In 1685 King James II narrowly escaped shipwreck while sailing in the Solent.

James Douglas, war leader under Robert I of Scotland, made a bid to capture Isabella personally in 1319, almost capturing her at York – Isabella only just escaped.

Queen Joan, although wounded, escaped to the safety of Edinburgh Castle, where she was reunited with her son James II.

This provoked a fierce response from James Douglas of Balvenie who overtook and killed Fleming while Orkney and James escaped to the comparative safety of the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth.

An acrimonious sitting of parliament in March 1425 precipitated the arrest of Murdoch, Isabella, his wife, and his son Alexander — of Albany's other sons Walter was already in prison and James, his youngest, also known as James the Fat, escaped into the Lennox.

Alexander escaped probably to Islay but James continued his assault on the Lordship by taking the strongholds of Dingwall and Urquhart castles in July.

The first white man to visit the region was James Davis an escaped convict from the Moreton Bay Penal settlement in 1830.

He escaped by disguising himself as his sister's footman, but was brought back to the castle after his failed rebellion against King James VII in 1685.

Ravello is revealed in the middle of the book to be the old James Hook, who escaped the crocodile.

John Blake Dillon escaped to France, as did three of the younger members, James Stephens, John O ' Mahony and Michael Doheny.

A third person, 16-year-old James Cameron, escaped lynching due to the intervention of an unidentified member of the crowd who announced that he had nothing to do with the rape or murder.

Garretson is home to Devil's Gulch, the site where Jesse James escaped a posse after robbing the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota.

A single member of the family escaped the general proscription — James, the eldest son of Sir Alexander, who, after arrest and escape to the highlands, was restored in 1454 to the office of chamberlain to which he had been appointed in the summer of 1449.

Jesse and Frank James escaped west into the Dakotas, while the remaining gang members were killed or taken into custody.

She was confined in Innsbruck Castle but eventually the guards were deceived and Maria Clementina escaped to Bologna, Italy, where, for safety from further intrusions, she was married by proxy to James who was in Spain at that time.

In 1994 he became the Life President of the newly founded James Caird Society, named after the boat in which his explorer father and crew escaped Antarctica ( itself, in turn, named for James Key Caird ( 1837 – 1916 ), jute baron and philanthropist ).

Mitchel, with aid from Patrick James Smyth, escaped from the colony in 1853 and settled in America where he edited the collections of the poetry of Mangan and Davis, He established the radical Irish nationalist newspaper The Citizen in New York, as an expression of radical Irish-American anti-British opinion.

* On September 27, 2003, James Peters ( UK ) escaped from a Posey straitjacket 193 times in eight hours at the YMCA in Chelmsford, Essex.

Some promising suspects were cleared, and the mole hunt found other penetrations such as CIA officer Harold James Nicholson, but Hanssen escaped being noticed.

Peter Hoffmann's biography of Hitler assassination conspirator Claus Graf von Stauffenberg (" Stauffenberg, A Family History ," 1992 ) indicates that after the failure of Stauffenberg's bomb plot in July 1944, Gisevius went into hiding until January 23, 1945, when he escaped to Switzerland by using a passport that had belonged to Carl Deichmann, a brother-in-law of German Count Helmuth James von Moltke, who was a specialist in international law serving in the legal branch of the Foreign Countries Group of the OKW ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, " Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ").

* The Spy Who Loved MeRick Sylvester, playing James Bond, escaped the bad guys by skiing off a cliff on Mount Asgard then releasing a parachute.

He followed the explorations of Matthew Flinders, George Bass and Lieutenant James Grant, and among his paid helpers were George Caley, Robert Brown and Allan Cunningham.

* Miners: " Captain " John Hance, William W. Bass, Louis Boucher " The Hermit ", Seth Tanner, Charles Spencer, D. W. " James " Mooney

* Henshall, James ( Dr .), Book of the Black Bass ( 1881 )

* Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed Little, Paulo Merson, Robert Nord, Judith Stafford: Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, Second Edition.

* Henshall, James ( Dr .), Book of the Black Bass ( 1881 )

In February 1406, James, in the company of nobles loyal to King Robert III, clashed with those of the Earl of Douglas, forcing the prince to take temporary refuge on the Bass Rock in the Forth estuary.

With Duke Murdoch's seeming approval, James had Walter arrested on 13 May 1424 and imprisoned on the Bass Rock.

Among the most notable corporate raiders of the 1980s were Carl Icahn, Victor Posner, Nelson Peltz, Robert M. Bass, T. Boone Pickens, Harold Clark Simmons, Kirk Kerkorian, Sir James Goldsmith, Saul Steinberg and Asher Edelman.

Maggotron ( born James McCauley, and also known as DXJ, Maggozulu 2, Planet Detroit and Bass Master Kahn ) is one of the pioneers of Bass music.

In December 1800, Lieutenant James Grant in HMS Lady Nelson, on way from Cape Town to Sydney, sailed through Bass Strait from west to east.

But there ’ s nothing dated about this perfect storm of talent, from Hitchcock and Grant to writer Ernest Lehman ( Sweet Smell of Success ), co-stars James Mason and Eva Marie Saint, composer Bernard Herrmann and even designer Saul Bass, whose opening-credits sequence still manages to send a shiver down the spine.

In June 2009, James Bass, CEO of Piper Aircraft since 2005, announced he would step down effective that same month.

* James Barrett ( Bass, 1992 – present )

Events went seriously wrong for James and he had to escape to the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth along with the earl of Orkney after his escorts were attacked by James Douglas of Balvenie and which resulted in Sir David Fleming's death.

* James Brown as PFC Charlie Bass

Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass.

They recruit two petty crooks, Lackery Wood ( Sidney James ) and Shorty Fisher ( Alfie Bass ), to help them carry out the robbery.

In the 1950s, Chess Records ' commercial success grew with artists such as Little Walter, The Moonglows, The Flamingos, and Chuck Berry, and in the ' 60s with Etta James, Fontella Bass, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Laura Lee, and Tommy Tucker, as well as with the subsidiary labels Checker, Argo, and Cadet.

Among the most notable investors to be labeled corporate raiders in the 1980s included Carl Icahn, Victor Posner, Nelson Peltz, Robert M. Bass, T. Boone Pickens, Harold Clark Simmons, Kirk Kerkorian, Sir James Goldsmith, Saul Steinberg and Asher Edelman.

Unterberger has referred to James ( Maggotron ) McCauley ( also known as DXJ, Maggozulu 2, Planet Detroit and Bass Master Khan ) as the " father of Miami bass ," a distinction McCauley himself denies choosing rather to confer that status on producer Amos Larkins.