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.

* Dutch Leonard ( left-handed pitcher ), Major League Baseball player

Image: Leonard Wood 1903. jpg | Major General Leonard Wood of New Hampshire

The race was wide open, and soon the convention deadlocked between Major General Leonard Wood and Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois.

A third version was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on March 21, 2010 starring Rory Kinnear as Captain Bluntschli, Lydia Leonard as Raina and Tom Mison as Major Saranoff.

It is named in honor of Major General Leonard Wood, who was awarded the Medal of Honor.

Macomb sent forward 450 regulars under Captain Sproul and Major John E. Wool, 110 riflemen under Major Daniel Appling, 700 New York militia under Major General Benjamin Mooers and two 6-pounder guns under Captain Leonard to fight a delaying action.

The corps was reactivated at Fort Bragg on 21 May 1951 under the command of Major General John W. Leonard.

** Leonard Bernstein ( conductor ) & the London Symphony Orchestra & Choir for Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E Flat Major ( Symphony of a Thousand )

Charles Leonard Gehringer ( May 11, 1903 – January 21, 1993 ), nicknamed “ The Mechanical Man ,” was a German-American Major League Baseball second baseman who played 19 seasons ( 1924 – 42 ) for the Detroit Tigers.

* Major Greenwood ( 1880 – 1949 ), epidemiologist and statistician-Sir Leonard Hill gave him his first job after graduation as an assistant physiologist before he turned to his later career, and he later became a neighbour of the Hill family in Loughton

* Sir Austin " Tony " Bradford Hill ( 1897 – 1991 ), epidemiologist and statistician, and son of Sir Leonard Erskine Hill, grew up in the family home at Osborne House-published several research collaborations with Major Greenwood, a family friend

In 1911, Secretary Henry L. Stimson and Major General Leonard Wood, his chief of staff, revived the Root reforms.

* Major Leonard Darwin ( 1905 – 1911 )

** Leonard Bernstein ( conductor ) & the London Symphony Orchestra & Choir for Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E Flat Major ( Symphony of a Thousand )

Orel Leonard Hershiser IV ( born September 16, 1958 ) is an American former Major League Baseball starting pitcher.

The book is dedicated to Major Leonard Darwin, Fisher's friend, correspondent and son of Charles Darwin, " In gratitude for the encouragement, given to the author, during the last fifteen years, by discussing many of the problems dealt with in this book ".

Joe Leonard Morgan ( born September 19, 1943 ) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman who played for the Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, and Oakland Athletics from 1963 to 1984.

Major Leonard Darwin ( 15 January 1850 – 26 March 1943 ), a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was variously a soldier, politician, economist, eugenicist and mentor of the statistician and evolutionary biologist Ronald Fisher.

The Second Robotech War had left the Earth's defense forces weakened and leaderless with both Supreme Commander Anatole Leonard and Major General Rolf Emerson being killed.

On August 6, 1903, Major General Leonard Wood assumed his position as the governor of Moro Province and commander of the Department of Mindanao-Jolo.

Image: LeonardWood. jpeg | Major General Leonard Wood of New Hampshire

Leonard Harold Barker III ( born July 7, 1955 in Fort Knox, Kentucky ), better known as Lenny Barker or Len Barker, is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher.