But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.

* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.

As soon as the Committee of Public Safety heard of the victory Napoleon became a Brigadier General, the start of his meteoric rise to power.

Like the United Kingdom, prior to 1922 Australia used the rank Brigadier General

Marlborough quickly moved forward two brigades under the command of General Wilkes and Brigadier Rowe to secure the narrow strip of land between the Danube and the wooded Fuchsberg hill, at the Schwenningen defile.

A collective body, the National Council of Public Safety ( CNSP ), presided over by Brigadier General Robert Guéi, took control.

In 1988 Colonel Koffi Botty was the high commander of the National Gendarmerie, having replaced Brigadier General N ' daw in 1983.

* Director of Division for Development of Forces Branches-Operations Division: Brigadier General Josef Bečvář

A committee that was headed by psychiatrist Brigadier General William C. Menninger developed a new classification scheme called Medical 203 that was issued in 1943 as a War Department Technical Bulletin under the auspices of the Office of the Surgeon General.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

When he returned from that expedition 8 days later, Brigadier General Richard Montgomery had assumed command of the invasion due to Schuyler's illness.

*** HQ Land Force Command ( Commander Brigadier General Pita Driti 2011 )

* 1915 – Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and pilot of B-29 " Enola Gay " over Hiroshima ( d. 2007 )

* 1963 – The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba ' ath Party.

The Republican armies in Spain — which were resisting a Carlist insurrection — pronounced their allegiance to Alfonso in the winter of 1874 – 1875, led by Brigadier General Martínez-Campos.

He also served on special assignments for Jewish soldiers in the U. S. Army in the 1950s, receiving the simulated rank of Brigadier General for these missions.

* 1865 – American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.

* 1918 – William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General ( d. 2005 )

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.

* Joseph R. Smith, US Brigadier General

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

His replacement as commander of the Federal District of New Mexico was Brigadier General James H. Carleton.

** Brigadier General The Honourable Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, VC, GCMG, CB, DSO & Bar, PC, Croix de Guerre ( France and Belgium ).

It was commanded by three officers, Major General the Honourable E. F. Lawson until 11 September, Brigadier G. H. Gotto until 23 September, Major General E. C. Hayes until 20 November and then Gotto again.

O ' Brien, 35th Simcoe Foresters, Commanding Officer York-Simcoe Battalion, Riel Rebellion, Captain the Honourable Leslie Frost, 157th Battalion ( Simcoe Foresters ), CEF, 20th Battalion CEF, Premier of Ontario, Major the Honourable Sir Daniel Hunter McMillan, 35th Simcoe Foresters, 95th Battalion, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, Private Thomas William Holmes, VC 147th ( Grey ) Battalion, CEF, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, Brigadier Thomas Rutherford, CBE, ED, 147th ( Grey ) Battalion, CEF, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, The Grey and Simcoe Foresters, Colonel the Honourable Mr. Justice Robert C. Rutherford, MBE, CD, The Grey and Simcoe Foresters, Governor General's Horse Guards

Reuben Breed ( Episcopal ), Michael Lodsin ( Baptist ), Brigadier Thomas Johnson ( Salvation Army ), Ludmila K. Foxlee ( YWCA ), Athena Marmaroff ( Woman's Christian Temperance Union ), Alexander Harkavy ( HIAS ), and Cecilia Greenstone and Cecilia Razovsky ( National Council of Jewish Women ).

At the end of his one-year tour, Alexander Haig returned to the continental United States to become Regimental Commander of the Third Regiment of the Corps of Cadets at West Point, under the also newly arrived Commandant, Brigadier General Bernard W. Rogers.

It was named in honor of Alexander McDowell McCook, a Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

* Revolutionary war sites: Quarters of Major General William Alexander, Lord Stirling ; Quarters of Major General Marquis de Lafayette ; Quarters of Brigadier General Anthony Wayne ; Quarters of General Charles Cornwallis, and a number of other generals.

A British army under Lieutenant General Sir George Prévost and a naval squadron under Captain George Downie converged on the lakeside town of Plattsburgh, which was defended by American troops under Brigadier General Alexander Macomb and ships commanded by Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough.

Izard's force departed on 23 August, leaving Brigadier General Alexander Macomb in command at Plattsburgh with only 1, 500 American regulars.

In addition to his own force of around 6, 000 regulars, volunteers and militia, Van Rensselaer had Brigadier General Alexander Smyth's force of 1, 700 regular soldiers under his command.

Brigadier General Ernest Alexander Cruikshank, a noted authority on the War of 1812 and the history of Ontario, was chosen as the Board's first chairman, a post he held for twenty years.

Against this, the British at Thal, under Brigadier General Alexander Eustace, possessed only four battalions.

Brigadier John Alexander Sinton, VC, OBE, FRS, DL ( 2 December 1884 – 25 March 1956 ) was a British medical doctor, malariologist and soldier, being a 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.

In 1812, two American attempts to capture Fort Erie were bungled by Brigadier General Alexander Smyth.

When that happened, a force of U. S. Regulars commanded by Brigadier General Alexander Smyth were to travel by boat from Four Mile Creek to the rear of Fort George and capture the fort.

A brigade under a political appointee, Brigadier General John Chandler, formed the reserve, together with most of the artillery under Colonel Alexander Macomb.

Five relatives and family friends were officially appointed to accompany the funeral train: David Davis, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ; Lincoln's brothers-in-law, Ninian Wirt Edwards and C. M Smith ; Brigadier General John Blair Smith Todd, a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln ; and Charles Alexander Smith, the brother of C. M. Smith.

At the start of the Gettysburg Campaign, Brigadier General Alexander Hays ' brigade joined, and was assigned to the 3rd Division, Hays taking command of the division.

* Brigadier Alexander Birtwistle CBE, Army officer ;

Joseph Alexander McChristian ( October 12, 1914 – May 13, 2005 ) was a United States Army Brigadier General and the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam ( J2, MACV ) ( then commanded by General William Westmoreland ) from July 13, 1965 to June 1, 1967.

They fought under the command of Brigadier General William Alexander, Lord Stirling, and were responsible for holding the Gowanus Road, the far right of the Continental Army line.

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* Brigadier John Alexander Sinton VC, OBE, FRS, MB, DL ( 1884 – 1956 ), doctor, malariologist and recipient of the Victoria Cross