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Paddy and Griffith
* Griffith, Paddy.
* Paddy Griffith Napoleonic Wargaming For Fun, Ward Lock Ltd, London, 1980, reprinted 2008 by the History of Wargaming Project link
* Paddy Griffith Sprawling Wargames multiplayer Wargaming, Ward Lock Ltd, London, 1980, reprinted 2009 by the History of Wargaming Project link
Paddy Griffith wrote that the bite and hold system kept moving until November ; the BEF had developed a workable system of offensive tactics against which the Germans ultimately had no answer.
* Griffith, Paddy A History of the Peninsular War: Modern Studies of the War in Spain and Portugal, 1808 – 14 v. 9 Greenhill Books, 1999, ISBN 1-85367-348-X.
Griffith, Paddy.
* Griffith, P., ( 1995 ) The Battle of Blore Heath, 1459, Paddy Griffiths Associates, UK.
* Griffith, Paddy ( 1991 ).
* Griffith, Paddy ( 1996 ).
Paddy Griffith, among modern historians, claims the British infantry's discipline and willingness to attack were equally important.
Paddy Griffith was the proponent of an almost exactly countervailing view ; he contended that lack of discipline among Civil war volunteers on both sides meant that potentially successful shock actions failed due to lack of commitment ; rather than pressing assaults home, troops routinely went to ground at about sixty yards from the enemy line or entrenchment and engaged in short range firefights.
Tudor was a professional and forward-looking artilleryman: historian Paddy Griffith has described him as an " expert tactician.

Paddy and Battle
Paddy Byrne and John Freeborn downed two RAF aircraft, killing one officer, Montague Hulton-Harrop, in this friendly fire incident, which became known as the Battle of Barking Creek.
Notable former students include Paul Addison, Tony Brindle-Wills, comedians Kenny Everett, Tom O ' Connor and Johnny Vegas, the libel lawyer George Carman, pop musician Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout, the editor of the Jerusalem Bible and British Member of Parliament John Battle.
He is also host of the BBC Two quiz show Battle of the Brains, replacing the previous host Paddy O ' Connell.

Paddy and Western
* Paddy Tuimavave, former rugby league player who represented New Zealand and Western Samoa
Patrick " Paddy " Hannan ( baptised 26 April 1840 – 4 November 1925 ) was a gold prospector whose discovery on 17 June 1893 near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia set off a gold rush in the area.
* Paddy Conlon ( publican ), founder of the town of Narembeen in Western Australia
Two Western Australian state upper house MPs elected on One Nation tickets, Paddy Embry and Frank Hough, joined the party and were its only serving MPs until their defeat in the Western Australian state election in 2005.

Paddy and British
The Times reported on 6 November 1995 that Prince Charles had stated on that day to Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown, after the funeral of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, that " Catholics should be able to ascend to the British throne ".
British singer Kate Bush featured the balalaika, played by her brother Paddy Bush in two of her Top-40 singles, " Babooshka " and " Running Up That Hill ".
* 1941 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician
British Mixed martial arts fighter Dan Hardy has called American fighter Marcus Davis a " Plastic Paddy " due to Marcus ' enthusiasm for his Irish ancestry.
Since 1967, the facility has been occupied by the former British Army Major Paddy Roy Bates ; his associates and family claim that it is an independent sovereign state.
On 2 September 1967, the fort was occupied by Major Paddy Roy Bates, a British subject and pirate radio broadcaster, who ejected a competing group of pirate broadcasters.
* February 27 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician
* Several scenes in The Bourne Ultimatum, starring Matt Damon, were filmed with British actor Paddy Considine at Waterloo between October 2006 and April 2007
First airing in August 2008, McGrath co-starred in a new television series along with British comedian Paddy McGuinness, broadcast on Channel 5, Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure.
During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, KBE, PC ( born 27 February 1941 ), usually known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and diplomat.
* Paddy Ashdown ( born 1941 ), British politician and diplomat
* Paddy Mayne ( 1915-1955 ), British Army lieutenant colonel and founder of the elite Special Air Service, solicitor and Irish rugby union international
* Paddy Kirk, a fictional character in the British soap opera Emmerdale
Six IRA Volunteers, led by Paddy O ' Daly, captured a British armoured car and, wearing British Army uniforms, gained access to Mountjoy Prison.
For example, a British man named Paddy Roy Bates declared a nation called Sealand in 1967 after occupying an abandoned navy fortification off the British coast.
The third name, " Patrick ", was included at a late stage owing to the unexpected international importance of the occasion –- one of the Irish papers reported " British envoy's grandson is a real Paddy ".
In 2009 Grobbelaar appeared in a British television commercial for the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, in which he is seen returning a losing stake to a punter.
* Paddy Doyle, British athlete
Owen enjoyed an auspicious start to his professional career, lifting the Bantamweight Championship of Wales after just six contests and knocking out Paddy Maguire to claim the British title after only ten.
According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, the band's name was a mondegreen from the Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood song, " Jackson ", misheard by frontman Paddy McAloon.

Paddy and Art
After the January 8 game between All-Montreal and Ottawa, which was attended by only 1500 fans, Art Ross made plans to suspend the All-Montreal team and, along with Paddy Moran, join the Haileybury team of the NHA.
Art critic Paddy Johnson wrote of the work, " This is quite possibly the most brilliant subversion of the medium I have seen.

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