Upon arrival there, Phillip was to assume the powers of Captain General and Governor in Chief of the new colony.

General Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) rallies his troops from a French château thirty-five miles from the front, where he is aided and abetted by his assistant, Captain Darling ( Tim McInnerny ), pencil-pusher supreme and Blackadder's nemesis, whose name is played on for maximum comedic value.

Taking over as military commander-in-chief, now titled Captain General, was newly promoted General de Division Bumba Moaso, former commander of the parachute division.

Because of the invasions, the first Captain General was sent to Fuerteventura, charged with defending the island in the name of the crown.

* 1704 5 September – Troops of France and Spain under the marquis of Villadarias, General Captain of Andalusia, started to besiege Gibraltar to try to recover it ( this one would be the Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ).

He was named Captain General in 1527.

Besides Marquis, Francesco was also Captain General of the armies of the Republic of Venice.

Francesco, in his capacity of Captain General of the Venetian armies, was often required to go to Venice for conferences which left Isabella in Mantua on her own at La Reggia the ancient palace which was the family seat of the Gonzagas.

* 1500 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.

On the same day, his youngest brother Orazio was appointed Captain General of the Church at the head of the papal army.

In 1862 the first polo club, Calcutta Polo Club, was established by two British soldiers, Captain Robert Stewart and Major General Joe Shearer.

Politicians such as René Pleven, who later became Prime Minister, and officers as General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Lieutenant René Amiot, Captain Raymond Delange, Colonel Edgar De Larminat and Adolphe Sicé helped him to gain control of the AEF territory.

* Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee, by Captain Robert E. Lee, His Son

On 8 April 1919, naval Admiral W. H. G. Bullard and Captain Stanford C. Hooper met with executives of the General Electric Corporation ( GE ) and asked them to discontinue selling the company's Alexanderson alternators ( used in the high-power AM radio transmitters of that era ) to the British-owned Marconi Company, and to its subsidiary, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America.

Island Governor and Captain General Don Ramón de Castro and his forces, consisting of the mostly Puerto Rican born Regimiento Fijo de Puerto Rico and the Milicias Disciplinadas, repelled the attack.

In the official comic book prequel to the movie Star Trek, Worf is a General in the Klingon Empire who is dispatched to deal with Romulan Captain Nero and his significantly altered mining vessel, the Narada.

By ancient law, no nobleman could command more than twenty-five men ( to prevent the possibility of sedition by private armies ), and while the position of Captain General was introduced in the mid-14th century, he still had to answer to a civilian panel of twenty Savi or " wise men ".

In subsequent years and during World War II the Japanese garrison strength was composed of about 2, 000 men of the IJN under Captain Jun Naito and 5, 984 IJA men under Lieutenant General Masao Watanabe.

He drew on several of his earlier " Bab Ballad " poems ( many of which also have nautical themes ), including " Captain Reece " ( 1868 ) and " General John " ( 1867 ).

Raeder claimed to be ignorant of the plans for a putsch, but in the days preceding the putsch, Trotha and Raeder had been in close contact with General Walther von Lüttwitz ( the real leader of the Kapp putsch ) and the Freikorps leader Captain Hermann Ehrhardt.

Japanese Navy Captain Risaburo Ito ( 伊藤利三郎 ), of Section 10 ( cipher & code ) of the Japanese Navy General Staff Office, supervised the work.

It was, however, administered not by the viceroy or his deputies, but by an independently appointed Captain General headquartered first in Antigua Guatemala and later in Guatemala City.

The Spanish Captain General, Gabino Gaínza, sympathized with the rebels and it was decided that he should stay on as interim leader until a new government could be formed.

The brothers were assassinated together in the back of an armoured personnel carrier with a bayonet and revolver by Captain Nguyễn Văn Nhung, under orders from Dương Văn Minh, while en route to the Vietnamese Joint General Staff headquarters.

After three years with Captain Kentucky, Don decided that it was not worth the effort.

Years later, as his fame grew, his non-Disney work was published by the Norwegian publisher Gazette Bok in 2001, in the two hard-cover " Don Rosa Archives " volumes, The Pertwillaby Papers and The Adventures of Captain Kentucky.

* The Don Rosa Archives-The Adventures of Captain Kentucky

* The Captain and the Kids at Don Markstein's Toonopedia.

The governor of the area, Brigadier Don Gabriel José de Zuloaga had prepared the port defenses very diligently, and Spanish troops were well commanded by Captain Don Francisco Saucedo.

This strength was based on Spanish guard boats, and was defended by only four guns and about thirty soldiers under Captain of Infantry Don Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Cevallos.

* U. S. Navy Captain Craig Donovan ( Don Franklin ), Navy SEAL and Project Backstep's military advisor / tactical coordinator and backup chrononaut.

Some of Barrymore's silent film roles included A. J. Raffles in Raffles the Amateur Cracksman ( 1917 ), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1920 ), Sherlock Holmes ( 1922 ), Beau Brummel ( 1924 ), Captain Ahab in The Sea Beast ( 1926 ), and Don Juan ( 1926 ).

In A. C. Crispin's 2011 novel Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom, Captain Hook is referenced in a conversation between Captain Teague and Pirate Lord Don Rafael.

* Don Gordon as Kappy, SFFD Truck Co. # 15 Fire Captain

* Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart – musician and painter

Salinas was founded in July 22, 1841 by Don Agustín Colón Pacheco as Mayor, Don Jose Maria Cadavedo as Sargent of Arms, Don Juan Colon as Captain of the Civil Guard and five hacendados which were Don Antonio Semidey, Don Antonio Morelli, Don Francisco Secola, Don Julio Delannoy and Don Jose Antonio Torres.

The first European to find Ulithi was the Portuguese navigator Diego da Rocha, in 1526, but it remained undisturbed by Europeans until rediscovered by Captain Don Bernard de Egui in 1712, and later visited by Spanish Jesuit missionaries led by Juan Antonio Cantova in 1731.

* Don Mason .... Captain Troy Tempest ( speaking ) / Various

Odysseus meets Motherth ( an incarnation of the Buddha ), Kapetan Enas ( English: Captain Sole ), alias Don Quixote, and an African village fisherman, alias Jesus.

Captain José Ramón Fernández was head of the School of Militia Leaders ( Cadets ) at Matanzas.

Captain Ramón Power y Giralt ( October 7, 1775 – June 10, 1813 ), commonly known as Ramón Power, was, according to Puerto Rican historian Lidio Cruz Monclova, among the first native-born Puerto Ricans to refer to himself as a " Puerto Rican " and to fight for the equal representation of Puerto Rico in front of the parliamentary government of Spain.

As protest against the action of President Balmaceda, the vice-president of the senate, Waldo Silva, and the president of the chamber of deputies, Ramón Barros Luco, issued a proclamation appointing Captain Jorge Montt commander of the navy, and stating that the navy could not recognize the authority of Balmaceda so long as he did not administer public affairs in accordance with the constitutional law of Chile.

The governor was killed, along with the pilot, Captain Mario Torres González, and copilot, Captain Germán Ascencio Fauvet ; the Colima state secretaries of tourism and finance, Roberto Preciado Cuevas and Luis Ramón Barreda Cedillo ; the state's tourism director, Guillermo Díaz Zamorano ; and local Coparmex president Alejandro Dávila.