* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

In 1662 the estate passed to Charles Farquharson of Inverey, brother of John Farquharson, the " Black Colonel ".

Colonel Charles de Gaulle was a known advocate of concentration of armor and airplanes.

Colonel Charles Edward (" Chuck ") Jones ( November 4, 1952 – September 11, 2001 ) was a United States Air Force officer, a computer programmer, and an astronaut in the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program.

* 1648 – Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead ; came to be known as " Pride's Purge ".

In 1775, Darwin met Elizabeth Pole, daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, and wife of Colonel Edward Pole ( 1718 – 1780 ); but as she was married, Darwin could only make his feelings known for her through poetry.

The famous American flier, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, arrived in the Demerara River with his flying boat ( an amphibian craft ) on September 22, 1929.

* John Diehl as Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kawalsky, O ' Neil's second-in-command on the mission through the Stargate.

Harding regrettably appointed Colonel Charles R. Forbes, albeit a decorated war veteran, as the Veteran Bureau's first director ( see scandal below ), a position which reported directly to the President.

The protagonist of Ernest Hemingway's 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees, Colonel Dick Cantwell, based on World War II commander Charles " Buck " Lanham, uses the phrase to his driver.

This daughter married Colonel Charles Churchill of Chalfont ( 1720 – 1812 ), a great-nephew of the 1st Duke of Marlborough, with whom she had two daughters.

That same year his father, then Colonel of the 55th Foot ( later renumbered the 44th ), purchased a commission for Charles as an Ensign in the same regiment.

The castle itself was deliberately destroyed the following year, while in 1651 Colonel Wyndham made arrangements for Charles II to flee to France following the Battle of Worcester.

* Charles Richman as Colonel Mantle

Charles Lacheroy, Colonel Trinquier, who theorized the systemic use of torture in counter-insurgency doctrine in Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency ( 1961 ), were members of it.

Hortense was now free to respond to the romantic overtures of the man whom she had long admired, Colonel Charles Joseph, Comte de Flahaut, a sophisticated, handsome man rumoured to be the illegitimate son of Talleyrand.

In March 1924 more layoffs were expected and the army officers, Major-General Liam Tobin and Colonel Charles Dalton sent an ultimatum to the government demanding an end to the demobilisation.

* Bill Scott – Jack Spigot ( 1821 ), Memnon ( 1825 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), Sir Tatton Sykes ( 1846 )

* John Scott – Matilda ( 1827 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Margrave ( 1832 ), Touchstone ( 1834 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), The Baron ( 1845 ), Newminster ( 1851 ), West Australian ( 1853 ), Warlock ( 1856 ), Imperieuse ( 1857 ), Gamester ( 1859 ), The Marquis ( 1862 )

In 1839 the Reverend Joseph Wolff, who later went to Bokhara to attempt to save Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly, found in Yemen, near Sana ' a, a tribe claiming to be descendants of Jehonadab ; and in the late nineteenth century a Bedouin tribe was found near the Dead Sea who also professed to be descendants of Jehonadab.

But he was recaptured by Colonel Richard Ingoldsby, a participant in the regicide of Charles I who hoped to win a pardon by handing Lambert over to the new regime.

Along with her equally larcenous father, " Colonel " Harrington ( Charles Coburn ) and his partner Gerald ( Melville Cooper ), she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike ( Henry Fonda ), the heir to the Pike Ale fortune (" The Ale That Won for Yale ").

* Charles Coburn as " Colonel " Harrington

Allied strategy emphasized destroying German forces retreating towards the Rhine, but, when the French Résistance under Colonel Rol staged an uprising in the city, Charles de Gaulle pleaded with General Eisenhower to send help.

Also residing in Westmoreland was Colonel Nicholas Spencer, member of the House of Burgesses, secretary and president of the Governor's Council, and on the departure of his cousin Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper ( aka Lord Culpeper ), acting Governor.

Colonel Dennis Nielsen carrying Spencer Bailey

Charles Henry Dudley Ryder ( 1868 – 1945 ), third son of Lieutenant-Colonel Spencer Charles Dudley Ryder ( 1825 – 1873 ), sixth son of Henry Ryder, was a Colonel in the Royal Engineers.

The NPA's first civic election effort was a failure because a member of the executive, Colonel Nelson Spencer, broke away and ran for mayor after the NPA chose George Miller as its candidate instead of Spencer.

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, upon returning to Washington from a visit to Japan, initiated the idea of cherry trees in Washington, approaching the Superintendent of Public Building and Grounds ( then Colonel Spencer Cosby ) in 1885.

He had killed his five companions and sets about killing the soldiers from Fort Spencer one by one, including the commanding officer, Colonel Hart.

* Colonel John Spencer Ewart, 1904 – 1906

Colonel Alfred Spencer Heathcote VC ( 29 March 1832 – 21 February 1912 ) was an English 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.

