The Dark Nest trilogy by Troy Denning includes two types of Star Destroyers used by the Chiss Ascendancy and the Star Destroyer Admiral Ackbar used by the Galactic Alliance.

He was known as one of the most brilliant military commanders in the Star Wars universe and was superior to even geniuses such as General Garm Bel Iblis ( who only later joined the New Republic due to personal issues with the Rebel Alliance's leader Mon Mothma ) and Admiral Ackbar, who led the Rebellion to victory in many crucial battles.

Nonetheless, after the losing on Hoth and towards the end of the movie Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the Rebel Alliance regroups and is then commanded by Admiral Ackbar, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Lando Calrissian.

Admiral Ackbar is a fictional character in the Star Wars science fiction saga.

With his distinctive salmon-colored skin, high-domed head and large fish-like eyes, Admiral Ackbar was realized in Return of the Jedi through the use of a half-body puppet and slip-on mask, depending on the camera angles used.

Starting with the rank of Rebel commander, Ackbar helped design the B-wing, a powerful line of starfighters, which prompted Rebel leader Mon Mothma to promote him to Admiral.

Although his role in Return of the Jedi was relatively brief, Admiral Ackbar became a prominent character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, which encompasses all licensed stories in the Star Wars universe outside of the six main feature films, such as novels, comic books, video games and television shows.

During filming of the 2005 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Lucas was so impressed with the animatron mask used on the Mon Calamari character Meena Tills, that he briefly considered reediting Return of the Jedi and replacing footage of Admiral Ackbar with an improved mask, although he never did.

The voice of Admiral Ackbar in Return of the Jedi was performed by Erik Bauersfeld, a radio dramatist who also voiced Bib Fortuna in the film.

Admiral Ackbar ranked number 16 in 1998 list of the " Top 20 Star Wars Characters " featured in the magazine Star Wars Insider.

Admiral Ackbar can be played as a hidden character in the Nintendo Wii version of the 2008 video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed if the player enters the cheat code " ITSATWAP ".

The sketch is a commercial for " Admiral Ackbar Cereal ", with Ackbar presenting the breakfast cereal to two children and declaring, " Your tongues can't repel flavor of that magnitude!

Morgan Phillips, an independent hip-hop musician and disc jockey, included a song about the character called " Admiral Ackbar Please " on his album Star Wars Breakbeats.

When the University of Mississippi began a process to find a new mascot in 2010, some students started a campaign to have Admiral Ackbar selected.

The campaign quickly went viral and received national news media attention, and Lucasfilm issued a tongue-in-cheek statement about the matter which read, " The last time we checked in with Admiral Ackbar he was leading the Rebel Alliance Fleet on a critical mission so it will be difficult for him to show up for the games!

* Admiral Ackbar in the Official Star Wars. com Encyclopedia

* Mark Adair Rios as Admiral Ackbar

It also saw the deaths of many of the major characters, including, but not limited to, Chewbacca, Anakin Solo, and Admiral Ackbar, as well as 365 trillion sentient beings.

Unique to these decks were the Admiral Piett and Admiral Ackbar cards.

The New Republic forces, now assembled on the water world of Mon Calamari, plan their next attack on the Yuuzhan Vong with the aid of the now-retired Admiral Ackbar.

General Madine, who appears in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi alongside Admiral Ackbar and Mon Mothma, had died in the novel Darksaber, published in 1995.

Mon Mothma's death occurred a few weeks before the events of Vector Prime, and Admiral Ackbar died towards the end of the New Jedi Order series.

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.

Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.

The title of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom was vested in the Sovereign from 1964 to 2011.

The office of Admiral of England ( or Lord Admiral and later Lord High Admiral ) was created around 1400, though there were before this Admirals of the Northern and Western Seas.

Operational control of the Navy remained the responsibility of the Lord High Admiral, who was one of the nine Great Officers of State.

The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission ( the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century ).

When the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, as it was for most of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries until it reverted to the Crown, it was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, & c. ( alternatively of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland depending on the period ).

The French suffered too: Admiral Brueys on Orient was severely wounded in the face and hand by flying debris during the opening exchange of fire with Bellerophon.

The messenger was a staff officer sent by the Governor of Alexandria General Jean Baptiste Kléber, and the report had been hastily written by Admiral Ganteaume, who had subsequently rejoined Villeneuve's ships at sea.

