On November 8, 1966 at Tay Ninh Province in the Republic of Vietnam, Captain Rubio's company came under attack from the North Vietnamese Army ; leaving the safety of his post, Rubio received two serious wounds as he braved the intense enemy fire to distribute ammunition, re-establish positions and render aid to the wounded.

Many episodes feature a popular television program called " Star of Space " in which actors portray the crew of the Boiling Hell in many of Captain Star's most heroic missions.

On January 10, 2012, the Captain Carlsen Park in Sewaren ,( Woodbridge Township ) NJ was rededicated to the heroic efforts of Captain Carlsen.

The series follows the actions of an interplanetary police force in the year 2100, and focuses on the crew of Galasphere 347 under the command of the heroic ( and, unusually for this type of series, bearded ) Captain Larry Dart.

The Death of General Wolfe ( 1771 ) by Benjamin West, The Death of Captain James Cook ( 1779 ) by Johann Zoffany, The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 and The Death of Major Pierson ( 1784 ) by John Singleton Copley are leading examples of the new type, which ignored complaints about the unsuitability of modern dress for heroic subjects.

* the " heroic " " self-inflicted death " of a soldier who throws himself on a hand grenade to save his mates, or that of the Antarctic explorer Captain Lawrence Oates (“ I am just going outside and may be some time ”); or

Four U. S. Marines were awarded the Medal of Honor for their heroic actions during the Battle of Guam: PFC Luther Skaggs Jr., PFC Frank Witek ( posthumously ), PFC Leonard F. Mason ( posthumously ) and Captain ( later General ) Louis H. Wilson, Jr ..

The series also tell the story of a second Captain Action, Miles's rebellious son, Cole Drake, who inherits the heroic identity in the 21st Century.

In 1757 during the Seven Years War, young Captain Nicholas Herkimer ( later to be a heroic general in the Revolutionary War ) had his first military command here when the French attacked German Flatts in 1757 and 1758.

As a reward for his gallantry and his heroic defence of the Colour, Latham was given a special promotion to Captain and was later presented with a gold medal by his brother officers.

The only surviving superhero of this world, Captain UK, had fled to Earth-616 and abandoned her heroic identity.

A futuristic version Commander Cold is a heroic Captain Cold as part of the 25th Century cops known as The Renegades from Professor Zoom's future, and the team's leader.

* Mr. Mind was the inspiration for The Wicked Worm, a villain featured in the Image Comics series The Savage Dragon ( correlating to the Wicked Worm's heroic adversary, Mighty Man, being a counterpart to Captain Marvel ).

Hoppy's stories occasionally feature his girlfriend Millie, who ( like Lois Lane ) despises the meek Hoppy but worships the heroic Captain Marvel Bunny.

The charge was led by Lieutenant-Colonel Cleland and Captain Neville, the former of whom fell dangerously wounded: but the ground, terraced for irrigation purposes and intersected by nullahs, so impeded our cavalry that the charge, heroic as it was, made little or no impression upon the overwhelming numbers of the enemy.

They escape, committing one supreme act of sabotage and revenge before Dendarii Captain Bel Thorne manages to negotiate a ransom.

A glittering crowd attended the first night in London, including Captain ( later Captain Sir ) Eyre Massey Shaw, head of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, whom the Fairy Queen apostrophizes in the second act (" Oh, Captain Shaw / Type of true love kept under / Could thy brigade with cold cascade / Quench my great love, I wonder ?").

The " Puffin ' Billy " theme played as the opening of each episode, with the music continuing until the Captain hung his large ring of keys on a nail ( which seemed to act as a switch to turn off the music ).

The soldiers of the 69th, with an alacrity which will ever do them credit, and Lieutenant Pearson of the same regiment, were almost the foremost on this service – the first man who jumped into the enemy's mizen chains was Commander Berry, late my First Lieutenant ( Captain Miller was in the very act of going also, but I directed him to remain ); he was supported from our sprit sail yard, which hooked in the mizen rigging.

