In 1958 the Regiment was re-titled as the 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, as were the two other regiments of the Green Jackets Brigade, re-titled 1st and 3rd Green Jackets respectively.

The defendants represented themselves in court, assisted by 1st year law student Kalvin P. Chapman ( King's College London ).

King's also fields a Rowing 1st VIII every year, which competes at high levels of competition, including Henley Royal Regatta, for which King's holds the record for most finals reached without winning.

George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich, returned to be the Captain of the King's guard and received a pension.

Among their grievances was the King's failure to promptly pay the soldiers ' wages, his favour towards Dunbar, his demand that the Percies hand over their Scottish prisoners, his failure to put an end to Owain Glyn Dŵr's rebellion through a negotiated settlement, his increasing promotion of his son Prince Henry's military authority in Wales, and his failure to ransom the Percies ' kinsman, Henry Percy's brother-in-law, Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1376 – 1409 ), whom the Welsh had captured in June 1402, and who had a claim to the crown as the grandson of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III.

), he obtained a commission as ensign in the King's Own Company in the 1st Guards, later to become the Grenadier Guards.

The main House, which was built by Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester from 1780 onwards, houses the administrative hub of the Estate, classrooms, the Senior Common Room, the King's Room and all the boys ' boarding houses.

Villiers gained support from those opposed to the current favourite, Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, and under the King's patronage he prospered greatly.

These included 1, 000 British heavy dragoons ( 1st Cavalry Brigade ) led by John Le Marchant, 1, 000 British light dragoons ( 2nd Cavalry Brigade ) under George Anson, 700 Anglo-German light horse under Victor Alten, 800 King's German Legion ( KGL ) heavy dragoons led by George Bock and 500 Portuguese dragoons under Benjamin D ' Urban.

The 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment moved into Wolfheze, the 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment secured DZ ' X ', deploying its companies around the DZ and in Renkum, and the 7th Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers moved to secure DZ ' Y '.

John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG ( 1504 – 22 August 1553 ) was an English general, admiral, and politician, who led the government of the young King Edward VI from 1550 until 1553, and unsuccessfully tried to install Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death.

In 1881 he entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and in 1882 he was commissioned as a subaltern in the 1st King's Dragoon Guards.

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The King's uncle, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, was imprisoned at Calais, where Nottingham was Captain.

Although her family were able to convince her to break with Newbattle, the royal match was scotched by the King's advisors, particularly John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, who feared losing his royal influence to Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, Lady Sarah's brother-in-law.

*** 1st Bn, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry

During the King's final years Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, and Henry's last Queen, Katherine Parr, both of whom favoured the reformed faith, gained influence with the King while the conservative Norfolk became isolated politically.

In 1421 he accompanied the King's younger brother Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence to the fighting in Anjou.

*** 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers

*** 1st Battalion, The King's Regiment

*** 1st Battalion, The King's Own Royal Border Regiment

*** 1st Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment ( King's Lancashire and Border )

He was also colonel of the 19th Hussars from 11 March 1902 ( retaining this position when French persuaded Wilson to amalgamate them with the 15th to become the 15th / 19th The King's Royal Hussars ), colonel of the 1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment from 22 April 1909 and colonel-in-chief of the Royal Irish Regiment from 26 March 1913.

During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.

* 1943 – World War II – After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

The Eighth Army now enjoyed a massive superiority in material over the Axis forces: 1st Armoured Division had 173 tanks and more in reserve or transit, while Rommel possessed only 38 German tanks and 51 Italian tanks although his armoured units had some 100 tanks awaiting repair.

The goal was to break through the lines of the U. S. 7th Army and French 1st Army to support the southern thrust in the Ardennes offensive, the final major German offensive of the war.

In World War II after initial deployment to France as part of the BEF, the regiment lost two battalions at the Defence of Calais ( 2nd Bn KRRC and 1st Bn the Queen Victoria's Rifles ( TA )) where a Green Jacket Brigade held up the German advance to enable the evacuation of the allied armies at Dunkirk.

The German invasion, made up of the 1st, 2nd, and 10th Panzer Divisions began at 04: 35.

Translated from the German with an Introduction by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson / NY Free Press 1997 1st ppb ptg ISBN 0-684-83096-5

* Fraînque Le Maistre produced a Jèrriais version ( based on FitzGerald's 1st edition ) during the German occupation of the Channel Islands 1940 – 1945.

Hitler attended, and placed Heydrich's decorations — including the highest grade of the German Order, the Blood Order Medal, the Wound Badge in Gold and the War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords — on his funeral pillow.

site-Includes information on 1st & 4th Flotillas ( in German )

The John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough | Duke of Marlborough was the commander of the English, Dutch and German forces.

In the 1st century AD, sterling qualities such as those enumerated above by Fénelon ( excepting perhaps belief in the brotherhood of man ) had been attributed by Tacitus in his Germania to the German barbarians, in pointed contrast to the softened, Romanized Gauls.

In 1943, following the defeat of the U. S. II Corps ( then part of British 1st Army ) by the German Afrika Korps, first at the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid and again at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass, General Dwight D. Eisenhower sent Major General Ernest Harmon to assess the II Corps.

The Hürtgen Forest cost the U. S. 1st Army at least 33, 000 killed and incapacitated, including both combat and noncombat losses ; German casualties were 28, 000.

Although the 1st Infantry Division called for the surrender of the German garrison in the city, German commander Oberst Gerhard Wilck refused to capitulate until 22 October.

While the French army under General MacMahon engaged the German 3rd Army at the Battle of Wörth, the German 1st Army under Steinmetz finished their advance west from Saarbrücken.

Seriously flawed communications between Frossard and those in reserve under Bazaine slowed down so much that by the time the reserves received orders to move out to Spicheren, German soldiers from the 1st and 2nd armies had charged up the heights.

General Louis Archinard was the president of the committee that supervised the erection of the monument, highlighting the role of African troops of the 1st Colonial Infantry Corps in the defense of Reims from the German Army in 1918.

The German army came within of Paris, but at the First Battle of the Marne ( 6 – 12 September ), French and British troops were able to force a German retreat by exploiting a gap which appeared between the 1st and 2nd Armies, ending the German advance into France.

Comet envisioned using the 1st Airborne Division, along with the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, to secure several bridges over the River Rhine to aid the Allied advance into the North German Plain.