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.

' These included: Chief Justice Coke, who had been Solicitor to the High Court of Justice, Major-General Harrison, Col. John Jones ( also a member of the High Court of Justice ), Mr. Thomas Scot, Sir.

Major-General Thomas Harrison ( 1606 – 13 October 1660 ) sided with Parliament in the English Civil War.

Major-General Thomas Harrison was already at Newcastle picking the best of the county mounted-troops to add to his own regulars.

Major-General Sir Thomas Morgan ( 1st Baronet 1604-79 ) served in the Commonwealth forces during English civil war from 1642-9, was Governor of Gloucester 1645, fought in Flanders, wounded, and in 1661 retired to his estate in Kynnersley, Herts.

Later, he hosted a conference attended by Browning, Major-General Ivor Thomas of the 43rd ( Wessex ) Division and Sosabowski at Valburg.

The Life of Major-General George H. Thomas.

That spring at Montreal, he secured a fur-trade pass from Major-General Thomas Gage-the second Englishman ( by only a few days ) to do so.

A long siege ensued from June 1646 until 15 March 1647, when the garrison of 44 men surrendered to Major-General Thomas Mytton.

He then declared " you are no Parliament " and called in a troop of soldiers, under the command of Major-General Thomas Harrison, ordering them to clear the chamber.

Thomas Smyth died unmarried, but fathered four children, all of whom bore the surname Stuart, including the Indian Army officer, Major-General Charles Stuart, better known as the " Hindoo Stuart ", who features in William Dalrymple's book, White Mughals.

Surveying and settling of the confiscated land had begun in 1865 and Māori, weakened and intimidated by the bush-scouring campaigns of Major Thomas McDonnell and Major-General Trevor Chute in 1865-66, had accepted the loss of their land.

Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet GCH, GCB, FRS, FRSE ( 23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860 ) was Governor of New South Wales ( 1821 – 25 ), as recommended by the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had seen military service.

Sir William Savile left Sheffield and the castle under the control of his deputy, Major Thomas Beaumont, who held Sheffield until August 1644 when the Earl of Manchester sent Major-General Crawford and Colonel Pickering, a force of 1200 soldiers to recapture Sheffield for the Parliamentarians.

* 1952-1955 Major-General Thomas Brodie

The Reverend Lord John Thynne, third son of the second Marquess, was sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey ; his seventh son was Major-General Sir Reginald Thomas Thynne ( 1843 – 1926 ).

The British resident, Major Missett, having urged the importance of taking Rosetta and Rahmanieh in order to secure supplies for Alexandria, General Fraser, with the concurrence of the admiral, Sir John Thomas Duckworth, detached the 31st regiment and the Chasseurs Britanniques, accompanied by some field artillery under Major-General Wauchope and Brigadier-General Meade.

* 1928-1935 Major-General Thomas Cubitt

* 1911-1914 Major-General Thomas Snow

* 1914-1915 Major-General Thomas Morland

* 1968-1970 Major-General Walter Thomas

* 1917-1919 Major-General Thomas Marden

Major-General Thomas Bland Strange, a retired British officer living near Calgary, raised a force of cowboys and other white settlers, added to them two units of North-West Mounted Police ( NWMP ), and headed north.

Major-General Thomas Hardwicke ( 1755 – 3 May 1835 ) was an English soldier and naturalist who was resident in India from 1777 to 1823.

* Major-General Harrison

But having learned to condem such baseness, after the sentence had been pronounced against him, he ( Major-General Harrison ) said aloud as he was withdrawn from the Court, that he had no reason to be ashamed of the cause in which he had been engaged.

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

Edmond Ludlow also provided an account of the execution at Charing Cross, " the sentence which had been pronounced in consequence of the verdict was executed upon Major-General Harrison at the place where Charing Cross formerly stood, that the King might have the pleasure of the spectacle, and inure himself to blood.

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

It sent a new leader, Major-General Desmond Harrison, to the site.

Major-General Thomas Harrison, a gallant soldier and an extreme English Independent, a Fifth Monarchist, was to command the regular and auxiliary forces left in England, and to secure the Commonwealth against Royalists and Presbyterians.

Major-General Harrison was ordered to Lancashire in April to watch the north Welsh, earl of Derby on the Isle of Man and Border Royalists, and military precautions were taken in various parts of England.

