For example, the non-literal translation used for the rank of Shang Jiang ( literally: Senior General ) depends on whether one is comparing it to Soviet or Russian ranks ( Colonel General ) or to British or American ranks ( General ).

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, commonly referred to as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (), Claus von Stauffenberg, or Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg ( 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944 ), was a German army officer and aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power.

Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky (), CMG ( born 10 October 1938 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ), is a former Colonel of the KGB and KGB Resident-designate ( rezident ) and bureau chief in London, who was a double agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ) from 1974 to 1985.

The Mutiny of La (), was a revolt staged on 30 November 1828 by General Jose Maria Lobato, Colonel Santiago García and Lorenzo de Zavala against the government of Guadalupe Victoria when they learned that he supported the candidacy of Manuel Gómez Pedraza in presidential elections.

Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev (), Russian Air Force Colonel and test cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, was born October 29, 1952 in the town of Kap-Yar, Astrakhan Oblast and currently resides at Star City, Moscow Region.

Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (), Colonel, Russian Air Force, Ret., and former Russian cosmonaut was born January 1, 1947, in Sretensk, in the Zabaykalsky Krai region of Russia.

Colonel Giora " Hawkeye " Epstein (, born 1938 ), today Giora Even (), is a retired colonel in the Israeli Air Force ( IAF ) and a fighter ace credited with 17 kills, 16 against Egyptian jets, making Epstein the " ace of aces " of modern, supersonic fighter jets and of the Israeli Air Force.

The Josiah Quincy House (), located at 20 Muirhead Street in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, was the country home of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Josiah Quincy I, the first in a line of six illustrious Josiah Quincys that included three Boston mayors and a president of Harvard University.

Under the 20th-century editorship of Colonel Robert R. McCormick the paper was strongly isolationist and actively biased in its coverage of political news and social trends, calling itself " The American Paper for Americans ," excoriating the Democrats and the New Deal, resolutely disdainful of the British and French and greatly enthusiastic for Chiang Kai-shek and Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

File: Chiang Wei-kuo in 1949. jpg | Chiang Wei-kuo in 1949 as Colonel in the ROC Armed Forces.

Present at the conference were Chiang Kai-shek ; his wife, Madame Chiang ; Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of all U. S. forces in the China Burma India Theater ; and Colonel Clayton L. Bissell, who had arrived in early March.

Colonel d ’ Aubigni, leading his regiment, fell mortally wounded.

After a brief pause, Marlborough ’ s equerry, Colonel Bringfield ( or Bingfield ), led up another of the Duke ’ s spare horses ; but while assisting him onto his mount, the unfortunate Bringfield was hit by an errant cannonball that sheared off his head.

The Régiment de Picardie stood their ground but were caught between Colonel Borthwick ’ s Scots-Dutch regiment and the English reinforcements.

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.

Colonel Canby had little or no confidence in the hastily recruited, untrained New Mexico volunteers, “ who would not obey orders or obeyed them too late to be of any service .” However, Canby did remark about Carson and his volunteer ’ s “ zeal and energy ”.

Before drafting the specific terms of his peace deal, Wilson recruited a team led by Colonel House to compile information deemed pertinent in assessing Europe ’ s geo-political situation.

As of June 2008, service commanders were Colonel Boubacar Togola ( Armée de Terre ), Colonel Waly Sissoko ( Armée de l ’ Air ), Lieutenant-Colonel Daouda Sogoba ( Garde Nationale ) et du Colonel Adama Dembélé ( Gendarmerie Nationale ).

He learns that the CIA ’ s most highly-placed agent, codenamed " CARDINAL ", is none other than Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov, the personal aide to the Soviet Minister of Defense and a national war hero.

Before the consultation could happen, however, in accordance with Santa Anna ’ s nationwide call to disarm state militias, Colonel Domingo Ugartechea, who was stationed in San Antonio, ordered the Texans to return a cannon given to them by Mexico that was stationed in Gonzales.

Elections were held, and Colonel Edward Burleson became Austin ’ s successor.

On 14 September, a coup d ’ état organised by Colonel Joseph Mobutu incapacitated both Lumumba and Kasa-Vubu.

One critic argues that it is Kafka ’ s influence that can be seen most strongly in the novel: “ Like Kafka ’ s heroes, Yossarian is riddled with anxiety and caught in an inexorable nightmare – in his case created by Colonel Cathcart and the inevitability of him raising the number of missions he has to fly .”

Colonel Dalbier advised on the strategic position of St Neots and the fact that the joint remnants of Buckingham and Holland ’ s forces had increased sufficiently since the retreat from the Roundheads at Kingston.

Eventually, his character gave up wearing women ’ s clothing ( after a lecture from Colonel Sherman Potter, explaining how a Section 8 Discharge would adversely affect his life ).

:::::::: March 13 – 14 – Widow of Alamo defender Almaron Dickinson, Susanna Dickinson arrives in Gonzales with her daughter Angelina and Colonel Travis ’ slave Joe.

The 13th Illinois Infantry Regiment, under Colonel John B. Wyman, was brought in to guard Rolla and the Pacific Railroad ’ s terminal.

About a month later, the Union authorities finally discovered the location of Colonel David C. Boone ’ s forces in Carter County.

Colonel Bazel F. Lazear ’ s forces surprised the estimated 450 well armed Confederate troops under the command of Colonel David C. Boone, driving them through the town of Van Buren.

