* New York Times book review from 1984 of Graham Greene's Getting to Know the General.

General Greene's route follows Parkway Avenue to Trenton.

In 1781, during the Revolutionary War, British General Cornwallis ' army camped near the settlement and commandeered provisions from local farms and mills prior to his engagement with Nathanael Greene's troops at New Garden, in modern day Greensboro.

Washington employed General John Armstrong, commanding about 1, 000 Pennsylvania militia, to cover Pyle's Ford, a few hundred yards south of Chadds Ford, which was covered by Major Generals Anthony Wayne's and Nathanael Greene's divisions.

If General Greene's estimate of the total American loss was accurate, then they had between 1, 160 and 1, 260 killed, wounded or deserted during the battle.

Following the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina, Lt. General Charles Cornwallis was determined to destroy Greene's army.

Washington drew up his army with Greene's division on the right, Major General Stirling's division on the left, and most of Lee's former force, now under Lafayette, in reserve.

Fort Greene Park, originally called Washington Park and Brooklyn's first, is also derived from General Greene's name and the neighborhood.

To the rear of this final line was the court house and General Greene's command post.

on BBC ( early 1960s ), General Sternwood in a BBC version of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep ( 1977 ), Pay Any Price ( BBC 1982 ), The Mystery of the Blue Train ( BBC 1985 / 1986 ), and as Henry Hickslaughter in Elizabeth Troop's Sony Award winning adaptation of Graham Greene's short story Cheap In August ( 1993 ).

Few served in Congress less than a year when, in the wake of General Nathanael Greene's successful effort to drive the British out of most of Georgia, Congress sent him home to help reassemble Georgia's scattered government.

The film focused on Greene's conflict with Whitehouse ( played by Julie Walters ) and latterly with Lord Hill ( played by Ron Cook ) in the period while he was BBC Director General in the 1960s.

( Classmates of Greene's included future Union Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas, Joseph K. Mansfield, David Hunter, Dennis Hart Mahan, and Albert Sidney Johnston.

General Greene's brigade pushed rapidly through Malate and over the bridges to occupy Binondo and San Miguel.

The American casualties may be ascertained from two documents written by Colonel Otho Holland Williams, General Greene's deputy adjutant-general.

By the time he was exchanged, his regiment had gone south with General Nathanael Greene's forces.

The integrity of the office not merely requires that the Secretary General shall be, as the Charter puts it, `` the chief administrative officer of the Organization '', but that neither he nor his staff shall seek or receive instructions from any government or any other authority `` external to the Organization ''.

Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.

* 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.

Montgomery served at the Battle of Passchendaele in Autumn 1917 before finishing the war as General Staff Officer 1 and effectively chief of staff of the 47th ( 2nd London ) Division, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel.

Sayed Noorullah Emad, who was then a young Muslim in the university of Kabul became General Secretary of the party and, later, its deputy chief.

Guderian expressed a hearty contempt for General Ludwig Beck, chief of the General Staff from 1935 to 1938, whom he characterized as hostile to ideas of modern mechanised warfare: quoting Guderian " He was a paralyzing element wherever he appeared .... ignificantly of his way of thought was his much-boosted method of fighting which he called delaying defense ".

General Nikola Ivanov identified the activity of the Greek Navy as the chief factor in the general success of the allies.

Following Bokassa, David Dacko was restored in 1981, only to be overthrown once again by his new army chief of staff, General André Kolingba after only a few months in power.

As of July 2011, General Soumaïla Bakayoko is the chief of staff of the army, and colonel-major Gervais Kouakou Kouassi is the Chief of the Gendarmerie.

He entered the Kriegsakademie ( also cited as " The German War School ," the " Military Academy in Berlin ," and the " Prussian Military Academy ") in Berlin in 1801 ( age 21 ), studied the writings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and won the regard of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the future first chief of staff of the new Prussian Army ( appointed 1809 ).

The Commons on 12 October 1659, cashiered General John Lambert and other officers, and installed Fleetwood as chief of a military council under the authority of the speaker.

General Krulak joined MBNA America in September 1999 as chief administrative officer, responsible for personnel, benefits, compensation, education, and other administrative services.

Unrest and rebellion plagued the government until 1965, when Lieutenant General Mobutu, by then commander in chief of the national army, seized control of the country and declared himself president for five years.

