Early inhabitants included Robert Morris, Sr., agent for a Liverpool shipping firm who greatly influenced the town's growth ; his son, Robert Morris, Jr., known as " the financier of the Revolution ;" Jeremiah Banning, sea captain, war hero, and statesman ; The Reverend Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman who wrote the first compilation of the laws of Maryland ; Matthew Tilghman, known as the " patriarch of Maryland " and " father of statehood "; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington and the man who carried the message of General Cornwallis's surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Captain Matthew Ketchum, Colonel William Bullock, and Nicholas Clark are credited with having originally settled the eventual township in 1769, and the latter ultimately became Clarksburg's namesake.

In 1783 he married Helen Bannatyne, who died in 1787, leaving an only son, Colonel Matthew Stewart.

Three Guards companies of 307 men under Coldstream commander Colonel Matthew fought in the American War of Independence.

Principal cast members included Maurie Fields ( John Quinney ), Carl Bleazby ( Colonel Jim Emerson ), Lynette Curran ( Rhoda Lang ), Elspeth Ballantyne ( Lori Chandler ), Gerda Nicolson ( Fiona Davies ), Peter Aanensen ( Jim Bacon ), Carmel Millhouse ( Marge Bacon ), Moira Charleton ( Olive Turner ), Terry Norris ( Joe Turner ), Robin Ramsay ( Charlie Cousens ), Penne Hackforth-Jones ( Ginny Hill ), Ian Smith ( Russell Ashwood ), Anne Phelan ( Kate Murray ), Dennis Miller ( Constable Des Davies ), Michael Preston ( Father John Kramer ), Gabrielle Hartley ( Maggie Emerson ), Tom Oliver ( Tom Grey ), Sean Scully, ( Ron Wilson ), Brian James ( Ian Bennett ), John Stanton ( Leo Hill ), Rod Mullinar ( Scott Leighton ), Maggie Millar ( Georgia Moorhouse ), Sheila Florance ( Dossie Rumsey ), Brian Hannan ( Roger Green ), Anne Charleston ( Wendy Robinson ), Louise Philip ( Christine Jackson ), Patsy King ( Kate Andrews ), and Alan Hopgood ( Matthew Reed ).

Matthew Ridgway was born March 3, 1895 in Fort Monroe, Virginia to Colonel Thomas Ridgway, an artillery officer, and Ruth Ridgway.

He was the grandfather of the physician Patrick Miller ( 1782-1871 ) and of Colonel Matthew Stewart ( c. 1784-1851 ).

In the June 2010 Republican primary, attorney Matthew Berry narrowly lost to retired U. S. Army Colonel J. Patrick Murray, after a last-minute mailing attacking Berry's homosexuality.

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.

Here, some of the Indians began massacring prisoners and several Americans were killed before Tecumseh, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Elliott and Captain Thomas McKee of the Indian Department persuaded the warriors to stop.

The British commander at Delaware, Captain Stewart of the Royal Scots, had not expected action and had gone to confer with Colonel Matthew Elliot of the Essex Militia, so the force was commanded by Captain James Lewis Basden of the 89th.

* Colonel Robert Gould Shaw ( did not graduate )-attended for a brief time ; Commanding officer of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first all African-American regiment during the American Civil War ; portrayed by Matthew Broderick in the 1989 movie Glory

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.

* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

President Clinton speaks with Colonel ( United States ) | Col. Paul J. Fletcher | Paul Fletcher, United States Air Force | USAF, before boarding Air Force One, November 4, 1999.

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.

By March 1963 however, after the visit of Colonel Michael Greene of the United States Army, and the resulting ' Greene Plan ,' the pattern of bilaterally agreed military assistance to various Congolese military components, instead of a single unified effort, was already taking shape.

It was a force manned overwhelmingly by blacks, with a United States-trained black commander, Colonel Démosthènes Pétrus Calixte.

On 23 September 2009, Colonel Gaddafi addressed the 64th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, his first visit to the United States.

