Chiang Kai-shek returned to Guangzhou, and in 1924 was appointed Commandant of the Whampoa Military Academy by Sun.

The first Commandant was Samuel Nicholas, who took office as a captain, though there was no office titled " Commandant " at the time, and the Second Continental Congress had authorized that the senior-most Marine could take a rank up to Colonel.

And, in 1815, he was promoted to a Commandant ( now Commandeur ) de la Légion d ' honneur.

Allen was named their Colonel Commandant, and cousins Seth Warner and Remember Baker were captains of two of the companies.

The most prominent leader to escape execution was Éamon de Valera, Commandant of the 3rd Battalion, who did so partly due to his American birth.

On the 29th of September, 1898, Samori Ture was captured by the French Commandant Gouraud and exiled to Gabon, marking the end of the Wassoulou Empire.

At around 10 p. m. he was discovered by Peter Lozgachev, the Deputy Commandant of Kuntsevo, who entered his bedroom to check up on him and recalled a horrifying scene of Stalin lying on his back on the floor of his room beside his bed wearing pyjama bottoms and an undershirt with his clothes soaked in stale urine.

He was also known as " le Commandant Cousteau " or " Captain Cousteau ".

An homage was paid to him by the city by the inauguration of a " rue du Commandant Cousteau ", a street which runs out to his native house, where a commemorative plaque was affixed.

He was promoted to colonel in April 1988, and became the Military Secretary to the Commandant of the Marine Corps in February 1989.

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

" Nuremberg Prison Commandant Burton C. Andrus later recalled that immediately before the hood was placed over his head, Ribbentrop, who had experienced a late conversion to Christianity while imprisoned at Nuremberg, turned to the prison's Lutheran chaplain and whispered, " I'll see you again.

Wilson was also promoted to General and became the 26th Commandant of the Marine Corps in 1975.

He was the first Marine Corps Commandant to serve full time on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The Governor-General's military commander was the Major-General Commanding British Troops in the Sudan, who was also Commandant of the Sudan Defence Force.

During 1991-1992, he was assigned as Assistant Commandant of the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill.

He was offered a regular commission as a brigadier in the Indian Army, and the post of Assistant Commandant of an Indian Officers ' Training Academy, which he declined.

Tulasne was killed in combat on 17 July, and Commandant Pierre Pouyade took command.

He was replaced by Commandant Louis Delfino.

The Grand Commandant, whose title was changed to Grand Marshal in 119 BCE before reverting back to Grand Commandant in 51 CE, was the irregularly posted commander of the military and then regent during the Western Han period.

Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

He was the first of 2,800,000 called to the Army through the selective service system.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

The result was that the rate of venereal disease in the American Army was the lowest in our military history.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Another remained when an American Army car was recovered but with a broken glass.

The crisis was artificially stirred up by the Kremlin ( Wall Street ) and the Red Army ( Pentagon ) egged on by the West Germans ( East Germans ).

In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities.

The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

Chandler had been commissioned in the Medical Service Corps and was serving as a personnel officer for the Kansas City Medical Depot when he decided that if he was going to make the Army his career, he wanted to be in the fighting part of it.

Sergeant Early let the new CO know just how lucky he was to be in the best troop in the best regiment in the United States Army.

For Marvin Goulding, like Giovanni Martini, the bugler boy who carried Custer's last message, or Margarito Lopez, the one-man Army on Leyte, was a Garryowen, through and through.

One of the more seriously wounded was Lieutenant Carroll, the young officer bucking for the Regular Army.

He finished the war as a major general, commanding a full division, and at 25 was the youngest major general in the history of the U.S. Army.

The Royal Lao Army, on the other hand, was paid and equipped with American funds.

It was probably one of Kipling's tales of the British Army.

He has served as a border patrolman and was in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army.

Mountbatten's qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne was unique ; it was he who had arranged the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, taking care to include the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in the invitation, but assigning his nephew, Cadet Prince Philip of Greece, to keep them amused while their parents toured the facility.

Orwell, with his Cadet Corps and police training, was quickly made a corporal.

Prince Harry entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on 8 May 2005, where he was known as Officer Cadet Wales, and joined the Alamein Company.

As an upperclassman, he was a member of Cadet Squadron 31.

Rolf Nevanlinna's grandfather Edavard Engelbert Neovius ( 1823 – 88 ), a major general in the Czar's army, taught mathematics in the Hamina Cadet School, Nevanlinnas father Otto Neovius-Nevanlinna ( 1867 – 1927 ) was a prominent mathematics teacher while one of his uncles was a mathematics professor and another a mathematics teacher.

Like most Klingons, Martok had a disdain for Ferengi, which manifested itself in several refusals to even acknowledge Nog, who at the time was a Starfleet Cadet.

The Mafeking Cadet Corps was a group of youths that supported the troops by carrying messages, which freed the men for military duties and kept the boys occupied during the long siege.

However, he did so with honors and was appointed Cadet Adjutant ( the second highest position for a cadet ), graduating in 1909 instead of 1908 and receiving his commission as a cavalry officer.

When Cadet Oscar Booz left West Point after being hazed and subsequently died of tuberculosis, there was a congressional inquiry.

Historians suggested that one robber, Cadet Guillot, took several jewels including the French Blue as well as the Côte-de-Bretagne Spinel and others to Le Havre and then to London, where the French Blue was cut into two pieces.

However, a patrol regulation read from the handbook by Cadet Matt Dodson reads: "- but the responsibility of determining the legality of the order rests on the person ordered as well as on the person giving the order ", suggesting that he was within regulations to do so.

Kennett was an unexceptional student academically, but did well in Scotch's Cadet Corps Unit.

Although the crew's intervention and Crusher's own testimony saved him from expulsion, all of Cadet Crusher's academic credits for the year were cancelled and he was required to repeat the year and graduate after most of the rest of his class.

On 1 April 2004, fifty years after Congress authorized the building of the Academy, the Cadet Area at the Academy was designated a National Historic Landmark.

In 1984, the Cadet Wing voted to add an " Honor Oath ," which was to be taken by all cadets.

Rusk was coached in football by William " Monk " Younger and was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order Sigma chapter, becoming a Cadet Lieutenant Colonel commanding the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps battalion.

The Cadet ( Shipwreck ) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

Appearing on TV from its earliest days, he was one of the cadets in Tom Corbett, Space Cadet from 1951 to 1954, had regular roles in three series between 1973 and 1984 and did countless cartoon voices, including that of Piglet for Disney.

In 2002, Romano became the first person to act in three Disney Channel projects simultaneously, supplementing her work on Even Stevens with a starring role in a movie named Cadet Kelly, alongside Hilary Duff, and voice acting as the title character in Kim Possible, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy.

Hnatyshyn attended Victoria Public School and Nutana Collegiate Institute, and enrolled in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, where he was placed in the Spitfire Squadron in Saskatoon and given the designation Air Cadet # 107.

General Marshall, a 1915 graduate, expanded the Corps of Cadets from 300 to 950 during the six years of his administration, both academic and military offerings were expanded and the faculty was enlarged to meet the demands of the growing Cadet Corps, growth made possible by the planning and completion during his administration of the new cadet barracks.

Hilary Duff was made an honorary Cadet Sergeant of the school during the production.