In response, Army Group Upper Rhine ( Heeresgruppe Oberrhein ) group was formed to engage the advancing U. S. 7th Army ( under command of General Alexander Patch ) and French 1st Army ( led by General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny ) in the Alsace region along the west bank of the Rhine.

** Alexander Patch, United States Army lieutenant general, World War II army commander ( b. 1889 )

** Alexander Patch, officer in the United States Army ( d. 1945 )

On 15 August 1944, two months after the Allied landings in Normandy ( Operation Overlord ), the Seventh United States Army under General Alexander Patch, with a Free French corps under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, landed on the coast of the Var between St. Raphael and Cavalaire ( Operation Dragoon ).

In 1945, the Belgian royal family was liberated by American troops under the command of Lieutenant General Alexander Patch, who thereafter became a close friend of King Leopold and Princess Lilian.

At the suggestion of a subordinate, the division's commander, Major General Alexander Patch, requested that the new unit be known as the Americal Division — the name being a contraction of " American, New Caledonian Division ".

It was planned that the forces of the US Seventh Army, commanded by Alexander Patch, would make the initial landing, to be followed by the French Army B commanded by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.

Dragoon was the operational responsibility of the US Seventh Army commanded by Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch.

The other unit comprising the formation was the US Seventh Army, commanded by Alexander M. Patch.

Under Lieutenant General ( then Maj. Gen .) Alexander M. Patch, the XIV Army Corps directed the Americal and 25th ( Tropic lightning ) Army Infantry Divisions, the 2nd Marine Division, and the 147th Separate Infantry Regiment in the final drive which expelled the Japanese from Guadalcanal early in February 1943.

To signify final victory over the Japanese on Guadalcanal, General Alexander Patch, commander of the land forces on the island, signaled his superior, Admiral Bull Halsey, that the " Tokyo Express no longer has terminus on Guadalcanal.

* April 18 – A German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter intercepts a U. S. Army Air Forces Stinson L-5 Sentinel liaison aircraft carrying United States Army Lieutenant General Alexander M. Patch from Kitzingen to Öhringen, Germany.

* Alexander M. Patch, Class of 1932

On 8 December he was replaced by Army Major General Alexander McCarrell Patch, who took command of the U. S. XIV Army Corps on 2 January.

The division was under the command of Major General Alexander McCarrell Patch.

When the Allied landings in Southern France took place in August 1944 ( Operation Dragoon ) Devers formed a special headquarters in Corsica to oversee the Franco-American forces commanded by Lieutenant General Alexander M. Patch.

General Alexander McCarrell " Sandy " Patch ( 23 November 1889 – 21 November 1945 ) was an officer in the United States Army, best known for his service in World War II.

Patch suffered personal tragedy when his son, Captain Alexander M. Patch III, was killed in action on 22 October 1944 while serving as an infantry company commander in the 79th Infantry Division.

Ribbon bar with the list of General Alexander M. Patch ´ s decorations:

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On 1 May 1945, Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch, the commander of the US 36th Division, visited Horthy in his castle prison.

** Gen. Alexander Patch, highly decorated officer who commanded Army and Marine forces at Guadalcanal during World War II.

In contrast, the Allied commander on the island, U. S. Army Major General Alexander Patch, fielded a combined force of U. S. Army and U. S. Marines, designated the XIV Corps, totaling 50, 666 men.

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

In 1889 Alexander's father, King Milan, unexpectedly abdicated and withdrew to private life, proclaiming Alexander king of Serbia under a regency until he should attain his majority at eighteen years of age.

* Alexander I of Serbia ( 1889 – 1903 ), King of Serbia

# 1889 – 1914 Donald Alexander Smith

** Horace Alexander, English writer, pacifist, and ornithologist ( b. 1889 )

Alexander III forbade Romanov morganatic marriages altogether by issuance of ukase # 5868 on 24 March 1889 amending article # 63 of the Statute on the Imperial Family in the Pauline laws.

** Vertinsky, Alexander: Cabaret singer ( 1889 – 1957 )— became known as the " Russian Pierrot " after debuting around 1916 with " Pierrot's doleful ditties "— songs that chronicled tragic incidents in the life of Pierrot.

* Petequakey (‘ Comes to Us With the Sound of Wings ’, better known as Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, as son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was a Métis he became chief of the Willow Cree an the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother and counselor of chief Kee-too-way-how ( a. k. a. Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau ), after Kee-too-way-how had left the reserve on the Muskeg Lake to live around Batoche, became Petequakey chief ( 1880 – 1889 ) of the remaining Cree and Métis living in the reserve, he participated on 26 March 1885 along with the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont at the battle at Duck Lake, thereafter he led his tribal group to St. Laurent to participate in the defense of Batoche, one of the largest Métis settlements and the seat of the Saskatchewan's provisional government during the rebellion )

Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).

In 1889 Tsar Alexander III finished construction of Massandra Palace a short distance to the north of Yalta and Nicholas II built the Livadia Palace south-west of the town in 1911.

The Honourable Thomas Alexander Pakenham ( 1820 – 1889 ), third son of the second Earl, was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

* Alexander ( 1857 – 1893 ), created Reigning Prince of Bulgaria in 1879, abdicated in Bulgaria and created Count of Hartenau, married morganatically in 1889 Johanna Loisinger ( 1865 – 1951 ), with issue.

Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife KG, KT, GCVO, PC, VD ( 10 November 1849 – 29 January 1912 ), styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British Peer who married Princess Louise of Wales, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark.

There have been two creations of the title, the first in 1889 and the second in 1900, both in favour of Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife in the Peerage of Ireland and 1st Earl of Fife in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

It was crafted and delivered to the then Tsar of Russia, Alexander III who presented it to his wife, Maria Feodorovna on Easter day 1889.

* Robertson, Alexander ( 1889 ) Lectures, Legal, Political, and Historical: On the Sciences of Law and Politics ; Home and Foreign Affairs, Stevens & Haynes

David died in 1889 at the age of 94, and in 1890 the name of Broughton Creek was changed to Berry to honor the Alexander and David's contribution to the region.

* Alexander Leslie-Melville, 10th Earl of Leven, 9th Earl of Melville ( 1817 – 1889 )

* George Philips Alexander Sinclair, 15th Earl of Caithness ( 1858 – 1889 )

* Alexander Hugh Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton ( 1835 – 1889 )

Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov ( Bogoljubov, Bogoljubow ) April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952 ) was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.

Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, QC who is usually referred to as A. E. B. Davie, ( born in Wells, Somerset, November 24, 1847 – August 1, 1889 Victoria, British Columbia ) was a British Columbia politician and lawyer, and was premier of British Columbia from 1887 until his death.

The first refusal, in 1887, disappointed Struve so much that he applied for resignation and was stopped from that only by the Tsar Alexander III, who requested Struve to keep his posts until the 50th anniversary of the Pulkovo Observatory in 1889.