Colonel Joseph P. Taylor, the brother of the late President Zachary Taylor, declared that " if you had hunted the whole army, from one end of it to the other, you could not have found a man in it more admirably suited for the position in every respect than Sherman.

Fort Jesup was founded in 1822 by Lieutenant Colonel Zachary Taylor who later became the 12th President of the United States.

A fan of his, Colonel Haki ( Kurt Katch ) of the Turkish police ( who appears in several Ambler books ), believes he would be interested in the history of one Dimitrios Makropoulos ( Zachary Scott ), whose body was just washed up on the beach.

Colonel Zachary Taylor led a column from Fort Brooke into the middle of the state, and then southward between the Kissimmee River and the Peace River.

Davis served as Colonel under the command of General Zachary Taylor in the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican-American War in 1847.

It was fought between 800 troops of the 1st, 4th, and 6th Infantry Regiments and 132 Missouri Volunteers ( under the command of Colonel Zachary Taylor ), and between 380 and 480 Seminoles led by Billy Bowlegs, Abiaca, and Alligator on 25 December 1837.

The property was adjacent to Springfield, the home of Colonel Richard Taylor and his son, future U. S. President Zachary Taylor.

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.

By the time of the rebel headquarter's surrender, the South Staffordshire Regiment under Colonel Taylor had advanced only down the street at a cost of 11 dead and 28 wounded.

On the beach below, the 16th RCT commander, Colonel George Taylor had landed at 08: 15.

Colonel Taylor ordered all available tanks into action against this point at 11: 00.

In 1834 it was purchased by Colonel Thomas Taylor, a Mexican-American War hero.

Colonel J. S. Taylor introduced large-scale Bermuda onion and strawberry agriculture to the area, and was the first to use irrigation on a large scale in Dimmit County.

The current Chief of Police is Colonel Edgar Taylor.

Colonel Jacob Taylor purchased from Enoch Talbert in 1885, with visions of building a seaside resort for the rich and famous.

On the TV program, The Andy Griffith Show, it is said in the episode The Battle of Mayberry, that the town of Mayberry was almost named Taylortown in honor of Colonel Carleton Taylor, who was one of the first settlers in the area.

That year, a county seat for the new county was platted on land purchased from William Vaught, and named Taylorsville after Colonel John P. Taylor.

The first president of the City Bank was the statesman and retired Colonel, Samuel Osgood, ownership and management of the bank was taken over by Moses Taylor, a protégé of John Jacob Astor and one of the giants of the business world in the 19th century.

According to the episode " The Battle of Mayberry ," the town was almost named Taylortown in honor of Colonel Carleton Taylor, who was one of the first settlers in the town.

Colonel Taylor saw the first major action of the campaign.

At the start of the battle, Taylor had approximately 9, 000 troops consisting of Brigadier General Alfred Mouton's Louisiana / Texas infantry division, Major General John G. Walker's Texas infantry division, Brigadier General Thomas Green's Texas Cavalry Division, and Colonel William G. Vincent's Louisiana cavalry brigade.

The first stable and breeding operation of E. P. Taylor originated with a property near the city of Toronto known as Parkwood Stable when it was owned by Colonel Sam McLaughlin of McLaughlin Automobile fame.

" The Peter Gunn Theme " has been performed by numerous jazz, blues, and rock artists since, including Jeff Beck, Dave Grusin, Ray Anthony, Elvis Presley ( on the ' 68 Comeback Special ), Duane Eddy, Quincy Jones, The Remo Four, The Blues Brothers, Croon & The Creepers, Brian Setzer, The Cramps, Jimi Hendrix, Bosse-de-Nage, Gary Hoey, Aerosmith, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Roy Buchanan, Melvin Taylor, The Disco Biscuits, Umphrey's McGee, The Swingle Singers, Pulp, They Might Be Giants, Dick Dale & The Del-Tones, Johnny Guitar Seven, Colonel Mustard & The Condiments, The Silencers, The Tubes, saxophonist King Curtis, guitarist Mundell Lowe, trombonist Buddy Morrow

Retiring as a Colonel in the U. S. Air Force in 1964 he was awarded one of the first three Joint Chiefs of Staff Commendation Medals by General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor CSI ( September 25, 1808 – Menton May 13, 1876 ), an Anglo-Indian administrator and novelist, was born in Liverpool, England.

