On 27 December, Sir William Brereton, the Parliamentarian commander in Cheshire and Lancashire, attempted to concentrate his forces to confront Byron, but was defeated by a sudden Royalist attack at the Second Battle of Middlewich.

At 05: 00 a. m. FEAF commander Gen. Brereton reported to USAFFE headquarters where he attempted to see MacArthur without success.

After MacArthur gave Brereton the authorization he sought at 10: 15 a. m., the bombers were ordered to land and prepare for the afternoon raid on Formosa.

Finally, the shorter hours of daylight in September caused Brereton to refuse authorization for two lifts per day, and as a result of the limited number of troop carrier aircraft, the air movement of the Army required three consecutive days to complete.

These recommendations were acted upon and by the mid-to-late 1980s, when the area had become largely derelict it was redeveloped as a pedestrian and tourist precinct as an initiative of then New South Wales Minister for Public Works, Laurie Brereton.

In June 2004, Labor leader Mark Latham announced that Garrett would become an Australian Labor Party candidate for the House of Representatives at the 2004 federal election, in the safe New South Wales seat of Kingsford Smith which was being vacated by the former Cabinet minister Laurie Brereton.

Brereton immediately ordered two bombers to conduct reconnaissance flights and recalled the rest to prepare for a late afternoon bombing mission.

Brereton, Applied chemometrics for scientists, Wiley 2007

During preparations for one of many cancelled operations, Linnete II, his disagreement with Brereton over a risky operation caused him to threaten resignation, which, due to differences in military culture, Brereton regarded as tantamount to disobeying an order.

Brereton served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as member for Randwick 1970 – 71 and Heffron 1973 – 90.

In the federal Parliament, Brereton was Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister 1991 – 93, Minister for Industrial Relations 1993 – 96, Minister for Transport 1993 – 96, and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Public Service Matters 1993.

Brereton was a member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry 1996 – 2001 serving as Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Assisted by his adviser, Dr Philip Dorling, Brereton was instrumental in revising Federal Labor policy to support self-determination and independence for East Timor.

While initially, ratings were steadily rising, the station's financial position took a turn for the worse in early 2005, with several employees, including Dermott Brereton, Mark Doran, and Robert Shaw not being paid.

The plot is based on the story of the real-life Thomas Brereton, a Dragoon commander who committed suicide after being court-martialled for his lenient approach to suppressing the rioters ; although the ghost is named " George Bretherton " in the TV series.

Following Brunel's death in 1859, Robert Brereton took over as engineer, and also acted as engineer for improvements made in 1872 and 1873.

In 1628 Brereton was elected Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Cheshire and sat until 1629 when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

In April 1640, Brereton was re-elected MP for Cheshire in the Short Parliament.

In 1642, Brereton joined the Parliamentarian forces, and in March 1643 was appointed Commander-in-Chief for Parliament's army in Cheshire, where he quickly established a formidable intelligence network of spies and agents.

* In 1994 Swans recruit Dermott Brereton was suspended for 7 weeks for standing on Hawthorn player Rayden Tallis ' head during a practice match ; he was suspended for another 7 matches later in the season for elbowing Richmond captain Tony Free and breaking his jaw.

In anticipation of the arrival of the American air groups, the War Department sent Maj. Gen. Lewis H Brereton, commander of the U. S. Tenth Air Force in India, to Cairo for temporary duty to assist the Commonwealth forces.

Through the unions and the NSW Young Labor Council, Keating met other future Labor figures such as Laurie Brereton, Graham Richardson and Bob Carr.

Dr. John Le Gay Brereton, who had given medical advice to bathers in a Foreign Affairs Committee – owned Turkish bath in Bradford, travelled to Sydney, Australia, and opened a Turkish bath there on Spring Street in 1859, even before such baths had reached London.

The game is widely known as the " Line in the Sand Match ," as the brawls were sparked in the third quarter after Hawthorn players were urged at a half-time address by club legend Dermott Brereton to metaphorically draw such a line ; Brereton thought the young Hawks were being physically intimidated by the more experienced Bombers.

