By 1912, when it was known as Governors Island, the Island's administrative leaders included General Tasker H. Bliss, who would become Army Chief of Staff in 1917.

Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes, eldest son of the first Baron, was killed in 1941 during an attempt to capture General Erwin Rommel in Libya.

Gen. Tasker H. Bliss replaced General Wood as the commander of the Department of Mindanao-Jolo, and replaced him as governor of Moro Province sometime after the First Battle of Bud Dajo.

Tasker is currently a color commentator for CBS football telecasts as well as play-by-play for the local broadcasts of Bills pre-season games, working alongside his former coach, Marv Levy, who also did color commentary until becoming the General Manager of the Bills in 2006.

In November 1941, his eldest son, Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes, VC, MC, CdeG, Scots Greys, was killed in action at Beda Littoria, Libya, during the famous commando raid on the Headquarters of the General Officer Commanding the German Forces in North Africa-at the time General Erwin Rommel.

Benjamin Tasker, Jr. was appointed by Provincial Governor of Maryland, Horatio Sharpe as Commissioner, to secure the assistance of The Six Nations, having been voted £ 500 by the Maryland General Assembly for this purpose.

The first Monaro Superintendent of Police, the Corsican Francis Nicholas Rossi, built an ironbark slab homestead in the region called Micilago on 35, 000 acres ( 14, 175 hectares ) in 1837 ; this station was bought in 1859 by Alexander Ryrie who married Charlotte Faunce the daughter of Alured Tasker Faunce the police magistrate at Queanbeyan ; one of their children being Granville Ryrie, later a General in World War I, knighted and involved with the League of Nations in Geneva.

He studied at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and in weapons training at Fort Bliss, Texas, as well as at the Joint and Combined Planning School of the Pacific Command in Okinawa.

Citizens United's current leadership includes David N. Bossie, President and Chairman Michael Boos, Vice President and General Counsel Douglas L. Ramsey, Secretary-Treasurer Ron Robinson plus Directors John Bliss and Kirby Wilbur.

From 1974 to 1981 the Met was guided by a triumvirate of directors: the General Manager ( Anthony A. Bliss ), Artistic Director ( James Levine ), and Director of Production ( the English stage director John Dexter ).

* Raymond W. Bliss, Surgeon General of the U. S. Army 1947 – 1951

* Zenas Bliss ( 1835 – 1900 ), U. S. Army General and Medal of Honor recipient

" MRS. GENERAL TAYLOR AND DAUGHTER .-— At a late ball, at East Pascagoula, General Taylor, his lady and daughter and Major Bliss, were present.

The will named Governor John Alder Burdon, Colonial Secretary Charles Crawford Douglas Jones and Attorney General Willoughby Bullock and their respective successors as Executors of his will that would comprise a “ Baron Bliss Trust ”.

In the Bill of Rights cases Attorney General of Canada v. Lavell ( 1974 ) and Bliss v. Canada ( 1979 ), Supreme Court Justice Roland Ritchie had said only the application, and not the outcome, of the law must be equal, thereby necessitating an explicit guarantee of equality under the law ; and that legal benefits need not be equal, thereby necessitating an explicit guarantee of equal benefit of the law.

LTC Bliss arrived in Ponce, Puerto Rico in early August and was appointed as the Chief of Staff, 1st Division, I Army Corps, under Major General James H. Wilson.

Lieutenant Colonel Bliss was commissioned as a Brigadier General in the Regular Army by an Act of Congress under direction of the U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

On 15 August 1903 Brigadier General ( BG ) Bliss was appointed a member of the General Staff, Chief, 3rd Division and President of the Army War College.

On 13 February 1915 BG Bliss was detailed to the General Staff as Assistant Chief of Staff, Army until his promotion to Chief of Staff on 22 September 1917.

General Bliss was forced to retire due to age limitations, 31 December 1917 but by order of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, was recalled to active duty on 1 January 1918 and sent to Versailles, France, 23 January, to better carry out his duties on the Supreme War Council.

After the signing of the Armistice ending World War I, on 11 November 1918, General Bliss held two titles, the American Permanent Military Representative, Supreme War Council, and also, Plenipotentiary at the Paris Peace Conference.

