Lieutenant Colonel James P. Brownlow, who commanded the First Brigade of Thomas' First Cavalry Division, was ordered across one of these fords.

Of all the thousands of men who have served in the 7th Cav, perhaps no one knows its spirit better than Lieutenant Colonel Melbourne C. Chandler.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

Lieutenant William Dawes and colleague Watkin Tench, who were ordered to lead the revenge party, expressed disgust at the idea.

The same day as the frigates arrived, Mutine was sent to Britain with despatches under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Bladen Capel, who had replaced Hardy after the latter's promotion to captain of Vanguard.

Eyewitness Lieutenant Edward Doherty, the officer in charge of the soldiers who captured Booth and Herold, stated that " the bullet struck Booth in the back of the head, about an inch below the spot where his shot had entered the head of Mr. Lincoln.

He is the son of Lieutenant General Victor H. " Brute " Krulak, USMC, who served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.

The trial, for which Allen hired Jared Ingersoll to represent the grantholder interest, began in July 1770, pitting Allen against politically powerful New York grant-holders, including New York's Lieutenant Governor Colden, James Duane ( who was prosecuting the case ), and Robert Livingston, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ( who was presiding over the case ).

Lincoln relayed this conversation to Sir John Peyton, Lieutenant of the Tower, who, knowing how physically and financially infirm Oxford was, refused to take Lincoln's report as a serious threat to King James ' accession.

Nevertheless, he appreciated the Indo-Fijian contribution to the Military, and noted the success of Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Aziz, the head of the Military's legal unit who was a pivotal figure in the court martial of soldiers who mutinied in 2000.

In 1754, Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie had promised land bounties to the soldiers and officers who volunteered to serve during the French and Indian War.

On 3 December 2009 Captain Moussa Dadis Camara suffered a head wound in an attempted assassination in Conakry led by his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité, who is known as Toumba.

He appointed the Duke of Richmond, a wealthy landowner who was both Chancellor of Aberdeen University and Lord Lieutenant of Banff.

Two Generals were point to lead the new forces one from FRELIMO Lieutenant General Lagos Lidimo who was named Chief of the Defence Force and Major General Mateus Ngonhamo from RENAMO as Vice-Chief of the Defence Force.

Thompson claimed that it contained an extract from a rare, unnamed South American plant, which had supposedly been discovered by a friend of his, Lieutenant Moxie, who had used it as a panacea.

The explorer George Vancouver renamed the mountain for 3rd Lieutenant Joseph Baker of HMS Discovery, who saw it on April 30, 1792.

In her next-to-last movie, Hellcats of the Navy ( 1957 ), she played nurse Lieutenant Helen Blair and shared the screen for the only time with her husband, playing what one critic called " a housewife who came along for the ride ".

This surrender was accepted by the brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General Sturdee, the commander of the First Australian Army, on board the warship HMAS Diamantina Arrangements were made to repatriate from Chuuk the 737 Nauruans who survived Japanese captivity there.

Lieutenant King, who was sent with a detachment of marines and some convicts, to settle there, gives the most flattering portrayal of it.

The band's line-up included keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, who returned in the band after a ten year break, and Bad Lieutenant bassist Tom Chapman in place of Peter Hook.

The Colorados helped Moríñigo crush the insurgency, but the man who saved Moríñigo's government during crucial battles was the commander of the General Brúgez Artillery Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda.

Musharraf superseded Lieutenant General Khalid Nawaz Khan and Lieutenant-General Ali Kuli Khan Khattak who were much senior to him.

On 6 January 1681, the first recorded boxing match took place in Britain when Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle ( and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica ) engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher with the latter winning the prize.

The 51st ( Highland ) Division took Beaumont Hamel, while on their right the 63rd ( Royal Naval ) Division captured Beaucourt-sur-l ' Ancre, Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Freyberg winning the Victoria Cross in the process.

When Major General Nathanael Greene took command in the South, Marion and Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lee were ordered in January 1781 to attack Georgetown but were unsuccessful.

Gibson was a native of Bedford County, Tennessee who was commissioned Lieutenant in the Tennessee Militia ; he took part in the War of 1812, the campaign to Natchez of 1813, and fought in the Creek Wars of 1813.

During the spring and summer of 1961, as Cold War tensions flared over the Berlin Wall, Air Force Lieutenant General Joseph Carroll ( soon to become DIA's first director ) took the lead in planning and organizing this new agency.

Under potential siege by the Confederacy, in May 1722, Lieutenant Governor John Doucett took 22 Mi ' kmaq hostage at Annapolis Royal to prevent the capital from being attacked.

Lieutenant Colonel Moore then took his unit, the 1st Battalion, 7th U. S. Cavalry ( then in the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division ) to South Vietnam, and led it in the famous Battle of Ia Drang.

Flight Lieutenant Denys Gillam took off in his Hawker Hurricane from Speke to be confronted by a Junkers 88 passing across him.

After returning to the front, he was promoted to Lieutenant General in April 1917 ( the promotion was backdated to February 1915 ), and took command of the 6th Cavalry Corps in the summer of 1917.

Part of the official letter to his parents read: " Your son's funeral took place at Scopwick Cemetery, near Digby Aerodrome, at 2: 30 P. M. on Saturday, 13 December 1941, the service being conducted by Flight Lieutenant S. K. Belton, the Canadian padre of this Station.

A dedication ceremony to mark the occasion took place 20 May 1950, with Lieutenant Nellis's family in attendance.

Lieutenant Charles Pearce took his scout car and, locating the rest of the reconnaissance troop in the middle of town, warned them about what was coming their way.

The heavier Russian guns ( some 18-pounders ), particularly No. 4 battery under Lieutenant Postikov, together with the riflemen of the Ukraine regiment, took their toll on both men and ordnance.

Morshead handed over command of New Guinea Force to Lieutenant General Stanley Savige on 6 May 1944 and returned to Australia, where he took Lieutenant General Iven Mackay's place as commander of the Second Army.

On 6 July 1942 Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger took command of the corps which he would lead through the majority of its service in the war.

The appointed governor was Lieutenant Governor-General Thomas Stamford Raffles, who took great interest in the history of Java.

It was only when he succeeded to the Dukedom of Devonshire on 24 March 1908 that Cavendish quit his commons seat and took his place in the House of Lords, the same year in which Cavendish was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire.

With the Duke of Gloucester's wife charged with treason, Somerset took the opportunity in April 1443 to declare himself Lieutenant of Aquitaine and Captain-General of Guienne.

The attack was stopped when Lieutenant Governor William Bradford rowed out to the Rose to negotiate a cease-fire, but then a second attack took place on May 25, 1778.

The executive officer, Lieutenant Samuel Dana Greene, took over, and Monitor returned to the fight.

Its commander, Lieutenant Withers, divided his men into two groups then swam across the river, one of which took up position on the opposite bank.

In 1854, the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal took up residence there.

On 12 January 1638 de Poincy set sail for the Caribbean on board La Petite Europe On February 20 he took up his commission as Lieutenant Governor of the Isles of America and Captain general of the French at St Kitts.