Command of British forces had passed from Lowe to General John Maxwell, who arrived in Dublin just in time to take the surrender.

Nigerian officers have served as chiefs of defence in other countries, with Brigadier General Maxwell Khobe serving as Sierra Leone chief of staff in 1998 – 1999, and Nigerian officers acting as Command Officer-in-Charge of the Armed Forces of Liberia from at least 2007.

The General has attended the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama ; the U. S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania ; and the Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

The U. S. 101st Airborne Division, under Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, would drop in two locations just north of XXX Corps to take the bridges northwest of Eindhoven at Son and Veghel.

As chief of staff, LeMay clashed repeatedly with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Maxwell Taylor.

Early in 1961 the President appointed General Maxwell Taylor to serve as his military representative and provide liaison with the government agencies and defense and intelligence establishments on military-political issues confronting the administration.

In March 1966 the Johnson White House sought to remedy this situation through issuance of NSAM 341, the brainchild of General Maxwell Taylor.

After Johnson became president in November 1963 following Kennedy's assassination, Clifford served frequently as an unofficial White House Counsel and sometimes undertook short-term official duties, including a trip with General Maxwell Taylor in 1967 to Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

* William Maxwell Wood, MD, USN, first Surgeon General of the US Navy, buried at St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery

General Heath had been the commanding officer and friend of Col. Hugh Maxwell, a local citizen who suggested the town be named in his honor.

In 1784 Maxwell, who was severely wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill by a bullet through his shoulder, was chosen to represent Heath at the General Court in Boston and obtain a division of the town from Charlemont.

* Maxwell D. Taylor ,-former U. S. Army General and diplomat.

The plot of the movie concerns Kelly Collins, a free-spirited eighth grade girl whose mother gets married to Brigadier General Joe " Sir " Maxwell ( Gary Cole ).

* Gary Cole as General Joe " Sir " Maxwell

On 22 April 1961, President Kennedy asked General Maxwell D. Taylor, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Admiral Arleigh Burke and CIA Director Allen Dulles to form the Cuba Study Group, to report on the lessons to be learned from

It equally helped fuel republican sentiment, particularly when Britain's General Maxwell, in a highly misguided act, executed the leaders of the Rising, treating them as traitors in wartime.

His other major roles include butterfly collector Freddie Clegg in The Collector, arch-villain General Zod in Superman and Superman II, trans woman Bernadette in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, tough guy Wilson in The Limey, Supreme Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, ghost antagonist Ramsley in The Haunted Mansion, Elektra's master Stick in Elektra, Pekwarsky in Wanted, Maxwell Smart's arch-villain Siegfried in Get Smart, council of high help Terrence Bundley in Yes Man, the Covenant Hierarch ' Prophet of Truth ' in Halo 3 and General Ludwig Beck in Valkyrie.

In December 1944, when the German army launched the surprise Battle of the Bulge, Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, was away, attending a staff conference in the United States.

** Brigadier General Francis Aylmer Maxwell, VC, CSI, DSO & Bar, ( attended United Services College 1883 – 1890 )

* Brigadier General Francis Aylmer Maxwell, VC, CSI, DSO & Bar, ( attended United Services College 1883-1890 )

The base is named for Lieutenant General Frank Maxwell Andrews ( 1884 – 1943 ), former Commanding General of United States Forces in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.

Marlborough quickly moved forward two brigades under the command of General Wilkes and Brigadier Rowe to secure the narrow strip of land between the Danube and the wooded Fuchsberg hill, at the Schwenningen defile.

Following the takeover of English football club Aston Villa by MBNA Chairman Randy Lerner in August 2006 and as of September 19, 2006, General Krulak joined the board of Aston Villa as non-executive director, where he quickly earned the approval of the fans by taking the time to post on various Aston Villa messageboards.

* 1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants ( the strike lasted seven weeks ).

On August 1 members of the Kenyan Air Force launched an attempted coup, which was quickly suppressed by Loyalist forces led by the Army, the General Service Unit ( GSU ) — paramilitary wing of the police — and later the regular police, but not without civilian casualties.

During a meeting with General Douglas MacArthur, Dr. Honma produced blades from the various periods of Japanese history and MacArthur was able to identify very quickly what blades held artistic merit and which could be considered purely weapons.

The team was quickly built through a number of trades engineered by its first General Manager, Cedric Tallis, including a trade for Lou Piniella, who won the Rookie of the Year during the Royals ' inaugural season.

The members of the General Assembly had quickly reconvened in June 1781 in Staunton, Virginia across the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Castro, according to the General, was quickly convinced to the undesirability of such outcomes.

In its General Comment 8 ( 2006 ) the Committee on the Rights of the Child stated that there was an " obligation of all States parties to move quickly to prohibit and eliminate all corporal punishment and all other cruel or degrading forms of punishment of children ".

As it happened, separate negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) moved more quickly, with an agreement signed in October 1947 ; in the end, the US never signed the ITO agreement.

12 to General Sir H. Rawlinson, 16 June 1916 Stating the Objectives ') and that preparations should be made for an advance of to Bapaume should German resistance crumble, " If the first attack goes well every effort must be made to develop the success to the utmost by firstly opening a way for our cavalry and then as quickly as possible pushing the cavalry through to seize Bapaume ...." ( Note O. A. D.

French General Jean-Etienne Valluy quickly pushed the Việt Minh out of Hanoi.

The landed troops pushed quickly inland and General Juin surrendered the city to the Allies at 18: 00.

Seeing the danger, he dispatched a note to General Pappenheim ordering him to return as quickly as possible with his army corps.

When this was known, residents quickly lodged protests with the Postamaster General and by the end of March 1899, it was renamed ' Cass Lake '.

Hillsborough Township quickly took its place in history as the path General George Washington and his troops traveled from the Battle of Princeton to winter quarters in Morristown.

Chadick and his investors purchased land to the south of McAlester's General Store, and where the two rail lines crossed formed a natural trading crossroads, and quickly became a bustling community designated as South McAlester.

After Confederate General James Longstreet failed to retake Knoxville in the Battle of Fort Sanders, Union and Confederate forces quickly initiated a series of maneuvers to gain control of the strategic fords along the French Broad, culminating in an engagement near Hodsden's farm at Fair Garden in January 1864.

Colonel James Morgan Illinois's troops were reinforced by Brigadier General Schuyler Hamilton's 2nd Division, hence Thompson quickly fled.

By a stroke of luck, a band of Cossacks captured a messenger carrying Napoleon's plans to Bernadotte and quickly forwarded the information to General Pyotr Bagration.

Napoleon chose to present his whole army for battle at St Dizier, but MacDonald's information was incorrect ; Napoleon found only a body of cavalry under the command of General Wintzingerode, whom Napoleon's troops quickly put to flight.

According to General Brown said in his report: " Francisco Palafox wanted to leave with his assistant through the lane that seemed shorter to discover the enemy and found himself face to face with a patrol of French Dragoons, and round the last corner, he had to return very quickly rumps '.

However, Desmoulins quickly turned his pen against the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security, comparing their reign to that of the Roman tyrants chronicled by Tacitus and expounding the " indulgent " views of the Dantonist faction.

However, Brigadier General Taylor ( Noble Willingham ) and the other DJs quickly grow to like the new man and his brand of comedy.