As they held the Ashes, Australian captains Bob Simpson and Bill Lawry were happy to adopt safety-first tactics and their strategy of sedate batting saw many draws.

The French captains had been taken by surprise by the speed of the British advance, and were still aboard Orient in conference with the admiral when the firing started.

In addition to Admiral Brueys killed and Admiral Blanquet wounded, four captains died and seven others were seriously wounded.

After the captains of the two teams met they quickly realized that the games each school played were still different.

Probably after the killings in the main temple, there were few Aztec captains available to take the position.

Machiavelli attributes two episodes to Cesare Borgia that were at least partially executed by his father: the method by which the Romagna was pacified, which Machiavelli describes in chapter VII of The Prince, and the assassination of his captains on New Year's Eve of 1503 in Senigallia.

It was discontinued as a rank in these services during the postwar period, but as an appointment, the title " commodore " was then used to identify senior U. S. Navy captains who commanded squadrons of more than one vessel or functional air wings or air groups that were not part of a carrier air wing or air group.

Concurrently, until the early 1980s, U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard captains selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral ( lower half ), would wear the same insignia as rear admiral ( upper half ), i. e., two silver stars for collar insignia or sleeve braid of one wide and one narrow gold stripe, even though they were actually only equivalent to one-star officers.

The word caddie comes from the gascon Occitan capdèth or capdet, meaning chief then younger boy ( became cadet in French and refers to the Cadets de Gascogne: the captains serving in the French army in the 15th century who were the youngest sons of the aristocratic families of Gascony ).

The letters of the captain and alternate captains were moved to the player's right shoulder ; Detroit is the only team in the league that made this change ( the change was necessitated by the stitching of the sweater ), although the 2008 NHL All Star jerseys featured this as well, and the Captain and Alternate Captain's letters have switched back to the left shoulder as of the 2011 – 12 NHL Season.

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

However, it is unlikely that they were sighted by Ferdinand Magellan or Estêvão Gomes of the San Antonio, one of the captains in the expedition of Magellan.

On the final morning as they batted on, news filtered through that the captains had met and were going to " make a game of it ".

The author of Kings describes that, while the captains ( commanders ) of the Israelite army were assembled away from the king's eyes, the prophet Elisha sent one of his students to this meeting.

Pearl divers were distinguished occupationally from ropepullers, captains, or merchants.

These were given to the captains directly by the Emperor to reward their efforts in the conquests, and they in turn were to grant benefices to their warrior contingents, who were a mix of free and unfree men.

Other Australian captains were less particular, including Vic Richardson who let him use those tactics when he moved to South Australia.

Before the twenty slave girls were distributed among the Spanish captains to serve them in " grinding corn ", Cortés insisted that they be baptized.

When Moctezuma was allegedly killed by being stoned to death by his own people " Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good.

Those still travelling ( including business travellers and travelling salespeople ) were under pressure to manage travel costs by driving ( instead of taking trains ) and staying in the new roadside motels instead of more costly established downtown hotels where bell captains, porters and other personnel would all expect a tip for service.

These areas were ruled over by local Jarls, originally captains of ships or Hersirs.

This policy prevented captains from stating prices that were too low.

He was also responsible for removing one of the firm's ship captains for refusing to offload opium chests on the Sabbath, Matheson observed, " We have every respect for persons entertaining strict religious principles, but we fear that very godly people are not suited for the drug trade.

He was also ordered to marry Ines off, which he did, upon his return to Chile in 1549, to one of his captains, Rodrigo de Quiroga.

There is also a lengthy description of each of the seven captains that lead the Argive army against the seven gates of the city of Thebes as well as the devices on their respective shields.

The town was mostly known for its many local sea captains and sailors whose homes were in town, although there were also some small shipbuilding operations on the harbor as well.

Racine also had its share of captains of industry, including J. I.

From 1841, Millerite evangelists appeared in Great Britain, also, though he never travelled there himself. In addition to the nearly $ 1000 that Miller and Himes spent supplying literature to enquirers and evangelists in Great Britain ; “ there is evidence that Liverpool, Bristol, and other ports local Millerite pioneers borrowed copies of Miller ’ s works and Adventist magazines from visiting American sea captains and merchants .” As well as utilizing imported American literature, two Millerite papers were published locally in Great Britain: the Second Advent Harbinger in Bristol, and the British Midnight Cry in Liverpool.

However, there are some administrative and other duties at battalion level and larger ( brigade or division ) which are also handled by captains, for example the S-1 through S-4 officers of a battalion, or some staff positions in the G shops at division.

The team's captain, David Kirk, was inducted into the IRB Hall alongside Lochore ; all other World Cup-winning captains through 2007 ( minus the already-inducted Australian John Eales ) were also enshrined at this ceremony.

After the Quest for the Silmaril, the great Wolf, Carcharoth, also breaches the Girdle, but Thingol, Beren, Huan the hound and Thingol's captains Beleg and Mablung hunt and kill the beast.

The paramedics / firefighters were also promoted to captains in this final movie, capping the six-season run of Emergency with a " happy ending " for both Gage and DeSoto.

The skull and bones was also used in captains ' logbooks to indicate the death of a sailor.

The team also had four former Carlisle Indians football captains in Thorpe, Joe Guyon, Pete Calac, and Elmer Busch and the Indians ' trainer was John Morrison, reportedly the first Carlisle captain.

There were also many rich sea captains in the town, who built many of the mansions and stately homes which now constitute the town's inns and bed-and-breakfasts.

Lilian and Universindo's later testimony also proved that four officers of the secret Uruguayan Counter-information Division – two majors and two captains – took part in the operation under consent of the Brazilian authorities.

Major Gustavus von Tempsky, near the palisade, was shot dead while awaiting orders, and two other officers – two captains and two lieutenants – were also killed.

" In fact also attacked Charles Lindbergh for his Nazi sympathies, the American Legion for helping to break strikes, and labeled many captains of industry as " native fascists.

He was one of England's most popular cricket captains and as he also played rugby union Smith was England's last double international.

A few instruments, such as drums and trumpets, are known to have existed in the early history of the Maryland colony, probably as a functional means " of calling the populace to church or to market, or in serving as symbols for sea captains and those from the military "; some folk dancing and ballad singing is also substantiated by the historical record.

From the fifteenth century hence, most condottieri were landless Italian nobles who had chosen the profession of arms as livelihood ; the most famous of such mercenary captains was the son of Caterina Sforza, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, from Forlì, known as The Last Condottiere ; his son was Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ; besides noblemen, princes also fought as condottieri, given the sizable income to their estates, notably Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini, and Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino ; despite war-time inflation, soldier ’ s pay was high:

He owned slaves, read and wrote, and prayed at camp meetings, but he also presided over a political hierarchy of pipe lighters and captains, provided food, shelter, and educational opportunities for his followers, and promulgated his vision of the Choctaw future at the foot of the mound Waiya that had given his people life.

Regular team captains include Phill Jupitus, Sean Hughes ( until May 2002 ), Bill Bailey ( September 2002 – February 2008 ), Noel Fielding, and also the guest captains ( October 2008 – January 2009 ).

Still others performed aircraft maintenance as aviation machinist mates, some of whom also served as " plane captains " for locally based aircraft.

Sailing ship captains such as James Cook, who bypassed Milford Sound on his journeys for just this reason, also feared venturing too close to the steep mountainsides, afraid that wind conditions would prevent escape ( this refers to Doubtful Sound, so named as Cook thought it doubtful he would escape if he sailed in ).