Foods, medications, metabolic products, and infection can cause abnormal urine colors (Table 1) . 3 Cloudy urine often is a result of precipitated phosphate crystals in alkaline urine, but pyuria also can be the cause. A strong odor may be the result of a concentrated specimen rather than a urinary tract infection. Dipstick urinalysis is convenient, but false-positive and false-negative results can occur. Specific gravity provides a reliable assessment of the patientâs hydration status.
Just after sunrise, the Loyalists, led by Lieutenant Colonel Donald McLeod, stormed the bridge. In the subsequent ambush, confusion gave way to slaughter as 900 Loyalists were killed, wounded or captured. The Battle of Mooreâs Creek Bridge was pivotal to the Patriot cause, and is often referred to as the âLexington and Concord of the South.â Without Loyalist forces to protect the colonial government of Governor Josiah Martin, the royal system collapsed, allowing Patriot leaders the chance to establish a fledgling state government.
The Seven Oaks Massacre was the bloodiest incident in the forty-year struggle between the Hudson's Bay and North West Companies. It initiated a period of extremely tense relations and provoked the Hudson's Bay Company to attack Fort William in August 1816.The violent cycle continued until 1821, when the companies merged under the name of the Hudson's Bay Company.he attack was a part of the companies' intense struggle for the control of the Northern Plains fur and meat trade; its immediate goal was to expel the Nor'westers from the Red River Settlement by cutting off their supply lines from the Plains.