In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.

Secretary of War Henry Knox sent Colonel Josiah Harmar and the First American Regiment to restore order.

When a post office was located there in 1850, it is reported by the Okolona Area Chamber of Commerce that the postmaster of nearby Aberdeen Colonel Josiah N. Walton remembered an encounter with a Chickasaw brave while traveling in the area years earlier.

Colonel Josiah Snelling commanded the 5th Infantry Regiment ( United States ).

After becoming a part of New Hampshire province in 1741, the town was granted to Colonel Josiah Willard, commander of Fort Dummer.

Worth then went on ninety-days leave, leaving command to Colonel Josiah Vose.

* Colonel Josiah Quincy I ( 1709 – 1784 ), Revolutionary War soldier, built Josiah Quincy House ( 1770 )

* Josiah Quincy House, the country home of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Josiah Quincy I

Lewis was implicated in the deaths of several Indians, which led to his being charged with murder by Colonel Josiah Harmar for the murder of an Indian in the region of Fort Harmar, near present day Marietta, Ohio, in 1788.

A native of Somerville, Alabama, Patterson was a son of Colonel Josiah Patterson, a distinguished Confederate cavalry officer and a United States Representative for Tennessee, and his wife Josephine ( Rice ) Patterson.

The gorget shown in this 1772 portrait of Colonel George Washington by Charles Willson Peale, worn as part of Washington's uniform in the French and Indian War to symbolize his Officer ( armed forces ) | commission as an officer in the Virginia Regiment, was given to Josiah Quincy III in March 1813 by the Martha Parke Custis Peter | granddaughter of Washington at Tudor Place.

In 1755, Josiah married Elizabeth Kingsland, the daughter of Colonel William Kingsland of Bergen County.

His great-grandfather, Josiah Butt, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental Army during the same conflict.

Apart from the French author Emile Zola, Czech president Tomas Masaryk, and South African prime minister Jan Smuts, many of the streets are named for Britons: Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George, British Labour Party MP Josiah Wedgwood, Colonel John Henry Patterson, commander of the Jewish Legion in World War I and the pro-Zionist British general Wyndham Deedes.

* Colonel Eli Lilly, founder of Eli Lilly and Company, as well as several of his descendants, including Josiah K. Lilly Sr., Josiah K. Lilly Jr., and Eli Lilly

Colonel Eli Lilly ( right ) with son Josiah K. Lilly Sr. ( left ) and grandson Eli Lilly ( industrialist ) | Eli Lilly ( center )

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.

James Harrington, Mr. James Challoner, Mr. John Phelps, Mr. John Carew, Mr. Hugh Peters, Mr. Gregory Clement, Colonel Adrian Scroop, Col. Francis Hacker, Col. Daniel Axtel.

Other noteworthy military officers providing assistance to the provisional government in the city of Kaiserlautern in the Palatinate, were Friedrich Strasser, Alexander Schimmelpfennig, Captain Rudolph von Manteuffel, Albert Clement, Herr Zychlinski, Friedrich von Beust, Eugen Oswald, Amand Goegg, Gustav von Struve, Otto Julius Bernhard von Corvin-Wiersbitzki, Joseph Moll, Johann Gottfried Kinkel, Herr Mersy, Karl Emmermann, Franz Sigel, Major Nerlinger, Colonel Kurz, Friedrich Karl Franz Hecker and Hermann von Natzmer.

Marines and Royal Engineers are dispatched to Yale, led by Colonel Clement Francis Moody and escorting Justice Matthew Baillie Begbie to resolve the matter, which ends amicably, and reassert British sovereignty over the fledgling Mainland Colony.

The group that followed Hastings to England consisted of Halhed, David Anderson, Major William Sands, Colonel Sweeney Toone, Dr. Clement Francis, Captain Jonathan Scott, John Shore, Lieutenant Col. William Popham, Sir John d ' Oyly and was known as the Bengal Squad.

Colonel Wedgwood.

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.

The Indian agent at Fort Laramie negotiated with the Cheyenne to reduce hostilities, but the Secretary of War ordered the 1st Cavalry Regiment ( 1855 ) to carry out a punitive expedition under the command of Colonel Edwin V. Sumner.

Sydney was founded after the war by Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, and named in honour of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, who was serving as the Home Secretary in the British cabinet.

Haig was also awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Purple Heart during his tour in Vietnam, and was eventually promoted to Colonel, becoming a brigade commander of the 1st Infantry Division ( United States ) in Vietnam.

A joint Canadian-American Commando unit, the 1st Special Service Force, nicknamed the Devil's Brigade, was formed in 1942 under the command of Colonel Robert Frederick.

Most notably, he raised the 1st Kansas Volunteer Regiment and was appointed Colonel by Kansas Territorial Governor Charles Robinson.

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.

However, during his tenure as Chief of the General Staff ( 1985 – 89 ) General Sir Nigel Bagnall directed that British Military Doctrine was to be prepared, and tasked Colonel ( later General ) Timothy Granville-Chapman ( an artillery officer who had been his Military Assistant in Headquarters 1st British Corps ) to prepare it.

Colonel Kazimierz Mastalerz decided to take the enemy by surprise and ordered Eugeniusz Świeściak, commander of the 1st squadron, to execute a cavalry charge at 1900 hours, leading two squadrons, about 250 strong.

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 ).

* Colonel William Casey School ( Pre-school, Kindergarten, 1st ,& 2nd Grade Students from City )

* Colonel Cecil Lee Clark, Army Lieutenant Colonel, US Army Ranger and Special Operations Soldier who has ties to the elite Army counterterrorism unit 1st Special Operations Detachment-Delta (“ Delta Force ”), and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Cecil Lee Clark, an Army Lieutenant Colonel and U. S. Army Ranger who has ties to the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ( Delta Force )

* Royal Colonel of the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland

* Post opposite El Paso del Norte ( 1849 – 1854 ): In 1846, Colonel Alexander Doniphan led 1st Regiment of Missouri mounted volunteers through El Paso del Norte, with victories at the Battle of El Brazito and the Battle of the Sacramento.

Torrey was commissioned Colonel of the 2nd Regiment, the " Rocky Mountain Riders "; the 1st Regiment, the only regiment to see action, was better known as the Rough Riders.

However, reappointed as Captain-General, Master-General of Ordnance, and Colonel of the 1st Foot Guards, Marlborough once more became a person of influence and respect at court.

He is best known as the Lieutenant Colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang, in 1965 during the Vietnam War ; today, he is the " honorary colonel " of the Regiment.

Lieutenant Colonel Moore then took his unit, the 1st Battalion, 7th U. S. Cavalry ( then in the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division ) to South Vietnam, and led it in the famous Battle of Ia Drang.

His stepson was Continental Army Officer Colonel Samuel Blachley Webb of the 9th Connecticut Regiment-later consolidated into the 2nd Connecticut Regiment which became part of the 3rd Connecticut Regiment which became the 1st Connecticut Regiment

Lieutenant Colonel Dobie of 1st Parachute Battalion planned to attack before first light but an erroneous report suggesting that the bridge had fallen led to the attack being cancelled.

As they approached Oosterbeek they were met by Lieutenant Colonel Sheriff Thompson, of the 1st Airlanding Light Artillery Regiment, who formed most of the men into a defensive screen under Major Robert Cain forward of his artillery positions.

Wainwright was promoted to Colonel in 1935, and served as commander of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment until 1938, when he was promoted to Brigadier General in command of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Fort Clark, Texas.