* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.

On May 3, 1952, U. S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher and Lieutenant William Pershing Benedict, along with scientist Albert P. Crary, landed a modified Douglas C-47 Skytrain at the North Pole.

When the American Revolutionary War started in 1775, Ethan Allen and a troop of his men, along with Connecticut Colonel Benedict Arnold, marched up to Lake Champlain and captured the strategically important military posts at Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Fort George, all in New York.

These included Lt. General Ben Lear, Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lt. General Walter Krueger, General George S. Patton, Jr., and Major J. L. Benedict.

Samuel Spring, John's son, became a Revolutionary War Chaplain commissioned in the militia at the Siege of Boston, and who also served in the Invasion of Canada ( 1775 ) under Colonel Benedict Arnold.

Colonel Benedict Arnold convinced General Washington to send an eastern offensive in support of Montgomery's invasion.

The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison.

The Battle of Groton Heights ( also known as the Battle of Fort Griswold, and occasionally called the Fort Griswold massacre ) was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on September 6, 1781, between a small Connecticut militia force led by Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard and the more numerous British forces led by Brigadier General Benedict Arnold and Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Eyre.

Later that year, serving as a division ( battalion ) commander under Colonel Benedict Arnold, he accompanied Arnold on his 1, 100-man expedition through Maine to Canada.

Colonel Christopher Patrick Benedict Keeble, DSO, MSc, FCMI ( born 14 November 1941 ) is a retired officer in the British Army, most noted for his service in the Falklands War of 1982.

* Compton, Charles B .: Born to Fly: Some Life Sketches of Lieutenant Colonel William P. Benedict, self-published 2002, revised 2006.

In September 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Benedict Arnold led a force of 1, 100 Continental Army troops on an expedition from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the gates of Quebec City.

In 1934, Colonel Hap Arnold assigned an Army Air Corps officer to survey a area of the California desert in order to establish the Muroc remote bombing range.

Conscious that March Field was located in an area of increasing growth, and with the need for bombing and gunnery ranges for his units, base and 1st Wing commander Lieutenant Colonel Henry H. " Hap " Arnold began the process of acquiring land next to the Rogers dry lake for a new bombing range away from population areas in August 1932 ( the last tract was not acquired until 1939 ).

Lieutenant Colonel Henry H. ( Hap ) Arnold, base commander from 1931 to 1936, began a series of well-publicized maneuvers to gain public attention.

At first all went well for André since the post commandant Lieutenant Colonel John Jameson decided to send him to Arnold, never suspecting that a high-ranking hero of the Revolution could be a turncoat, but then Major Benjamin Tallmadge, head of Continental Army Intelligence, arrived and persuaded Jameson to bring the prisoner back.

In August 1943, Colonel Roosevelt was asked by the Chief of the Army Air Forces, General Henry H. " Hap " Arnold, to investigate several reconnaissance aircraft under development to select a successor to the Lockheed P-38 ( F-4 and F-5 in the recon version ), though the reason for Arnold's choice of Roosevelt was not made public.

His clients in the charter service included Eddy Arnold, Colonel Tom Parker, Hank Williams, Carl Smith, Webb Pierce, and Elvis Presley.

There was an engagement to marry US Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Richard " Dick " Arnold, that overlapped her initial period with Eisenhower ; however, this was ended by the death of her fiancé during the North Africa campaign.

The civil government of postwar Iraq was headed originally by the High Commissioner, Sir Percy Cox, and his deputy, Colonel Arnold Wilson.

In 1944, Arnold signed a contract with RCA Victor, with manager Colonel Tom Parker, who later managed Elvis Presley.

While Sir Malcolm Arnold did use Colonel Bogey in his score for the film, it was only the first theme and a bit of the second theme of Colonel Bogey, whistled unaccompanied by the British prisoners several times as they marched into the prison camp, the whistled theme eventually supported by the first theme of Arnold ’ s original “ River Kwai March ”, the opening theme of which was based on the same chord progression as the first theme of Colonel Bogey.

On January 22, 1829, at the age of 35, Houston married 19-year-old Eliza Allen, the daughter of the well-connected planter Colonel John Allen ( 1776 – 1833 ) of Gallatin, Tennessee, who was a friend of Andrew Jackson.

In September 1776 the Continental Congress commissioned Marion as a Lieutenant Colonel.

On December 17, 1776, Colonel Samuel Griffin of the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River with 600 men — mostly untrained men and boys, and with little equipment — and marched to Mount Holly, where he set up a few " 3-pounder " artillery pieces on Iron Works Hill.

James Chambers fought for seven years during the revolution, reaching the rank of Colonel of Continental troops on September 26, 1776.

On 28 June 1776, an incomplete fort was held by colonial forces under Colonel William Moultrie against an onslaught by the British under General Sir Henry Clinton's army sailing with Commodore Sir Peter Parker's men-of-war.

He initially served as a volunteer, but on October 18, 1776, Congress commissioned him a Colonel of Engineers in the Continental Army.

The excavation came in October 1776 when a team of Cornish miners overseen by the Duke of Northumberland and Colonel Edward Drax sank a vertical shaft from the top.

The siege was broken in March 1776 when Continental Army Colonel Henry Knox brought heavy artillery from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston during the winter, and General Washington used them to fortify Dorchester Heights, overlooking Boston and its harbour.

Between November 1775 and February 1776, Colonel Henry Knox and a team of engineers used sledges to retrieve 60 tons of heavy artillery that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga.

When the British evacuated Boston on March 17, 1776, Colonel Learned was the first to enter the city.

He was a Colonel in the Continental Army in 1776.

Colonel James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe PC ( 6 October 1776 – 19 December 1845 ), was a British soldier and politician.

The fort was reoccupied by Colonial troops under the command of Colonel Elias Dayton on July 12, 1776.

Donop was the senior officer present in southern New Jersey in late 1776, and commanded the garrisons in Trenton, Burlington, and Bordentown, which consisted of several Hessian battalions, the Forty-second Highland Regiment ( commanded by Colonel Stirling ), and Jäger detachments.

On December 22, 1776, Colonial militia under the command of Colonel Samuel Griffin attacked von Donop's southern outposts at Slabtown.

In February 1776, Sumter was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the Second Regiment of the South Carolina Line of which he was later appointed Colonel.

He served as adjutant in Colonel Seth Warner's regiment in Canada in 1775, and was then commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the regiment known as the Green Mountain Boys in July 1776.

In 1776 Pennsylvania began raising new units for the Continental Army, and on March 21, 1776, Atlee was named Colonel of a unit, the Pennsylvania Musketry Battalion.

In 1776, Colonel John Cadwalader was elected senior officer of the Philadelphia Associators, a volunteer militia founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1747.

In 1776, he fought under the command of Colonel Lachlan McIntosh in the Battle of the Rice Boats and the Battle of Tybee Island.

At the onset of the War for Independence, he was appointed Colonel of the 12th Virginia Regiment in 1776 and commanded that unit during the Philadelphia campaign and Monmouth campaigns of the next two years.

## Colonel Robert Lindsay, Jr. ( 1776 – 1818, m. Letitia Harper )