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Captain Germán Astete of the Peruvian Navy took with him dozens of Gatling guns from the US to Peru in December 1879 during the Peru-Chile War of the Pacific.
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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.
Captain and Astete
Led by the retired Navy Captain German Astete, it took part in the inconclusive Battle of Pacocha in which, at the helm of the monitor " Huáscar ", they were forced to flee by two British ships, the " Amethyst " and the " Shah ".
Captain and Peruvian
An early recorded mention of the term " El Niño " to refer to climate occurs in 1892, when Captain Camilo Carrillo told the Geographical society congress in Lima that Peruvian sailors named the warm northerly current " El Niño " because it was most noticeable around Christmas.
In his September 1792 dispatch log report for the British Admiralty, Captain Vancouver reveals that his decision here was rather meant to honour a request by the Spanish Peruvian seafarer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra that Vancouver:
::-The first mention of the term " El Niño " to refer to climate occurs when Captain Camilo Carrilo told the Geographical society congress in Lima that Peruvian sailors named the warm northerly current " El Niño " because it was most noticeable around Christmas.
The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wrote his work Captain Pantoja and the Special Service inspired by the city.
The Cochrane, Captain Latorre, began to shell the Peruvian ironclad.
Lt. Captain Gaona ’ s gunners caused heavy casualties among the Peruvian crew: the Chileans were using Palliser type armor-piercing rounds, which exploded right after penetrating the hull.
By June 1, 1874, he became the commanding officer of the Peruvian Navy's fleet as Captain, and later became a member of the Congress of the Republic of Peru as an elected congressman in 1876 representing Paita.
: During the naval combat that took place in the waters of Iquique, between the Chilean and Peruvian ships, on the 21st day of the last month, your worthy and valiant husband Captain Mr. Arturo Prat, Commander of the Esmeralda, was, like you would not ignore any longer, victim of his reckless valor in defense and glory of his country ’ s flag.
Immediately after, and given Chile's obvious weak naval power-which at the time, was almost non-existent-a Peruvian squadron under the command of Captain Lizardo Montero, composed of several ships, among them the steam frigates Amazonas and Apurímac, set out southward to reinforce the Chilean ally.
This squadron had been placed under the command of Peruvian Captain Manuel Villar and had taken refuge at Abtao, a well protected inlet near the gulf of Chiloé, in southern Chile.
Captain and Navy
* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
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.
The team leader (# 1 ) is the Commanding Officer and is always a Navy Commander, who may be promoted to Captain mid-tour if approved for Captain by the selection board.
The US Navy warship Lexington visited the atoll in late 1915 and advised evacuation of all inhabitants, but the governor, Captain Arnaud, declared that evacuation was not necessary.
In a one-on-one fight, Syn defeated and killed Captain Satan to take command of his ship and crew ; among them was Mr. Mipps, a former Royal Navy carpenter with whom Syn had become friends in England after rescuing him from the Customs men.
Many years later, Captain Collyer, a Royal Navy officer assigned to smash the local smuggling ring, uncovered the deception and Dr. Syn's true identity, thanks in part to the tongueless mulatto ( who had been rescued by Collyer years before and who had been serving Collyer as a " ferret " seeking out hidden contraband ) who recognized Syn as Clegg.
* 1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate – Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland class cruiser ( pocket battleship ) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles.
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 James Cook, FRS, RN ( 7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779 ) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.
Shaffer largely based his allegations on the recollections of Navy Captain Scott Phillpott, who later recanted his recollection, telling investigators that he was " convinced that Atta was not on the chart that we had ".
Nauru was finally set free from the Japanese on 13 September 1945, when Captain Solda, the commander of all the Japanese troops on Nauru, surrendered the island to the Royal Australian Navy and Army.
The Italian explorer Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi and Captain Umberto Cagni of the Italian Royal Navy ( Regia Marina ) sailed the converted whaler Stella Polare (" Pole Star ") from Norway in 1899.
Among the commanding officers of the Argentine Garrison was Alfredo Astiz, a Captain in the Argentine Navy who, years later, was convicted of felonies committed during the Dirty War in Argentina.
