* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard serves as a French soldier during the Napoleonic Wars

She worked on the 22nd Bond adventure Quantum of Solace and reprised her role as M. She is interested in horse racing and in partnership with her chauffeur Bryan Agar owns a four-year-old horse, " Smokey Oakey ", who won the 2008 Brigadier Gerard Stakes.

*# 2, 000 Guineas Stakes – Brigadier Gerard

Arthur Conan Doyle's character Brigadier Etienne Gerard of the French Hussards de Conflans has come to epitomise the hussar of popular fiction – brave, conceited, amorous, a skilled horseman and ( according to Napoleon ) not very intelligent.

Members of the 15-man commission included Dr. Luis Alvarez, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Neil Armstrong ( a NASA astronaut and the First man on the Moon ), Richard Feynman, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Dr. Gerard K. O ’ Neill ( an American physicist and space activist ), Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan ( a Space Shuttle astronaut and the first American woman to walk in space ), and Brigadier General Charles E. " Chuck " Yeager rocket plane pilot and first man to break the sound barrier ( 1947 ).

Brigadier Gerard ( 1968 – 1989 ) was one of the best and most popular British Thoroughbred race horses of the 20th century winning 17 of his 18 races, which included twelve races now ranked at Group One level.

Bred by John Hislop in England and foaled on the 5 March 1968, Brigadier Gerard was a son of the stallion Queen's Hussar, winner of the Sussex Stakes and the Lockinge Stakes, and the non-winning racemare, La Paiva, a daughter of Prince Chevalier.

Brigadier Gerard had good conformation, an excellent temperament and stood 16 hands 2 inches high.

Brigadier Gerard was trained during his racing career by Major Dick Hern and ridden in all his races by Joe Mercer.

In the 1971 Free Handicap, a rating of the year's best two-year-olds, My Swallow ( undefeated in seven races ) was assigned a weight of 133 pounds, Mill Reef ( whom My Swallow had narrowly defeated in the Prix Robert Papin ) was given 132 pounds and Brigadier Gerard 131 pounds, one pound ahead of the leading filly Cawston's Pride.

Brigadier Gerard entered the season's first colts ' classic, the 2, 000 Guineas at Newmarket, without a preparatory race.

As they lined for the race, Brigadier Gerard, Mill Reef and My Swallow had between them won 18 out of their 19 races.

In one of the most eagerly anticipated races ever, Brigadier Gerard won by three lengths from Mill Reef and My Swallow.

Instead of being tested over one and a half miles in the Epsom Derby, Brigadier Gerard was kept to the one mile distance for the St. James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

As at Royal Ascot in the summer, the ground was very soft and Brigadier Gerard did not show his best form but won in a close finish from Rarity and Welsh Pageant.

The following year, Brigadier Gerard extended his unbeaten run to fifteen.

Roberto had run poorly in his previous race, the Irish Derby, but, ridden by the American jockey Braulio Baeza, ran the race of his life with a bold front-running display, which shattered the course record, to defeat Brigadier Gerard by three lengths.

Brigadier Gerard freturned in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and set a new course record as he won by six lengths from Sparkler.

Brigadier Gerard was not a success as a sire, and much less successful than his contemporary and rival Mill Reef, but he did get a classic winner in Light Cavalry who won the St. Leger Stakes in 1980.

Brigadier Gerard died in 1989 and his remains are interred in the gardens of the Swynford Hotel ( formally Swynford Paddocks ), Six Mile Bottom, Newmarket.

Brigadier Gerard was given an end-of-year Timeform rating of of 141 in 1971, making him the equal highest rated horse of the year, alongside Mill Reef.

The Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown is named in his honour.

In the 1972 British Horse of the Year poll conducted by the Racegoers ' Club, Brigadier Gerard polled all forty of the available votes, making him the first horse to be unanimously elected to the honour.

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When Sarah and the Brigadier return to the lab, they find Harry tied up in a locker, and hear the wheezing sound of the TARDIS starting to take off.

Marlborough quickly moved forward two brigades under the command of General Wilkes and Brigadier Rowe to secure the narrow strip of land between the Danube and the wooded Fuchsberg hill, at the Schwenningen defile.

Orkney, attacking from the rear, now tried a different tactic – "... it came into my head to beat parley ", he later wrote, " which they accepted of and immediately their Brigadier de Nouville capitulated with me to be prisoner at discretion and lay down their arms.

* 1865 – American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.

Nigerian officers have served as chiefs of defence in other countries, with Brigadier General Maxwell Khobe serving as Sierra Leone chief of staff in 1998 – 1999, and Nigerian officers acting as Command Officer-in-Charge of the Armed Forces of Liberia from at least 2007.

On December 17, 1981, four members of the Red Brigades, posing as plumbers, invaded the Verona apartment of US Army Brigadier General James L. Dozier, then NATO Deputy Chief of Staff at Southern European land forces.

On October 12, 1998 twenty-five soldiers in the Sierra Leone army, including Corporal Tamba Gborie, Brigadier Hassan Karim Conteh, Colonel Samuel Francis Koroma, Major Kula Samba and Colonel Abdul Karim Sesay, were executed by firing squad after they were convicted at a court martial in Freetown for orchestrating the 1997 coup that ousted president Kabbah from power.

Roosevelt's eldest son, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., received the Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Normandy in 1944.

At centre is Major General Heinz Guderian and at right is Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein.

* February 25 – The majority of the Yavapai ( Wipukyipai ) and Tonto Apache ( Dil Zhéé ) tribes are forced by the U. S. Cavalry under command of Brigadier General George Crook to walk at gunpoint from the Arizona's Verde Valley, to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 180 miles to the southeast.

* December 29 – General Martínez and Brigadier General Luís Daban stage a pronunciamento at Sagunto and proclaim Isabel's son Alfonso as King of Spain.

The 82nd Airborne Division, under Brigadier General James M. Gavin, would drop northeast of them to take the bridges at Grave and Nijmegen and the British 1st Airborne Division, under Major-General Roy Urquhart, with the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, under Brigadier General Stanisław Sosabowski, attached would drop at the extreme north end of the route, capturing the road bridge at Arnhem and the rail bridge at Oosterbeek.

The November 17, 2000 assassination of Brigadier Stephen Saunders was carried out by assassins on motorcycle who approached the vehicle while it was stopped at a traffic light and shot him dead before speeding off.

When he is ordered to fly one mission at low altitude to increase accuracy, Davenport rushes to headquarters and confronts his friend, Brigadier General Frank Savage ( Gregory Peck ), the A-3 ( Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations ) of VIII Bomber Command.

His first marriage, to Carol Cummings, the daughter of a Marine Corps Brigadier General, lasted 13 years before ending in divorce ( at her request, as he has stated in his memoirs titled " Secrets ").

At the end of his one-year tour, Alexander Haig returned to the continental United States to become Regimental Commander of the Third Regiment of the Corps of Cadets at West Point, under the also newly arrived Commandant, Brigadier General Bernard W. Rogers.

Image: Alf_Colley. jpg | Brigadier Alf Colley, killed during Irish Civil War at Whitehall, August 1922

The society also has a Youth section which produces 3 performances a year at The Tower Theatre ; the Brigadier Thomas Memorial Competition, a summer show and a Christmas revue.