According to Edward Barlow, a captain employed by the English East India Company, Kidd attacked a Mughal convoy here under escort by Barlow's East Indiaman, and was repelled.

According to Thomas Edge, an early 17th century whaling captain who was often inaccurate, " William Hudson " discovered the island in 1608 and named it " Hudson's Touches " ( or " Tutches ").

According to a regimental history compiled in 1879 by a captain in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, in November 1755 Parliament voted the sum of £ 81, 000 for the purpose of raising a regiment of four battalions, each one thousand strong for service in British North America.

According to one chronicler, Richard's last act of chivalry proved fruitless ; in an orgy of medieval brutality, the infamous mercenary captain Mercadier had the crossbowman flayed alive and hanged as soon as Richard died.

According to Star Trek novels, Demora Sulu becomes captain after Harriman.

According to various sources, three men all sighted Antarctica within days or months of each other: Fabian von Bellingshausen, a captain in the Russian Imperial Navy ; Edward Bransfield, a captain in the British navy ; and Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer out of Stonington, Connecticut.

According to most accounts, the sailors were attracted to the idyllic life on the Pacific island of Tahiti and were further motivated by harsh treatment from their captain.

According to folklore the cellar was built by a sea captain who missed the sea.

According to the Sephardic tradition, a full 101 blasts are sounded, corresponding to the 100 cries of the mother of Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army who did not return home after being killed by the Yael ( Judges 5: 28 ).

According to Sebastian's 5th-century Acta Sanctorum, still attributed to Ambrose by the 17th-century hagiographer Jean Bolland, and the briefer account in Legenda Aurea, he was a man of Gallia Narbonensis who was taught in Milan and appointed as a captain of the Praetorian Guard under Diocletian and Maximian, who were unaware that he was a Christian.

According to W. J. Hardee's " Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics " ( 1855 ), the primary tactics for riflemen and light infantry in use immediately prior and during the Civil War, there would typically be, within each regiment, ten companies, each commanded by a captain, and deployed according to the ranks of captains.

According to these accounts, Godric, who began from humble beginnings as the son of Ailward and Edwenna, " both of slender rank and wealth, but abundant in righteousness and virtue ", was a pedlar, then a sailor and entrepreneur, and may have been the captain and owner of the ship that conveyed Baldwin I of Jerusalem to Jaffa in 1102.

According to captain, Close, at Lord's after Yorkshire had slowly reached 22 / 1, he Close promoted himself to number three in the batting order so that he could urge Boycott into action.

According to former Australian captain Allan Border, what you see with Ponting is what you get, and " he wears his heart on his sleeve ".

According to International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ) and National Hockey League ( NHL ) rules, the only player allowed to speak with referees about rule interpretations is the captain, or, if the captain is not on the ice, an alternate captain.

According to Wisden editor Norman Preston, influential figures within the cricket hierarchy blamed Hutton for the previous winter's events and they attempted to replace Hutton as captain.

According to some sources, the 17th-century Dutch captain Bernard Fokke is the model for the captain of the ghost ship.

According to the NTSB, Batouti seized the plane's controls and turned off the autopilot after the captain left the cockpit.

According to Worcesters log, in the castle they found " an Irishman, a captain, a Spanish lieutenant, a sergeant, one Scots rebel and 39 Spanish soldiers, 343 barrels of powder and 52 barrels of musquet shot ".

According to Wisden in his debut series, Holding " had shown himself to be Roberts ' natural opening partner and indeed was timed to be faster than Thomson, Lillee and Roberts ", and considered that when West Indies captain Clive Lloyd chose to give Julien the new ball rather than Holding it was a mistake that cost the West Indies the match.

According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.

According to tradition, Brian Boru, ' High King ' of Ireland ( d. at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014 CE ) played the harp, as did many of the gentry in the country during the period of the Gaelic Lordship of Ireland ( ended c. 1607 CE with the " Flight of the Earls " following the Elizabethan Wars ).

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

According to a 20-page search warrant affidavit signed by IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, Grimsley told investigators he obtained amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone from someone recommended to him by former Yankees trainer Brian McNamee.

According to Scorsese it was Brian De Palma who introduced him to Schrader.

According to author Brian Carroll, Lyons had been underestimated when he assumed office in 1932 and as leader he demonstrated: " a combination of honesty, native shrewdness, tact, administrative ability, common sense, good luck and good humour that kept him in the job longer than any previous Prime Minister except Hughes ".

According to Stuart Walton and Brian Glover, vermouth " is as far removed from the natural produce of the vine as it is possible for a fortified wine to get.

According to Brian Lapping, this was the first step ever taken towards directing help to areas with special needs, “ the reversal of the former position under which ministers had passed the burden of social help measures in housing, education and health to local authorities without passing them any money .”

According to Brian Lapping, this would have been Wilson ’ s largest reform of social security, had it been carried out.

" According to Brian Pennington, Ward's book " became a centerpiece in the British construction of Hinduism and in the political and economic domination of the subcontinent.

According to Brian A. Sparkes " The most detailed treatment in literature is to be found in the Argonautica ... however, we have detailed images of the episode, 150 years earlier, dated to around 400 BC.

According to Smart's October 1, 2009 US federal court testimony, after Smart had gone to bed on June 4, 2002, a man Smart identified as Brian Mitchell had entered her bedroom and had " placed his hand on my chest and then put the knife up to my neck.

According to Brian Doherty, writer for Reason magazine, " Malatesta could get tens of thousands, sometimes more than 100, 000, fans to show up whenever arrived in town.

According to Brian Walker, director of Oxfam, " a solidarity and compassion surged across our nation " from the broadcast of Year Zero.

According to Brian Copenhaver, " Kepler accused Fludd of being a theosophist, and Kepler was right ".

According to one account by Piers Paul Read ( 1978 ), in January 1963, shortly after the furore over the Airport Job had died down, Brian Field called Gordon Goody to a meeting at the Old Bailey and asked him whether he was interested in a large sum of money that only a large gang could steal.

According to Brian Leiter's Law School rankings, Davis ranks 23rd in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citations of tenure-stream faculty.

According to the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Duncan Idaho is born on the planet Giedi Prime, under the Harkonnen Regime.

According to Brian McFarlane, in The Encyclopedia of British Film, hosted by British Film Institute's Screenonline, Finch " did not emerge unscathed from a life of well-publicised hell-raising, and several biographies chronicle the affairs and the booze, but a serious appraisal of a great actor remains to be written.

According to the film's conceptual designer Brian Froud, Labyrinth was first discussed between himself and director Jim Henson during a limousine ride on the way back from a special screening of their 1982 fantasy film The Dark Crystal.

According to Brian Harvey's book Russia In Space, there was also a real Soviet communications ship called the Vladislav Volkov, but it was sold by the Russian government following the fall of the USSR.

According to the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy ( 2002 – 2004 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Imperial House Corrino is founded by Viceroy Faykan Butler, the grandson of Xavier Harkonnen and grandnephew of Serena Butler.

According to the New York Post, someone in the social environment of Megan has told: " Megan has become a great stepmom, and Brian knows she'll be wonderful with the baby.

According to Brian Dunning of Skeptoid, folk tales of the Jersey Devil prior to 1909 calling it the " Leeds Devil " may have been created to discredit local politician Daniel Leeds who served as deputy to the colonial governor of New York and New Jersey in the 1700s, and folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand wrote that the spread of contemporary pop culture has overtaken traditional Jersey Devil legends.

According to Brian Eno, once a member of Roxy Music, Ladytron are " the best of English pop music ".