* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

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# General Sir Arthur Currie of Canada,

* Sir Arthur Currie, Lieutenant General, British Army, commanding Canadian Corps

Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders.

* Arthur Greiser, SS General

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 Canada, a similar situation took place in 1925 wherein Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy appointed Arthur Meighen after William Lyon Mackenzie King refused to resign the premiership ( known as the King-Byng Affair ).

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

* 1841 – Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor General of Canada ( d. 1908 )

* 1966 – General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer ( b. 1887 )

One of the oldest buildings is named for General Sir Arthur William Currie.

Four Prime Ministers in 1945: Labor Prime Minister John Curtin ( left ) shares a joke with the Governor General Prince Henry ( in uniform ) with former Country Party Prime Minister Arthur Fadden, Nationalist Prime Minister Billy Hughes and UAP Prime Minister Robert Menzies.

After a selection process by General Medaris and Dr. Arthur Rudolph, the Martin Company ( later Martin Marietta after a merger in 1961 ) was awarded a CPFF ( cost-plus-fixed-fee ) contract for research, development, and initial production of the Pershing system under the technical supervision and concept control of the government.

With Eisenhower refusing to run, the contest for the Republican nomination was between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, California Governor Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican in the Senate.

At the Supreme Command conference, General Eisenhower led the meeting, which was attended by General Patton, General Bradley, General Jacob Devers, Major General Sir Kenneth Strong, Deputy Supreme Commander Arthur Tedder, and a large number of staff officers.

According to legend, Tsuburaya's work on The War at Sea ... was so impressive that General MacArthur's film unit is said to have sold footage of the film to Frank Capra for use in Movietone newsreels as actual footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

He presented General of the Army Douglas MacArthur the Sylvanus Thayer Award in 1962, which was the occasion of MacArthur's famous Duty, Honor, Country speech to the United States Military Academy Corps of Cadets in 1962.

In the early days of the Korean War, Haig was responsible for maintaining General MacArthur's situation map and briefing MacArthur each evening on the day's battlefield events.

Haig later served ( 1950 – 51 ) with the X Corps, as aide to MacArthur's Chief of Staff, General Edward Almond, who awarded Haig two Silver Stars and a Bronze Star with Valor device.

Cecil Salmon, biologist and wheat expert on General Douglas MacArthur's team in Japan after 1945 collected 16 varieties of wheat including one called “ Norin 10 ”.

In 1944, in Guam, Cotton crawled through a minefield to retrieve General MacArthur's corn cob pipe.

At the end of the war he was a captain on General Douglas MacArthur's intelligence staff.

The American General Douglas MacArthur's army landed on Leyte on 20 October 1944, and they were all welcomed as liberators, along with Philippine Commonwealth troops when other amphibious landings soon followed.

In World War II this same Tunnel became General MacArthur's Command Post on Corregidor.

Casey served as General of the Army Douglas MacArthur's chief engineer during the Battle of Bataan, in the jungles and mountains of New Guinea and the Philippines, and during the occupation of Japan.

Shidehara's cabinet drafted a new constitution for Japan in line with General Douglas MacArthur's policy directives, but the draft was vetoed by the occupation authorities.

She was released after a year in jail when neither the FBI nor General Douglas MacArthur's staff found any evidence she had aided the Japanese Axis forces.

In October 1944, amphibious forces of the U. S. Seventh Fleet carried out General Douglas MacArthur's major landings on the island of Leyte in the Central Philippines.

He spent the remainder of the war in China and Burma and also covered General Douglas MacArthur's island-hopping campaign.

During the U. S. occupation of Japan, and under General MacArthur's orders, Burchett was for a time barred entrance to Japan.

Due to sudden transfer of Java and Sumatera from General Douglas MacArthur's American-dominated Southwest Pacific Area to Lord Louis Mountbatten's British-dominated Southeast Asian Command, the first Allied soldiers ( 1st Battalion of Seaforth Highlanders ) only arrived in Jakarta on late September 1945.

Rockwell supported General Douglas MacArthur's candidacy for President of the United States.

After a few weeks of retreat, General Douglas MacArthur's success at the Battle of Inchon turned the war around ; UN forces invaded North Korea.

Due to a lack of coordination between Walker, General Edward Almond, Commander of the X Corps, and MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo, a gap had opened between Eighth Army and X Corps as they moved close to the Chinese border.

** General Douglas MacArthur's first order to the forces of the Empire of Japan following the Japanese surrender in World War II

Under the authorization of Douglas MacArthur's General Order No. 1, Chen Yi was escorted by George Kerr to Taiwan for accepting Japan government's surrender as the Chinese delegate.

The area served as General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters until the conquest of the Philippines in March 1945.

He landed near Tokyo at the time of their surrender with the first three planes carrying General Douglas MacArthur's bodyguard troops.

This message was sent to Admiral Hart and to General MacArthur's Headquarters.

The Director of CBB on paper was General Spencer B. Akin, MacArthur's chief signal officer, but General Akin in practice seldom visited the organization.