Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

* 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.

* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Major General J. E. B.

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* Also the Bavarian Major General and War Minister Moritz Ritter von Spies ( 1805 – 1862 ) was born in Ansbach.

* Land Forces: Major General Stefan Vasilev

* Air Force: Major General Konstantin Popov

As the English battalions descended the gentle slope of the Petite Gheete valley, struggling through the boggy stream, they were met by Major General de la Guiche ’ s disciplined Walloon infantry sent forward from around Offus.

Essex left Sir Philip Skippon, his Sergeant Major General of Foot, in command while he himself escaped to Plymouth in a fishing boat.

Major General William Rupertus, USMC — commander of 1st Marine Division — predicted the island would be secured within four days.

Major General Robert Ford, then Commander of Land Forces in Northern Ireland, ordered that 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ( 1 PARA ) should travel to Derry to be used to arrest possible rioters during the march.

* Deputy Chief of the General Staff-Director of JOC ( Operations Commander ): Major General Josef Prokš

* Support Policy Division: Director Major General Pavel Jevula

* 1864 – American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign – Battle of Nashville – Major General George H. Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.

Reformers were led by Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who favored modification ( but ultimately voted for the defense authorization bill with the gay ban language ), and Barry Goldwater, a former Republican Senator and a retired Major General, who argued on behalf of allowing service by open gays and lesbians.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

* 1862 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside.

Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot ; François Rude ; Antoine Étex ; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

( 1952 ); Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ; and as Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara ( 1957 ), Joshua Logan's adaption of James Michener's 1954 novel.

Wealthy, newly retired sea captain James McKay ( Gregory Peck ) travels to the American West to join his fiancée Patricia ( Carroll Baker ) at the enormous ranch owned by her father, Major Terrill ( Charles Bickford ).

Major James Bell of the 180th Infantry, had already learned of the mounting situation downtown and to the possibility of a break-in, took appropriate measures to prevent this.

Newcastle replaced him in January 1756 with Lord Loudoun, with Major General James Abercrombie as his second in command.

In 1851, the Battalion was led by Major James D. Savage, whose trading post on the Merced River the Awaneechee had raided.

It was attended by Prince Charles, former Prime Ministers Edward Heath, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister John Major and future Prime Minister Tony Blair.

On April 12, 1865, following the Battle of Selma, Major General James H. Wilson captured Montgomery for the Union.

* The Bill James Handbook ( 2003 – present ) provides past-season statistics and next-season projections for Major League players and teams, and career data for all current Major League players.

In an essay published in the 1984 Abstract, James vented his frustration about Major League Baseball's refusal to publish play-by-play accounts of every game.

Bridgeport was the home of Major Leaguer, James " Orator " O ' Rourke, who signed the first African-American to play for a professional baseball team in 1895.

James Hoyt Wilhelm ( July 26, 1922 – August 23, 2002 ) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher.

James Edward " Jim " Rice ( born March 8, 1953 ), nicknamed " Jim Ed ", is a former Major League Baseball left fielder.

James Paul David " Jim " Bunning ( born October 23, 1931 ) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher and politician.

Her parents were Major James Rutherford Lumley, who served in the 6th Gurkha Rifles, a regiment of the British Indian Army, and Beatrice Rose Weir.

The next settlement was made near the mouth of Deer Creek by Major James Parsons, and his two sons, Jesse and James, and Mr. Duncan.

It was named for Major James Fontaine of Kentucky who was killed at Harmar's Defeat ( near modern Fort Wayne, Indiana ) on October 22, 1790, during the Northwest Indian War.

Paisley's approach led him in turn to oppose O ' Neill's successors as Prime Minister, Major James Chichester-Clark ( later Lord Moyola ) and Brian Faulkner.

Major General James Harrison Wilson's cavalry was headed toward Macon ; its task was to destroy the agricultural and industrial facilities in the South.

Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy on October 31, 1930, to United States Army Major General James Lawton Collins, who would serve in the army for 38 years.

* The Dales, formerly the residence of Henry Douglas King, M. P., and later Major William James Spurrell, D. S. O., M. C., is now a hotel ( The Dales Country House ).