from Dupree, SD
1808
Died:1868
Auditor
Prisoner
1827
Died:1911
NRHP architect
Architect
1850
Died:1934
British physicist • British mathematician
Position:Physicist • Mathematician
Academics of the University of Sheffield • Professor
Fellow of the Royal Society
Award:Royal Medal winner • Adams Prize
1830
Died:1883 • Al-Ubayyid
British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Colonel
Colonel William Hicks, British soldier, entered the Bombay army in 1849, and served through the Indian mutiny, being mentioned in despatches for good conduct at the action of Sitka Ghaut in 1859.
…The Ansr, now 40,000 strong, then defeated an 8,000-man Egyptian relief force led by British officer William Hicks at Sheikan, in the battle of El Obeid. The defeat of Hicks sealed the fate of Darfur, which until then had been effectively defended by Rudolf Carl von Slatin. Jabal Qadir in th...
William Abraham Hicks became Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1827 after being elected to succeed his older brother, Charles R. Hicks, the longtime Second Principal Chief who died on 20 January 1827, just two weeks after assuming office as Principal Chief. William served until October, 1828.