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.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

* Major characters like Commissioner Loeb, Detective Flass and Carmine ' The Roman ' Falcone who are featured prominently in Batman Begins.

The ensuing Battle of Mursa Major was one of the largest and most bloody battles between two Roman armies in Roman history.

During this interregnum, the heads of the dicasteries of the Roman Curia ( such as the prefects of congregations ) cease immediately to hold office, the only exceptions being the Major Penitentiary, who continues his important role regarding absolutions and dispensations, and the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, who administers the temporalities ( i. e., properties and finances ) of the See of St. Peter during this period.

Major religious groups in the Republic of the Marshall Islands include the United Church of Christ ( formerly Congregational ), with 51. 5 percent of the population ; the Assemblies of God, 24. 2 percent ; and the Roman Catholic Church, 8. 4 percent.

* 351 – Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.

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.

* Macrianus Major, Roman usurper

** Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, Roman statesman and general, famous for his victory over the Carthaginian leader Hannibal in the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, which has ended the Second Punic War and given him the surname Africanus ( b. 236 BC )

* The Roman general, Tiberius Gracchus Major, subdues Sardinia, enslaving some of the population.

* Tiberius Gracchus Major goes to Hispania as Roman governor to deal with uprisings there.

* Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, Roman statesman and general, famous for his victory over the Carthaginian leader Hannibal in the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, which has ended the Second Punic War and given him the surname Africanus ( b. 236 BC )

Antonia Major ( in Latin: Antonia Maior, PIR < sup > 2 </ sup > A 884 ) ( b. August / September 39 BC ), also known as Antonia the Elder, was a daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor and a relative of the first Roman Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Marcus Porcius Cato ( 234 BC, Tusculum – 149 BC ) was a Roman statesman, commonly referred to as Censorius ( the Censor ), Sapiens ( the Wise ), Priscus ( the Ancient ), or Major, Cato the Elder, or Cato the Censor, to distinguish him from his great-grandson, Cato the Younger.

* James Stafford ( b. 1926 ), Cardinal Major Penitentiary of the Roman Catholic Church

* His Beatitude, oral address Your Beatitude — Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Roman Catholic patriarchs, Macedonian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych.

In particular, the highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Roman Catholic Church ( above Major Archbishop and Primate ), and the Assyrian Church of the East are termed Patriarchs ( and in certain cases also popes ).

Major finds from Roman London, including mosaics, wall fragments, and old buildings, have been housed in the British Museum and the Guildhall Museum ( Hall & Merrifield ).

The Patriarchal Cathedral of St. Mary Major ( or ) is a Roman Catholic parish church located in Lisbon, Portugal.

183 BC – 132 BC Pergamum, Asia Minor ), the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum and his wife Cornelia Africana Major, was a member of the gens Cornelia and a politician of the ancient Roman Republic.

The name Syrtis Major is derived from the classical Roman name Syrtis maior for the Gulf of Sidra on the coast of Libya ( classical Cyrenaica ).

* Major General Roman Polko ( born 1962 in Tychy ), served in the Polish 1st Special Commando Regiment at Lubliniec.