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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 and USA
He is a retired Brigadier General ( USA ) and served as U. S. ambassador to Belgium, 1969 and 1971.
Brigadier General Caleb J. Archer, USA
Umberg is married to Brigadier General ( USA ) Robin Umberg, and has three children, Brett, Tommy, and Erin Umberg.

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Orkney, attacking from the rear, now tried a different tactic "... it came into my head to beat parley ", he later wrote, " which they accepted of and immediately their Brigadier de Nouville capitulated with me to be prisoner at discretion and lay down their arms.
Nigerian officers have served as chiefs of defence in other countries, with Brigadier General Maxwell Khobe serving as Sierra Leone chief of staff in 1998 1999, and Nigerian officers acting as Command Officer-in-Charge of the Armed Forces of Liberia from at least 2007.
* 1780 American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
* 1973 George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners ' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
* 1841 Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Brevet Brigadier General ( d. 1913 )
* 1918 Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General ( d. 2007 )
A group of rogue Force Recon Marines led by disenchanted Brigadier General Frank Hummel ( Ed Harris ) seize a stockpile of deadly VX gas armed rockets from a heavily guarded military bunker, reluctantly leaving one of their men to die in the process, when a bead of the gas falls and breaks.
* July 13 Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General ( b. 1841 )
* February 22 René Edward De Russy, Brigadier General of the United States Army, Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, and military engineer ( d. 1865 )
* November 25 Greek dictator George Papadopoulos is ousted in a military coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
* January 28 United States Army Brigadier General James L. Dozier is rescued by the Italian anti-terrorism Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza ( NOCS ) force after being held captive for 42 days by the Red Brigades.
* February 25 The majority of the Yavapai ( Wipukyipai ) and Tonto Apache ( Dil Zhéé ) tribes are forced by the U. S. Cavalry under command of Brigadier General George Crook to walk at gunpoint from the Arizona's Verde Valley, to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 180 miles to the southeast.
* December 29 General Martínez and Brigadier General Luís Daban stage a pronunciamento at Sagunto and proclaim Isabel's son Alfonso as King of Spain.
* November 17 Frank Lahm, Brigadier General USAF, airship pilot, early military aviator trained by the Wright Brothers ( d. 1963 )
* December 17 American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is kidnapped in Verona by the Italian Red Brigades.
* November 13 Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General ( d. 1913 )

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