The reason why the Aube sailed ahead of the Comte-de-Paris was to ‘ gain time for fear the British might get the start of them ’ Yet the New Zealand Company's survey ship Tory had sailed from Plymouth on 12 May 1839, before Langlois and his associates had made their first approach to the French government, and as early as June the British Government was considering sending Captain William Hobson to act as Lieutenant-Governor over such parts of New Zealand as might be acquired from the Māori.

A coveted trainee slot with the Canadian Intelligence Corps saw Berton, now a Captain, trained to act as an Intelligence Officer ( IO ), and after a stint as an instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, he finally went overseas in March 1945.

Jules Verne describes in his novel Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen ( 1878 ) that when a fictional African " King of Kazounde " tasted a punch set aflame, " An act of spontaneous combustion had just taken place.

Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth, Captain Hook was born the illegitimate son of a nobleman, " Lord B ", and an unnamed woman Hook has never met ( however, throughout the story, there are multiple clues in the way characters act and react that the unnamed woman may in fact be the Queen ).

Captain David Martin, a veteran of the War of 1812 received a land grant for in Lykins County, Kansas ( Miami County, Kansas ) due to an 1855 congressional act.

On April 5, 1849 the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania signed an act creating Lawrence County named in honor of U. S. Navy Captain James Lawrence.

The marker was placed more than 35 years after her death by Captain Thomas R. Ranson, one of the soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, an act considered symbolic of the affection of his troops for their fallen leader.

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.

Captain Scarlet becomes Spectrum's foremost weapon in its fight against the Mysterons after the events of the pilot episode, in which the Mysterons threaten to assassinate the World President as their first act of retaliation.

Its first act was the prime duo of Disco Daddy & Captain Rapp.

George hypnotizes Mr. Krupp to act as if he were Captain Underpants, who is the hero of their homemade comic books.

The setting of her involvement with the League begins with her divorce from Charles after he is caught in the act in a brothel kept by former League member Amber St. Clare, and is shown to have been sexually involved with both Gulliver and Captain Clegg nearly 40 years before the second League was founded.

Captain John Purchas, commanding the company, was killed in the act of waving a flag of truce ( his white waistcoat ).

His first act as captain was to lead the crew back to Príncipe to avenge the death of Captain Davis.

Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy ( 16 December 1847 – 21 May 1923 ) was a commissioned officer in the French armed forces during the second half of the 19th century who has gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused and convicted in 1894 ( see Dreyfus affair ).

In 1986, the Sophist-Pop duo Double became the first Swiss act to hit the US Top 40 charts with their song, " The Captain of Her Heart.

Harvard law professor Theophilus Parsons wrote, “ I am just as certain that Wilkes had a legal right to take Mason and Slidell from the Trent, as I am that our government has a legal right to blockade the port of Charleston .” Caleb Cushing, a prominent Democrat, and former Attorney General ( under Franklin Pierce ) concurred: “ In my judgment, the act of Captain Wilkes was one which any and every self-respecting nation must and would have done by its own sovereign right and power, regardless of circumstances .” Richard Henry Dana, Jr., considered an expert on maritime law, justified the detention because the envoys were engaged “ solely a mission hostile to the United States ,” making them guilty of “ treason within our municipal law .” Edward Everett, a former minister to Great Britain and a former Secretary of State, also argued that “ the detention was perfectly lawful their confinement in Fort Warren will be perfectly lawful .”

They are small, matted and dirty enough to sprout fungi and grasses on their hides ( and seem to relate to soil as trolls relate to rock ), and act as street-cleaners in cities like Ankh-Morpork ; as Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson puts it, they " pick up this, pick up that, maybe bang it against the wall until it stops struggling ..." In the case of at least Stoolie, if not every gnoll on the Discworld, there seems to be a tendency to drop the vowels in words, reflecting a croaking sort of voice.

The Captain and Tennille remained a popular live act, although their chart success had started to wane.

That these settlers survived at all is due in large measure to Captain John Smith, a pirate turned gentleman.

Miller turned his ship towards Artémise, but Captain Pierre-Jean Standelet struck his flag and ordered his men to abandon the frigate.