Colonel s Albert V. Colburn, Delos B. Sackett and General John Sedgwick in Harrison's Landing, Virginia during the Peninsula Campaign, 1862.

| named for = Colonel Alexander Wilkin, a lawyer who served as Minnesota ’ s U. S. marshal and was later killed in the Civil War.

The incident almost caused a battle between the two encampments simply because the lady of the house happened to be a sister of the Colonel ’ s.

In 1932, the golf course opened as a private nine-hole course leased to Dr. Calvin Miller from Mrs. Dorothy Fuller, the Colonel ’ s widow.

The Commanding Officer was Captain Benjamin Odom, Jr. who was a member of Colonel William Harden ’ s Regiment.

Kalmia, the homestead of the Hart family was sold to Captain Hart ’ s son-in-law, Colonel T. C.

Martinsburg was founded in 1778 by General Adam Stephen who named it in honor of Colonel Thomas Bryan Martin, a nephew of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.

At Hampton Court Hammond introduced to him his nephew, Colonel Robert Hammond, soon to be governor of the Isle of Wight.

Born in Purbrook, Canada West, ( near what is now Orillia, Ontario ) he was the son of Royal Naval Captain Elmes Yelverton Steele, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, and his second wife, Anne Macdonald, the youngest daughter of Neil Maclain MacDonald of Ardnamurchan, a native of Islay, grandson of Captain Godfrey MacNeil of Barra and nephew of Colonel Donald MacNeil.

After John's death, the title was passed to his nephew, Robert Stewart ( 1646-1686 ) of Irry in County Tyrone, the eldest son of Colonel Hon.

Drummond's nephew, Lieutenant Colonel William Drummond, was killed during the attack.

Dr. Watson wonders why Holmes has not been involved in the investigation of the apparent murder of Colonel Matthias Addleton by his nephew Percy Longton, only to find that Holmes already has a telegram in his hand from the family attorney.

* Don Bernardo O ' Neill, ( circa 1619-1681 ) Colonel of the Irish regiment of Tyrone, nephew of General Eoghan Roe.

Ledyard was born in Groton, Connecticut, the oldest son of John and Abigail ( Hempstead ) Ledyard and the nephew of Continental Army Colonel William Ledyard.

January 1994 saw his next work Blinky, a revamp of the nephew of Colonel Blink from The Beezer who had first appeared in the merged Beezer and Topper in 1990.

The track is named for John and Henry Churchill, who leased 80 acres ( 320, 000 m² ) of land to their nephew, Colonel Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr. ( grandson of explorer William Clark ).

His nephew, Colonel Fernando González y González and Pancho Villa later recovered González's remains and gave him a hero's funeral in the city of Chihuahua.

In 1642 the first major skirmish of the Civil War, the Battle of Powick Bridge, on the River Teme close to Worcester, occurred when a cavalry troop of about 1, 000 Royalists commanded by Prince Rupert, a German nephew of the King and one of the outstanding cavalry commanders of the war, defeated a Parliamentary cavalry detachment under the command of Colonel John Brown Worcestershire was again the focus of the Civil War when it was effectively ended by Cromwell's victory at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651

When Richard and his young wife died, leaving behind an infant son named Lewis, it was Richard's brother, Colonel Lewis Morris, also of Barbados, who came to Morrisania to help manage the estate formerly belonging to his late-brother and now his infant nephew.

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½, a novel written by the pseudonymous R. D. Mascott, was later published in 1967 featuring James Bond's nephew ; Colonel Sun written by Kingsley Amis under the pseudonym Robert Markham was published in 1968 as the first adult continuation novel following Ian Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun ( 1965 ).

Mujib's killer Colonel Abdur Rashid, now in self-exile in Libya and Pakistan, was his nephew, and another killer Colonel Syed Faruque Rahman was Colonel Rashid's wife's brother-in-law.

1789: Colonel William Dalrymple ( the second son of Sir William Dalrymple, third baronet of Cousland, and the nephew of Captain Hew Dalrymple ), distinguishes himself by helping to capture both the Fort of San Fernando de Omoa and the port town of Omoa, in Honduras, Central America ( see William Dalrymple ( British Army officer ) and Battle of San Fernando de Omoa ).

The force consisted of two columns ; one was composed of the two flank companies and four of the centre companies of the 41st Foot under Lieutenant Colonel Evans of the 41st, and other of the light companies of the 2nd Battalion, the 89th Foot and the 100th Foot, and the flank companies of the 104th ( New Brunswick ) Regiment, under Lieutenant Colonel William Drummond of Kelty, General Drummond's nephew.

The guests ; flighty Hope Langdon, proper Doctor Grayburn, black sheep nephew Nigel Rancour, supposedly French grande dame Lady Manley-Prowe, retired military Colonel Gillweather, and artist / detective Miss Tweed express surprise at the presence of other guests, but look forward to their stay.

The Ashtowns lived mostly in Ireland, on the estates of the Trench family and at Castle Oliver, and when in 1893 Elizabeth died, leaving no children of her own, Lotherton passed to her nephew Colonel Frederick Richard Thomas Trench-Gascoigne, ( 4th July 1851-2 June 1937 ), from the Royal Horse Guards and a DSO in 1900, a well-known soldier and traveler of the day.

Commissioned in 1902 by Payne Whitney's uncle Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne as a wedding gift for his nephew and his bride, Helen Hay, the Colonel had put up $ 625, 000 to build the five-story mansion, the construction of which was still under White's supervision when he was murdered in 1906.