United States President Woodrow Wilson and his adviser Colonel Edward M. House enthusiastically promoted the idea of the League as a means of avoiding any repetition of the bloodshed of the First World War, and the creation of the League was a centrepiece of Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace.

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.

* 1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

* 1995 – Matt Urban, Lieutenant Colonel United States Army ( b. 1919 )

* 1868 – American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.

As diplomats from Argentina, the United States, and the League of Nations conducted fruitless " reconciliation " talks, Colonel José Félix Estigarribia, Paraguay's deputy army commander, ordered his troops into action against Bolivian positions early in 1931.

Lini openly condemned the 1986 bombing of Libya by the United States, sending a message of condoleances to Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, while Barak Sopé accused the United States of being a State sponsor of terrorism.

** U. S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped ( he is later killed by his captors ).

** Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

* May 5 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.

* November 27 – American Indian Wars – Battle of Washita River: In the early morning, United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on a band of Cheyenne living on reservation land with Chief Black Kettle, killing 103 Cheyenne.

The Burnhams ' new neighbors are retired United States Marine Corps Colonel Frank Fitts ( Chris Cooper ) and his introverted wife, Barbara ( Allison Janney ); their teenage son, Ricky ( Wes Bentley ), is a secret marijuana smoker and drug dealer whom the colonel subjects to a strict disciplinarian lifestyle.

Sharon Tate was born in Dallas, Texas, the eldest of three daughters, to Colonel Paul James Tate ( 1922 – 2005 ), a United States Army officer, and his wife, Doris Gwendolyn ( née Willett ; January 16, 1924 – July 10, 1992 ).

In mid-April 1859, United States troops of the Expedition of the Colorado, led by Lieutenant Colonel William Hoffman, moved upriver into Mojave country, with the well-publicized objective of establishing a military post on the river.

Willie Davenport was a U. S. Army private at the time of his first Olympic participation, he climbed up to Colonel of the United States National Guard at the time of his death.

One of the historians in support of Bacque was Colonel Ernest F. Fisher, 101st Airborne Division, who in 1945 took part in investigations into allegations of misconduct by U. S. troops in Germany and later became a Senior Historian with the United States Army.

* Lieutenant Colonel, Army of the United States: January 23, 1942

Patton's grandfather, Confederate States of America | Confederate Colonel George S. Patton, Sr | George Smith Patton, died in the Battle of Opequon in 1864.

* Colonel, Army of the United States: June 17, 1942

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

* 1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.

Mike Hoare was employed to created the English-speaking 5 Commando ANC at Kamina, with the assistance of a Belgian officer, Colonel Frederic Vanderwalle, while 6 Commando ANC was French-speaking and originally under the command of a Belgian Army colonel, Lamouline.

) Lieutenant Colonel in the National Army.

* 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 ".

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

Cosmo Gordon, second son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a Colonel in the Army.

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

The Japanese garrison comprised 4, 423 Imperial Japanese Army men under the command of Colonel Daihachi Itoh and 1, 494 Imperial Japanese Navy men.

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.

* Army Headquarters ( Chef: Général Soma ; Adjoint: Colonel Lansana Conté )

In Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen plays Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a US Army officer charged with " terminating " the command of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz.

Colonel ( later General ) Kallergis took a half-trained force of Greek Army regulars and a force of irregulars in support.

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.

This approach is presumed to have been employed in the case of Dan Rather over a story that he ran on 60 Minutes in the month prior to the 2004 election that attempted to impugn the military record of George W. Bush by relying on allegedly fake documents that were provided by Bill Burkett, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard.

Afghan Ministry of Defense | Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, Afghan National Army | ANA Chief of Staff | Chief of Army Staff Sher Mohammad Karimi, and Colonel | Col. Shah Mahmood Rauf Wardak.

In April 1973, Colonel Héctor Irabarren, head of the 3rd Army Corps ' Intelligence Service, was killed when resisting a kidnap attempt by the Mariano Pojadas and Susana Lesgart Platoons of the Montoneros.

The State Department received the Research and Analysis Branch of OSS which was renamed the Interim Research and Intelligence Service or ( IRIS ) and headed by U. S. Army Colonel Alfred McCormack.