Major General Richard K. Sutherland became Chief of Staff ; Brigadier General Richard J. Marshall, Deputy Chief of Staff ; Colonel Charles P. Stivers, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1 ; Colonel Charles A. Willoughby, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 ; Brigadier General Stephen J. Chamberlin, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 ; Colonel Lester J. Whitlock, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4 ; Brigadier General Spencer B. Akin, Signal Officer ; Brigadier General Hugh J. Casey, Engineer Officer ; Brigadier General William F. Marquat, Antiaircraft Officer ; Colonel Burdette M. Fitch, Adjutant General ; and Colonel LeGrande A. Diller, Public Relations Officer.

Wilder's men were armed with new Spencer repeating rifles and when they attacked the Confederate 1st ( 3rd ) Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, under Colonel J. Russell Butler, was easily pushed aside.

The group initially struggled to attract a Commanding Officer before eventually appointing Colonel R Spencer Chichster, a strongly right-wing Unionist who favoured purchasing guns for the YCV.

Leading up to the Cherokee Trail of Tears, Rich Joe, and his family were caught in the midst of the struggle between two opposing claims for the house. Colonel William Bishop and the infamous Georgia Guard tried to take over the house on the grounds of hiring a white man without a permit .. A man, Spencer Riley, who claimed to have won the house in the Land Lottery of 1832, known as the Sixth Georgia Land Lottery, made a claim for the house at the same time.

In April 1973, Colonel Héctor Irabarren, head of the 3rd Army Corps ' Intelligence Service, was killed when resisting a kidnap attempt by the Mariano Pojadas and Susana Lesgart Platoons of the Montoneros.

During the 1778 Battle of Monmouth, Ramsay was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and commanded the 3rd Battalion of the Maryland Regiment.

He resigned his CSA commission on March 3, 1863, to become Colonel of the 3rd Cavalry of the Georgia Militia, and subsequently served as a brigadier general and adjutant and inspector-general of General Gustavus W. Smith's division of Georgia militia.

Meanwhile Colonel Charton's group, led by the 3rd Battalion of 3rd REI, left Cao Bang on 1 October ; contrary to orders he took with him his heavy equipment.

Lieutenant Colonel Moore then took his unit, the 1st Battalion, 7th U. S. Cavalry ( then in the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division ) to South Vietnam, and led it in the famous Battle of Ia Drang.

His stepson was Continental Army Officer Colonel Samuel Blachley Webb of the 9th Connecticut Regiment-later consolidated into the 2nd Connecticut Regiment which became part of the 3rd Connecticut Regiment which became the 1st Connecticut Regiment

As a temporary Lieutenant Colonel, he was assigned to occupation duty in Germany with the 3rd Army at Koblenz, Germany, from October 1918 until 1920.

Wainwright was promoted to Colonel in 1935, and served as commander of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment until 1938, when he was promoted to Brigadier General in command of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Fort Clark, Texas.

When the Revolutionary war began in earnest, he served as Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of the Sussex County militia from 1777 to 1780.

Washington was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and placed in command of the 3rd Light Dragoons on November 20, 1778.

Colonel William Chewett and Major William Allen of the 3rd York Regiment of militia tried to arrange a capitulation, assisted by Captain John Beverley Robinson.

Nevertheless, Colonel Mitchell of the 3rd U. S. Artillery agreed terms by 4 pm.

The 10th Bersaglieri Regiment under Colonel Fabrizio Storti had forced Colonel William Darby's 1st and 3rd Ranger Battalions to fight its way into Agrigento, a city of 34, 000.

It was settled in 1766 by Jacob Eaton and Colonel Ebenezer Smith, then regranted in 1768 by Governor John Wentworth and named after Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet, a member of Parliament who opposed taxation on the colonies.

On 2 February 1757, Howe was appointed Colonel, 3rd Battalion of the 60th Foot ( the Royal Americans, later the King's Royal Rifle Corps ), but transferred to command the 55th Regiment of Foot on 28 September 1757 while at Halifax.

In 1912 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles.

* Royal Colonel, 3rd Battalion The Rifles

** 3rd Brigade – Colonel Charles A. Wikoff, consisting of the 9th, 13th and 24th ( Colored ) U. S. Infantry regiments

** 1st Brigade – Brigadier General Samuel S. Sumner, Brigade Executive Officer Colonel Henry K. Carroll ( 6th Cav ), consisted of the 3rd U. S. Cavalry, 6th U. S. Cavalry and 9th U. S. Cavalry.

McRae was elected as Lieutenant Colonel in command of the 3rd Arkansas Infantry Battalion on 15 July 1861.

He was made a Colonel at the Battle of Jena in 1806, given command of the 3rd Regiment of the Voltigeurs of the Guard in 1810, and was made a Baron the same year.

Sullivan sent a portion of Clinton's brigade directly back to winter quarters by way of Fort Stanwix, under Colonel Peter Gansevoort of the 3rd New York Regiment.