On 13 January 1978, General Dynamics and Ford were given development contracts for one prototype each, the XM246 and XM247 respectively, to be delivered to Fort Bliss in June 1980.

Major General Maloney said, " The DIVAD battery-eight systems plus one spare-activated 1 November 1984, at Fort Bliss to prepare for tests, has been demonstrating 90 % reliability for full systems capability.

General Byrnes ’ other key assignments include: Commanding General, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas ; while deployed in that capacity, he simultaneously served as the Commanding General of the Multinational Division ( North ) in Tuzla, Bosnia, from October 1998 to August 1999 ; Director, Force Programs, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Washington, D. C .; Assistant Division Commander ( Maneuver ), 1st Cavalry Division ; Commanding General, Joint Task Force Six, Fort Bliss, Texas ; Commander, 1st Cavalry Division Artillery, and later Chief of Staff, 1st Cavalry Division ; Director of Political and Economic Studies and Director of the Strategic Outreach Initiative for the United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania ; Commander, 4th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery in 2nd Armored Division ( Forward ) in Germany ; and Commander, Battery C, 1st Battalion, 39th Field Artillery, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

Walton, who served as a correspondent with General James Gavin's paratroopers during the invasion of France, combines the soul of an artist with the lingo of a tough guy.

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

Johnston returned to the Texas Army during the Mexican-American War under General Zachary Taylor as a colonel of the 1st Texas Rifle Volunteers.

In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to General Wavell ’ s ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt.

* 1960 – Henri Guisan, Swiss army officer, General of the Swiss Army during World War II ( b. 1874 )

Nonetheless, General Bullmoose continued to appear, undaunted and unredeemed, during the strip's final right-wing phase and into the 1970s.

The battle was the climax of a naval campaign that had ranged across the Mediterranean during the previous three months, as a large French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria, carrying an expeditionary force under General Napoleon Bonaparte.

In 1916, General Alexei Brusilov had used infiltration tactics and surprise during the Brusilov Offensive.

According to Pasternak, during the 1937 show trial of General Iona Yakir and Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the Union of Soviet Writers requested all members to add their names to a statement supporting the death penalty for the defendants.

The death of James Wolfe | General Wolfe during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ; the campaigns of the French and Indian War resulted in British control of modern Canada.

Another group emigrated to British-ruled Kenya, from where most returned to South Africa during the 1930s, while a third group under the leadership of General Ben Viljoen emigrated to Mexico and to New Mexico and Texas in south-western USA.

Major General Robert Ford, then Commander of Land Forces in Northern Ireland, ordered that 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ( 1 PARA ) should travel to Derry to be used to arrest possible rioters during the march.

An instance of a Governor General exercising his power was during the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, when the Australian Prime Minister of the time, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed by the Governor-General.

In order to ensure that the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) was not violated, the Secretariat of GATT was consulted during the drafting process.

General Joseph Stilwell, an American military adviser to Chiang during World War II, strongly criticized Chiang and his generals for what he saw as their incompetence and corruption.

Chiang also supported the Muslim General Ma Zhongying, whom he had trained at Whampoa Military Academy during the Kumul Rebellion, in a Jihad against Jin Shuren, Sheng Shicai, and the Soviet Union during the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang.

She would later advise her confessor and biographer, the Blessed Raymond of Capua, O. P., ( who went on to become Master General of the Order ) to do during times of trouble what she did now as a teenager: " Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

The Compactron is a 12-pin vacuum tube family introduced in 1961 by General Electric in Owensboro, Kentucky to compete with transistorized electronics during the solid state transition.

General Krulak attracted some attention during his tenure as commandant by his custom of delivering Christmas cookies to each marine duty post in the Washington area.

Lieutenant General Ēmile Janssens, the FP commander, wrote during a meeting of soldiers that ' Before independence = After Independence ', pouring cold water on the soldiers ' desires for an immediate raise in their status.

He painted about 260 oils during the last 20 years of his life to relax, mostly landscapes but also portraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.

Historians have concluded that this assignment provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of Winston Churchill, George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World War II.

Eisenhower described his position on space and the need for peace during his speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, New York City, September 22, 1960: