Crüwell had became commander of the Afrika Korps on 31 July 1941, answering to General Erwin Rommel, who on the same day took command of Panzer Army Africa, consisting of one infantry and two panzer divisions.

* General der Panzertruppen Ludwig Crüwell ( 1 August 1940 – 15 August 1941 )

After the dissolution of Spanish authority, the former Captaincy General remained intact as part of the short-lived First Mexican Empire.

Other well-known Coolidges, architect Charles Allerton Coolidge, General Charles Austin Coolidge, and diplomat Archibald Cary Coolidge among them, were descended from branches of the family that had remained in Massachusetts.

After the war, 200, 000 Chinese troops under General Lu Han were sent by Chiang Kai-shek to northern Indochina ( north of the 16th parallel ) to accept the surrender of Japanese occupying forces there, and remained in Indochina until 1946, when the French returned.

Ivashko remained for five days as acting General Secretary until August 29 when the party's activity was suspended by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

The most significant figure of the era, however, was General José María Urbina, who first came to power in 1851 through a coup d ' état, remained in the presidency until 1856, and then continued to dominate the political scene until 1860.

Following the promulgation of 1956 Constitution, Prime minister Bogra appointed Bengali bureaucrat and retired Major-General Iskander Mirza was as Interior minister and the Army Commander of army General Ayub Khan as the Defence minister whilst Muhammad Ali remained Economic minister.

Tensions remained high for months, although various confidence-building measures were discussed to reduce the risk of military accidents or conflict in the Aegean, under the auspices of the NATO Secretary General.

In 1949 the Soviets turned control of East Germany over to the Socialist Unity Party, headed by Wilhelm Pieck ( 1876 – 1960 ), who became president of the GDR and remained officially ' Number One ' until his death in 1960, while most executive authority was assumed by SED General Secretary Walter Ulbricht.

In 1549, the capital was moved to Antigua, Guatemala, and Honduras and remained a province within the Captaincy General of Guatemala until 1821.

Marconi ( later part of the General Electric Company ) remained the city's largest employer ( with two main plants ) until the 1990s.

Reno remained Attorney General for the rest of Clinton's presidency, making her the longest-serving Attorney General since William Wirt in 1829.

Memminger remained Secretary of the Treasury, while Thomas Hill Watts of Alabama was made Attorney General.

His political commitment to the Western powers achieved full sovereignty for West Germany, which was formally laid down in the General Treaty, although there remained Allied restrictions concerning the status of a potentially reunited Germany and the state of emergency in West Germany.

General Motors announced on August 18 that the deal had been signed although certain financing details remained to be completed.

Under an agreement between President-elect Chamorro of the National Opposition Union ( Unión Nacional Oppositora-UNO ) and the defeated FSLN party, General Humberto Ortega, former defense minister and commander in chief of the EPS under the Sandinistas, remained at the head of the armed forces.

The Arm or Service distinctions remained ( e. g. General of Cavalry, Marshal of Armoured Troops ).

At the first Special Session of the UN General Assembly held in 1947, Osvaldo Aranha, then president of the Special Session, began a tradition that has remained until today whereby the first speaker at this major international forum is always a Brazilian.

The White House remained accessible in other ways ; President Abraham Lincoln complained that he was constantly beleaguered by job seekers waiting to ask him for political appointments or other favors, or eccentric dispensers of advice like “ General ” Daniel Pratt, as he began the business day.

The Germans governed the occupied areas of Belgium through a General Governorate of Belgium, while a small area of the country remained unoccupied by the Germans.

It remained so until 1969, when Pope Lucius's feast was moved in the Roman Martyrology to the day of his death and omitted from the General Calendar, partly because of the baselessness of the title of " martyr " with which he had previously been honoured.

Later when the National Government called a General Election he tried to pull the Liberal Party out of it but succeeded in taking only a few followers, most of whom were related to him ; the main Liberal party remained in the coalition for a year longer, under the leadership of Sir Herbert Samuel.

After the war, 200, 000 Chinese troops under General Lu Han sent by Chiang Kai-shek invaded northern Indochina north of the 16th parallel to accept the surrender of Japanese occupying forces, and remained there until 1946.

