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.

Governor Dinwiddie received orders from the British government to warn the French of British claims, and sent Major Washington in late 1753 to deliver a letter informing the French of those claims and asking them to leave.

Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the son of Major General Henry Lee III ( Light Horse Harry ) ( 1756 – 1818 ), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter ( 1773 – 1829 ).

The race was wide open, and soon the convention deadlocked between Major General Leonard Wood and Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois.

The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in Australia.

In June 1811 he was promoted to Major General and in October of that year Lieutenant Governor Francis Gore left for England.

The town of Marmaduke was named for Confederate Major General John Sappington Marmaduke, who later served as Governor of Missouri.

* Albert Benjamin " Happy " Chandler, U. S. Senator, Governor of Kentucky, Commissioner of Major League Baseball

The facility originated in 1917 as Fort Dix, named in honor of Major General John Adams Dix, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, and a former United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury and Governor of New York.

* Joseph Roswell Hawley Four-term US Senator, two-term US Congressman, Governor of Connecticut Union Brevet Major General during the American Civil War.

* Myles Deering-U. S. Army Major General and Adjutant General of Oklahoma under Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry

This needs to be expanded to include, for example, Harvey Wollman, Governor of South Dakota ; the McNichol twins ( Army Generals ); twins Dennis Koslowski and Duane Koslowski, Olympic wrestlers ( Dennis won Silver in ' 92 and Bronze in ' 88 Greco-Roman wrestling ; Duane won a world championship in 1986 ); Air Force Major General Chris Divich ; Air Force Lt. Col. Duane Divich ; " Smokey " Joe Mendel, tied the world record for the 100-yd dash in 1931 ; NFL pro football player Bill Noetlich ; and there are more.

Alarmed at these French incursions in the Ohio Valley, Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia sent Major George Washington to warn the French to withdraw.

Castellano was a cousin to Major General Vito Castellano a commander of the New York National Guard and chief of staff for Governor Mario Cuomo.

The militia, called in by Governor Rutherford Hayes, had fired on the strikers, and 23 miners were arrested and put on trial in Canton, Ohio, the hometown of Major McKinley ( as he was often known, for his Civil War service ).

There are other Civil War connections as well: Major General Oliver Otis Howard, class of 1850, led the Freedmen's Bureau after the war and later founded Howard University ; Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew, class of 1837, was responsible for the formation of the famous 54th Massachusetts ; and William P. Fessenden 1823 and Hugh McCulloch 1827 both served as Secretary of the Treasury during the Lincoln Administration.

Prévost organized the troops which were to carry out the invasion into a division numbering 11, 000 under Major General Sir Francis de Rottenburg, the Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada.

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He was appointed Major General in 1640, Governor General of Bremen-Verden in 1645, Privy Councilor in 1651 and Field Marshal in 1655.

He was appointed Major General in 1645, Privy Councilor in 1650, General in 1651, Field Marshal, in 1655 and Governor General of Riga, in 1656.

He was appointed head of Kronobergs regemente in 1637, Major General in 1643, Privy Councilor in 1652, Field Marshal in 1656, under the terms of the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658 became Governor General of Scania, Halland and Blekinge, Lord High Admiral in 1664, and Chancellor of Lund University in 1666.

This visit was made necessary because Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe, who had succeeded Brock as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, was ill and unable to perform his various duties.

Major General Sheaffe, the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, was present at York to transact public business.

Major General Francis de Rottenburg, the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, had massed his available troops there.

During the revolutionary war — on April 25, 1777 a 1, 850 strong British force under the command of the Royal Governor of the Province of New York, Major General William Tryon landed on Compo Beach to demolish the Continental Army ’ s military supplies in Danbury.

He was brother-in-law of Senator / Governor James McDowell of Virginia ; father-in-law of explorer, Union Major General, and presidential candidate John C. Frémont ; and cousin-in-law of Senators Henry Clay and James Brown, both of whom married cousins of Benton.