Major General Batista Tagme Na Waie was chief of staff of the Guinea-Bissau armed forces until his assassination in 2009.

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

" On November 17, 1958, the army's two senior generals, Major General Ibrahim Abboud, the armed forces commander, and Ahmad Abd al Wahab, seized power in a military coup.

In the early years of the War, he organised local armed forces into Battalion X of Regiment I ; Suharto was promoted to the rank of Major and became Battalion X's leader.

* Jeanne Holm ( 1956 ), first female Brigadier General in the U. S. Air Force and first female Major General in the United States armed forces

On 15 August 1975 some junior members of the armed forces in Dhaka, led by Major Faruk Rahman and Major Rashid, murdered Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and all his family members.

The Sergeant Major of the Army and the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the JCS Chairman are the only members of the United States armed forces below the rank of brigadier general / rear admiral, lower half to be authorized a positional color ( flag ).

From his headquarters, the British commander directed Major Alick Godley and B Squadron ( Protectorate Regiment ) to smother the attack and dispatched D Squadron, some armed railway employees and others to help.

Having come armed, the defenders soon discover the creatures can be easily dispatched with well-aimed gun shots to the exposed brains, but it is Major Cummings who saves the day by blowing up the airbase's nuclear power plant machinery, robbing the creatures of their high-energy power source, causing them to die quickly and then dissolve away.

By July 1979, the GN also fielded some 2, 000-2, 500 elite counterinsurgency EEBI troops, comprising ' Commandos ' ( aka the ‘ Black Berets ’, first formed in 1968 ) and infantry trainees led by Major – later Colonel – Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero, in armed jeeps and gun-trucks plus two small artillery and armoured car platoons.

In 1816, he served as the Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata ad interim, and became the Major General of the armed forces the following year under the government of Juan Martín de Pueyrredón.

On 28 July, under the orders of Major General Percy Kirke, three armed merchant ships called the Mountjoy, Phoenix and Jerusalem ( a cutter ) sailed toward the boom, protected by the frigate HMS Dartmouth under Captain John Leake.

General Spinola's Africanization policy also fostered a large increase in indigenous recruitment into the armed forces, culminating the establishment of all-black military formations such as the Black Militias ( Milícias negras ) commanded by Major Carlos Fabião.

In a declaration on October 25, 1981 Major General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, the director of the Thai Army Operations Department, said that the war against CPT armed forces was approaching its end as all major bases of the PLAT in the North and North-East had been destroyed.

Major General Sir Neville Reginald Howse VC, KCB, KCMG, KStJ ( 26 October 1863 – 19 September 1930 ) was a British-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry " in the face of the enemy " that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces.

The second, Air Command and Staff College ( ACSC ) is a year long program for Air Force officers ( to include Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard ), Department of Defense civil servants in the grade of GS-13, as well as select officers from other U. S. and Allied armed forces in the rank of Major, Lieutenant Commander, Squadron Leader or equivalent.

All the while, lurking in the shadows is the enigmatic Major Tierce, a disciple of Emperor Palpatine, sharing his long-dead master's lust for power, schooled in the devious stratagems of Thrawn himself, and armed with his own dark plans for the New Republic and the Empire.

Major General Ziaur Rahman was released and took the opportunity to bring order and discipline in the country as well as in the armed forces under temporary martial law.

Thomas N. Nisbett, Bermuda's first Black Anglican priest ( later Canon Thomas Nisbett ), and Major Eugene Raynor, who became Colonel and Commanding Officer of the Bermuda Regiment, Bermuda's armed forces.

Meanwhile, heavily armed U. S. troops clad in white NBC suits with MK5 gas masks, arrive in Evans City, led by Major Ryder ( Harry Spillman ), who takes over the doctor's office where Judy works.

In May, 2004, the BBC reported that 20 members of an illegal armed gang, including their leader, an escaped convict known as " Major Kut ", were killed by Ethiopian security forces following a shootout in the Gambella region, and that approximately 200 people had been killed in the ethnic violence that began in 2002, ending with the death of Kut ..

The first group of three officers was turned away by Major Andrew M. White, the officer in charge of the club ; but later groups were met by the Officer of the Day, First Lieutenant Joseph D. Rogers, who was armed with a holstered. 45 caliber weapon and who was stationed there on the orders of Colonel Selway.

**" Major Harris distinguished himself by gallantry in action against an armed enemy of the United Nations as a Pilot.

* Major conflict between capitalist and communist forces in multiple countries, while attempts are made by the Soviet Union and the United States to lessen the chance for conflict, such as both countries endorsing nuclear nonproliferation.

