* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

In 1662 the estate passed to Charles Farquharson of Inverey, brother of John Farquharson, the " Black Colonel ".

Colonel Charles de Gaulle was a known advocate of concentration of armor and airplanes.

Colonel Charles Edward (" Chuck ") Jones ( November 4, 1952 – September 11, 2001 ) was a United States Air Force officer, a computer programmer, and an astronaut in the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program.

* 1648 – Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead ; came to be known as " Pride's Purge ".

In 1775, Darwin met Elizabeth Pole, daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, and wife of Colonel Edward Pole ( 1718 – 1780 ); but as she was married, Darwin could only make his feelings known for her through poetry.

The famous American flier, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, arrived in the Demerara River with his flying boat ( an amphibian craft ) on September 22, 1929.

* John Diehl as Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kawalsky, O ' Neil's second-in-command on the mission through the Stargate.

Harding regrettably appointed Colonel Charles R. Forbes, albeit a decorated war veteran, as the Veteran Bureau's first director ( see scandal below ), a position which reported directly to the President.

The protagonist of Ernest Hemingway's 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees, Colonel Dick Cantwell, based on World War II commander Charles " Buck " Lanham, uses the phrase to his driver.

This daughter married Colonel Charles Churchill of Chalfont ( 1720 – 1812 ), a great-nephew of the 1st Duke of Marlborough, with whom she had two daughters.

That same year his father, then Colonel of the 55th Foot ( later renumbered the 44th ), purchased a commission for Charles as an Ensign in the same regiment.

The castle itself was deliberately destroyed the following year, while in 1651 Colonel Wyndham made arrangements for Charles II to flee to France following the Battle of Worcester.

* Charles Richman as Colonel Mantle

Charles Lacheroy, Colonel Trinquier, who theorized the systemic use of torture in counter-insurgency doctrine in Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency ( 1961 ), were members of it.

Hortense was now free to respond to the romantic overtures of the man whom she had long admired, Colonel Charles Joseph, Comte de Flahaut, a sophisticated, handsome man rumoured to be the illegitimate son of Talleyrand.

In March 1924 more layoffs were expected and the army officers, Major-General Liam Tobin and Colonel Charles Dalton sent an ultimatum to the government demanding an end to the demobilisation.

* Bill Scott – Jack Spigot ( 1821 ), Memnon ( 1825 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), Sir Tatton Sykes ( 1846 )

* John Scott – Matilda ( 1827 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Margrave ( 1832 ), Touchstone ( 1834 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), The Baron ( 1845 ), Newminster ( 1851 ), West Australian ( 1853 ), Warlock ( 1856 ), Imperieuse ( 1857 ), Gamester ( 1859 ), The Marquis ( 1862 )

In 1839 the Reverend Joseph Wolff, who later went to Bokhara to attempt to save Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly, found in Yemen, near Sana ' a, a tribe claiming to be descendants of Jehonadab ; and in the late nineteenth century a Bedouin tribe was found near the Dead Sea who also professed to be descendants of Jehonadab.

But he was recaptured by Colonel Richard Ingoldsby, a participant in the regicide of Charles I who hoped to win a pardon by handing Lambert over to the new regime.

Along with her equally larcenous father, " Colonel " Harrington ( Charles Coburn ) and his partner Gerald ( Melville Cooper ), she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike ( Henry Fonda ), the heir to the Pike Ale fortune (" The Ale That Won for Yale ").

* Charles Coburn as " Colonel " Harrington

Allied strategy emphasized destroying German forces retreating towards the Rhine, but, when the French Résistance under Colonel Rol staged an uprising in the city, Charles de Gaulle pleaded with General Eisenhower to send help.

On 26 May 1789 he took part a duel with Colonel Charles Lennox, who had insulted him ; Lennox missed and Prince Frederick refused to return fire.

He was the eldest son of Colonel ( the Honourable ) George Napier and his second wife, Lady Sarah Lennox, with this being the second marriage for both parties.

On 17 May 1789, while a colonel in the Duke of York's regiment, he was involved in a duel with Frederick, Duke of York, who had expressed the opinion that " Colonel Lennox had heard words spoken to him at Daughbigny's, to which no gentleman ought to have submitted ", effectively an accusation of failing to respond to an insult in the way that a gentleman should.

Colonel Lennox shortly after exchanged his company for the commission of Lieutenant-Colonel in the 35th Regiment of Foot.

In 1757 a second battalion ( 2nd / 33rd ) had been raised and in 1758 this battalion became an independent regiment, the 72nd Regiment of Foot: Richmond was appointed Colonel of the new regiment and his younger brother George Lennox took command of the 33rd Regiment ( 1st / 33rd ).

General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier KCB ( 7 December 1785 – 12 February 1860 ), Irish soldier in the British Army and military historian, third son of Colonel George Napier ( 1751 – 1804 ) and his wife, Lady Sarah Lennox ( 1845-1826 ) was born at Celbridge, near Dublin.

He then began appearing in films, most prominently playing one of the protagonists, Captain / Major / Lieutenant Colonel William Lennox, in the box office hit Transformers as well as its sequels, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Colonel James Lennox Dawson VC ( 25 December 1891 – 15 February 1967 ) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Hasan escaped the hard of the victors in consideration of his assistance once given to Colonel Lennox.

Colonel William Stewart was sent as ambassador to England in April 1583 to ask for £ 10, 000 and yearly £ 5000 as an income from the English lands of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, and for the ratification and renewal of the 1560 Treaty of Edinburgh.

A contemporary front-page account in the Nashville Banner tells that one lawyer -- Captain Quentin Rankin -- was murdered by being hanged and then shot, while the other -- Colonel R. Z.

The term is not used often in contemporary Russian society, but it is still the standard form of address in the armed forces and police, where officers and soldiers are normally addressed as " Comrade Colonel ", " Comrade General ", " Comrade Sergeant ", or the like.

The film's depiction of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer as a lunatic at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was intended as satire, though many of his quirks and vanities were inspired by contemporary observations.

He is often confused with his contemporary, Colonel William Fleming, who briefly served as Governor of Virginia during the American Revolution.

Unlike its contemporary series, Clutch Cargo, practically no original material from the production of Colonel Bleep is known to exist today.

( Coincidentally, another reputed bastard child of the Duke of York, Molloy's contemporary Colonel John George Nathaniel Gibbes ( 1787-1873 ), the Collector of Customs for New South Wales from 1834 to 1859, also settled in Australia.

The book " Collections for the Ancestry of Colonel Richard Lee, Virginia Emigrant ", by English genealogist Alan Nicholls presents the evidence for the English ancestry of Colonel Richard Lee using contemporary documents.