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.

In May 1945, Karl von Loesch, a civil servant in Foreign Office, gave this copy to British Lt. Col. R. C.

The centre of the series was a veteran cop and widower, Lt Mike Stone ( Karl Malden ), who had more than twenty years of police experience and was now assigned to the Homicide Detail of SFPD's Bureau of Inspectors ( ex: Detective Division ).

" Spock orders Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy, along with Lt. DeSalle and geophysicist Karl Jager, to form a landing party and conduct a search.

* Project ARMS as Lt. Karl Higgins ( eps.

The 16th Precinct commander, Detective Lt. Thomas ( Karl Malden ), Dixon's boss, is convinced that Morgan's father is the killer.

* Karl Malden as Detective Lt. Thomas

* Karl C. Behm-2008 Presidential Candidate ; with Carol Castagnero of Lakeland, FL for Lt.

Significant ' scorers ' in the unit that April were Manfred von Richthofen ( 21 claims ), Lt. Kurt Wolff ( 22 ), Lt. Karl Schäfer ( 15 ), Manfred's brother Lothar ( 15 ) and NCO pilot Sebastian Festner ( 10 ).

* Lt. Karl Schäfer

At the time of his death, Lt. Karl Richter had flown more missions over North Vietnam than any other airman — 198 in all officially credited.

Margrave Wilhelm of Baden ( 8 April 1792, Karlsruhe – 11 October 1859, Karlsruhe ) was the second son of Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden and his second wife, Luise Karoline, Baroness Geyer von Geyersberg ( 26 May 1768 — 23 July 1820 ), the daughter of Lt. Col. Baron Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Geyer von Geyersberg and his wife, Countess Maximiliana Christiane of Sponeck.

The late Lt Kara Hultgreen was originally given the callsign ' Hulk ,' because of her habitual weight training ; later, after a television appearance in which she wore detectable makeup, she received the callsign " Revlon.

A compressor stall contributed to the 1994 death of Lt. Kara Hultgreen, the first female carrier-based United States Navy fighter pilot.

It was then decided the series would take place thirty years after the end of the original series, and that Boxey would be renamed Troy and take Apollo's role, while a character named Lt. Dillon would take over the Starbuck part.

Was the last Battlestar destroyed according to the Battlestar Galactica novelization, when Lt. Starbuck and Lt. Boomer tried to find another ship to land on because of burning up a lot of fuel due to the use of full turbos on their Vipers, during the Battle Of Cimtar.

In a bold move, the fleet follows Captain Apollo's proposal of crossing a heavily-mined section of space as a shortcut, which is cleared beforehand by Captain Apollo himself and two of his closest friends, fellow Colonial warriors Lt. Starbuck and Lt. Boomer.

* 1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.

" 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.

Burnside's former command, the IX Corps, was transferred to the Virginia Peninsula, a movement that prompted the Confederates to detach troops from Lee's army under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, a decision that would be consequential in the upcoming campaign.

Burnside selected this plan because he was concerned that if he were to move directly south from Warrenton, he would be exposed to a flanking attack from Lt. Gen. Thomas J.

", especially the trench mortars that already wounded Lt. Henry (" he knew that they would die as soon as a mortar came up ").

These men would join Northern Arkansas men led by Lt.

Following a proposal devoped by Lt Col Adrian Simpson that a small number of stations located around Britain would not work, the task of developing a comprehensive listening organization was given to Ralph Mansfield, 4th Baron Sandhurst, an enthusiastic amateur radio operator who had served with the Royal Engineers Signal Service during World War I, and had been commissioned as a Major in the Royal Corps of Signals in 1939.

A deserter, Lt. Gustav Juliet, found Ferguson and told him of Pulaski's encampment ; he mentioned that morale was fairly low, and security almost nonexistent, so that a surprise attack would be devastating.

Although U. S. Army Major Jefferson Van Horne is believed to have passed near the area in 1849 on his way to take command of what would later become Fort Bliss, the town is instead named for Lt. James Judson Van Horn who commanded an army garrison at the Van Horn Wells beginning in 1859.

In May 1941, British colleagues helped establish the Naval Mine Disposal School at the Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D. C. Not to be outdone, the U. S. Navy, under the command of Lt. Draper L. Kauffman ( who would go on to found the Underwater Demolition Teams better known as UDTs or the U. S. Navy Frogmen ), created the Naval Bomb Disposal School at University Campus, Washington, D. C. U. S. Ordnance and British Royal Engineers would forge a partnership that worked quite effectively in war a friendship persisting to this day.

He would later play Flight Lt. Colin Blythe in The Great Escape where much of the story takes place inside a German POW camp.

The 2nd Battalion — under the command of Lt. Col. John Frost — would follow the riverside roads to the centre of Arnhem ( codenamed the Lion route ) and secure the main road and railway bridges, as well as a pontoon bridge between the two.

The 3rd Battalion of Lt. Col. Fitch would head through Oosterbeek to Arnhem ( Tiger route ), assist in the capture of the road bridge and take up positions in the east of the town.

Lt. Col. Dobie's 1st Battalion would follow Leopard route north of the railway line to occupy high ground north and north west of Arnhem.

Ames assumed brigade command in the XI Corps of the Army of the Potomac, relinquishing his command of the 20th Maine to Lt. Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain, who would soon lead the regiment to fame in the Battle of Gettysburg that July.

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.

Lt. Col. Baldwin, who would be charged with a violation of the Articles of War over the incident, would hold that the men had been tried and convicted before their execution.

" Lt. Ord then asked the leaders to the right of the 10th Cavalry ( i. e. of the 3rd and 1st Volunteers ) to " support the regulars " when they would charge the heights.

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!

The wound was considered mortal by the division's surgeon, who predicted he would perish ; Chamberlain's incorrectly recorded death in battle was reported in the Maine newspapers, and Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant gave Chamberlain a battlefield promotion to the rank of brigadier general after receiving an urgent recommendation on June 19 from corps commander Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren: " He has been recommended for promotion for gallant and efficient conduct on previous occasion and yesterday led his brigade against the enemy under most destructive fire.

He and the U. S. Army commander, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, believed that the Civil War would end only if the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological capacity for warfare were decisively broken.

The episode also is the first time long-running background actor Eddie Paskey appeared ; his character would later be identified as Lt. Leslie.