" Bonaparte later placed much the blame for the defeat on the wounded Admiral Blanquet, falsely accusing him of surrendering Franklin while his ship was undamaged.

The Navy stated that one of the individuals was a man and the other a woman, one a Marine and the other from the Navy, and that Rear Admiral Mark Guadagnini, chief of Naval air training, was reviewing the situation.

Admiral Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations wrote a position paper that helped Kennedy to differentiate between what they termed a " quarantine " of offensive weapons and a blockade of all materials, claiming that a classic blockade was not the original intention.

Then I went to Admiral, but that was taken.

The Neustra Señora del Rosario, the Spanish Armada's " payship " commanded by Admiral Pedro de Valdés, was captured along with all its crew by Sir Francis Drake.

* In the 2008 novel Kobayashi Maru by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels, Admiral Valdore attempts once again to cause conflict in the region approximately one year after the incident involving the Aenar, this time using " Telecapture ", designed to take over and control enemy ships.

* Dahlgren gun, type of smooth bore cannon designed by the Admiral and used by the U. S. Navy

At the time, many Japanese politicians, including Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, were shocked by the Anglo-German naval agreement, but the leaders of the military clique then in control in Tokyo concluded ( correctly ) that it was a ruse designed to buy the Nazis time to match the British navy.

Among historical landmarks in the town are a free-standing 17th-century clock tower, a grand town hall originally designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, Collingwood House the Georgian home of Admiral Lord Collingwood, and a 13th-century chapel called The Chantry which is now the tourist information centre and houses such cultural institutions as the Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum.

It was designed by John Stamp and David Brown to be a large patchwork of Sunbury landmarks, including St. Mary's Church, the Admiral Hawke and the river.

In 1876, Saint-Gaudens received his first major commission: a monument to Civil War Admiral David Farragut, in New York's Madison Square ; his friend Stanford White designed an architectural setting for it, and when it was unveiled in 1881, its naturalism, its lack of bombast and its siting combined to make it a tremendous success, and Saint-Gaudens ' reputation was established.

Additionally, Admiral Álvaro de Bazán designed the definitive model of galleon in the 1550s.

In April, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto used the additional air resources allocated to Rabaul in Operation I-Go, an air offensive designed to redress the situation by destroying Allied ships and aircraft in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

The Seaview is designed and built by scientist and engineering genius Admiral Harriman Nelson ( USN-Ret ) ( Walter Pidgeon ).

The monument was designed to look like a spyglass, as Admiral Hardy would have used on board ship, NOT, as many people think, a factory chimney.

Located between Seaton Sluice and Seaton Delaval, it was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1718 for Admiral George Delaval and is now owned by the National Trust.

The works were completed in 1728, completed two years after the death of the Admiral, with the resulting new mansion the last country house Vanbrugh designed – it is regarded as his finest work.

Many of the monuments from later centuries commemorate notable residents of Beckett Hall, including John Wildman ( c. 1621 – 93 ), Rothesia Ann Barrington ( died 1745 ; monument sculpted by Thomas Paty ), John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington ( 1678 – 1734 ), William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington ( 1717 – 93 ; monument designed by James Wyatt and sculpted by Richard Westmacott ) and Rear Admiral Samuel Barrington ( 1729 – 1800 ; monument sculpted by John Flaxman ).

Dahlgren guns were muzzle loading naval artillery designed by Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren USN ( November 13, 1809 – July 12, 1870 ), mostly used in the period of the American Civil War.

At the heart was an analogue computer designed by Commander ( later Admiral Sir ) Frederic Charles Dreyer that calculated rate of change of range.

De Trompenburgh is a 17th century manor house in's-Graveland, North Holland, Netherlands, designed by Daniel Stalpaert and built for Admiral Maarten Tromp, one of the naval heroes of the Dutch Republic.

Now espousing the Royalist cause, Willoughby was promoted to Vice Admiral under the Duke of York, an appointment that may have been designed to engender sympathy among Scots and Presbyterians.

With newly built ships, designed as ships of war and crewed by sailors and trained gunners, fighting experience was gained in the Franco-Spanish War and the Thirty Years ' War with notable victories at the Battle of Cádiz ( 1640 ) won by Frances First, Grand Admiral Armand de Maillé-Brézé son of Marshall Urbain de Maillé-Brézé.

This oval, along with Prince Regent Park, Admiral Park and all schools within the suburb have large grass outdoor ovals designed for used by community groups and sporting activities including Cricket, Australian Rules Football, and Association Football.