Colonel Taylor, whose merits were now recognized and acknowledged by the British government of India – although he had never been in the service of the Company – was subsequently appointed Deputy Commissioner of the western " Ceded Districts ".

On November 11, Lieutenant Colonel Fred Taylor, a judge advocate in the regional defense counsel's office at Camp Victory, ordered that all further hearings in the case will be held at Fort Hood, Texas.

After the battle at Valverde, Colonel Canby and most of the regular troops were ordered to the eastern front.

French regular army reinforcements arrived in New France in May 1756, led by Major General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and seconded by the Chevalier de Lévis and Colonel François-Charles de Bourlamaque, all experienced veterans from the War of the Austrian Succession.

General Cialdini dispatched a division of the regular army, under Colonel Pallavicino, against the volunteer bands.

The Naskapis had received " relief " from the Federal Government as early as the end of the 19th century, but their first regular contacts with the Federal Government began only in 1949, when Colonel H. M. Jones, Superintendent of Welfare Services in Ottawa, and M. Larivière of the Abitibi Indian Agency visited them in Fort Chimo and arranged for the issuing of welfare to them.

Hunnicutt, for example — who are forced to leave their homes to tend to the wounded and dying of the war, and the " regular Army " characters, like Margaret Houlihan and Colonel Potter, who tend to represent ideas of patriotism and duty.

Redoubt 9 would be assaulted by 400 French regular soldiers under the command of the German Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm von Zweibrücken and redoubt 10 would be assaulted by 400 light infantry troops under the command of Alexander Hamilton.

Now known as the Wolseley Expedition ( or Red River Expedition ), it consisted of Canadian militia and British regular soldiers led by Colonel Garnet Wolseley.

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 Mafeking, with a force between 2, 000 and 6, 000 he laid siege against 1, 200 regular troops and militia under the command of Colonel Robert Baden-Powell.

Lack of funds however forced its disbandment soon after, and it was not until July 1824 that regular units were reformed, under the Greek Colonel Panagiotis Rodios.

In May 1825, the first law on conscription was passed, and the command of the entire regular forces entrusted to the French Colonel Charles Fabvier.

He also led recruiting efforts for the regular army, for which he was made a Colonel in the United States Army.

* Udolphus Aylmer, 7th Baron Aylmer ( 1814 – 1901 ) retired from the regular army, attained the rank of Colonel in the Canadian militia, and was appointed adjutant-general of the Canadian militia.

Meanwhile, Hastings sent Colonel Nicolls, Quartermaster-General for the British troops in India, to take charge of the Almora campaign and assigned two thousand regular troops to this front in addition to the very large number of irregulars already assigned to the area – all of this against fewer than one thousand Gorkhali Army soldiers.

The Partisans, outnumbered and engaged in major battles with the Chetnik formations of Colonel Draža Mihajlović, Ustasha militias and the combined German and Italian regular forces, were steadily forced into retreat until an elaborate deception plan allowed the Partisans to escape their pursuers.

The company ’ s commandant was Captain H. S. Scorer ( killed in action at Hohenzollern Redoubt on 13 October 1915 ), Surgeon Colonel Francis John Walker was the chief medical officer, and the regular army drill instructor was Colour Sergeant Wallace Cowling.

Officers in the rank of Captain ( or Colonel in the Marine Corps ) are not eligible for award of the Air Medal on a strike / flight basis unless the sorties they fly are required in the performance of their regular duties.

During the summer of 1776 Colonel Herkimer allowed his regular militia to return to their farms ; however, about one out of every fifteen soldiers, including Lieutenant Adam Helmer, was assigned to ranger duty.

Sam Houston, supported by Governor Henry Smith, commissioned Fannin as a Colonel in the regular army on December 7, 1835.

The senior regular officer was Lieutenant Colonel Electus Backus of the regiment of Dragoons.

While Colonel Dimick remained in command of the 415 regular army soldiers, Volunteer Major General Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts took command of Fort Monroe and the entire garrison on May 23, 1861.

News of the siege arrived in Vincennes as Colonel William Russell was passing through with a company of regular infantry and a company of rangers, on their way to join Ninian Edwards, governor of Illinois Territory.

This would also be the first regular Bond novel published since Colonel Sun nearly a decade earlier.

Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Murray Ross, a regular British Army officer, the battalion — as part of the 13th Brigade attached to the 4th Australian Division — sailed for France, arriving in Marseilles on 12 June 1916.