After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ( 1817 – 1890 ), eldest son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a General in the Army and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire East.

His eldest son, Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon was also a General in the Army.

During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.

They decided to replace Auchinleck, appointing XIII Corps commander William Gott to the Eighth Army command and General Sir Harold Alexander as C-in-C Middle East Command.

Eventually, he found capable officers, like General Nathanael Greene and his chief-of-staff Alexander Hamilton.

* Major General HT Alexander 1960-1961

Aberdeen's second son was General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ; his third son was the Reverend Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ; and his youngest son Arthur Gordon was created Baron Stanmore in 1893.

In response, Army Group Upper Rhine ( Heeresgruppe Oberrhein ) group was formed to engage the advancing U. S. 7th Army ( under command of General Alexander Patch ) and French 1st Army ( led by General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny ) in the Alsace region along the west bank of the Rhine.

On 3 March 1969 Alexander Rhea, managing director of General Motors-Holden's at the time, was joined by press photographers and the Federal Minister of Shipping and Transport, Ian Sinclair as the two men drove the two millionth Holden, an HK Brougham off the production line.

Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis ( 10 December 189116 June 1969 ) was a British military commander and field marshal who served with distinction in both world wars and, afterwards, as Governor General of Canada, the 17th since Canadian Confederation.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

However, following a visit in early August to Egypt by British prime minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa.

With the cessation of hostilities, Alexander was under serious consideration for appointment to the post of Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the British army's most senior position beneath the sovereign, but he was invited by Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to be his recommendation to the King for the post of Governor General of Canada.

General Alexander O ' Reilly, " Father of the Puerto Rican Militia ", named Tomas O ' Daly chief engineer of modernising the defences of San Juan, this included the fortress of San Cristóbal.

* 1830 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.

Because of the many threats against Maria and Alexander III, the head of the security police, General Cherevin, shortly after the coronation urged the Tsar and his family to relocate to Gatchina Palace, a more secure location 50 kilometres outside St. Petersburg.

In 1918, General Electric engineer Sanford Alexander Moss attached a turbo to a V12 Liberty aircraft engine.

Key and Skinner boarded the British flagship HMS Tonnant on September 7 and spoke with Major General Robert Ross and Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane over dinner while the two officers discussed war plans.

On 8 December he was replaced by Army Major General Alexander McCarrell Patch, who took command of the U. S. XIV Army Corps on 2 January.

The division was under the command of Major General Alexander McCarrell Patch.

* Sandy Alderson: Former General Manager of the Oakland Athletics, Alderson began focusing on sabermetric principles toward obtaining relatively undervalued players in 1995.

After many months without a job, Michael hears of an opening on the soap opera Southwest General from his friend and acting student Sandy Lester ( Teri Garr ), who tries out for the role of hospital administrator but doesn't get it.

General Sandy Foster, officer in the Civil War

Both former Attorney General of Oklahoma Drew Edmondson and former Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Sandy Garrett are Muskogee natives.

In late July 1777, after a distressing 34-day journey from Sandy Hook on the coast of New Jersey, a Royal Navy fleet of more than 260 ships carrying some 17, 000 British troops under the command of British General Sir William Howe landed at the head of the Elk River, on the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay near present-day Elkton, Maryland ( then known as Head of Elk ), approximately 40 – 50 miles ( 60 – 80 km ) southwest of Philadelphia.

Even though Chapin was driving without a license, his driver's license having previously been revoked for a long string of traffic violations, his widow Sandy won a $ 12 million decision in a negligence lawsuit against Supermarkets General, the owners of the truck.

* General Jumbo new series of the former The Beano character, drawn by Sandy Calder

Shā Wùjìng ( literally meaning " Sand Awakened to Purity "), given the name Friar Sand or Sandy in English, was once a celestial Curtain Lifting General, who stood in attendance by the imperial chariot in the Hall of Miraculous Mist.

A bill before the Georgia General Assembly in 2005 that proposed the inclusion of Sandy Springs would rename the remainder of Fulton County as " Atlanta County ".

# Philadelphia ( 1707 ), Charleston ( 1751 ), Sandy Creek ( 1758 ), and Kehukee ( 1765 ), but the 5th oldest if the General Six-Principle Baptist Rhode Island Yearly Meeting ( org.

General Jumbo ( called Admiral Jumbo for a brief period in the early 1970s ) was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, originally drawn by Paddy Brennan and, subsequently, by Sandy Calder.

This sometimes leads to inconsistencies, such as the licensing of one metro Atlanta station to the unincorporated Cobb County community of Mableton, but the refusal to license another to Sandy Springs, which is one of the largest cities in the state, and was at the time an unincorporated part of Fulton County only for political reasons in the Georgia General Assembly.

On the request of his successor, Surgeon General Walter Wyman, Hamilton also returned to New York during the 1892 cholera pandemic, to set up a quarantine camp at Sandy Hook ( Camp Low ).