Mipps then joined Syn in his quest for revenge, pursuing Tappitt and Imogene throughout the thirteen American colonies ( supposedly preaching the gospel to the Indians ) and around the world ( as part of a whaling voyage ) afterwards, and was with him in the Caribbean when Dr. Syn turned again to piracy, assuming the name of Captain Clegg ( taking the name " Clegg " from a certain vicious biting fly he had encountered in America ), hijacking his enemy Tappitt's own ship and crew and sailing off with them ( renaming the ship the Imogene ) to become the most infamous pirate of the day.

The discussion had turned to a book that Wordsworth was reading, A Voyage Round The World by Way of the Great South Sea ( 1726 ) by Captain George Shelvocke.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

" The Fifth Bureau " made extensive use of " turned " FLN members, one such network being run by Captain Paul-Alain Leger of the 10th Paras.

That boxcar was then turned upright as a building, and as a compliment to Captain Wynne, it was designated the " Wynne Station ".

The company was led by Captain Henry Mouzon and later turned into the battalion and then formed a brigade led by Francis Marion against the British.

He turned to his flag Captain, Foley, and said " You know, Foley, I only have one eye — I have the right to be blind sometimes ," and then, holding his telescope to his blind eye, said " I really do not see the signal !".

Columbia Pictures gave him a chance for a comeback ; The Captain Hates the Sea ( 1934 ) featured a capable performance by Gilbert as a frustrated playwright, but offscreen the ensemble cast of heavy drinkers did nothing for Gilbert's discipline, and the film turned out to be his last.

As it turned out, Captain Longstocking was washed ashore upon a South Sea island known as Kurrekurredutt Isle, where he was made the " fat white chief " by its native people.

While a midshipman aboard the HMS Resolution commanded by a friend of General Aubrey's, Captain Douglas, Jack was turned before the mast for hiding a girl aboard the ship.

Sherborne was also home to Captain Christopher Levett, a Yorkshire native who came to the West Country as His Majesty's Woodward of Somersetshire, and who remained in Sherborne as he turned to a career as a naval captain and early explorer of New England.

Command is turned over to Captain Matthew Gideon who is given a mission: explore the galaxy to either find a cure or an ally capable of producing one (" War Zone ").

The Catalpa was presented as a gift to Captain Anthony, John Richardson and Henry Hathaway, it was eventually sold and turned into a coal barge.

* In 1813, HMS Racoon was dispatched to Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River during the War of 1812 to seize the post, which as it turned out had already been sold to the North-West Company ; the fort was renamed by the ship's Captain Black as Fort George.

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band was also invited to appear but, according to the liner notes for the CD reissue of their album Safe As Milk, the band turned the offer down at the insistence of guitarist Ry Cooder, who felt the group was not ready.

Captain Jack turned, giving the signal to fire.

He was captured by the Interpol agent Sean Cassidy and turned over to the KGB, which wanted to experiment and attempt to create a super soldier similar to Captain America.

Umbar's fleet was largely destroyed 29 years later, when Thorongil, in fact Aragorn, the last heir to the throne of Gondor, as it later turned out, who was then in the service of the Steward of Gondor Ecthelion II in disguise, led a taskforce south and burned them, killing the Captain of the Haven in the process.

Captain Yamaguchi Ichitarō, who was the commander on duty at 1st Infantry Regiment, knew of unfolding events, but turned a blind eye to their action, even when the troops involved in the incident threatened and confined NCO's guarding the powder magazine, and arms and ammunition.

For this version of the band, the musical direction of the band turned more towards psychedelic-tinged rock ' n ' roll that became better known as grunge, which would later explode in Seattle, as well as incorporating the influence of bands such as The Cramps, Suicide, The Stooges and Captain Beefheart.

In the final Tintin album, Tintin and the Picaros, the tables are turned when Tintin and the Captain steal the costumes from the group with which Wagg is traveling.

Bucephaluss commander, Captain Charles Pelly, turned about and tried to lead the pursuing French over shoals, but seeing the danger, they hauled off and abandoned the chase, returning to Europe.