Colonel assigned to the 4th Commando Brigade and Welshman Taffy Williams served as a Major until the very end of the conflict.

TNT will air Major League Baseball postseason games in the event TBS ' MLB coverage has a scheduling conflict ( e. g. the end of one game overruns into the start time of another game ).

In the conflict, Clive's bravery came to the attention Major Stringer Lawrence, who arrived in 1748 to take command of the British troops at Fort St. David.

Other commanders of units during the conflict included Major Raúl Menéndez Tomassevich, Major Filiberto Olivera Moya, Major René de los Santos, Major Augusto Martínez Sanchez, Major Félix Duque, Major Pedro Miret, Major Flavio Bravo, Major Antonio Lussón, Captain Orlando Pupo Pena, Captain Victor Dreke, Captain Emilio Aragonés, Captain Angel Fernández Vila, Arnaldo Ochoa, Orlando Rodriguez Puerta.

Major themes in Natsume's works include ordinary people fighting against economic hardship, the conflict between duty and desire ( a traditional Japanese theme ; see giri ), loyalty and group mentality versus freedom and individuality, personal isolation and estrangement, the rapid industrialization of Japan and its social consequences, contempt of Japan's aping of Western culture, and a pessimistic view of human nature.

The retreat from Quebec to Fort Ticonderoga also brought Gates into conflict with the authority of Major General Philip Schuyler, commander of the army's Northern Department, which retained jurisdiction over Ticonderoga.

Deeply troubled by the conflict between his pacifism and his training for war, he spoke at length with his company commander, Captain Edward Courtney Bullock Danforth ( 1894 – 1973 ) of Augusta, Georgia and his battalion commander, Major Gonzalo Edward Buxton ( 1880 – 1949 ) of Providence, Rhode Island, a devout Christian himself.

Like John Major and the Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, Rifkind was opposed to military intervention by Britain and the international community as combatants in that conflict.

The bill called for a unified combatant command headed by a four star general for all SOF, an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, a coordinating board for low-intensity conflict within the National Security Council, and a new Major Force Program ( MFP-11 ) for SOF ( the so-called " SOF checkbook ").

The 13th Airborne Division was the fifth airborne division to be formed in the United States during World War II, and was officially activated on 13 August 1943 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina under the command of Major General George W. Griner Jr. Only a few months after the activation of the division, however, Major General Griner was ordered to take command of the 98th Infantry Division, and was replaced by Major General Eldridge G. Chapman, who would go on to command the division for the rest of the conflict.

In the late 1820s and early 1830s, there was a conflict between two of these families – the Johnstons ( descended from Major George Johnston who was involved in the Rum Rebellion ) and the Martins – for the ownership and financial control of land which is now known as Weston Creek and Tuggeranong.

The IRA statement said that the ceasefire was ended because " the British government acted in bad faith with Mr Major and the unionist leaders squandering this unprecedented opportunity to resolve the conflict " by refusing to talk with Sinn Féin.

For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 to October 1 ; in Association football, it is generally from August until May ( although in some countries, especially those in Scandinavia and North America, the season starts in the spring and finishes in the autumn, due either to weather conditions encountered during the winter or to limit conflict with locally more popular football codes ).

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.

* 1993 – History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

The seven brightest stars of Ursa Major form the asterism known as the Big Dipper in the United States and Canada, or the Plough in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

On 7 April the Civil Authorities ( Special Powers ) Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1922 came into force, and the Belfast government though prohibited from raising or controlling a military force appointed Major General Solly Flood as a military advisor.

In Dublin, Ireland there is a bronze plaque depicting this 13 August 1887 event on the statue of expedition Surgeon Major Thomas Heazle Parke who removed the arrow and sucked the poison from the wound.

It is interesting that Brian is not referred to in the passage from the ' Book of Armagh ' as the ' Ard Ri ' — that is, High-King — but rather he is declared " Imperator Scottorum ," or " Emperor of the Irish " (" Scottorum " then being the common Late Latin term for the Irish: Ireland was usually referred to in Latin as " Scotia Major " while Scotland was referred to as " Scotia Minor ").

Wolfe's family were long settled in Ireland and he regularly corresponded with his uncle Major Walter Wolfe in Dublin ; Stephen Woulfe, the distinguished Irish politician and judge of the next century, was from the Limerick branch of the same family.