The late President's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, with whom Johnson had a notoriously difficult relationship, remained in office for a few months until leaving in 1964, to run for the Senate.

I am sorry to transmit to Your Lordship the disagreeable account of a disagreeable Business, some time in the Beginning of this Month, upon news of the Rebel Army approaching, General Carleton set out for Montreal in great Haste ; the 7th instant the Rebels landed in the Woods near St. John's, and beat back to their Boats by a Party of Savages incamped at that Place ; in this Action the Savages behaved with great Spirit and Resolution, and had they remained firm to our Interests, probably the Province would have been safe for this Year, but finding the Canadians in General averse to the taking up Arms for the Defence of their Country, they withdrew, and made their Peace.

* 1942 – French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.

Finally, on April 22, 1660, ' Major-General Lambert's party was dispersed ' and General Lambert taken prisoner by Col. Ingoldsby.

The cable car in the castle is based on the 1968 movie Where Eagles Dare, where a U. S. Army Brigadier General is captured and taken prisoner to the Schloß Adler, a fortress high in the Alps above the town of Werfen, only reachable by cable car, and the headquarters of the German Secret Service in southern Bavaria.

* Benazir Bhutto was a political prisoner for four years under General Zia ul Haq.

General Piet Cronjé as a prisoner of war in Saint Helena, 1900 – 02.

While Lee had been held prisoner by the British General Sir William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe in March, 1777, Lee drafted a plan for British military operations against the Americans.

He became finance minister in the government of Chilean president Salvador Allende and then spent three years as a political prisoner ( from September 11, 1973 to 1976 ) after the military coup of General Augusto Pinochet.

General Robert E. Lee's depleted forces lost over 7, 000 men killed, wounded, or taken prisoner at either Sayler's Creek or at General Gordon's engagement the same day, a few miles west.

General Whiting was taken prisoner and died while in Federal captivity.

Mengistu, without doubt, met General Haile Baykedagn, the man who treated him badly as a prisoner among other commanders, and later murdered him with the 60 minsisters and generals.

As chef de bataillon he was present at the Siege of Toulon in 1793, where he took General O ' Hara prisoner.

Although he had negotiated a safe return home for his people, General William Sherman forced Joseph and four hundred followers to be taken on unheated rail cars to Fort Leavenworth in eastern Kansas to be held in a prisoner of war campsite for eight months.

In the first major skirmish, the Battle of Rocquencourt, on 1 July French dragoons supported by infantry and commanded by General Exelmans destroyed a Prussian brigade of hussars under the command of Colonel von Sohr ( who was severely wounded and taken prisoner during the skirmish ).

He pleaded in his memoirs that his people who surrendered had been misled, and that his surrender as a war prisoner was conditioned in front of uncontested witnesses ( especially General Stanley ).

It was also where General Emilio Aguinaldo was kept prisoner after his capture by the Americans.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Tannenberg, General von François ( with his back to the camera ) greets General Nikolai Klujev, commander of the Russian XIII Corps, who has been taken prisoner by Francois ' troops.

The British forces had taken his father, General Gold Selleck Silliman, prisoner in May 1779.

At the end of the war, he was captured by General Louis Franchet d ' Espèrey's Allied army in Hungary ( namely by the Serbian units ) and held as a military prisoner in Futog, until November 1919.

General Richard Montgomery was killed, Benedict Arnold was wounded, and Daniel Morgan and more than 400 men were taken prisoner.

In February 1865, General Crook was captured by Confederate raiders at Cumberland, Maryland, and held as a prisoner of war in Richmond until exchanged a month later.

Soult was taken prisoner, General of Brigade Joseph Perrin was killed, and the cavalry commander, Jean-Joseph Gauthier, was badly wounded.

Najib-Ud-Daula who was an Afghan Rohilla Chief and was appointed by Ahmad Shah Durrani as his viceroy was defeated without much effort in Delhi by Maratha armies, he was taken prisoner by the Maratha General Raghunath Rao in 1757 itself.

He was captured at Fort Saint-Jean by General Richard Montgomery in November 1775, and held a prisoner at Lancaster, Pennsylvania.