A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.

Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.

Among the dead was Captain George Blagdon Westcott, who was killed by French musket fire.

On 12 August the frigates HMS Emerald under Captain Thomas Moutray Waller, HMS Alcmene under Captain George Johnstone Hope and HMS Bonne Citoyenne under Captain Robert Retalick arrived off Alexandria.

The Sikh sowars of the Frontier Force cavalry, led by Captain Arthur Sandeman of The Central India Horse ( 21st King George V's Own Horse ), charged in the old style with sabres and most were killed.

Plaque explaining the history of Deception Pass " Deception Pass-Named By Captain George Vancouver 10 June 1792.

* 1872 – Challenger expedition:, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.

Leary has starred in many motion pictures, most recently as Captain George Stacy in Marc Webb's 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man.

The next year, along with producer George Lucas, he was able to indulge himself by making Captain EO ( 1985 ), a 12-minute space fantasy for Disney theme parks starring pop superstar Michael Jackson.

Gavin MacLeod ( born Allan George See, February 28, 1931 ) is an American actor notable for playing Joseph " Happy " Haines on McHale's Navy, Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat.

Captain George Vancouver ( 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798 ) was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.

Captain George Vancouver, one of Britain's greatest explorers and navigators, died in obscurity on 10 May 1798 at the age of 40, less than three years after completing his voyages and expeditions.

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Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

Englishman Captain George Augustus Graham is responsible with a few other breeders for reaffirming the dogs ' existence.

File: Colonel George K. H. Coussmaker, Grenadier Guards by Joshua Reynolds 1782. jpeg | Captain George K. H. Coussmaker, 1782

In 1830 Captain Charles Sturt reached the river after travelling down its tributary the Murrumbidgee River and named it the Murray River in honour of the then British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Sir George Murray, not realising it was the same river that Hume and Hovell had encountered further upstream.

Captain George Little, acting under the authority of Adams ' order, seized a Danish ship sailing from a French port.

* HMS Discovery, one of the ships which took Captain George Nares ' British Arctic Expedition of 1875 – 1876 to the North Pole ; and

The island was fully explored in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver.

In 1812 the British ship Isabella, captained by George Higton, was shipwrecked off " Eagle Island " ( as it was then ) Most of the crew were rescued by the American sealer Nanina, commanded by Captain Charles Barnard.

So Captain Jenks returned to his harbor post to watch the scouting plane put in five more appearances, and to feel the certainty of this dread rising within him.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

The casualty list includes Captain Westcott, five lieutenants and ten junior officers among the dead and Admiral Nelson, Captains Saumarez, Ball and Darby and six lieutenants wounded.

Captain Richardson's squadron of P-39s and five B-25 Mitchell bombers was assigned to protect the airfield.

The next European encounter occurred in 1607 when Captain John Smith stopped at Nevis for five days before founding the colony of Virginia.

On 29 April 1992, a twenty five year old Captain Valentine Strasser lead a group of seven junior officers in the Sierra Leone army that that included Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, Sergeant Solomon Musa, Lieutenant Tom Nyuma, Captain Julius Maada Bio and Captain Komba Mondeh came all the way from their military baracks in Kailahun District and launched a military coup in Freetown, which sent president Momoh into exile in Guinea and the young soldiers established the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) with Strasser as its chairman and Head of State of the country.

Currently eight South African apartheid-era soldiers, organise by Neves Matias ( former Recce major and De Jesus Antonio former Captain in 2sai BN ) with ( the leader of whom is Nick du Toit ) and five local men are in Black Beach prison on the island.

After being featured, under his pseudonym of Captain Crunch, in an article in the October 1971 issue of Esquire Magazine titled " Secrets of the Little Blue Box ", he was sentenced in 1972 to five years ’ probation for toll fraud.

There have been at least five iterations of Robin ; while Captain America has had a diverse array of sidekick successors to Bucky, including the Falcon, Demolition Man, Free Spirit, and Jack Flag.

The Pākehā, a party from the Matilda ( Captain Fowler ), under the first mate Robert Brown with two other Europeans and five lascars or Indian seamen, made eight in all, not seven as the manuscript says.

The widow and five children of Captain Samuel Clarke Reddick joined her brothers-in-law in the community.

The Lake County Forest Preserve District maintains five forest preserves within Village Boundaries, including Old School, Grainger Woods, McArthur Woods, Captain Daniel Wright Woods and Adlai Stevenson Historic Home.

Captain John Cochran and the fort's five soldiers surrendered, whereupon the rebels loaded onto the boat 100 barrels of gunpowder.

Although Archer was suspended for the act, it is believed his risk ( and the fact that it paid off ) eventually secured his role as Captain of Enterprise, Earth's first warp five starship.

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 album appeared five years later in Japan on Captain Trip Records.

In 2004, he appeared in five films, including Wes Anderson's quirky comedy The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ; the British gangster flick Layer Cake ; theatrical drama Being Julia ; and CGI action fantasy Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Gordon's maternal grandfather was Captain Edward L. Baker, one of the five Medal of Honor winners ( 9th Cav.

A temporary tarmacadam runway of 910 m ( 3, 000 ft ) in length which was paid for by the plane's insurers was laid to enable the aircraft to leave five weeks later, whereas in the meantime Captain Ocaña became a local celebrity.

In 1987 a memorial was erected in honor of the five Soviet Air Force Su-25 " Frogfoot " pilots who had been killed during the war, including Captain Burak and Senior Lieutenants Aleshin, Zemlyakov, Paltusov and Hero of the Soviet Union Pavlyukov.

Gregory Sierra appeared in the season one episode " The Gauntlet ", playing General Antonio Vasquez, the season two episode " Jack of Lies ", playing Colonel Antunnez, and the season five episode " The Treasure of Manco ", playing Captain Diaz.