The assault consisted of 12 battalions of Dutch infantry commanded by Major Generals Schultz and Spaar ; two brigades of Saxons under Count Schulenburg ; a Scottish brigade in Dutch service led by the 2nd Duke of Argyle ; and a small brigade of Protestant Swiss.

Two Generals were point to lead the new forces one from FRELIMO Lieutenant General Lagos Lidimo who was named Chief of the Defence Force and Major General Mateus Ngonhamo from RENAMO as Vice-Chief of the Defence Force.

General Washington held a " Council of War " with his four Major Generals and six Brigadier General in the Moland House.

This needs to be expanded to include, for example, Harvey Wollman, Governor of South Dakota ; the McNichol twins ( Army Generals ); twins Dennis Koslowski and Duane Koslowski, Olympic wrestlers ( Dennis won Silver in ' 92 and Bronze in ' 88 Greco-Roman wrestling ; Duane won a world championship in 1986 ); Air Force Major General Chris Divich ; Air Force Lt. Col. Duane Divich ; " Smokey " Joe Mendel, tied the world record for the 100-yd dash in 1931 ; NFL pro football player Bill Noetlich ; and there are more.

Divisions were typically commanded by Colonels or Major Generals, or Colonels or Major Generals of Aviation in the Air Force.

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.

" He sailed for America in March 1775, accompanied by Major Generals Henry Clinton and John Burgoyne.

Washington wanted to push onto New Brunswick and capture a British pay chest of 70, 000 pounds but Major Generals Henry Knox and Nathanael Greene talked him out of it.

Washington's force comprised 2, 400 men, with infantry divisions commanded by Major Generals Nathanael Greene and John Sullivan, and artillery under the direction of Brigadier General Henry Knox.

The way in which he conducted the left wing of the French forces in the final Allied assault on Sebastopol on 8 September 1855 ( wounded, shell fragment in left hip, his horse killed under him ), received acclaim of the highest order from the Allied Command and he was subsequently promoted to Major General ( General de Division ) on 22 September 1855 and selected from all the Allied Generals to assume the Governorship of Sebastopol.

The board consisted of Major Generals Nathanael Greene ( the presiding officer ), Lord Stirling, Arthur St. Clair, Lafayette, Robert Howe, Steuben, Brigadier Generals Samuel H. Parsons, James Clinton, Henry Knox, John Glover, John Paterson, Edward Hand, Jedediah Huntington, John Stark, and Judge-Advocate-General John Laurance.

An eyewitness account of the last day of Major André can be found in the book The American Revolution: From the Commencement to the Disbanding of the American Army Given in the Form of a Daily Journal, with the Exact Dates of all the Important Events ; Also, a Biographical Sketch of the Most Prominent Generals by James Thacher, M. D., a surgeon in the American Revolutionary Army:

In 1836 the United States Army had just four Major Generals.

Brooks grew up in an Army family in California, and his father Leo A. Brooks Sr. and brother Leo A. Brooks Jr. were both Major Generals in the United States Army.

Blamey appointed two regulars, Major Generals Vernon Sturdee and Henry Wynter to command the 8th and 9th Divisions, but Wynter became ill and Sturdee was appointed Chief of the General Staff following the death of General Sir Brudenell White in the 1940 Canberra air disaster.

The commands then went to two CMF soldiers, Major Generals Gordon Bennett and Leslie Morshead.

Smith recommended the relief of its commander, Major General Lloyd Fredendall, as did General Harold Alexander and Major Generals Omar Bradley and Lucian Truscott.

The request came about when Ellis first submitted it to his ' first ' of his chain-of-command, Brigadier General Logan Feland, whose approval was sine qua non before it even reached the desks of Major Generals Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps | Asst.

When the RAF was formed, an officer with the rank of Group Captain ( equivalent to Colonel and ( Navy ) Captain ) commanded such a unit, although by the time of World War II, some groups were commanded by Air Commodores ( equivalent to Brigadiers / Brigadier Generals and Commodores ) or even Air Vice-Marshals ( equivalent to Major Generals and Rear Admirals ).

Major was promoted to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1987, following the general election, and in a surprise re-shuffle in July 1989, a relatively inexperienced Major was appointed Foreign Secretary, succeeding Sir Geoffrey Howe.

In October 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd, Major's successor as Foreign Secretary, finally persuaded Thatcher to allow Britain to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a move which she had resisted for some years, and which had been a cause of her quarrels with Howe and Lawson.

Control of the upper Hudson would enable the British to link their forces in Quebec with those in New York, recently captured in the New York campaign by Major General William Howe.