Captain Robert April, the Enterprise's first commanding officer, was present at the San Francisco Navy Yards when the vessel's major components were built and prepared for assembly in Starfleet's orbital drydock facilities.
United States Army | Army Captain ( United States ) | Captain receiving the Silver Star from United States Navy | Navy Admiral ( United States ) | Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The first capture of a Naval Enigma machine and associated cipher keys from a U-boat were made on May 9, 1941 by HMS Bulldog of Britain's Royal Navy, commanded by Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell.
* April 14 – Otto Dowling, United States Navy Captain, and the 25th Governor of American Samoa ( b. 1881 )
* January 26 – MacGillivray Milne, United States Navy Captain, and the 27th Governor of American Samoa ( b. 1882 )
* January 15 – George Landenberger, United States Navy Captain and the 23rd Governor of American Samoa ( b. 1879 )
Captain and took
All Captain Gibault took back to Salem were a few items for the town's East India Museum.
With his opponent defeated, Captain Thomas Louis then took Minotaur south to join the attack on Franklin.
Captain Janeway took command of the Intrepid-class USS Voyager in 2371.
* " The Cage ", in which Number One took command after the abduction of Captain Christopher Pike, and
* " Turnabout Intruder ", in which Dr. Janice Lester took over the body of Captain Kirk and assumed command.
In addition to being the communications officer, she acted as the " Captain's Woman " ( a combination yeoman / concubine ) of Captain Maximillian Forrest and then Commander Jonathan Archer after Archer took control of the ISS Enterprise.
After the senior Romulan leadership was assassinated in the Romulan Senate, the Remans took over the Senate and Shinzon became Praetor ; he was, however, dispatched by Captain Jean-Luc Picard shortly afterwards.
* HMS Discovery, one of the ships which took Captain George Nares ' British Arctic Expedition of 1875 – 1876 to the North Pole ; and
The orbiter is named after the British HMS Endeavour, the ship which took Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery ( 1768 – 1771 ).
The song's popularity increased, and its first public performance took place in October, when Baltimore actor Ferdinand Durang sang it at Captain McCauley's tavern.
He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage ( 1768 – 1771 ).
The Admiralty gave command of the storeship Porpoise and the convoy to the lower ranked Captain Joseph Short and Bligh took command of a transport ship.
The body of Captain William Kidd hanging in a Gibbeting | gibbet over the Thames, the result of confusion over whether Captain Kidd took prizes legally under a Letter of Marque, or illegally as a pirate.
In Munich, Hitler took part in " national thinking " courses organized by the Education and Propaganda Department of the Bavarian Reichswehr under Captain Karl Mayr.
Of the respite thus afforded to her, the Captain took immediate advantage, replenishing her lockers with shot and splicing and repairing her running rigging.
In December 1894 the degradation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus was held before the main building, while his subsequent rehabilitation ceremony took place in a courtyard of the complex in 1906.
* Mike Kazaleh's comic The Adventures of Captain Jack took place on the planet Pootwattle and featured a character who used many of Doodles ' jokes and catchphrases, such as " That's a killer!
Captain Hook is introduced in the animated film as a cunning, sinister man, plotting to trap Peter in his lair, but also a bit of a buffoon, hiding from the crocodile nicknamed ' Tick Tock ' who took off his hand.
It takes its name from Captain Martin Becher who fell there in the first Grand National and took shelter in the small brook running along the landing side of the fence while the remainder of the field thundered over.
The flight and mysterious crash of Captain Craig D. Button took off from Davis – Monthan Air Force Base on 12 April 1997.
The expedition then moved on sledges to go further north, then to open water, where they used boats to reach the Black Cape of Novaya Zemlya and would eventually contact a Russian schooner, " Nikolaj ", under Captain Feodor Veronin, and get to Vardø, Norway, where they took the mail boat south and eventually returned to Vienna.
After Jackson took Front Royal on May 23, he penned a note of gratitude to Belle, and named her an honorary Captain.
Skull took the cure and apparently killed Superia, then arranged for Captain America to be kidnapped by his remaining forces and given a blood transfusion that cured him.
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