He then was posted as chief military aide to General MacArthur, Army Chief of Staff.

A treaty was signed in 1832 by Sauk Indian tribe chief Keokuk and United States Army General Winfield Scott to end the Black Hawk War.

Plans to form a Landsturm national militia in Eastern Germany as a last resort to boost fighting strength initially came from Oberkommando des Heeres chief General Heinz Guderian in 1944.

On October 27, President Mirza swore in a twelve-member cabinet that included Army Commander General Ayub Khan as Defence Minister as well as chief martial law administrator of the country, along with three other senior military officers in ministerial positions.

General Noumandian Keita, chief of the Combined Arms General Staff, was convicted and replaced by the army's chief of staff, Namory Kieta, who was promoted to general.

After Army chief of staff General Antonio Indjai was reported to have been arrested under the orders of navy chief Rear Admiral Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, his troops freed him while Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior went to seek asylum at the Angolan embassy.

Major General Batista Tagme Na Waie was chief of staff of the Guinea-Bissau armed forces until his assassination in 2009.

Ken Olsen was not supportive of this project, so de Castro left DEC along with another hardware engineer, Richard Sogge, and a software engineer, Henry Burkhardt III, to found Data General ( DG ) in 1968.

General Mordacq envisioned a Foreign Legion consisting not of regiments, but of divisions with cavalry, engineer, and artillery regiments in addition to the legion's infantry mainstay.

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.

The chief engineer who designed the initial version of the PDP-8 was Edson de Castro, who later founded Data General.

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

In 1889, Russian-born engineer Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky developed the first three-phase transformer at the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (" General Electricity Company ") in Germany.

* February 22 – René Edward De Russy, Brigadier General of the United States Army, Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, and military engineer ( d. 1865 )

On November 3, 1911, Swiss race car driver and automotive engineer Louis Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in Detroit with William C. Durant and investment partners William Little ( maker of the Little automobile ) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell ( son-in-law of Durant ) and in 1912 R. S. McLaughlin GEO of General Motors in Canada.

Warren M. Bodie, journalist, historian, and Skunk Works engineer from 1977 to 1984, wrote that engineering independence, elitism and secrecy of the Skunk Works variety was demonstrated earlier when Lockheed was asked by Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey ( later Brigadier General, USAF ) to build for the United States Army Air Corps a high speed, high altitude fighter to compete with German aircraft.

In 1903, Moss became an engineer for General Electric's Steam Turbine Department in Lynn, Massachusetts.

During 1915 – 16, he taught philosophy at Harvard, then worked as an engineer for General Electric and wrote for the Encyclopedia Americana.

* Johan Caspar von Cicignon, General, engineer and city planner

An external pacemaker was designed and built by the Canadian electrical engineer John Hopps in 1950 based upon observations by cardio-thoracic surgeon Wilfred Gordon Bigelow at Toronto General Hospital.

Colonel Richard Gridley became General George Washington's first chief engineer ; however, it was not until 1779 that Congress created a separate Corps of Engineers.

The shipbuilding at Skenesborough was overseen by Hermanus Schuyler ( possibly a relation of Major General Philip Schuyler ), and the outfitting was managed by military engineer Jeduthan Baldwin.

The county was named for Captain Eleazer D. Wood, the engineer for General William Henry Harrison's army, who built Fort Meigs in the War of 1812.

Before leaving Fort Snelling, Custer spoke to General Terry's chief engineer, Captain Ludlow, saying he would " cut loose " from Terry the first chance he got.

During the Mexican-American War, Beauregard served as an engineer under General Winfield Scott.

* George Whitefield Davis ( 1839 – 1918 ), engineer and Major General in the United States Army, military governor of Puerto Rico and the first military governor of the Panama Canal Zone ; born in Thompson

During World War I, the original Marconi spark transmitter was replaced with an Alexanderson alternator, the invention of the famous General Electric engineer, with an output power of 200 kilowatts and looking like an ordinary power station generator.

The layout of the city was the work of engineer General Grenville M. Dodge of the California Construction Company.

At the recommendation of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and General Charles Lee, Kościuszko was named head engineer of the Continental Army.

General Edilberto Evangelista, civil engineer, revolutionary and trench builder, was killed in the battle.