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.

* 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.

Robert Anderson ( Civil War ) | Major Anderson, Ft. Sumter commander

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

Fort Sumter Medal bearing the likeness of Robert Anderson ( major ) | Major Robert Anderson, and presented to Abner Doubleday.

He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

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.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.

The modern meaning of the flag was forged in December 1860 when Major Robert Anderson, acting without orders, moved the U. S. garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in defiance of the power of the new Confederate States of America.

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.

Honorius travelled to Benevento, and after safeguarding the interests of Robert of Capua, he met Roger on the Pons Major, the bridge which crosses the Sabbato river near Benevento, on 22 August 1128.

In 1862 the first polo club, Calcutta Polo Club, was established by two British soldiers, Captain Robert Stewart and Major General Joe Shearer.

The current chief of the defence staff is Robert Yira Koroma, who was appointed by president Ernest Bai Koroma in August 2010 to replace Major General Alfred Nelson Williams, who was placed on terminal leave.

Key and Skinner boarded the British flagship HMS Tonnant on September 7 and spoke with Major General Robert Ross and Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane over dinner while the two officers discussed war plans.

** Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army.

* January 12 – American Civil War: Major Robert Anderson sends dispatches to Washington.

Major figures in contemporary research include Sarah Coakley, John Zizioulas and Robert Jenson.

Later, Colonel Picquart ( Henry O ' Neill ), the new chief of intelligence, discovers evidence implicating Major Walsin-Esterhazy ( Robert Barrat ) as the spy, but he is ordered by his superiors to remain silent, as this revelation would embarrass them.

* Robert Barrat as Major Walsin-Esterhazy

* Robert Warwick as Major Henry

Major settlement of the area, mostly escaping slum conditions in the East End of London, occurred during this period when the new motor and chemical industries such as the Ford Motor Company plant at Dagenham were set up.

Amongst the hotel's more famous guests are King George V ; Jordan ’ s King Hussein ; U. S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush ( as well as then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ); British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and Tony Blair ; the Prince of Wales ; Elizabeth Taylor ; Richard Dreyfus ; Richard Gere ; and Madonna.

It was named Wheeler Field on 11 November 1922 in honor of Major Sheldon H. Wheeler, former commander of Luke Field on Ford Island, killed in the crash of DH-4B, AAS Ser.

John Crook, John Clapper, Henry Coons, John Warner, Major Thomas Frothingham, who was an officer in the Continental army during the War of the Revolution ; N. Smith, Reuben Underwood, David Arnold, and families bearing the names of Fethers, Ford, Davis, Cook, Emmons, Culver, Farrell, Pratt, Lewis, Wells, Huntley, Wickham, Fuller, Strope, Hegeman, Sheppard, Higgenbottom, De Freest, Rykert, Woodworth, Hayes, Townsend, Richmond, Cornwell, Carmichael, Stone, Russell, Frear ( probably Frere ), Guyot, Kelly, Kerner, Jacobs, Simmons, Comb, Calkins, Kilmer and others.

One block north on Main St. ( present location of Piedmont Realty ) was the frame house where " The Gallant Major " John Pelham died after sustaining a wound at the battle of Kelley's Ford.

Washington employed General John Armstrong, commanding about 1, 000 Pennsylvania militia, to cover Pyle's Ford, a few hundred yards south of Chadds Ford, which was covered by Major Generals Anthony Wayne's and Nathanael Greene's divisions.

Major General John Sullivan's division extended northward along the Brandywine's east banks, covering the high ground north of Chadds Ford along with Major General Adam Stephen's division and Major General Lord Stirling's divisions.

Major League players that jumped to the Federal League included Bill McKechnie, Claude Hendrix, Jack Quinn, Russell Ford, Tom Seaton, Doc Crandall, Al Bridwell, Hy Myers and Hal Chase.

Major clients ( as of 2004 ) included Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Microsoft, Eli Lilly, Ford, and Steelcase.

Ford Christopher Frick ( December 19, 1894 – April 8, 1978 ) was an American sportswriter and executive who served as president of the National League from to and as the third Commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1951 to.

As site of the Continental Congress and signing of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia was selected to host the 1976 NBA All-Star Game, the 1976 National Hockey League All-Star Game, the 1976 NCAA Final Four, and the 1976 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at which President Ford threw out the first pitch.

Frost is the only person to have interviewed eight British prime ministers serving between 1964 and 2010 ( Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron ) and the seven US presidents in office between 1969 and 2008 ( Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W.

Edward Charles " Whitey " Ford ( born October 21, 1928 ) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who spent his entire 16-year career with the New York Yankees.

In, Ford threw the first pitch at the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

The highway crosses to the west of Comerica Park and Ford Field, home of the Major League Baseball Detroit Tigers and the National Football League's Detroit Lions, respectively.

Bush ( former Trustee of the University ), Ken Burns, Condoleezza Rice, Pervez Musharaff, Colin Powell, Carl Sagan, Desmond Tutu, Bob Dole, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Benjamin Netanyahu, Thomas Friedman, Charles Krauthammer, José María Aznar, Tom Brokaw, John Edwards, Gerhard Schröder, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Kay, Queen Noor, John Glenn, Lord George Robertson, Benazir Bhutto, Lech Wałęsa, Madeleine Albright, Thomas Kean, Brit Hume, Barbara Bush, Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Beschloss, Shimon Peres, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, John Updike, Lawrence Eagleburger, Mario Cuomo, William Bennett, Juan Williams, Pierre Salinger, Sam Nunn, Vicente Fox, Dan Rather, Dominique de Villepin, Bill Clinton ( organized by the San Antonio Business Council ) and John Cleese.

Harry Norbert Kalas ( March 26, 1936 – April 13, 2009 ) was an American sportscaster, best known for his Ford C. Frick Award-winning role as lead play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies.

" It is named for Ford C. Frick, former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

The Ford 5000 Super Major was finished in blue and came complete with operational steering and jewelled headlights.

Next followed two versions of the Ford 5000 Super Major tractor with a fully operational side trenching scoop ( 74 ) in 1970 followed by a version with a rear trenching scoop ( 72 ) in January 1971.

He and his crew, Major Casey Schuler ( Kevin Spacey ), and new recruit Major Salt ( Cuba Gooding, Jr .) gain information about the virus and return to the United States, where Daniels asks his superior, Brigadier General Billy Ford ( Morgan Freeman ), to put out an alert.