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.

Later that month, Major General Taguba was reassigned to the Pentagon to serve as deputy assistant secretary of defense for readiness, training and mobilization in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs.

Cambone first came to the attention of the public at large during the testimony of Major General Antonio Taguba before the U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee, where he disputed the General's statement that prison guards were under the effective control of military intelligence personnel and interrogators.

Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the senior officer in Iraq, appointed Major General Antonio Taguba to open an Army Regulation 15-6 investigation into the conduct of the 800th Military Police Brigade.

In his Findings of Fact, Major General Taguba wrote:

Major General Taguba also determined that the testimony of several detainees was "... credible based on the clarity of their statements and

In the report by Major General Antonio M. Taguba regarding the alleged acts of brutality, abuse, and torture at the Enemy Prisoner of War facility at Abu Ghraib and other Enemy Prisoner of War Camps in Iraq and Afghanistan, Taguba said, "' Specifically I suspect that Col. Thomas M. Pappas, Lt. Col. Steve L. Jordan, Mr. Steven Stephanowicz and Mr. John Israel were either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib and strongly recommend immediate disciplinary actions ..."

The Post cited as evidence a report by Major General Antonio Taguba:

Allan Huber " Bud " Selig (; born July 30, 1934 ) is the ninth and current Commissioner of Major League Baseball, having served in that capacity since 1992 as the acting commissioner, and as the official commissioner since 1998.

Major metropolitan areas in most European countries are usually served by extensive commuter / suburban rail systems.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912 and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

He served over 4 years, rising to the rank of Major and was an advisor to the high commissioner of the Occupation government.

Sir John Major, ( born 29 March 1943 ) is a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.

In 1965, Robinson served as an analyst for ABC's Major League Baseball Game of the Week telecasts, the first black person to do so.

Wimsey served on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, reaching the rank of Major in the Rifle Brigade.

Deanna Troi impersonated " Major Rakal " in TNG's " Face of the Enemy " and served as a kind of " political officer.

The word SCUBA was coined in 1952 by Major Christian Lambertsen who served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1946 as a physician.

In the USA Major Christian J. Lambertsen, who served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1946 as a physician, invented an underwater free-swimming oxygen rebreather in 1939.

In the meantime in Iberia, which served as the main source of manpower for the Carthaginian army, a second Roman expedition under Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major took New Carthage by assault and ended Carthaginian rule over Iberia in the battle of Ilipa.

Sousa served in the U. S. Marine Corps, first from 1868 to 1875 as an apprentice musician, and then as the head of the Marine Band from 1880 to 1892 ; he was a Sergeant Major for most of his second period of Marine service and was a Warrant Officer at the time he resigned.

Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served as a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh and Chickamauga.

Colonel assigned to the 4th Commando Brigade and Welshman Taffy Williams served as a Major until the very end of the conflict.

For instance, Alabama-born Major Henry Hitchcock, who served in Sherman's staff, declared that " it is a terrible thing to consume and destroy the sustenance of thousands of people ", but if the scorched earth strategy served " to paralyze their husbands and fathers who are fighting ... it is mercy in the end.

Pinkerton served in several undercover missions under the alias of Major E. J.

After the Communists seized power in Romania in 1947, he headed the Ministry of Agriculture, then served as Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces under Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, becoming a Major General.

It operates in cities not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not affiliated with either.

It operates mostly in cities not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not affiliated with either.

Major railroad shippers also continued to believe that they would be better served by more flexibility to arrive at tailored arrangements that were mutually beneficial to a particular shipper, and to the carrier serving a particular shipper.

Major Kitchener served in the 1884-85 Nile Campaign as an intelligence officer.

The field was named in honor of squadron flight surgeon Major Frederick L. Detrick who served in France during World War I and died in June 1931 of a heart attack.