Sam Brownback became Governor, Jeff Colyer Lieutenant Governor, Kris Kobach Secretary of State, Derek Schmidt Attorney General, Sandy Praeger was re-elected as Insurance Commissioner, and Ron Estes State Treasurer.

Backman was a candidate to replace Jerry Manuel as the New York Mets ' major league manager in 2011, having interviewed for the position with new General Manager Sandy Alderson.

She appeared from the 1950s until her death in regular or recurring roles on many sitcoms, including Topper ( as Katie the maid ), The Donna Reed Show ( as Mrs. Wilgus, the Stone's busybody next door neighbor ), Hogan's Heroes ( as Frau Gertrude Linkmeyer, General Burkhalter's sister, who longed to wed Colonel Klink ), Mrs. Kate Harwell, Sandy Duncan's landlady and friend in Funny Face ; I Dream of Jeannie ( as a grouchy supervisor in a false preview of Maj. Nelson's future ), the short-lived prehistoric sitcom It's About Time ( as Mrs. Boss ), and as the voice of Peg Bundy's mom, an unseen character on Married ... with Children.

In 2006, new Padres CEO Sandy Alderson preferred to have a younger manager, so he allowed Giants General Manager Brian Sabean to interview Bochy for his job opening.

On 15 August 1944, two months after the Allied landings in Normandy ( Operation Overlord ), the Seventh United States Army under General Alexander Patch, with a Free French corps under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, landed on the coast of the Var between St. Raphael and Cavalaire ( Operation Dragoon ).

Cleveland is best known for its Babyland General Hospital where the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, the conception of native Xavier Roberts, are created.

In 1945, the Belgian royal family was liberated by American troops under the command of Lieutenant General Alexander Patch, who thereafter became a close friend of King Leopold and Princess Lilian.

At the suggestion of a subordinate, the division's commander, Major General Alexander Patch, requested that the new unit be known as the Americal Division — the name being a contraction of " American, New Caledonian Division ".

Under the command of General Patch, the Americal Division was the first US Army unit to be sent to Guadalcanal, where it eventually relieved the exhausted US 1st Marine Division.

Monument to the landings of Allied troops under General Patch on the beach of St Tropez, France.

The Grade 1 Slouch hat is worn with a seven band puggaree, said to represent the six states and the territories of Australia, the soldiers ' Unit Colour Patch ( right of puggaree ), Corps or Regiment Hat badge ( front of puggaree ) and the General Service Badge ( The Rising Sun, on the left brim ); and the left brim is folded up and clipped into place.

Under Lieutenant General ( then Maj. Gen .) Alexander M. Patch, the XIV Army Corps directed the Americal and 25th ( Tropic lightning ) Army Infantry Divisions, the 2nd Marine Division, and the 147th Separate Infantry Regiment in the final drive which expelled the Japanese from Guadalcanal early in February 1943.

Griswold succeeded General Patch as XIV Corps commander 26 April 1943.

To signify final victory over the Japanese on Guadalcanal, General Alexander Patch, commander of the land forces on the island, signaled his superior, Admiral Bull Halsey, that the " Tokyo Express no longer has terminus on Guadalcanal.

* April 18 – A German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter intercepts a U. S. Army Air Forces Stinson L-5 Sentinel liaison aircraft carrying United States Army Lieutenant General Alexander M. Patch from Kitzingen to Öhringen, Germany.

* The Cotton Patch Version of Hebrews and the General Epistles.

Subsequent parts included General George C. Marshall in Saving Private Ryan, Dean Anderson in Patch Adams, Mr. Parker on The Pretender, Dr. Sam Lane on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and A. I.

When the Allied landings in Southern France took place in August 1944 ( Operation Dragoon ) Devers formed a special headquarters in Corsica to oversee the Franco-American forces commanded by Lieutenant General Alexander M. Patch.

In the spring of 1945, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower offered Patch a B-25 Mitchell and pilot for his personal use, but Patch turned down the offer because he wished to remain in touch with his subordinate commanders during fast-moving operations and preferred a smaller plane that could land on unimproved fields and pastures.

Ribbon bar with the list of General Alexander M. Patch ´ s decorations:

The centre now features a total of 247 shops including a new Target discount department store, Dreamy Donuts, JB Hi-Fi, The Reject Shop, Borders, Jay-Jays, Gloria Jean's, General Pants co, Just Jeans, Australia Post office, Pumpkin Patch, Supré, McDonald's, newsagencies, Oporto, Fitness First Gym, Wild Surf co, Priceline, Toys " R " Us, Coles, Woolworths, K-Mart and David Jones.

In contrast, the Allied commander on the island, U. S. Army Major General Alexander Patch, fielded a combined force of U. S. Army and U. S. Marines, designated the XIV Corps, totaling 50, 666 men.