Knight defends Longinus's original account of sublimity, which he summarises as the ‘ energetic exertion of great and commanding power .’ Again he intertwines social and aesthetic reasoning, asserting that the power of a tyrant cannot be sublime if the tyrant inspires fear by mere arbitrary whim, like Nero.

The account states that the name Aikman originated from an officer who, while commanding troops that besieged Macbeth in Dunsinane Castle, told them to attack using oak branches.

An account of the battle is also given in Swedish author Jan Guillou's novel Tempelriddaren ( The Knight Templar ) ( ISBN 91-1-300733-5 ), in which the protagonist, Arn Magnusson ( de Gothia ) is portrayed as a high-ranking member of the Knights Templar, commanding a contingent of the army at the battle of Montgisard.

However, in mid-October he learned that Napoleon was about to replace him as commanding officer with François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros and order him to Paris to account for his actions ( Napoleon had written to the Minister of Marine, " Villeneuve does not possess the strength of character to command a frigate.

* On to Berlin: Battles of an Airborne Commander 1943 – 1946 ( 1976 ), is an account of his experiences commanding the 82nd Airborne Division.

Edward Wollstonecraft built a cottage, the ' Crow's Nest ' and, according to his business partner Alexander Berry, chose the name " on account of its elevated and commanding position ".

The account of his death by his commanding officer stated

According to his account of the battle, he arrayed 60 British Legion dragoons and a like number of infantry on the right, the dragoons of the 17th along with some additional British Legion dragoons in the center, and he personally took command of the left, commanding " thirty chosen horse and some infantry ".

LtCol Chessani ’ s commanding general, Major General Huck, reported up the chain of command, " I support our account and do not see the necessity for further investigation.

Instead the gymnosphaerids may be allied with the desmothoracids, and on account of this have been placed in the Cercozoa, but this is somewhat tentative.

By his account allied casualties were: 2573 British, of whom 635 killed, and 1800 French, of whom 175 killed.

In the following year's campaign, the Siege of Athlone saw a further assault by a larger allied force in which the invading troops of King William and Queen Mary eventually overran the entire city, forcing the defenders to flee further west toward the River Suck at such speed that eyewitnesses account they " flung their cannons into the morass " as they fled.

** The sōhei ( warrior-monks ) of Enryaku-ji ( 延暦寺 ), at least in theory, on account of their rivalry with the Mii-dera, which was allied with the Minamoto.

Not long after this, the Partho-Babylonian country was trodden by the army of a Jewish prince ; the Syrian king, Antiochus Sidetes, marched, in company with Hyrcanus I., against the Parthians ; and when the allied armies defeated the Parthians ( 129 BC ) at the Great Zab ( Lycus ), the king ordered a halt of two days on account of the Jewish Sabbath and Feast of Weeks.

In 1751, however, John Stephens, who had previously allied himself with the Earl of Buckinghamshire and managed the borough's elections on the Earl's behalf, struck out on his own account and secured the election of his son.

On account of their additional adherence to the Articles of Faith, and because of their baptismal views, some regard the church as only nominally Presbyterian, nearer to the Baptist Church, and more nearly allied to modern Fundamentalist Christianity than to the Presbyterian and Reformed tradition.

It is an unromantic account of the partisans in Italy and their relationship to the official allied forces.

" An alternative account says that the Germans who boarded Nicosian were killed by the freighter's engine room staff ; this report apparently came from the officer in command of the muleteers.

Levinge, a British Army officer who had been in New Brunswick during Campbell ’ s time, provides a written account of " hockey on ice " on Chippewa Creek a tributary of the Niagara River in 1839.

After the war, Rear-Admiral Michael Musmanno, a U. S. naval officer and judge, published an account apparently based on eye-witness testimony: " At about 8: 15 pm, Goebbels arose from the table, put on his hat, coat and gloves and, taking his wife's arm, went upstairs to the garden.

In 1938 Walter Krivitsky, ( born Samuel Ginsberg ) a former GRU officer in Paris who had defected to France the previous year, travelled to the United States and published an account of his time in " Stalin's secret service.

In a much more detailed account, Edward Daniel Clarke stated that a French " officer and member of the Institute " had taken him, his student John Cripps, and Hamilton secretly into the back streets behind Menou's residence and revealed the stone hidden under protective carpets among Menou's baggage.

Browning dismissed his claims and ordered the division's senior medical officer to send Urquhart on sick leave on account of ' nervous strain and exhaustion.

Some sources depict Braille learning about it from a newspaper account read to him by a friend, while others say the officer, aware of its potential, made a special visit to the school.

Early attempts to get into the police force when he was a teenager were unsuccessful on account of his asthma, so when it had been cured, he could then pursue his ambition to become a professional police officer.

* Ali Hassan Salameh is repeatedly referenced in the book By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky in his account of his own recruitment and training to become an officer in Mossad.

F. L. Lucas's novel The English Agent – A Tale of the Peninsular War ( 1969 ), about the Battle of Bailén and its aftermath, is the account of a British Army officer who, gathering information before the first British landings, buys a Frenchwoman at auction to save her from the Spanish mob.

Recent scandals include the convictions of the mayor, David Delle Donna, and his wife, a member of the town planning board, on federal extortion and mail fraud charges ; a former mayor, Peter LaVilla, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to misappropriating campaign funds and using the money for a private brokerage account ; a councilman who resigned after being accused of receiving illegal advances on his salary ; and a chief financial officer, who pleaded guilty in 2002 to misappropriation of funds.

Haughey angrily denied the charge, though Lenihan, in his subsequently published account of the affair, noted that Haughey had denied " insulting " the officer, whereas the allegation was that he had " threatened " him.

One witty officer on Confederate General William Hardee's staff is said to have written his own account of the origin of the name: " It is from two Greek words-' Tulla ' meaning mud, and ' Homa ,' meaning more mud.

Set in mid-nineteenth century New Zealand it is a semi-fictionalized account of the story of the Māori leader Te Kooti, told from the perspective of one of his pursuers, an officer in the colonial army.

Many Nike Hercules batteries were manned by Army National Guard troops, with a single active Army officer assigned to each battalion to account for the unit's nuclear warheads.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier T. E. Lawrence (" Lawrence of Arabia "), while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918.

According to an account from James Allan, an officer aboard the US-flagged supply ship Columbia, who witnessed the battle, rumors abounded that Admiral Ding deferred command to Major Constantin von Hannecken.

On 9 May 1749 he was appointed governor and commander-in-chief of Newfoundland, with the rank of Commodore, it being usual at that time to appoint a naval officer, chiefly on account of the fishery interests.

An innocent man was killed by the police and in the absence of any individual officer being held to account, the person at the top should take responsibility.

In 1959, by his own account, Menzies was an officer on the, on a voyage from Singapore to Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope, and on to the Cape Verde Islands and back to England.

Mr. Kyle's tale alternates between the details of this plot ( revealed through excerpts from the memoirs of the naval officer ) and current events in the English banking house that is still paying out $: 50, 000 a year to an account in a Swiss bank, with no questions asked.

According to one account, in 1940, during the Blitz in London, a Canadian officer suggested to Al Tabor, a British bandleader of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, that he write a party song with actions similar to " Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree ".

Alabama law denied a public officer recovery of punitive damages in a libel action brought on account of a publication concerning their official conduct unless they first make a written demand for a public retraction and the defendant fails or refuses to comply, so Sullivan sent such a request.

The Ecuadorian account of the meeting also states that the Peruvian officer went on to deliver an ultimatum: if the Ecuadorians did not abandon the area by the end of the week, the Peruvians would dislodge them by force.