* 1752 After Chandra and the French allies attempt to retake Arcot leaving Trichinopoly undefended, Major-General Stringer Lawrence, with Clive captured Trichinopoly.

* 1907-1909 Major-General Lawrence Parsons

* 1906-1907 Major-General Lawrence Parsons

Lord Lawrence, writing to The Times in November, 1878, on the Afghan war, named Major-General John Coke as one of the " models of frontier officers, good administrators, and able soldiers — men who devoted their health, and even their lives, to their duty.

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

After the Restoration on 14 October 1660 Major-General Thomas Harrison was the first person to be found guilty of the regicide of Charles I.

In practice, the transfer did not take effect until 24 February 1836 when Major-General George Middlemore ( 1836 – 1842 ), the first governor appointed by the British government, arrived with 91st Regiment troops.

The career civil service officer Major-General ( retired ) Iskander Mirza became the country's first President, but the system did not evolved for more than the three years, when Mirza imposed the martial law in 1958.

Major-General Harrison and was the first of the Regicides to be executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered on 13 October 1660.

* Aaro Olavi Pajari, Major-General, infantry division commander-( first on 14 September 1941, second on 16 October 1944 )

In the first operations of 1812 Picton and Craufurd, side by side for the last time, stormed the two breaches of Ciudad Rodrigo, Craufurd and Picton's second in command, Major-General Henry Mackinnon, being mortally wounded.

The first Australian-born Governor of South Australia was Major-General Sir James Harrison ( appointed 1968 ), and all subsequent governors have been Australian-born.

Browning was concerned about the timetable put forward by Major-General Paul L. Williams of the IX Troop Carrier Command, under which the drop was staggered over several days, and not to make two drops on the first day.

The first occupant was Major-General George Charles D ' Aguilar, General Officer Commanding from 1844 to 1846 who also held the post of Lieutenant Governor.

During the formation of the division, Major-General Robert Kekewich was appointed as its first commander.

The two battalions worked closely, being the first troops to re-enter Brussels on 3 September 1944 after an advance of 100 miles in one day in what was described as ' an armoured lash unequalled for speed in this or any other war ' led by Major-General Sir Allan Henry Adair http :// www. ww2guards. com / ww2guards / AWARDS_A_-_C / Pages / ADAIR, _ALLAN_HENRY_SHAFTO, _D. S. O., _3GG. html # 7

Major-General ( retired ) Iskander Ali Mirza, the standing Governor General became Pakistan's first president.

It is sung by Major-General Stanley at his first entrance, towards the end of Act I.

Major-General David Fraser, former Commandant of the Canadian Forces College in Toronto and the first Canadian commander of the Multi-National Brigade ( Regional Command ( South )) in Afghanistan, was designated as the first commander of the newly reactivated 1st Canadian Division.

Lambert Bayly, younger son of the first Baronet, was the father of the Very Reverend John Bayly, Dean of Killaloe, who was the grandfather of ( 1 ) Paget Bayly, a Major-General in the Army, and ( 2 ) John Bayly, a General in the Army.

Henry Conyngham ( d. 1706 ), father of the first Earl Conyngham ( of the 1718 creation ), was a Major-General in the British Army and was killed in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Major-General Sahibzada Sayyid Iskander Ali Mirza, CIE, OBE ( Urdu: اسکندر مرزا ; Bengali: ইস ্ ক া ন ্ দ া র ম ী র ্ জ া; 14 December 1898 – 12 November 1969 ), was the first President of Pakistan, serving from 1956 until being forced out from the presidency in 1958.

His eldest son, the seventh Baron and first Earl, was a Major-General in the Army, and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.

As in response to Lahore riots in 1953, Nazimuddin was the first one to have declared the Martial law in Punjab Province under Major-General Azam Khan and Colonel Rahimuddin Khan, initiating a massive repression of the Right-wing sphere in the country.

Both the first Earl's father, William Henry Lambton ( 1764 – 1797 ), and grandfather, Major-General John Lambton ( 1710 – 1794 ), as well as his great-uncle Henry Lambton ( 1697 – 1761 ), represented the City of Durham in Parliament.

