The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

His captain was thin and haggard and his beautiful boots were worn and shabby.

This was an honor, like dining with a captain at his private table.

The captain was remarking that it was a nice day for a picnic when finally one of the shovels struck an object.

The captain was gone, and the mate was gone.

It was evident that a captain should remain at his desk, directing with a firm hand and keeping a firm seat.

He sat stiff-backed in a chair that did not swivel, though it was obvious to Gun that Killpath felt his position as acting captain plainly merited a swivel chair.

because he'd be damned if he was going to be a mid-watch pencil-pusher just to please his ulcerated pro-tem captain.

During his college career, Dr. Clark was captain of his basketball team and was a football letterman.

The red-haired captain, towering above the prisoner as a symbol of decency and authority, was shocked to find himself looking with sympathy upon Philip Spencer.

He was the captain, so he could ask questions like that.

During that tour a small terracotta urn was presented to England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women.

When Peate returned to the pavilion he was reprimanded by his captain for not allowing his partner, Charles Studd ( one of the best batsman in England, having already hit two centuries that season against the colonists ) to get the runs.

Bligh promised that on the tour to Australia in 1882 – 83, which he was to captain, he would regain " the ashes ".

Australian captain Herbie Collins was stripped of all captaincy positions down to club level, and some accused him of throwing the match.

It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's 1932 – 33 captain Douglas Jardine to adopt the tactic of fast leg theory, also known as Bodyline.

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen Denis Compton, Peter May, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, bowlers Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Alec Bedser, Jim Laker, Tony Lock and wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

Mike Gatting was the captain in 1986 – 87 but his team started badly and attracted some criticism.

It was recaptured in 1428 or 1429.

1429 ), who was the author of the Destructorium viciorum, a religious work popular in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.

As a poet, she was well known and highly regarded in her own day ; she completed 41 works during her 30 year career ( 1399 – 1429 ), and can be regarded as Europe ’ s first professional woman writer.

He established the Sound Dues in 1429 and built the castle Krogen, which was expanded in the 1580s and named Kronborg.

The last Viking longship was defeated in 1429.

Longbowmen were vulnerable to attack until their defensive barricade was complete, as happened, for example at Patay in 1429.

The early Yâkût period was supplanted in the late 15th century by a new style pioneered by Seyh Hamdullah ( 1429 – 1520 ), which became the basis for Ottoman Calligraphy, focusing on the nesih version of the script, which became the standard for copying the Qur ' an ( See Arabic Calligraphy ).

The system was based on legislation passed in 1429 and virtually unchanged for 400 years.

During the western schism he supported Antipope Benedict XIII, and was the driving force behind Antipope Clement VIII's submission to Pope Martin V in 1429.

Year 1429 ( MCDXXIX ) was a common year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Vytautas accepted Sigismund's offer of a royal crown in 1429 — apparently with Władysław's blessing — but Polish forces intercepted the crown in transit and the coronation was cancelled.

Thomas received Holy Orders in 1413 and was made sub-prior of the monastery in 1429.

During this interval ( 1429 ) Joan of Arc was subjected to a formal inquest in the town.

They reached Rheims the next day and the Dauphin Charles, with Joan at his side, was finally consecrated as King Charles VII of France on July 17, 1429.

The clash culminated in a coup on 30 October 1429, supported by Friedrich and led by Oswald against the bishop, who while being a prisoner of Oswald was beaten publicly by him.

This was the site of the battle on 8 May 1429 which allowed Joan of Arc to enter and liberate the city from the Plantagenets during the Hundred Years ' War, with the help of the royal generals Dunois and Florent d ' Illiers.

He was, however, famously crowned in Reims in 1429 through Joan of Arc's effort to free France from the English.

Granted an escort of five veteran soldiers and a letter of referral to Charles by the governor of Vaucouleurs, Robert de Baudricourt, Jeanne rode to Chinon, where Charles was in residence, arriving there on 10 March 1429.

On 19 May 1426 he was knighted at Leicester by John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, the younger brother of Henry V. In October 1429 ( or earlier ) his marriage to Cecily Neville took place.

Carlo died childless in 1429, and the lordship was divided into three parts, Rimini going to Galeotto Roberto, a Catholic zealot who turned out to be totally inadequate for the role.

He was far from sympathizing with the Burgundians, and, joining the French army at Reims in 1429, was present at the coronation of Charles VII.

At the coronation of eight-year old English King Henry VI ( 1422 – 1461 ) in 1429, " Partryche and Pecock enhackyll " pie was served, consisting of cooked peacock mounted in its skin on a peacock filled pie.

The high watermark of Plantagenet hegemony in France was reversed when the Dauphin, afterwards Charles VII, and Joan of Arc recovered the town of Troyes in 1429.

John Howard was married firstly in 1442 to Katherine Moleyns ( 1429 – 3 November 1465 ), the daughter of William de Moleyns and Anne Whalesborough of Cornwall by whom he had six children ; and then secondly sometime before 22 January 1467 to Margaret ( 1436 – 1494 ), the daughter of Sir John Chedworth and his wife, Margaret Bowett, and widow, firstly of Nicholas Wyfold ( 1420 – 1456 ), the Lord Mayor of London and, secondly, of Sir John Norreys ( 1400 – 1466 ), Keeper of the Wardrobe.