* 1930-1932 Major-General James Harrison

;* " He found the same usage from the Court as Major-General Harrison had done, being frequently interrupted and council denied, though earnestly desired by him in that point of law touching the authority by which he had acted.

" Major-General Murray ," recalled one eye witness, " … seeing him fall, marched up in all haste with two Swiss battalions to save him and stop the enemy who were hewing all down in their way.

The story also revisits Pinafores theme of unqualified people in positions of authority, in the person of the " modern Major-General " who has up-to-date knowledge about everything except the military.

The Major-General and his many daughters escape from the tender-hearted Pirates of Penzance, who are all orphans, on the false plea that he is an orphan himself.

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.

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 ).

* Major-General Edward Bailey Ashmore, Army officer who served in the Royal Artillery, the Royal Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force, and founded the Royal Observer Corps

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.

In 1990, Major-General Pervez Musharraf, who was the Director-General of the Directorate-General for the Military Operations ( DGMO ), proposed a strategic plan against India to Benazir Bhutto calling for a Kargil Infiltration, but Benazir refused because General Musharraf didn't have a strategy for dealing with any resultant international fallout.

In 1646 O ' Neill, with substantial Gallowglass numbers and additionally furnished with supplies by the Papal Nuncio, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, attacked the Scottish Covenanter army under Major-General Robert Monro, who had landed in Ireland in April 1642.

Major-General Sir William Ponsonby KCB ( 13 October 1772 – 18 June 1815 ), styled The Honourable from 1806, was an Irish politician and British Army officer who served in the Peninsula War and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.

Pinafore ( 1878 ); Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, who is an expert at everything except " military knowledge " ( 1880 ); the aesthetic poet, Reginald Bunthorne in Patience ( 1881 ); the love-lonely Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe ( 1882 ); the sarcastic cripple, King Gama, in Princess Ida ( 1884 ); Ko-Ko the cheap tailor, elevated to the post of Lord High Executioner, in The Mikado ( 1885 ); the accursed Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore ( 1887 ); and the pathetic jester, Jack Point, in The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ).

Sheaffe had ordered a company of the Glengarry Light Infantry to support the Natives, but they became lost in the outskirts of the town, having been misdirected by Major-General Æneas Shaw, the Adjutant General of the Canadian Militia, who took some of the militia north onto Dundas Street to prevent any wide American outflanking move.

On the mainland Major-General Richard Heidrich, who had remained in Calabria with his 1st Parachute Division headquarters and 1st Parachute Regiment when the rest of the division had been sent as reinforcements to Sicily, was appointed XIV Panzer Corps Mainland Commander to receive evacuating formations while Hube continued to control the operations on the island.

Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier ( April 23, 1888March 5, 1967 ) was a Canadian soldier and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 19th since Canadian Confederation.

He was promoted to Major-General ( 偏將軍 ) and appointed Grand Administrator of Guiyang, replacing Zhao Fan, who surrendered the area to Liu Bei's forces.

Major-General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ( born Prince Alexander of Teck ; 14 April 187416 January 1957 ), was the husband of Princess Alice of Albany ( a granddaughter of Queen Victoria ) and a British military commander and major-general who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, the country's fourth, and as Governor General of Canada, the 16th since Canadian Confederation.

Her maternal great-grandfather was Major-General Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, who was of Turkish origin.

On 9 January 1970, General Odumegwu-Ojukwu handed over power to his second in command, Chief of General Staff Major-General Philip Effiong, and left for Côte d ' Ivoire, where President Felix Houphöet-Biogny – who had recognised Biafra on 14 May 1968 – granted him political asylum.

The highest ranking Territorial is Major-General Greg Smith TD who is Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff ( Reserves and Cadets ).

Major-General Comte Albert-Marie Edmond Guérisse, GC, KBE, DSO ( 5 April 1911 – 26 March 1989 ) was a Belgian Resistance member who organized escape routes for downed Allied pilots during World War II under the alias of Patrick Albert " Pat " O ' Leary, the name of a Canadian friend.

Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, KCB ( 5 April 1795 – 24 November 1857 ) was a British general who is particularly associated with India and his recapture of Cawnpore from rebels during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.