Overall command of Union forces in the Department of New Mexico fell to Colonel Edward R. S. Canby of the Regular Army ’ s 19th Infantry, headquartered at Ft. Marcy in Santa Fe.

Carson, with the rank of Colonel of Volunteers, commanded the third of five columns in Canby ’ s force.

Colonel Carson ’ s column spent the morning on the west side of the river out of the action, but at 1 p. m., Canby ordered them to cross.

After the battle at Valverde, Colonel Canby and most of the regular troops were ordered to the eastern front.

Major Lynde then abandoned Fort Fillmore and began a march north to join the troops at Fort Craig under Colonel Edward R. S. Canby.

The commanders of the New Mexico Campaign were the Confederate Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley, and the Union Colonel Edward Canby.

Following the assassination of Major General Edward Canby and another member of a peace delegation during a peace conference on April 11, 1873, the Army, under the command of Colonel Alvan Gillem, made preparations to attack the Stronghold.

Throughout the New Mexico Campaign, his opponent was Colonel Edward Canby, formerly a comrade in arms in the U. S. Army.

Union forces in the Department of New Mexico were led by Colonel Edward Canby, who headquartered at Fort Craig.

Canby attacked, but the Union forces were driven back by the Confederates under Colonel Thomas Green, who took command after Sibley was indisposed ( some say of drunkenness ).

* 1864 Colonel Kit Carson was ordered by Canby to bring four companies of the First New Mexico Volunteers to the fort to control the Navajo.

Sibley's first step was to gather an army in El Paso, Texas and lead it north along the Rio Grande River with the objective of capturing Fort Craig and the supplies in the fort and defeating the Federal army under Colonel Edward Canby.

Canby then sent a mixed force of infantry, cavalry, and artillery to the ford under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin S. Roberts of the 5th New Mexico Infantry.

When he arrived, Canby moved most of his command, including the artillery, to the eastern bank, leaving the First New Mexico Volunteers under Carson and the Second New Mexico Volunteers under Colonel Miguel Piño on the western bank as a reserve.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

Not long after Colonel Van Hamm had foisted me on the Watson staff I received a salary raise and a contract on the Hetman's recommendation.

and the artillerist, Colonel Prevost, whom the Count De Segur had persuaded to lend his technical skills to Nassau.

Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

From there, his body was taken to the home of Colonel William Inge, which had been his headquarters in Corinth.

* 1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d ' état against Juan Bosch.

When Colonel de Gaulle did organize a counter-attack with superior French tanks, he did not have the air support to gain the upper hand and had to retreat.

Colonel Azali Assoumani seized power in a bloodless coup in April 1999, overthrowing Interim President Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, who himself had held the office since the death of democratically elected President Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim in November, 1998.

He had been living as a retired US Air Force Colonel in Bedford, Massachusetts, at the time of his death.

The first Commandant was Samuel Nicholas, who took office as a captain, though there was no office titled " Commandant " at the time, and the Second Continental Congress had authorized that the senior-most Marine could take a rank up to Colonel.

By the time of the rebel headquarter's surrender, the South Staffordshire Regiment under Colonel Taylor had advanced only down the street at a cost of 11 dead and 28 wounded.

The next day, Lesi Korovavala, Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Home Affairs, told the Fiji Village news service that the Military had undertaken the reductions on its own initiative, in consultation with the department, an explanation corroborated by Lieutenant Colonel Rabukawaqa.

Once Selig had taken up production in California, they used the ( fairly ) wild animals from the zoo that Colonel Selig had set up there in a series of exotic adventures, with the actors being menaced or saved by the animals.

Douglass first tried to escape from Freeland, who had hired him out from his owner Colonel Lloyd, but was unsuccessful.

Conté had to suppress his first revolt in July 1985, by his immediate deputy, Colonel Diarra Traoré.

The exchange was for Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher ( aka Rudolf Abel ), who had been caught by the FBI and jailed for espionage.

According to a statement in July 2009 by a legal counsel of the Honduras military, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza, the Honduran military was opposed to President Manuel Zelaya, whom the military had removed from Honduras a few days earlier, because of his left-wing politics.

