Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

* 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.

* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Major General J. E. B.

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* Also the Bavarian Major General and War Minister Moritz Ritter von Spies ( 1805 – 1862 ) was born in Ansbach.

* Land Forces: Major General Stefan Vasilev

* Air Force: Major General Konstantin Popov

As the English battalions descended the gentle slope of the Petite Gheete valley, struggling through the boggy stream, they were met by Major General de la Guiche ’ s disciplined Walloon infantry sent forward from around Offus.

Essex left Sir Philip Skippon, his Sergeant Major General of Foot, in command while he himself escaped to Plymouth in a fishing boat.

Major General William Rupertus, USMC — commander of 1st Marine Division — predicted the island would be secured within four days.

Major General Robert Ford, then Commander of Land Forces in Northern Ireland, ordered that 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ( 1 PARA ) should travel to Derry to be used to arrest possible rioters during the march.

* Deputy Chief of the General Staff-Director of JOC ( Operations Commander ): Major General Josef Prokš

* Support Policy Division: Director Major General Pavel Jevula

* 1864 – American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign – Battle of Nashville – Major General George H. Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.

Reformers were led by Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who favored modification ( but ultimately voted for the defense authorization bill with the gay ban language ), and Barry Goldwater, a former Republican Senator and a retired Major General, who argued on behalf of allowing service by open gays and lesbians.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

* 1862 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside.

** Major Edmund Lockyer arrives at King George Sound to take possession of the western part of Australia, establishing a settlement near Albany.

* December 25, 1826 – Major Edmund Lockyer arrives at King George Sound to take possession of the western part of Australia, establishing a settlement near Albany.

Three weeks later, he became special assistant for construction to the Quartermaster General, Major General Edmund B. Gregory.

Among the notables buried in the cemetery are explorer-surveyor Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Major Edmund Lockyer and Mary, Lady Jamison ( widow of the colonial pioneer landowner, physician, constitutional reformer and ' knight of the realm ', Sir John Jamison ).

Hartmann was assigned to III ./ JG 52, led by Gruppenkommandeur Major Hubertus von Bonin, and placed under the experienced Oberfeldwebel Edmund " Paule " Roßmann, although he also flew with such experienced pilots as Alfred Grislawski, Hans Dammers and Josef Zwernemann.

Later in 1826, on Christmas Day, a British Army expedition, led by Major Edmund Lockyer arrived on the Amity, from Sydney, and founded a military base.

* Major General Edmund E. Dillon of Trinidad & Tobago Defence Force

* 1826-On Christmas Day, just after the Astrolabe left, a military outpost was established on behalf of New South Wales at Albany with the arrival of Major Edmund Lockyer on the Amity.

The Success then sailed to King George Sound, to pick up Major Edmund Lockyer and unload provisions for the settlement there, after which the ship returned to New South Wales, anchoring off Sydney Heads on 16 April.

Precise details of this trek are recorded in the published diaries of the expedition's non-African " officers " ( e. g. Major Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, Captain William Grant Stairs, Mr. A. J.

Edmund Walter Lopat ( originally Lopatynski ) ( June 21, 1918 – June 15, 1992 ) was a Major League Baseball pitcher, coach, manager, front office executive, and scout.

His successor as Survey General of Prisons was another Royal Engineers officer, Major Edmund Henderson.

The local inspector of the Metropolitan Police Service, Edmund Reid of H Division Whitechapel, was reported as mentioning them at an inquest in 1889, and the acting Commissioner of the City Police, Major Henry Smith, mentioned them in his memoirs.

Kevin Edmund Youkilis (; born March 15, 1979 ), also known as " Youk " (), is an American professional baseball infielder with the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball.

Born in Versailles, France, Bromhead was the youngest son of Major Sir Edmund de Gonville Bromhead, 3rd Baronet of Thurlby Hall, Lincolnshire, a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, by his wife Judith, daughter of James Wood of Woodville, Co. Sligo.

Residents in more recent times have included the hydrographer, Sir Edmund Irving ( 1910 – 1990 ), artists Spencer Gore ( 1878 – 1914 ) and Graham Sutherland ( 1903 – 1980 ), the author, Michael Gilbert ( 1912 – 2006 ), the psychic researcher, Harry Price ( 1881 – 1948 ), Hughie Green ( 1920 – 1997 ), the entertainer, Sir Roger de Grey ( 1918 – 1995 ), President of the Royal Academy, as well as Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of The Sun ; current residents include Sir Michael Gambon, as well as Donald Adamson, the author and historian, Dr John Physick CBE FSA and Major Sir Richard Gethin, Bt who lives at Sole Street.

On May 30, a force of 100 men led by Major Edmund Eyre ( who had served under Campbell in the previous raid ) sailed up the Taunton River into lower Freetown, where they landed near the mouth of the Quequechan River.

Major Edmund Eyre, leader of the Freetown raid, was by 1781 promoted to lieutenant colonel, when he again led British forces during a raid on New London and Groton, Connecticut.

When the alarm was given, ' Q ' Battery went into action 1150 yards from the spruit, until the order to retire was received, when Major Edmund John Phipps-Hornby ( VC ) commanding the battery ordered the guns and their limbers to be run back by hand to a safe place.

Major Edmund Phipps-Hornby, Sergeant Charles Parker, Gunner Isaac Lodge and Driver Horace Glasock also earned the Victoria Cross in this action.

European settlement began with the establishment of a temporary British military base, commanded by Major Edmund Lockyer, at King George Sound ( Albany ) on Christmas Day, 1826.

LHQ controlled five major commands: Lieutenant General Sir John Lavarack's First Army, based in Queensland ; Lieutenant General Sir Iven Mackay's Second Army in Victoria ; Lieutenant General Gordon Bennett's III Corps in Western Australia ; the Northern Territory Force under Major General Edmund Herring ; and New Guinea Force under Major General Basil Morris.

On 30 June 1794, a supply column left Fort Recovery for Fort Greenville, under the command of Major William McMahon and escorted by ninety riflemen under Captain Asa Hartshome and fifty dragoons under Lieutenant Edmund Taylor.