) starred in the Dundee Repertory Scotland stage version of The Hasty Heart , Howard Marion-Crawford (clan Crawford) as the British soldier. Produced by Howard Lindsay (clan Lindsay), written by Ranald MacDougall.   Reagan has a line, to the effect ‘I’m Scots descent, my great grandfather was Angus from Scotland.’ (clan Wilson) Another scene has the troops dividing up presents for birthday of a kilt, hat, stockings, pair of brogues (shoes), belt, shirt. Be cautioned, the movie is a real tear jerker, and Todd was nominated for an academy award. A bet is made as to what is worn under a kilt.

1996 New York City. Trump’s International Hotel & Tower is a luxurious hotel with amenities such as television, two line phones, cd players, fax machines and a four star restaurant.

Trump Tower 721 5th Avenue.

 

2012 Humor. Farquarson took his lassie for a ride in a taxi. She was so beautiful, he could hardly keep his eye on the meter.

http://www.scotlandvacations.com/JokesPage1.htm

 

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