* George Mitchell ( 1954 ), U. S. Senate Majority Leader, U. S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland and for Middle East Peace, Chairman of the Walt Disney Company, and lead investigator for Major League Baseball's 2007 steroid report

Major commissions can be seen all over Ireland.

In the Republic of Ireland, a 4-Year Bachelor of Education degree combines practical / pedagogical study with a Major sequence in the academic discipline of Education.

" And yet these careless sketches contain such haunting creations as Frank Webber, Major Monsoon and Micky Free, " the Sam Weller of Ireland ".

Cunninghame Graham was the eldest son of Major William Bontine of the Renfrew Militia and formerly a Cornet in the Scots Greys with whom he served in Ireland.

Previous Prime Minister John Major was one of the original figures behind the Northern Ireland peace process that Blair continued, and both of them campaigned in support of the Good Friday Agreement.

Claud Cockburn married three times: to Hope Hale Davis, with whom he fathered Claudia Cockburn Flanders ( wife of Michael Flanders ); to Jean Ross ( part model for Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles of Cabaret fame ), with whom he fathered Sarah Caudwell Cockburn, author of detective stories ; and in 1940 to Patricia Byron ( née Patricia Evangeline Anne Arbuthnot ( 17 March 1914-6 October 1989 ), married firstly on 10 October 1933 to Arthur Cecil Byron, son of Cecil Byron, by whom she had a son Darrell Byron, who died in Ireland aged two, divorcing in 1940, daughter of Major John Bernard Arbuthnot and Olive Blake ), who wrote the book The Years of the Week and also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight, with whom he fathered Alexander, Andrew ( husband of Leslie Cockburn ), and Patrick, all three of whom are also journalists.

Local brands owned by British American Tobacco include: Benson & Hedges ( Bangladesh ), Belmont ( Colombia, Chile and Venezuela ), Jockey Club ( Argentina ), Stradbroke ( Australia ), Hollywood ( Brazil ), du Maurier ( Canada ), Prince ( Denmark ), North State ( Finland ), HB ( Germany ), Sopianae ( Hungary ), Wills ( India ), Ardath, Bentoel, and Country ( Indonesia ), Carrolls, Carrolls Kings, Grand Parade, Black Allen ( Germany ), Sweet Afton, Major ( Ireland ), Boots, Alas ( Mexico ), Gold Leaf ( Bangladesh, Pakistan ), Jan III Sobieski ( Poland ), Yava Gold ( Russia ), Courtleigh ( South Africa ), Benson & Hedges, Dunhill, Kent, Pall Mall, Perilly's, Peter Stuyvesant, and Rothmans ( Malaysia ), Parisienne ( Switzerland ), Maltepe ( Turkey ) and Xon ( Uzbekistan ), Marlboro ( with Philip Morris International ) ( Bangladesh ) Craven A ( Vietnam and Jamaica ) as well as BAT snus, Holiday, Freedom and Park Drive ( New Zealand ) Royals ( UK ), Embassy ( Kenya ), Viceroy, Newport, Lucky Strike in Dominican Republic and Delta in El Salvador.

His brother was a Lambeth councillor ; his brother-in-law was mayor of Cambridge ; a first cousin was a Wandsworth councillor ; his first cousins twice removed included Lord Tranmire who as Robin Turton MP for Thirsk and Malton for 44 years was Father of the House ; Sir Robin Chichester-Clark MP and his brother Lord Moyola who as Major James Chichester-Clark served as Northern Ireland Prime Minister.

He was deputy Chief Whip under John Major, and was shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 1997 to September 2001 during the leadership of William Hague.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, he was the son of Colonel Wray Palliser and a brother of Major Sir William Palliser ( 1830-1882 ), all descendants of Dr William Palliser, Archbishop of Cashel ( 1644 – 1726 ).

After 20 years at the Bar he was appointed Solicitor-General from 1987 to 1992 under Margaret Thatcher, and Attorney General for England and Wales and Northern Ireland under John Major from 1992 to 1997.

At the time, Major William Orlando Darby, the founder of the modern Rangers, was assigned to duty in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

He was a junior minister under John Major in the Northern Ireland Office.

Ross was born in Rostrevor, County Down, Kingdom of Ireland, to Major David Ross, an officer in the Seven Years ' War and his mother, half-sister to the Earl of Charlemont.

The Baronetcy, of Newtown in the County of Mayo, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland in 1662 for Major Arthur Gore, who represented County Mayo in the Irish House of Commons.