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Unrest continued in other sectors as they industrialised, such as agricultural labourers in the 1830s, when large parts of southern Britain were affected by the Captain Swing disturbances.
* Captain Swing
* Captain Swing, an imaginary leader of the Swing Riots
Defending the cards, Mallory gathers his brothers and Ebenezer Fraser – a secret police officer – to fight the revolutionary Captain Swing who leads a London riot during " the Stink ", a major episode of pollution in which London swelters under an inversion layer ( comparable to the London Smog of December 1952 ).
Captain Swing is the head of the Unmentionables in the Ankh-Morpork of the past in Night Watch.
The name Captain Swing has long been associated with civil unrest, being the pseudonym of the ( possibly mythical ) leader of the Swing Riots.
There were Captain Swing anti-machinery riots in Lambourn in 1832-33.
The name " Swing Riots " was derived from the name that was often appended to the threatening letters sent to farmers, magistrates, parsons, and others, the fictitious Captain Swing, who was regarded as the mythical figurehead of the movement.
The tactics varied from county to county but typically, threatening letters, often signed by Captain Swing, would be sent to magistrates, parsons, wealthy farmers or Poor Law guardians in the area.
*" The Captain Swing rebellion in Sussex "
A historical novel set in Berkshire in the times of Captain Swing, The Chazzey Tragedy ( 1933 ), made little impact.
The first of these was Captain Swing, in 1979.
Captain Swing was the name appended to some of the threatening letters during the rural English Swing Riots of 1830, when labourers rioted over the introduction of new threshing machines and the loss of their livelihoods.
Captain Swing was described as a hard-working tenant farmer driven to destitution and despair by social and political change in the early nineteenth century.
Captain Swing, 1969.
Captain Swing in Sussex and Kent, 2006.
The Crowd in History, Chapter 10, ' Captain Swing ' and ' Rebecca's Daughters '.
fr: Captain Swing
The ' Swing riots ' were so called because farmers would receive threatening letters signed by a ' Captain Swing ', whose identity has never been determined.

Captain and recruits
Together with Captain Nemo, Mina travels to Cairo to locate Allan Quatermain, then on to Paris in search of Dr. Jekyll ; finally in London she forcibly recruits Hawley Griffin, The Invisible Man, who completes this incarnation of the League.
The post-war Palin Report noted that the English recruiting officer, Captain C. D. Brunton, found al-Husseini, with whom he cooperated, very pro-English, and that, via the diffusion of War Office pamphlets dropped from the air promising them peace and prosperity under English rule, ' the recruits ( were ) being given to understand that they were fighting in a national cause and to liberate their country from the Turks '.
To fight off the Axis Zeon, now called the Neo Zeon, Captain Bright Noa recruits a group of teenage junk collectors led by the loudmouthed but powerful Newtype Judau Ashta to pilot the Argamas mobile suits.
Porter had been urged to come to Kirksville by Confederate Captain Tice Cain, an Adair County farmer who claimed to be holding Kirksville with 500 fresh recruits.
Therefore, a government organization called Lightspeed Rescue, headed by Captain William Mitchell, recruits four civilians and his own daughter to defend the city.
The new recruits were placed in a company under Captain John Montgomery.
During the course of their investigation it is revealed that there are two new Initiative recruits in the process of being fast-tracked to the Nebraska team, although Captain Ultra expressed irritation at the prospect of having to " babysit the punks ".
After being told what has happened by a dying Grandmaster, the two teams get to Krona's stronghold, led by Captain America and coordinated by the Martian Manhunter, pitting them against various brainwashed villains and increasing the scale of his ' recruits ' as the heroes defeat each wave.
In Gonzales, Smith was assigned to Captain Karnes ' Cavalry Company of the 1st Regiment of Volunteers and placed in command of new recruits.
The range was about, and the gun crews, which were composed largely of the green recruits under the command of Second Lieutenant John Twiggs Myers, were shooting accurately enough to cause Captain Glass to smile pleasantly.
While the mystics plan this attack, the ancient wizard Shazam recruits his champion Captain Marvel in a bid against the Spectre.
Fury recruits Captain America, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Black Widow, Luke Cage, Wolverine, and superhuman S. H. I. E. L. D.