Prime Minister Patrick Manning said in Parliament on 2 June 2006, that the Trinity Cross " will pass into history and this year ’ s National Awards will be conducted on the basis of “ new and more acceptable arrangements .” Manning added that his Cabinet has established a committee, led by UWI history professor Bridget Brereton, to review all aspects of the nation ’ s highest award and also to examine “ such other national symbols and observances which may be considered discriminatory .” This led to creation of a new highest award the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, which was first presented in 2008.

Having agreed to the appointment, Brereton recommended that the combined headquarters was renamed ' First Allied Airborne Army ', which was approved by Eisenhower on 16 August after a brief period of opposition by Major-General Bull, who argued that such a name would be inaccurate, as he believed there was no intention of using the organization as an Army.

There were a large number of these functions, but among them Brereton was responsible for the supervision of training and allocation of facilities, the development of new airborne equipment, consultation with the commander-in-chief of the AEAF and the commander of Allied naval forces in the Allied Expedition Force to coordinate airborne operations, and the execution of such operations.

Shortly after word of the attack on Pearl Harbor reached the Philippines on December 8, 1941, Brereton urged immediate air attacks against Japanese bases on Formosa in accordance with the Rainbow 5 war plan and Brereton's own aggressive nature.

Brereton was promoted to lieutenant general in April 1944 as his units began a campaign of planned attacks against airfields ( April 1 ), railway centers and rolling stock ( April 1 ), coastal batteries ( April 13 ), and bridges ( May 7 ) in France preparatory to Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by the Western Allies on June 6, 1944.

In the Midlands, in spite of a Parliamentary victory won by Sir William Brereton at the Battle of Nantwich on 28 January, the Royalists of Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Leicestershire soon extended their influence through Ashby-de-la-Zouch into Nottinghamshire and joined hands with their friends at Newark.

The Lord Brooke, who commanded for Parliament in Warwickshire and Staffordshire and was looked on by many as Essex's eventual successor, was killed in besieging Lichfield Cathedral on 2 March, and, though the cathedral soon capitulated, Gell and Brereton were severely handled in the indecisive Battle of Hopton Heath near Stafford on 19 March, and Prince Rupert, after an abortive raid on Bristol ( 7 March ), marched rapidly northward, storming Birmingham en route, and recaptured Lichfield Cathedral.

But soon the position improved somewhat ; the Earl of Stamford in the west and Brereton and Gell in the Midlands, though hard pressed, were at any rate in arms and undefeated, Newcastle had failed to conquer West Riding, and Sir William Waller, who had cleared Hampshire and Wiltshire of " malignants ," entered Gloucestershire early in March, destroyed a small Royalist force at Highnam on 24 March, and secured Bristol and Gloucester for Parliament.

Ryan next turned his weapons on Linda Chapman and her teenage daughter, Alison, who had turned onto South View moments after Brereton was shot.

On 11 May, they reached Droitwich, from where after two days ' rest they marched against Brereton.

Brereton returned to Rockwell in November, and after the school officially opened in December, passed the test qualifying him for a rating of Military Aviator on March 27, 1913, the 10th pilot to earn the rating.

In August 1927, after private treatment for his emotional problems, Brereton was restored to flying status by a flight surgeon, found not to be an alcoholic, and accepted into the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for which he had been rejected in 1919.

The Royal Albert Bridge after Brereton had floated the second span into position for jacking up to the top of the piers.

Myddelton's foot-soldiers, under Colonel Thomas Mytton, succeeded in re-entering the castle, which Ernely at once besieged ; but Myddelton retired to Oswestry, and after obtaining reinforcements from Lancashire returned, accompanied by Brereton and Sir William Fairfax.

Library catalogue summary: Paul Keating, Graham Richardson, Laurie Brereton, Bob Carr and Leo McLeay recount events which shaped the Australian labour movement from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Brereton commanded forces in four controversial events of the war: the destruction on the ground of much of the United States Army Air Forces in the Philippines, Operation Tidal Wave ; Operation Cobra ; and Operation Market-Garden.

Third, and closely related to the previous point, historians who have tended to give Brereton higher marks for competence, especially concerning the events in the Philippines, have largely been those ... who have written extensively on the history of air power.