James Byrne was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
On 3 April1858 at Jhansi, India, Private Byme assisted a captain of his regiment (Henry Edward Jerome) in removing, under very heavy fire, a lieutenant who was severely wounded. They took the injured man to a place of safety, in the performance of which act the private was wounded.
James I, king of England, 1566-1625, king of England (1603-25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567-1625).
James II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1633-1701, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1685-88); second son of Charles I, brother and successor of Charles...
James III, king of Scotland, 1452-88, king of Scotland (1460-88), son and successor of James II.
JamesByrnes was the most politically significant South Carolinian of the twentieth century a man nearly as influential in national politics as John C. Calhoun had been in the nineteenth century.
Byrnes was a man of honor and honesty, but one imbued with an older conception of morality and practice.
Byrnes' efforts led to a much-needed improvement of fl education in South Carolina, but his aim was to prevent the one real improvement needed in education in the state.
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