Captain and Mansfield
Its first director was Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, who often dropped the Smith in routine communication.
Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, KCMG, CB ( 1 April 1859 – 14 June 1923 ) was the first director of what would become the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ), also known as MI6.
Minotaur 74 ( Rear-Admiral William Essington, Captain Charles John Moore Mansfield )
All Souls made Oldfield a visiting fellow in 1978, where he began a study of Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming, the first C, but soon lost interest in it through lack of material.
Overseas intelligence gathering began in 1912 by MI6 under Commander ( later Captain ) Mansfield Smith-Cumming.
In 1909 the Government Committee on Intelligence, with advocacy of Richard Burden Haldane and Winston Churchill, established a new Secret Service Bureau with a Home Section under command of Captain ( Later General ) Sir Vernon Kell and a Foreign Section under Commander ( later Admiral ) Sir Mansfield Cumming.

Captain and vicar
Following the rising, the vicar of Louth and Captain Cobbler, two of the main leaders, were captured and hanged at Tyburn.

Captain and article
After being featured, under his pseudonym of Captain Crunch, in an article in the October 1971 issue of Esquire Magazine titled " Secrets of the Little Blue Box ", he was sentenced in 1972 to five years ’ probation for toll fraud.
In this article Hall reported the results of an experiment in random sampling that Hall had persuaded his friend, Captain O. C.
RDS, TSN's French language television network, titled an article as: Paul Tracy, " le Crazy Québécois " ( the crazy Quebecer ) and TSN captioned an image with " Captain Quebec ".
Jeana Varnell, one of the survivors, attended the ceremony and in a newspaper article, strongly objected to the memorializing of Captain Buschmann.
According to this article, it was inspired by a story told by Captain " Sammy " Pearson at a campfire in the Medicine Bow Mountains of Wyoming.
In 1978 Philippe de Chèrisey repeated the parchments had been sold by Madame James to Captain Ronald Stanmore and Sir Thomas Frazer, adding they were deposited in a Safe deposit box of Lloyds Bank ; and following an article in The Daily Express, " the demand for the recognition of Merovingian rights made in 1955 and 1956 by Sir Alexander Aikman, Sir John Montague Brocklebank, Major Hugh Murchison Clowes and nineteen other men in the office of Notary Public, P. J. F.
This led to an article in the September 1969 issue of Model Rocketry ; " Transistorized Tracking Light for Night Launched Model Rockets " by Captain Forrest Mims.
He first came across the Shroud during the 1950s, when he was in his mid-teens, in an illustrated article by World War II hero Group Captain Leonard Cheshire.
Rationale for the fair use of this image in the article Captain N: The Game Master
According to a 1910 article in the Rockwood Times by Captain William E. McElwee, the river was named after " William Emery ", an early traveler who drowned while swimming the river with his " accoutrements " on.
* The Case of Captain R ( Counterpunch reprint of article in Ha ' aretz )
* Flag Signalling at Sea Nice article by Captain Barrie Kent, Royal Navy.
The concept was first described by the authors William S. Lind, Colonel Keith Nightengale ( US Army ), Captain John F. Schmitt ( USMC ), Colonel Joseph W. Sutton ( US Army ), and Lieutenant Colonel Gary I. Wilson ( USMCR ) in a 1989 Marine Corps Gazette article entitled “ The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation ”.
I, Zeagler, believe that the use of this non-free image in the article Captain Beyond ( album ) is fair because:
This image is considered fair use in the Captain Comic article because it serves to illustrate the subject of the article where no free equivalent is available.
This image is considered fair use in the Captain Comic article because it serves to illustrate the subject of the article ( note that the article mentions, in detail, the items depicted in this image ) where no free equivalent is available.
The specific details of other Bartitsu stick fighting training drills were recorded in Captain Laing's article.
In a subsequent Starlog article a year after the cancellation, DiTillio cited many reasons for Mattel cutting off the show's funds, resulting in the show's cancellation: " Mattel's tie in toys didn't sell up to expectations, parents group charges that the show was too violent, and having to shell out Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild residual payments because Captain Power was live action.
* New York Times: Captain of Emden Killed ?, a PDF of an NYT article dated April 13, 1921
# The image is only being used in the article about the book ( Captain Salt in Oz ) for informational and educational purposes.

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