From there, his body was taken to the home of Colonel William Inge, which had been his headquarters in Corinth.

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

The fortified site described below, originally identified as Abae by Colonel William Leake in the 19th century, is much more likely to be that of the Sanctuary of Artemis at Hyampolis.

* Colonel Ebirt, former mascot for the College of William & Mary

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.

* 1797 – Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain.

Afterward, the commander of the fort wrote to the commandant of Fort Laramie in southeast Wyoming, Colonel William O. Collins, suggesting that a site several miles farther down the river would make a good location for the fort.

: The successful resistance in the Great Siege is attributed to several factors: the improvement in fortifications by Colonel ( later Mayor General Sir ) William Green in 1769 ; the British naval supremacy, which translated into support of the Navy ; the competent command by General George Augustus Elliot ; and an appropriately sized garrison.

Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.

On May 3, 1952, U. S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher and Lieutenant William Pershing Benedict, along with scientist Albert P. Crary, landed a modified Douglas C-47 Skytrain at the North Pole.

William Winstanley, who praised much of Richard Lovelace's works, thought highly of him and compared him to an idol ; " I can compare no Man so like this Colonel Lovelace as Sir Philip Sidney ,” of which it is in an Epitaph made of him ;

However, Bajoran Colonel Kira Nerys, with the assistance of Starfleet Admiral William Ross, forced the Romulans to back down and remove their weapons.

* Brendan Whiting's book Victims of Tyranny, gives an account of the lives of the Irish rebels, the Fitzgerald convict brothers who were sent to help open up the north of Van Diemen's Land in 1805, under the leadership of the explorer Colonel William Paterson.

* Ian Ogilvy as Colonel Sir William Howe DeLancey

** 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 ).

French forces under the command of American Colonel William Tate land near Fishguard in Wales.

While the Massachusetts provincial governor William Shirley was given the task of fortifying Fort Oswego and attacking Fort Niagara, Sir William Johnson was to capture Fort St. Frédéric ( at present-day Crown Point, New York ), and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Monckton was to capture Fort Beauséjour on the frontier between Nova Scotia and Acadia.

He lived with his great uncle, Colonel William Fraser, for a while as a child.

The Dutch averred that in 1672 Willem Hunthum put Tortola under the protection of Colonel Sir William Stapleton, the English Governor-General of the Leeward Islands.

What is clear is that Colonel William Burt was dispatched to Tortola and took control of the island by no later than 13 July 1672 ( when Stapleton reported the conquest to the Council of Trade ).

: c. SAASS's first director, Colonel William Fortner, stated in 1991 that the new school ( originally called the School of Advanced Airpower Studies ) " will be similar to the Army's School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth ", with additional focuses on air power topics.

Lieutenant Colonel William Harold Dunn ( 1898-1955 ) wrote a medical and psychiatric report on him in prison to evaluate him as a suicide risk: He gave the impression of clinging to his own theories in a fanatical and unyielding fashion and to have been little influenced by the unfolding during the trial of the cruelty and crimes of the party.

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Patton's Light Tank Brigade was part of Colonel Samuel Rockenbach's Tank Corps, which was in turn part of the American Expeditionary Force.

" This intelligence had been provided by Colonel Thomas Hinds ' Squadron of Light Dragoons, a militia unit from the Mississippi Territory.

Colonel Taylor's 20th Light Dragoons pounced on Kellermann's retreating grenadiers and routed them.

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.

The Barossa Valley derives its name from the Barossa Ranges, which were named by Colonel William Light in 1837.

The 11th Hussars charged with the Light Brigade, which was commanded by their former Colonel, Lord Cardigan, at Balaklava during the Crimean War.

Washington was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and placed in command of the 3rd Light Dragoons on November 20, 1778.

While Lord Loudoun contemplated creating light infantry companies in each redcoat battalion, the idea was scrapped when Colonel Thomas Gage proposed to raise a regiment of Light Armed Foot, that became Gage's 80th Regiment.

The Governor-General of Canada, Lieutenant General Sir George Prevost, ordered Lieutenant Colonel George MacDonnell to move from Kingston on Lake Ontario to the front south of Montreal with his 1st Light Battalion of mixed regular and militia companies.

At the age of nine, he apprenticed with his father, but Astley's dream was to work with horses, so he joined Colonel Eliott's Fifteenth Light Dragoons when he was 17, later becoming a Sergeant Major.

* Honorary Colonel, of the Buckinghamshire Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

* Honorary Colonel, of the 4th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Colonel William Light ( 27 April 1786 – 6 October 1839 ) was a British military officer and the first Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia.

When Colonel Light was designing Adelaide, his plans included surrounding the city with of parklands.

It is sometimes claimed that Colonel Light also designed the city of Christchurch in New Zealand.

Colonel William Light is commemorated in a number of ways, including:

* The naming of the Adelaide suburb of Colonel Light Gardens.

* The Colonel Light Hotel ( Light Square, corner Currie St ) Established in 1849 as the Sir Robert Peel Hotel, in 1888 it was renamed the Colonel Light Hotel