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In February 1648 Colonel John Poyer, the Parliamentary Governor of Pembroke Castle, refused to hand over his command to one of Fairfax's officers, and he was soon joined by some hundreds of officers and men, who mutinied, ostensibly for arrears of pay, but really with political objectives.
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– 2 February 1648 ) was an English writer, known as " The Puritan " and a politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1648.
After this initial show of deference to the Rump, Monck quickly found them unwilling to continue in cooperation with his plan for an election of a new parliament ( the Rump Parliament believed Monck was accountable to them and had its own plan for free elections ); so on 21 February 1660 he forcibly reinstated the members ' secluded ' by Prid's purge in 1648, so that they could prepare legislation for the Convention Parliament.
* February 9 – Ibrahim I ( 1640 – 1648 ) succeeds Murat IV ( 1623 – 1640 ) as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
* February 24 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet ( b. 1648 )
Vincent Voiture ( 24 February 1597 – 26 May 1648 ), French poet, was the son of a rich merchant of Amiens.
Monck allowed the Presbyterian members, ' secluded ' in Pride's Purge of 1648, to re-enter parliament on 21 February 1660, the same time breaking up, as a matter affecting discipline, the political camarillas that had formed in his own regiments.
Arabella Churchill ( 23 February 1648 – 30 May 1730 ) was the mistress of King James II, and the mother of four of his children ( surnamed FitzJames Stuart, that is " son of James Stuart ").
Nathaniel ’ s paternal great-grandparents were Gideon Macon ( c. 1648 – February 1701 or 1702 ) and Martha Woodward ( 1665 – 1723 ).
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, KG, PC ( 7 April 1648 – 24 February 1721 ), was a poet and notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.
Because of that, on February 10, 1648 king Władysław IV of Poland granted Praga with a city charter.
On 5 February 1648, King's Men players were arrested in the midst of a clandestine performance of Rollo at the Cockpit Theatre.
His will, dated 21 February 1641 and " seven years almost to the day ", he was buried in the same parish of St Bride's, Fleet Street on 23 February 1648.
February and Colonel
As a result, on February 24, 1966, a small number of army officers and senior police officials, led by Colonel Emmanuel Kotoka, commander of the Second Army Brigade at Kumasi, Major Akwasi Afrifa, staff officer in charge of army training and operations, Lieutenant General ( retired ) Joseph Ankrah, and J. W. K.
* February 4 – Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia under Colonel James Moore leaves Fort Reading to continue the campaign against the Tuscarora.
Cover of the original 1876 EditionThe first edition of the book, whose full title was Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies, was published in February 1876 by then U. S. Army Colonel Henry Martyn Robert ( 1837 – 1923 ) with the short title Robert's Rules of Order placed on its cover.
On 14 February 1917 Colonel Macmullen of the GHQ staff, proposed that the plateau be taken by a mass tank attack, reducing the need for artillery ; in April a reconnaissance by Captain G. le Q Martel found that the area was unsuitable for tanks.
By 22 February, German shock troops had advanced capturing the Bois des Caures, at the edge of the village of Flabas, after two French battalions led by Colonel Émile Driant had held them up for two days, and pushed the French defenders back to Samogneux, Beaumont, and Ornes.
Later that day, on 22 February, Colonel Driant was killed, rifle in hand, fighting alongside the 56th and 59th Bataillon de chasseurs à pied.
:: February 23 – Alamo messenger Launcelot Smithers carries to the people of Gonzales, the Colonel William Barret Travis letter stating the enemy is in site and requesting men and provisions.
* William Preston Hall ( aka " The Colonel ," " Diamond Billy ," " Horse King of the World ") ( February 29, 1864-June 29, 1932 ) Exotic animal dealer, horse and mule breeder, circus impresario.
The county was organized February 14, 1845 and named for Colonel Richard Gentry of Boone County who fell in the Seminole War in 1837.
* William Preston Hall ( aka " the Colonel ," " Diamond Billy ," " Horse King of the World ") ( February 29, 1864-June 29, 1932 ) Circus empresario, dealer in exotic animals, horses, and mules.
He narrowly escaped assassination in the February 26 Incident of 1936, largely because rebel troops killed his brother-in-law by mistake, as well as his personal secretary, Colonel Denzō Matsuo.
** Mary Ann Amy Macrae Cockburn ( Calcutta, 29 August 1855-23 April 1942 ), married on 6 June 1877 to Walter St. George Burke of Auberies, Bulmer, Essex, JP ( 27 April 1842-17 February 1916 ), Lieutenant Colonel in the service of the Royal Engineers, Justice of the Peace for Essex and for Suffolk, son of James St. George Burke and wife Anne Eliza Grubbe, and had issue
Richard Douglas Husband ( July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003 ) was a United States Air Force Colonel, an astronaut, and the space shuttle commander of STS-107 ( Columbia ) who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Philip Anderson ( December 25, 1959 – February 1, 2003 ) was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut, who was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
Nevertheless, he kept the strip going for another 27 years until its discontinuation on February 25, 1973, by which time Terry had become a full-grown man and reached the rank of Colonel.
After the Battle of Naseby he took the situation of chaplain to Colonel Edward Whalley's regiment, and continued to hold it till February 1647.
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott () ( August 2, 1832 – February 17, 1907 ) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society.
On February 1958, the remaining dissident commanders in Central Sumatera ( Colonel Ahmad Hussein ) and North Sulawesi ( Colonel Ventje Sumual ) declared PRRI-Permesta Movement aimed at overthrowing the Jakarta government.
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