Rudyard Kipling, who wrote a history of the Irish Guards, in which his own son fought and was killed, noted that, " it is undeniable that Colonel Alexander had the gift of handling the men on the lines to which they most readily responded ... His subordinates loved him, even when he fell upon them blisteringly for their shortcomings ; and his men were all his own.

Colonel David Smiley, an aristocratic Guards officer who had helped Enver Hoxha and his Communist guerillas to liberate Albania, now prepared to liberate it from Hoxha.

As it was believed that in a colony of free settlers there would be little crime, no provision was made for a gaol in Colonel Light's 1837 plan.

Lieutenant Colonel William Harold Dunn ( 1898-1955 ) wrote a medical and psychiatric report on him in prison to evaluate him as a suicide risk: He gave the impression of clinging to his own theories in a fanatical and unyielding fashion and to have been little influenced by the unfolding during the trial of the cruelty and crimes of the party.

In the late 1880s, he was Governor of the Red Sea Territories ( which in practice consisted of little more than the Port of Suakin ) with the brevet rank of Colonel.

An undercover commando squad from the French intelligence agency SDECE ( now DGSE ), joined by Special Forces ' 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment, or 1 < sup > er </ sup > RPIMa, led by Colonel Brancion-Rouge, landed by Transall and managed to secure the Bangui Mpoko airport with little resistance.

The destruction of this undefended city, which was of little strategic importance, was carried out by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers under the command of a reluctant Colonel Robert Gould Shaw ( who would later call the raid a " Satanic action ") and the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers under the command of Colonel James Montgomery.

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.

Colonel Groom ’ s son, Harrison Groom established a camp at the edge of a little lake just west of the present town of White Deer.

The war was swiftly conducted by Admiral Robert Stopford, General Frederick Augustus Wetherall, and Colonel Rollo Gillespie, who led a well-organized army against an army of mostly French conscripts with little proper leadership.

The land there was controlled by three English seigneurs: Colonel Henry Caldwell had purchased what had been the Foucault Seigneurie, which ran along the Richelieu River and a little over the present day frontier ; Colonel Gabriel Christie was seigneur of Noyan ; and Thomas Dunn was seigneur of Saint-Armand.

The painter James Whistler famously described the then, Sir Frederic Leighton, the Commanding Officer of The Artists Rifles, as the: “ Colonel of the Royal Academy and the President of the Artists Rifles-aye, and he paints a little!

* The German Luftwaffes chief of intelligence, Colonel Josef " Beppo " Schmid, reports that the British Royal Air Force and French Air Force are " clearly inferior in strength and armament in comparison to the Luftwaffe ," that even an entry into World War II by the United States would not alone improve the status of Allied air power during 1940, and that British fighters stood little chance in combat with the German Messerschmitt Bf 110 twin-engine fighter.

It received little financial support and was under staffed due to the power struggles and personality clashes with MI6 ( whose assistant-head was Colonel Sir Claude Dansey, known as ACSS ) and other outfits such as SOE and PWE.

Colonel ( later General ) John Monash wrote: " Private Simpson and his little beast earned the admiration of everyone at the upper end of the valley.

Colonel Edward C. Krause of the 505th PIR took the town with little resistance.

Her film titles are a clue to the way she was marketed — Curly Top and Dimples, and her " little " pictures such as The Little Colonel and The Littlest Rebel.

On the 18th, the 1st Ranger Battalion — led by Colonel William O. Darby — pushed ahead, and occupied the oasis of El Guettar, again meeting with little opposition.

Colonel Robert Lilburne's regiment of foot arrived a little later.

On 20 January, General Yamagata ordered an evacuation and escaped while General Oda and Colonel Yazawa ran into Australian troops and were killed ; the Japanese positions on the coast collapsed with little resistance.

At the same time, troops from Stuart's army were joined with those of Colonel Fullarton in the Tanjore region, where he captured the fortress at Palghautcherry in November, and then entered Coimbatore against little resistance.

Sometime in the late 1950s, mankind has achieved the capability of manned space flight and built a space station in orbit around the Earth, headed by Colonel Merritt, whose son, Barney, a Captain, is feeling a little homesick.

Colonel Baynes, to whom Prevost delegated command at Sackett's Harbor, had had little opportunity to lead troops in battle during his career.

Colonel Scott and Lieutenant Colonel Drummond were both experienced soldiers and had little confidence in General Drummond's plan.