Everyone had heard of the American contractor who had spurned an escort.

However dragoons had existed in Portugal since at least the early 18th century and, in 1719, units of this type of cavalry were sent to Brazil, initially to escort shipments of gold and diamonds and to guard the Viceroy who resided in Rio de Janeiro ( 1st Cavalry Regiment – Vice-Roy Guard Squadron ).

Captain Cardenas subsequently told reporters that the cars and their escort had been fired on by a group, as they neared the penitentiary.

Colonel Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner, who was to escort it to England, claimed later that he had personally seized it from Menou and carried it away on a gun-carriage.

Chinese ceramics | A pottery miniature Chinese palaces | of a palace made during the Han Dynasty ; as a palace attendant, Zhang Heng had personal access to Emperor Shun and the right to escort him

With this prestigious new position, Zhang earned a salary of 2, 000 bushels and had the right to escort the emperor.

Gregory VII had already left Rome and had intimated to the German princes that he would expect their escort for his journey on 8 January to Mantua.

Godwin had him seized and delivered to an escort of men loyal to Harefoot.

One of his few successes, in 1159, was his trip to Toulouse to aid Raymond V, Count of Toulouse who had been attacked by Henry II: after he entered into the city with a small escort, claiming to be visiting the Countess his sister, Henry declared that he could not attack the city whilst his liege lord was inside, and went home.

He had to return to London but was well enough to command the escort that brought the King to London in January 1649.

Thomas McDougald, had been assigned to escort the slower pack train carrying provisions and additional ammunition.

She had met and been rebuffed by Baudricourt twice before, but apparently this time he assented and arranged to escort her to the Dauphin's court in Chinon.

Two of his escort had been killed and another was missing.

Because Mao's marriage to He had not yet ended, Jiang was reportedly made to sign a marital contract which stipulated that she would not appear in public with Mao as her escort.

Gunray sent a Trade Federation escort of Munificent-class frigates to safeguard Bane's escape from Devaron, but was furious when he discovered that Bane had lost four of his ships in battle with the Republic.

When Scipio, acting on the consent which, after much opposition, he had obtained from the senate, transported the armed forces from Sicily into Africa, Cato and Gaius Laelius were appointed to escort the baggage ships.

Instead, at Calley's request, he was released at West Gate and taken directly to the Fort Leavenworth airfield, where his escort had him flown home.

Its traditional function of party leader escort had been given to the SS, but it continued its street battles with " Reds " and attacks on Jews.

In the 17th century fleets could consist of almost a hundred ships of various sizes, but by the middle of the 18th century, ship-of-the-line design had settled on a few standard types: older two-deckers ( i. e., with two complete decks of guns firing through side ports ) of 50 guns ( which were too weak for the battle line but could be used to escort convoys ), two-deckers of between 64 and 90 guns that formed the main part of the fleet, and larger three-or even four-deckers with 98 to 140 guns that served as admirals ' command ships.

Thousands of animals were given to him as offerings and five hundred horsemen had been sent to escort him to Altan Khan's court.

The 412th had reported in the summer of 1945 that the P-80 would be well suited for bomber escort, counterair, and ground support.

Apart from fewer than a hundred Swiss who escaped from the Tuileries, some hidden by sympathetic Parisians, the only survivors of the regiment were a three-hundred-strong detachment which had been sent to Normandy to escort grain convoys a few days before August 10th.

In February 2010, he appeared in the British soap ( broadcast on the ITV network ) Coronation Street playing the charming male escort Lewis Archer, who woos Audrey Roberts.

He also appeared in an episode of the FX series Nip / Tuck ( 5x05 " Chaz Darling ") as a male escort at a party.

This escort first appeared in public in 1932 to form a guard of honour for the Papal Legate visiting Ireland for the 1932 Eucharistic Congress.

The IDF has never included horse cavalry since its establishment in 1922 ( other than a small mounted escort drawn from the Artillery Corps when required for ceremonial occasions ).