Richard Prittie Brooke ( d. 1836 ), younger brother of the first Baronet, was a Major-General in the British Army.

In the first operation of its kind by the British, the Corps of Royal Engineers specialist tunnelling companies laid six mines by 10 April 1915, which were planned by Major-General Edward Bulfin.

He also directed a few Irish officers to Lochaber, among whom was Major-General Buchan, as commander-in-chief of the Jacobite forces in Scotland.

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Compass – British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O ' Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.

* 1903 – Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric ( d. 1944 )

The town was later annexed to British India when Sindh was annexed by Major-General Charles James Napier at the Battle of Miani on 17 February 1843.

* 1944 – Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric ( b. 1903 )

The interim governor-general of the Sudan, the British Major-General Charles George Gordon, and many of the fifty thousand inhabitants of Khartoum were massacred.

The Governor-General's military commander was the Major-General Commanding British Troops in the Sudan, who was also Commandant of the Sudan Defence Force.

Sir George Stuart White, commanding the British division at Ladysmith, had unwisely allowed Major-General Penn Symons to throw a brigade forward to the coal-mining town of Dundee ( also reported as Glencoe ), which was surrounded by hills.

Major-General J. Davidson, Director of Operations at GHQ wrote in a memorandum that there was " ambiguity as to what was meant by a step-by-step attack with limited objectives " and suggested reverting to a 1, 750 yard advance to increase the concentration of British artillery.

The 82nd Airborne Division, under Brigadier General James M. Gavin, would drop northeast of them to take the bridges at Grave and Nijmegen and the British 1st Airborne Division, under Major-General Roy Urquhart, with the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, under Brigadier General Stanisław Sosabowski, attached would drop at the extreme north end of the route, capturing the road bridge at Arnhem and the rail bridge at Oosterbeek.

Major-General John Frederick Charles Fuller, CB, CBE, DSO ( 1 September 1878 – 10 February 1966 ) was a British Army officer, military historian and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising principles of warfare.

In 1796, during the British occupation of the Cape, Major-General Sir James Craig ordered three blockhouses to be built on Table Mountain: the King's blockhouse, Duke of York blockhouse ( later renamed Queen's blockhouse ) and the Prince of Wales blockhouse.

From the lawn of this house, in May 1781, General Lafayette — with cannon behind a boxwood hedge that still fringes the hill — shelled Petersburg, then occupied by British troops under Major-General William Phillips ( who died of typhoid during this bombardment ).

In the Battle of Vimeiro ( August 21, 1808 ) the British under General Arthur Wellesley defeated the French under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro (), near Lisbon, Portugal during the Peninsular War.

Montcalm and his staff, Major-General François de Gaston, Chevalier de Lévis, Colonel Louis Antoine de Bougainville, and Lieutenant-Colonel de Sennezergue, distributed some 12, 000 troops in a nine-kilometre long collection of fortified redoubts and batteries from the Saint-Charles River to the Montmorency Falls, along the shallows of the river in areas that had previously been targeted by British attempts to land.

William, the eldest, became Chancellor of the Exchequer ; John was a Major-General in the British Army ; Daines was a lawyer, antiquarian and naturalist ; Samuel was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy ; and Shute became Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham.

John Barrington ( c. 1722 – 64 ) was a Major-General in the British Army.

Early in 1916 Curzon visited Douglas Haig ( newly appointed CinC of British forces in France ) at his headquarters in France-Haig was impressed by Curzon's brains and decisiveness – he had mellowed since his days as Viceroy ( the then Major-General Haig had been Inspector-General of Cavalry, India, at the time ) and had lost " his old pompous ways ".

Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB MP FRS ( 29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774 ), also known as Clive of India, was a British officer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal.

The commanding ranking British General in Upper Canada and temporary administrator of the province was Major-General Isaac Brock.

Francis Younghusband was born in 1863 at Murree, British India ( now Pakistan ) to a British military family, being the second son of Major-General John W. Younghusband and his wife Clara Jane Shaw.

The merit of British professional commanders was illustrated by Major-General Sir Isaac Brock in Upper Canada ( Ontario ) and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry, a French Canadian, in Lower Canada ( Quebec ).