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*Donald W. LammNot commissioned; letter of credence dated February 28, 1957. - Career FSO

*Peter RutterNot commissioned; letter of credence dated April 17, 1957. - Career FSO

**Termination of Mission: Reaccredited when Ghana became a republic; presented new credentials July 21, 1960; left post, November 21, 1960

*Francis H. RussellCommissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Feb 6, 1961. - Career FSO

*Stephen R. LyneNomination of Oct 3, 1986, was not acted upon by the Senate. - Career FSO

The Rebellion was in reaction to a Poll Tax of £1 on all Native male members over 18 years of age by the Natal House of Assembly. After the magistrate and a small party were threatened by gun shots from Bambata and his followers, the party made their retreat to a small hotel. Joined by the people at the hotel, the magistrate's party proceeded hastily to the police station at Keates Drift.

The Kranskop reserves trailed Bambata along the same route until they made a wrong turn

The end of the rebellion came when Col. Barker was brought from Johannesburg with 500 soldiers. Along with local troops, they trapped and killed Bambata and the other Zulu chiefs, ending the uprising.Mare, L.J. History of Bambata Rebellion. Greytown. http://www.greytown.co.za/bambathastment.htm . Retrieved 9 14, 2008.

'Sir Marc Isambard Brunel', Royal Society|FRS FRSE (25 April 1769 ndash; 12 December 1849) was a France|French-born engineer who settled in England. He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally known to history as Marc to avoid confusion with his more famous son Isambard Kingdom Brunel. His most famous achievement was the construction of the Thames Tunnel.

Brunel was the second son of Jean Charles Brunel and Marie Victoire Lefebvre. Jean Charles was a prosperous farmer in Hacqueville, Normandy, and Marc was born on the family farm. It was customary for the first son to inherit the farm and the second son to enter the priesthood. His father therefore started Marc on a classical education, but he showed no liking for Greek or Latin and instead showed himself proficient in drawing and mathematics. He was also very musical from an early age.

Brunel arrived in New York on 6 September 1793, and he subsequently travelled to Philadelphia and Albany, New York|Albany. He got involved in a scheme to link the Hudson River by canal with Lake Champlain, and also submitted a design for the new United States Capitol|Capitol building to be built in Washington, D.C.|Washington. The judges were very impressed with the design, but it was not selected.Bagust, Harold, The Greater Genius?, 2006, Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN 0-7110-3175-4, (pages 17-21)

In 1796, after taking American citizenship, Brunel was appointed Chief Engineer of the city of New York. He designed various houses, docks, commercial buildings, an arsenal, and a cannon factory. No official records exist of the projects that he carried out in New York, as it seems likely that the documents were destroyed in the New York Draft Riots of 1863.