To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

These two mountain ranges together, along with the much smaller Traverse Mountains to the south of the valley, delimit Salt Lake Valley, which is also flanked on the northwest by the Great Salt Lake, and the north by the Salt Lake Anticline ( most notably Ensign Peak ).

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Cape Girardeau County was organized on October 1, 1812, as one of five original counties and is named after Ensign Sieur Jean Baptiste de Girardot ( also spelled Girardeau or Girardat ), a French officer originally stationed at Kaskaskia, Illinois from 1704-1720 who later developed a trading post on the site on the present-day city of Cape Girardeau around 1733.

The shield design forms the monarch's royal standard and is also found on the Canadian Red Ensign.

They were first introduced in the 1991 episode " Ensign Ro " of Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequently also featured in episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

The flag used by the British Royal Navy ( the White Ensign ) is also based on the flag of England, consisting of the St George's Cross and a Union Flag in the canton.

In addition to the United Kingdom, several countries in the Commonwealth of Nations also have variants of the White Ensign with their own national flags in the canton, with the St George's Cross sometimes being replaced by a naval badge.

The Red Ensign was also flown by ships of the Royal Scots Navy, with a Saltire in the canton.

Until 1864, the Red Ensign was also the principal ensign of the Royal Navy, and as such it was worn by ships of the Red Squadron of the navy, as well as by those warships that were not assigned to any squadron ( i. e., those sailing under independent command ).

The Hudson's Bay Company also used a Red Ensign as their corporate flag.

The Red Ensign with the shield was also used on land as a de facto national flag from 1910 until 1928.

There was also a Blue Ensign which was the official ensign of government-owned vessels, and was also flown at South African offices overseas.

The Royal Australian Navy also breaks tradition in the sense that it has the equivalent rank of Ensign, but it is titled " acting sub lieutenant.

South Australia then adopted a second flag in 1876, also a Blue Ensign, with a new badge.

* The episode also contains the debut acting performance of actress Ashley Judd, as Ensign Robin Lefler.

Ensign also voted in support of the President to use the United States Armed Forces " as he determines to be necessary and appropriate " in order to " defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq ; and enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Iraq.

This arms of Canada was shared with the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador and also used in the Canadian Red Ensign.

This was the first episode to feature regular cast member Walter Koenig, as the ship's navigator, Ensign Pavel Chekov, and also the first one to list DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy in the opening credits.

Ensign Wildman was also mentioned, but not seen, in several other Voyager episodes.

The royal arms do not appear on Scotland's flag-they were added to Nova Scotia's to distinguish the flag from the Naval Ensign of Russia which is also a blue saltire on a white field.

The White Ensign is also flown by the Royal Yacht Squadron and ships escorting the Queen.

In addition to the United Kingdom, several Commonwealth nations also have variants of the White Ensign with their own national flags in the canton, with the St George's Cross sometimes being replaced by a naval badge.

The White Ensign may also be worn on a gaff, and may be shifted to the starboard yardarm when at sea.

It had been made shockingly evident that very morning to Ensign Kay K. Vesole, in charge of the armed guard aboard the John Bascom.

Ensign Vesole and his gunners had fought valiantly, but they had no targets.

Soon after the end of World War I, Lancia offered a 22 ° V12, Fiat had a 60 ° model 520 ( 1921-2 ), British truck manufacturer Ensign announced a V12 that did not materialize, and in 1926, Daimler ( Britain ) offered the first of a full range of sleeve valve Double Sixes, 7, 136 cc, 3, 744 cc, 5, 296 cc and 6, 511 cc versions remaining available until 1937.

The original poem, written in 1846 but not printed until 1848, had 11 stanzas and formed the prologue to the great verse cycle The Tales of Ensign Stål (" Fänrik Ståhls Sägner "), a masterpiece of Romantic nationalism.

At the time of the appearance of the French and Indians, Trent had been recalled to Wills Creek for a conference and his second-in-command, Lieutenant John Fraser ( frontiersman ), was at his own plantation at Turtle Creek on the Mononghela River, leaving Ensign Edward Ward in charge at the time of Fort Prince George's surrender on April 18, 1754.

The Canadian Red Ensign had been unofficially used since the 1890s and was approved by a 1945 Order in Council for use " wherever place or occasion may make it desirable to fly a distinctive Canadian flag ".

The Legislative Assembly of Quebec, however, had urged the committee to not include any of what it deemed as " foreign symbols ", including the Royal Union Flag, and Mackenzie King, then still prime minister, declined to act on the report, leaving the order to fly the Canadian Red Ensign in place .< ref >

In September 1940, the U. S. Navy opened Naval Air Station Lee Field in honor of Ensign Bejamin Lee who had lost his life in a crash at Killinghome, England during World War I.

The Empire routes had contained landplane sectors, but the Armstrong Whitworth Ensign and de Havilland Albatross ordered to replace the Handley Page HP. 42 ' Heracles ' biplanes had proved disappointing, leaving the Short Empire flying boats as the backbone of the wartime fleet.

The assembly had 22 members from the following constituencies: James City ( Captain William Powell, Ensign William Spense ), Charles City ( Sergeant Samuel Sharpe, Samuel Jordan ), the City of Henricus ( Thomas Dowse, John Polentine or John Plentine ), Kicoughtan ( Captain William Tucker, William Capps ), Martin-Brandon ( Captain John Martin's Plantation ) ( Thomas Davis, Robert Stacy ), Smythe's Hundred ( Captain Thomas Graves, Walter Shelley ), Martin's Hundred ( John Boys, John Jackson ), Argall's Gift Plantation ( Thomas Pawlett, Edward Gourgainy ), Flowerdew Hundred Plantation or Flowerdieu Hundred ( Ensign Edmund Rossingham, John Jefferson ), Captain Lawne's Plantation ( Captain Christopher Lawne, Ensign Washer ), and Captain Ward's Plantation ( Captain John Warde or Capt.

They are led by Ichiro Ogami, a newly graduated male Imperial Navy Ensign who had been assigned to the squad partly due to his unique ability to use a special type of armor, about which it was previously believed that only women possessing high levels of spiritual powers could operate.

Conway gained a national following from his role as the bumbling, naive Ensign Charles Parker, Executive Officer of the PT-73, in the 1960s sitcom McHale's Navy, alongside Ernest Borgnine and Joe Flynn, where the two had gotten along well.

Michelle Forbes, who had portrayed Ensign Ro, turned down the offer, so a new Bajoran character was created instead.

The episode " Divergence " revealed that in 2149, Reed, then an Ensign, had been recruited as an operative for a mysterious offshoot of Starfleet Intelligence, which in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine would be identified as Section 31.

It had been learnt that several pirates were aboard, sailing under the protection of the Red Ensign, so it was boarded by the water patrol, who arrested 12 Chinese sailors and took down the flag.

On July 14, 2009, Ensign announced his plan to run for re-election to his Nevada Senate seat in 2012, even though his polling numbers had recently decreased.

Ensign had been a leading voice against the Kelo v. New London Supreme Court ruling, and introduced a bill that would blunt the effects of the ruling.

In September 2007, it was discovered that Ensign had used the secret hold rule to prevent a bill requiring senators to file fund-raising reports electronically from being voted on.

Between 2007 and 2008 Senator Ensign had an affair with Cynthia Hampton.

Before 1965, the Canadian Red Ensign had served as the national flag of Canada.

Gerrold wrote that he had originally written the part of Ensign Freeman as a walk-on for himself, but it was felt that he didn't have the right build for an Enterprise crewman so the part went to Shatner stand-in Paul Baxley.