Maj. Gen. Polk ignored the problems of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson when he took command and, after Johnston took command, at first refused to comply with Johnston's order to send an engineer, Lt. Joseph K. Dixon, to inspect the forts.

Johnston wanted Major, later Lt. Gen., Alexander P. Stewart to command the forts but President Davis appointed Brig.

His only return to combat was directing a portion of the defenses against the attack by Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A.

Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U. S. President, saves all but two of his crew.

Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.

* 1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

A photograph from October 1918, reproduced in many biographies, shows the then unknown Lt .- Col. Montgomery standing in front of Winston Churchill ( Minister of Munitions ) at the parade following the liberation of Lille.

After Lt Gen Barshadli became Chief of General Staff, subsequent defense ministers from 1992 have included:

At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effectiveness of the theater commander in England, Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney.

* 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.

A Legion Honor guard | honour guard of the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment stands at attention as they await the arrival of Lt. Gen. Khalid Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, commander of Joint Forces in Saudi Arabia, during Operation Desert Shield.

The others included the military hierarchy consisting of Lt. Gen. Fred Akuffo, the Chief of Defence Staff, and the army, navy, air force and Border Guards commanders respectively.

• Visit of Acting Prime Minister, Lt. Gen. Thein Sein ( 2007 )

** 1 Lt Gen Dimo Hamaambo ( C11 )-ex Brazilian Navy

* 1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.

According to Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, President of the Board which recommended its formation, " The College is concerned with grand strategy and the utilization of the national resources necessary to implement that strategy ... Its graduates will exercise a great influence on the formulation of national and foreign policy in both peace and war ...."

On 26 July 2011, Myers was inducted into the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Distinguished Alumni in a ceremony at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, officiated by Lt. Gen. Allen G. Peck, Commander, Air University.

After the Louisiana Purchase by the United States in 1803, this indefinite nature of the boundary between the U. S. and Spain led to an agreement on November 6, 1806, negotiated by Gen. James Wilkinson and Lt. Col. Simón de Herrera, to establish a neutral territory on both sides of the river.

Possible contenders included his son-in-law General Ahmed Suleiman Abdille, who was at the time the Minister of the Interior, in addition to Barre's Vice President Lt. Gen. Samatar.

At promotion, Yahya Khan superseded two of his seniors, Lt Gen Altaf Qadir and Lt Gen Bakhtiar Rana.

* January 9 – Ugandan Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara-Okello, who led a coup against Dr. Apolo Milton Obote's government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.

" However, Sherman himself stated that " f I had made up my mind to burn Columbia I would have burnt it with no more feeling than I would a common prairie dog village ; but I did not do it ..." Sherman's official report on the burning placed the blame on Confederate Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton III, who Sherman said had ordered the burning of cotton in the streets.

Complaints were lodged against former Israeli Defense Forces chief of General Staff Lt .- Gen.

The victory, a product of Lee's audacity and Hooker's timid decision making, was tempered by heavy casualties and the mortal wounding of Lt. Gen. Thomas J.

( Lt .- Col. Sir Maharajkumar Dr. Vijayananda Gajapathi Raju ( better known as the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram or Vizzy ) is the only person to have a knighthood conferred on him for services to cricket while an active test cricketer, in 1936.

His brother, Lt. Gen. Sir Walter Kitchener, had also entered the army, and was the Governor of Bermuda from 1908 ' til 1912.

* Lt General Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet Outram

Ridgeley was initially known as St. Clairsville, named for Sir John St Clair, Lt Colonel and Quartermaster General for the British General Edward Braddock.

His grandson was Lt Col Arthur John Barry CBE, TD, MICE ( 1859 – 1943 ), civil engineer and architect, son of Charles Barry, Jr. and pupil and later partner of Sir John Wolfe-Barry.

* Smith, Sir Harry " Various Anecdotes and Events of my Life-The Autobiography of Lt. Gen. Sir Harry Smith, covering the period 1787 to 1860 " First published in 2 volumes, edited by G. C.

The design and construction of the new harbour and port of Ching Wang Tao in the Gulf of Pechili was undertaken by the partnership of Sir John Wolfe-Barry and Lt Col Arthur John Barry at the turn of the 20th century.

A new station was officially opened by Lt .- General Sir John Foley, the Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, on 20 October 2004.

A commemorative bust of Lt Gen Sir Stanley Savige was erected in 2006.

* The Defence Of Malta: an address by Lt. General Sir William G. S. Dobbie, G. C. M. G., K. C. B., D. S. O., LL. D, at The Empire Club of Canada, Toronto, Canada on Thursday, 22 February 1945.

The social heart of the Hamilton campus is the new Student Centre, which was officially opened in 2011 by Waikato alumnus Governor-General Lt Gen The Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae.

A man of hot temper and swings of mood, French argued with the Cabinet against Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener and Lt .- General Sir Douglas Haig that the BEF should be deployed in Belgium, rather than Amiens, where both Haig and Kitchener believed it would be well placed to deliver a vigorous counterattack once the route of German advance was known.

In that capacity, he treated Lt. Edward Revere Osler, the son of Sir William Osler, who was fatally wounded during the third battle of Ypres.

The first recorded European discovery of Sydney Harbour, was by Lt James Cook in 1770-Cook named the inlet after Sir George Jackson, ( one of the Lord Commissioners of the British Admiralty, and Judge Advocate of the Fleet ).

* Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill ( 1865 – 22 October 1929 ), a war correspondent during the Boer War ; married 21 November 1891 Lt. Col. Gordon Chesney Wilson ( son of Sir Samuel Wilson, MP )

This battle took place under the overall command of Australian Corps Commander Lt. General Sir John Monash and combined Artillery, Armour ( with a planning role played by British Colonel ' Boney ' Fuller, who with his junior, Liddel Hart, would later directly influence Heinz Guderian's seminal work Achtung-Panzer!

In addition Hamilton had an illegitimate son, Lt. Col. Sir James Abercrombie, 1st Baronet, born prior to 1680, who died at Dunkirk in 1724.

* Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill ( 1865 – 22 October 1929 ), a war correspondent during the Boer War ; married 21 November 1891 Lt. Col. Gordon Chesney Wilson ( son of Sir Samuel Wilson, MP )

In September 1878, on his return from the second visit, Kruger met in Pietermaritzburg with the British representatives, Sir Bartle Frere and Lt. General Frederic Thesiger ( shortly to inherit the title of Lord Chelmsford ), in order to update them on the progress of the talks.

Divorced circa 1932, they had one child, a daughter, Leslie ( who married firstly, Peter George Grenfell, 2nd Baron St Just, and secondly, Lord Bonham Carter ): after their divorce, Leslie Foster Nast married Lt. Col. Sir Reginald Benson.

* Sir Michael Cummins, a retired Lt Colonel who served in Germany, Norway, Denmark, Aden and Kuwait and Northern Ireland, and joined the House of Commons staff in 1982 2000-2005

* Barnett, Kennet Bruce Handbook on Military Sanitation for Regimental Officers ... With an introduction by Lt .- General Sir Horace L. Smith-Dorrien Forster Groom & Co. London, 1912

When William Lenox-Conyngham died in 1858, the estate passed to Lt. Col. Sir William Fitzwilliam Lenox-Conyngham who had married Laura Arbuthnot of Aldershot in 1856.