In the confusion, the leading men of the state gathered at Sabinus ' house, proclaiming Vespasian as Emperor, but the multitude dispersed when Vitellian cohorts clashed with the armed escort of Sabinus, who was forced to retreat to the Capitoline Hill.

The uprising began when Gurgīn and his escort were killed after a picnic and a banquet that were prepared by Mirwais at his farmhouse outside the city.

Ships sailing in convoys were far less likely to be sunk, even when not provided with any escort at all.

Accordingly, when news of the defeat at Rouvray reached Vaucouleurs, Baudricourt became convinced of the girl's prescience and agreed to escort her.

However, when Ben refuses to have his gang appear at the upcoming annual Corley Motors shareholder's meeting as an " escort ", he is knocked out and thrown in a dumpster by Ripburger's henchmen, Nestor and Bolus.

The historic right of Trinity House to escort the Sovereign when travelling by ship in territorial waters is still exercised on ceremonial occasions.

No other major activity is recorded in the county until 1849, when Captain Randolph B. Marcy, commander of a U. S. military escort expedition led by Lieutenant J. E. Johnson, passed through the county.

The short-lived camp's most notable action was when General Alexander McDowell McCook and six divisions of the camp were ordered to escort Chinese nationals out of Evanston, Wyoming, due to the race riots that were happening among miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Normally, it is not sufficient for a client to be protected by a single driver-bodyguard, because this would mean that the bodyguard would have to leave the car unattended when they escort the client on foot.

As well, when the principal moves between a vehicle and a building, the principal must be moved quickly to minimize the time window in which a sniper could take a shot and use a flanking escort of close protection officers to block the view of the sniper and any potential shot that the sniper may take.

He explained a little later when one of the emissaries of his escort comes galloping to the olive grove, and panting, informs him that the defenders of the castle flee in disarray on the road to Zaragoza and French was already master of Tudela.

His rate was raised to Petty Officer, Ship ′ s Cook Third Class on June 1st when he reported to the escort carrier.

In May 1941 served as the escort to HMS Ark Royal during the sinking of the battleship Bismarck, and on 31 December 1942, Sheffield and Jamaica jointly attacked and drove off the pocket battleship Lützow ( sister ship to the Graf Spee ), and the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, at the Battle of the Barents Sea, when the Germans attempted to intercept a large convoy to Murmansk.

A second kaiten attack in January 1945 was foiled when the I-48 was sunk by the destroyer escort USS Conklin.

Around the corner, Major Archie Gates ( George Clooney ), a Special Forces soldier, is trading sex for stories with a journalist, Cathy Daitch ( Judy Greer ), when he is interrupted by Adriana Cruz ( Nora Dunn ), the television reporter he is assigned to escort.

Another war with the Xhosa, known as the War of the Axe or Amatola War, broke out in 1846, when a Khoikhoi escort who had been manacled to a Xhosa thief was murdered while transporting the man to Graham ’ s Town to be tried for stealing an axe.

They were about to leave for the West Indies when they encountered a fleet of 42 Portuguese ships in the Todos os Santos ' Bay, waiting for two men-of-war of 70 guns each to escort them to Lisbon.

He was assigned to captain the shuttle spacecraft Temptation, whose primary missions were to escort Federation high-ranking officials, and was even beaten up by Bask Om himself when he objected to a set of orders coming from him.

She is also apparently idolized by much of the navy, best illustrated by the reaction of Captain Arragi who is in charge of the escort for the Nadesico crew shuttle when it heads for the moon.

A chaperone was part of the costume of the Knights of the Garter when they were in full dress and, probably, since the Knights were court attendants, the word chaperon changed to mean escort.

In late September, a convoy of buses and trucks under a police escort was bringing back to La Paz over 700 persons, including foreign tourists, freed after a 10-day blockade of a valley resort town, when the convoy was ambushed on the highlands ( Altiplano ).

In 1485, when news arrived that Henry Tudor had landed in Wales he was ordered to escort Lords Hungerford and Bourchier to Leicester but en route they escaped.