Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

A farewell supper Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sethness Jr. planned Sunday for Italian Consul General and Mrs. Giacomo Profili has been canceled because Mr. Sethness is in Illinois Masonic hospital for surgery.

The British were able to annex Sind and for his services, Hasan Ali Shah received an annual pension of £ 2, 000 from General Charles Napier, the British conqueror of Sind with whom he had a good relationship.

But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.

The army ( assembled by the Duke's brother, General Charles Churchill ) consisted of 66 squadrons, 31 battalions and 38 guns and mortars totalling 21, 000 men ( 16, 000 of whom were English troops ).

The centre, commanded by the Duke's brother, General Charles Churchill, consisted of 18 battalions of infantry arranged in two lines: seven battalions in the front line to secure a foothold across the Nebel, and 11 battalions in the rear providing cover from the Allied side of the stream.

Marlborough ’ s younger brother, General of Infantry, Charles Churchill, ordered four brigades of foot to attack the village.

Blackbeard, as pictured by Benjamin Cole ( instrument maker ) | Benjamin Cole in the second edition of Charles Johnson's General Historie

# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.

#** Charles Joseph Bonaparte ( 1851 – 1921 ), U. S. Attorney General married Ellen Channing Day

* Charles Kay Ogden, Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar, London: Paul Treber

The Free French, under General Charles de Gaulle, were determined to recover Indochina, though they offered Cambodia and the other Inchochinese protectorates a carefully circumscribed measure of self-government.

In August 1940, the territory responded, with the rest of the AEF, to the call from General Charles de Gaulle to fight for Free France.

Other well-known Coolidges, architect Charles Allerton Coolidge, General Charles Austin Coolidge, and diplomat Archibald Cary Coolidge among them, were descended from branches of the family that had remained in Massachusetts.

* Recollections of Steinmetz-A Visit to the Workshops of Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Emil J. Remscheid, General Electric Hall of History Foundation, 1977.

General Charles Chandler Krulak ( born March 4, 1942 ) served as the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1999.

After time spent in Palestine in 1882 – 83, General Charles George Gordon found a location outside the old city walls that he suggested to have been the real location of Golgotha.

In August, an official visit to the territory by then French President, General Charles de Gaulle, was also met with demonstrations and rioting.

He interacted adeptly with allies such as Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General Charles de Gaulle.

* Charles Mangin, General, French Army

For example Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. says that United States Air Force culture includes an egalitarianism bred from officers as warriors who work with small groups of enlisted airmen either as the service crew or onboard crew of their aircraft.

The English Major General John Shrimpton was left as governor ( appointed by the Archduke Charles on the recommendation of Queen Anne ).

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

Historians have concluded that this assignment provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of Winston Churchill, George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World War II.

In early August, Winston Churchill and General Alan Brooke — the British Chief of the Imperial General Staff — visited Cairo on their way to meet Joseph Stalin in Moscow.

However, following a visit in early August to Egypt by British prime minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa.

The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, and, later, Clement Attlee and President Harry S. Truman.

The signatories were General Secretary Joseph Stalin, President Harry S. Truman, and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who, as a result of the British general election of 1945, had replaced Winston Churchill as the UK ’ s Conference representative.

King ( back left ) with ( counterclockwise from King ) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | the Earl of Athlone and Winston Churchill during the Quebec conference in 1943.

King ( far right ) together with ( from left to right ) Governor General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | the Earl of Athlone, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Second Quebec Conference | Octagon Conference, Quebec City, September, 1944

Haig differed with Kitchener over the importance of Mediterranean efforts and wanted to see a strong General Staff in London, but nonetheless valued Kitchener as a military voice against the folly of civilians such as Churchill.

Churchill, walking with his General Staff from their accommodations near-by, arrived half an hour later.

Hochhuth's next play, Soldiers, Necrology on Geneva ( 1967 ), alleged that Winston Churchill was responsible for the death of the Polish Prime Minister, General Władysław Sikorski, in an airplane crash in 1943, contradicting the official version of events as an accident, and claiming that General Sikorski had been murdered on Churchill's orders.

During this assignment Macmillan served as liaison and mediator between Churchill and US General Dwight D. Eisenhower in North Africa, building a rapport with the latter that would prove helpful in his later career.

In July 1940, after the defeat of the French armies and the consequent armistice with Germany, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, asked the Free French government-in-exile ( headed by General Charles de Gaulle ) to set up a secret service agency in occupied France to counter the threat of a German operation code-named Operation Sea Lion, the expected cross-channel invasion of Britain.

The county, named after Mexican-American War hero brevet Brigadier General Sylvester Churchill, was formed in 1861.

Churchill County was established in 1861 and named after Fort Churchill ( which is now in Lyon County ), which was named after General Sylvester Churchill, a Mexican-American War hero who was Inspector General of the U. S. Army in 1861.

* November 14 – Grégoire Orlyk, Ukrainian-born French Lieutenant General ( b. 1702 )

A further siege took place in 1702, where General Menno van Coehoorn defended the town successfully for the Dutch and in 1747 when it was taken by the French after incompetent defence by Lt General Pieter de la Rocque.

* Lieutenant General John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts, 1694 – 1702

* Claude Louis Hector, Duke of Villars ( 1653 – 1734 ), Marshal of France in 1702, Marshal General of France in 1733

In 1702, a disorganized group of General Baptists in Carolina wrote a request for help to the General Baptist Association in England.

In 1702, English General Baptists who had settled in the Province of Carolina requested help from the General Baptists in England.

He was a prominent statesman and judge and served as Lord Justice General from 1678 to 1680 and from 1704 to 1710 and as Secretary of State from 1702 to 1704.

Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, baron de Tollendal ( January 1702 – 6 May 1766 ) was a French General of Irish Jacobite Gallowglass ancestry.

* Paul Dudley ( 1686 ) – Chief Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ( 1745 – 1751 ) and Attorney General of Massachusetts ( 1702 – 1718 )

* General John Churchill, 1st Earl of Marlborough ( 1702 – 1708 )

Findlater was Solicitor General for Scotland from 1693, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1702 to 1704 and from 1705 to 1708, Secretary of State from 1696 to 1702 and joint secretary from 1704 to 1705.

After the death of William III in 1702, Heinsius ' hold on the States General diminished, but he remained Grand Pensionary of Holland until his own death in 1720.