* 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.

" However, on 15 November, within a week of Ambassador Tuttle's statement, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Barry Venable noted that the use of white phosphorus was conventional, that it was not illegal, and stated to the BBC: " It has been used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants.

O ' Hara in An Awfully Big Adventure and Colonel Brandon in Ang Lee's 1995 film Sense and Sensibility.

To the east were Lieutenant Colonel Lee's Dragoons.

In the van were Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lee's Legion plus 73 infantry and 72 cavalry of South Carolina State troops under Lieutenant Colonel John Henderson and Captain Wade Hampton, respectively.

Colonel Graham then kills the deserter, and offers another prisoner called Little J ( Stephen Baldwin ), Jesse Lee's command of the 10th ( the alternative would be to face the firing squad ).

The Confederates did not press an attack after Colonel John A. Washington, of Lee's staff, was killed during a reconnaissance of the Union right.

* Taylor, Walter H., Belmont, John S., Tower, R. Lockwood, Lee's Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865, University of South Carolina Press, 1995, ISBN 1-57003-021-9.

Lee's mother, Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee, was the great-granddaughter of Martha ( Dandridge ) Custis, who was a widow living at her White House Plantation in New Kent County ( which Rooney Lee later inherited ) when she was courted by Colonel George Washington before their marriage in 1759.

In the early morning of April 3, at a ford on Namozine Creek, regiments from the 2d brigade, under the command of Colonel William Wells, of Custer's 3rd cavalry division, which had taken over the advance pursuit, threatened the rear guard of Rooney Lee's column.

* Hassler, William W. Colonel John Pelham: Lee's Boy Artillerist.

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.

Gérald-Libois writes that '.. the special meeting of the council of ministers took steps for the immediate Africanisation of the officer corps and .. named Victor Lundula, who was born in Kasai and was burgomaster of Jadotville, as Commander-in-Chief of the Armée Nationale Congolaise ( ANC ); Colonel Joseph-Désiré Mobutu as chief of staff ; and the Belgian, Colonel Henniquiau, as chief advisor to the ANC.

After the first completed film was viewed by General Marshall along with Army staff, Marshall approached Capra: " Colonel Capra, how did you do it?

As a result, on February 24, 1966, a small number of army officers and senior police officials, led by Colonel Emmanuel Kotoka, commander of the Second Army Brigade at Kumasi, Major Akwasi Afrifa, staff officer in charge of army training and operations, Lieutenant General ( retired ) Joseph Ankrah, and J. W. K.

The current chief of staff of the army is Colonel Blakimwé Wiyao Balli.

Shortly after his arrival at Champlieu, the British launched what was then the largest armoured attack of the war at the Battle of Cambrai, and at the conclusion of his tour, on December 1, Patton went to Albert, from Cambrai, to be briefed on the recent attack by the chief of staff of the British Tank Corps, Colonel J. F. C. Fuller.

On 14 February 1917 Colonel Macmullen of the GHQ staff, proposed that the plateau be taken by a mass tank attack, reducing the need for artillery ; in April a reconnaissance by Captain G. le Q Martel found that the area was unsuitable for tanks.

" Richard L. DiNardo wrote " Even Longstreet's most virulent critics have conceded that he put together the best staff employed by any commander, and that his de facto chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel G. Moxley Sorrel, was the best staff officer in the Confederacy.

Colonel Tito Okello served as army commander and Colonel David Oyite Ojok as chief of staff immediately after Amin's fall.

Ratings AA-1 and AA-2 were for essential weapons and equipment, so Colonel Lucius D. Clay, the deputy chief of staff at Services and Supply for requirements and resources, felt that the highest rating he could assign was AA-3, although he was willing to provide an AAA rating on request for critical materials to remove bottlenecks.

Chelmsford, mindful of his duty, attached the Prince to staff of Colonel Richard Harrison of the Royal Engineers, where it was felt he could be active but safe.

In 1942, a new conspiratorial group formed, led by Colonel Henning von Tresckow, a member of Field Marshal Fedor von Bock's staff, who commanded Army Group Centre in Operation Barbarossa.

In August 1943 Tresckow met, for the first time, a young staff officer named Lieutenant Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.

General Lemay was informed by a senior staff member, Colonel William P. Fisher, that bomber pilots were turning back from these low altitude bombing runs due to heavy anti-aircraft fire from Japanese defense forces.

In addition to other posts, Hodgkins served as aide de-camps on Illinois Governor Joseph W. Fifer's staff, holding the rank of Colonel.

* Colonel Wendul Glenn Hagler, II is the Missouri National Guard joint chief of staff and is the commanding officer of the Missouri National Guard's 70th Troop Command, the largest brigade within the Missouri National Guard.

Colonel Nicolas Soult, then serving as Lefebvre's Chief of staff, wrote that it was, " fifteen hours of the most desperate fighting I ever saw in my life.

Montcalm and his staff, Major-General François de Gaston, Chevalier de Lévis, Colonel Louis Antoine de Bougainville, and Lieutenant-Colonel de Sennezergue, distributed some 12, 000 troops in a nine-kilometre long collection of fortified redoubts and batteries from the Saint-Charles River to the Montmorency Falls, along the shallows of the river in areas that had previously been targeted by British attempts to land.

His chief of staff was General Erich von Manstein, his chief of operations Colonel Günther Blumentritt.

Colonel Edward D. Townsend, an assistant adjutant at the War Department and Scott's chief of staff.

Along with Lieutenant Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower, the chief of staff to Major General Douglas MacArthur, the Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines, and Mr. Rodriquez of the National Power Corporation, Casey presented the project to President Manuel Quezon, who approved it.