In 1767 Captain Philip Carteret rediscovered the Santa Cruz Islands and Malaita.

* August 12 – King Philip ( Metacomet ), the chief of the Wampanoags that had waged war throughout southern New England in a war that bore his name, is killed by an Indian named Alderman, a soldier led by Captain Benjamin Church.

Austin ordered that 100 men remain at Goliad, under the command of Captain Philip Dimmitt, while the rest should join the Texian Army in marching on Cos's troops in Béxar.

When Captain Dana " Dynamite " Holmes ( Philip Ober ) learns of his reputation as a talented boxer, he recommends that Prewitt join the regimental boxing club that he heads, and promises that Prewitt will be promoted to corporal or even sergeant, if he helps win the boxing trophy on December 15, but Prewitt refuses, though he keeps silent about his reasons.

* Philip Ober as Captain Dana " Dynamite " Holmes

The Gila Trail going along the Gila River in Arizona, across the Colorado River and then across the Sonora Desert in California was scouted by Stephen Kearny's troops and later by Captain Philip St. George Cooke's Mormon Battalion in 1846 who were the first to take a wagon the whole way.

* Philip Stone as Captain Philip Blumburtt: A British Captain in the Indian Army called to Pankot Palace for " exercises ".

These include the Nocturne, the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, the Canticles, the operas Peter Grimes and Albert Herring ( title roles ), his adaption of The Beggar's Opera ( Macheath ), Owen Wingrave ( Sir Philip Wingrave ), Billy Budd ( Captain Vere ), The Turn of the Screw ( Quint ), Death in Venice ( Aschenbach ) and the three Church Parables.

Author Philip Wylie wrote a series of short stories, Crunch and Des, beginning in the 1940s, which featured a similarly named Captain Crunch Adams.

* Philip José Farmer's Science Fiction / Steampunk parallel novel The Other Log of Phileas Fogg asserts that Moriarty and Jules Verne's Captain Nemo were one and the same person.

" The Life and Services of Captain Philip Beaver " 1829

The name ' Admiralty Islands ' was devised by Captain Philip Carteret of the British Royal Navy in 1767.

She received orders for many different missions: she was one of the ships that attacked the Forts St. Philip and Jackson, and under the command of Captain James Alden, Jr. she was part of the fleet that helped to blockade Mobile Bay.

Historical novels with Bartholomew Roberts as the main character include The Devil's Captain by Philip Shea ( 1992 ), The Requiem Shark by Nicholas Griffin ( 1999 ) and The Devil's Captain by Frank Sherry ( 2000 ).

This maneuver has been controversial ever since, because in the fog of battle generated by the guns and ships ( the wind blowing towards the Americans ), it seemed to threaten Texas with collision and Captain Philip of the Texas ordered her to reverse engines for six minutes brought the Texas to a near standstill until the Brooklyn passed across the Texas ' bow.

The 1840s saw a few settlers making their appearance here — Captain John Page, the Nobles brothers, Dr. Philip Aldrich, Ammah Andrews, Moses Perrin, Colonel James Hughes, Daniel Anderson, and others.

Initially the settlement was called Patersonia ; however, Paterson later changed the name to Launceston in honour of the New South Wales Governor Captain Philip Gidley King, who was born in Launceston, Cornwall.

Captain Philip Gidley King RN ( 23 April 1758 – 3 September 1808 ) was the third Governor of New South Wales, and did much to civilise the young colony in the face of great obstacles.

* In the film Star Trek Generations, the villain Tolian Soran quotes from Schwartz's poem, “ Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day ”, telling Captain Jean-Luc Picard, “ They say time is the fire in which we burn .” Playwright Philip Ridley uses the same line as one of the epigraphs for his 2012 play Shivered.

Philip was ultimately killed by one of these teams when he was tracked down by colony-allied Native Americans led by Captain Benjamin Church and Captain Josiah Standish of the Plymouth Colony militia at Mt.

* 1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.

There is also an urban legend that the first game of polo in America was played in Boerne, Texas at retired British officer Captain Glynn Turquand's famous Balcones Ranch.

As a young man, Captain Bill McDonald of the Texas Rangers operated a small store at Brown's Bluff on the Sabine in Gregg County, Texas.

In 1905, Roosevelt, an admirer of various western figures, named Captain Bill McDonald of the Texas Rangers, as his bodyguard and entertained the legendary Texan in the White House.

Rangers Captain is the mascot for the Texas Rangers.

* March 2 – The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II under Captain James Gallagher lands in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight ( it was refueled in flight 4 times ).

Raised in a military family in the American Old West, MacArthur was valedictorian at the West Texas Military Academy, and First Captain at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated top of the class of 1903.

In 1854, Captain Marcy returned to the county in search of suitable locations for a reservation for Texas Indians.

The first white child in Motley County, Nora Cooper, was born in 1882 near what is the now ghost town of Tee Pee City, a camp operated by buffalo hunters and later the headquarters of the Texas Rangers under Captain G. W.

The county is named for Tennessee transplant Captain John Coffee Hays of the Texas Rangers.

::: February 24 – Captain Albert Martin delivers to Smithers in Gonzales the infamous “ Victory or Death ” Travis letter addressed “ To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World ” stating the direness of the situation.

Cameron is named for Captain Ewen Cameron, a soldier during the Texas Revolution and in the ill-fated Mier Expedition.

Another Kemper County native was the legendary Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald.

In July 1844, the Mexican government granted Rancho Cotate ( encompassing present-day towns of Cotati, Penngrove and Rohnert Park, and home to Coast Miwok people ) to Captain Juan Castaneda, a Mexican military commander from Texas, in payment for his service as a soldier under General Vallejo.

Among them is Reid's brother, Captain Daniel Reid, who is the Captain of the Texas Rangers.

The shipyards of Brownsville, Pa, provided Captain Richard King of Brownsville, Texas, ( founder of the King Ranch ), with powerful new built riverboats to navigate the fast currents of the Rio Grande River, in 1849.

Eckhardt participated in the Texas Revolution and may have met Captain York during military service.

Retired Navy Captain, former Professor of Naval Science at the University of Texas at Austin.

Alarmed at reported French activities in Texas, the Viceroy of Spain in 1689 dispatched a Spanish expedition under Captain Alonzo de Leon, with one hundred men who penetrated the Trinity River region of Texas in the vicinity of present Liberty.

Penned by Texas folk singer Willis Alan Ramsey, Captain & Tennille would take the song to the top 10 in late 1976.

Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers had acquired some of the first Colt revolvers produced during the Seminole War and seen first-hand their effective use as his 15-man unit defeated a larger force of 70 Comanche in Texas.