Major east-west thoroughfares include El Camino Avenue, Marconi Avenue, Arden Way, Alta Arden Expressway, and Fair Oaks Boulevard while major north-south thoroughfares include Fulton Avenue, Watt Avenue, Howe Avenue, and Eastern Avenue.

On October 22 of that year, in what is known as the Battle of Red Bank, an attack by 900 Hessian troops, serving under British Major General William Howe, who then occupied Philadelphia, was repelled, with heavy losses on the Hessian side ( including the death of their commander, Colonel Carl Emil Kurt von Donop ) by the 600 Continental defenders under Colonel Christopher Greene.

The Battle of Brandywine, also known as the Battle of Brandywine Creek, was fought between the American army of Major General George Washington and the British-Hessian army of General Sir William Howe on September 11, 1777.

He ordered Major General William Howe to prepare to land his troops.

Howe never attempted a major engagement with the Continental Army, which had come under the command of Major General George Washington.

On 25 May, 4, 500 reinforcements arrived in the city, along with three more generals: Major General William Howe and Brigadiers John Burgoyne and Henry Clinton.

* Art Howe: Major League Baseball infielder with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros, and St. Louis Cardinals ; manager with the Houston Astros, Oakland Athletics, and New York Mets.

In the fall of 1757, Lord Howe had accompanied the famous ranger Major Robert Rogers on a scouting expedition.

Howe led one of these columns, with the 55th regiment accompanied by a unit of Connecticut militia, with Major Israel Putnam as a scout and guide.

In the following month of July 1989, the then little-known John Major was unexpectedly appointed to replace Howe as Foreign Secretary, and the latter became Leader of the House of Commons, Lord President of the Council and Deputy Prime Minister.

* Alfred Howe Terry ( 1827 – 1890 )— Civil War Union Army Major General.

Lord Howe held office from 1991 to 1997 in the Conservative administrations of John Major.

A force of state and Continental units successfully combined to repulse an enemy raid on Sunbury near the states southeastern border, but a counterattack orchestrated by Major General Robert Howe of the Continental Army and Governor John Houstoun bogged down before the Patriots could reach St. Augustine.

* Jackson R., Howe N. The Greying of the Great Powers, Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2008 Major Findings

( General Hoge was the nephew of his wife's father and Eleanor Howe was the niece of her husband's mother, thus they were cousins, both grandchildren of Major Joseph Howe, who was the brother ( most likely ) or cousin of: George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe ; Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, 4th Viscount Howe ; and Sir William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe.

In March 1995, Major refused to answer the phone calls of United States President Bill Clinton for several days because of his anger at Clinton's decision to invite Gerry Adams to the White House for St Patrick's Day.

Major floods in 1935 and 1936 resulted in a number of deaths, and washed out the Ferry Street Bridge ( now the Clinton Street Bridge ).

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

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.

In 1776, Bald Head Island was briefly involved in the Revolutionary War after British Major General Henry Clinton and Lieutenant Charles Cornwallis ( later promoted to general ) used the island as a staging area for their voyage to Charleston, SC.

President Bill Clinton in the 1990s greeted Prime Minister John Major of Great Britain at a hangar at the 911th Air Wing of the Air force Reserve at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon Township.

* Three Major League Baseball players were born in Clinton ... Chick Galloway ( 1896 ), Charlie Wilson ( 1905 ), and Johnny Riddle ( 1905 ).

* Three Major League Baseball players died in Clinton ... Chick Galloway ( 1969 ), Cal Cooper ( 1994 ), and Claude Crocker ( 2002 ).

Although originally called Holly Creek after a small stream that runs through the town, it was later named Clintwood after Major Henry Clinton Wood, a Confederate officer in the 37th Virginia Infantry Regiment.

After having been initialled in Dayton, Ohio on 21 November 1995, the full and formal agreement was signed in Paris on 14 December 1995 and witnessed by French President Jacques Chirac, U. S. President Bill Clinton, UK Prime Minister John Major, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.

13 on Billboard in 1938, staying on the charts for 2 weeks, " Parade of the Milk Bottle Caps ", " Dusk in Upper Sandusky " with Larry Clinton, " Shoot the Meatballs to Me Dominick Boy " with Toots Camarata, " A Man and his Drums ", " Mutiny in the Brass Section ", " Praying the Blues ", " Contrasts ", his theme song, " Major and Minor Stomp ", " Hep-Tee Hootie ( Juke Box Jive )" with Fud Livingston and Jack Palmer, " I Bought A Wooden Whistle ", " Tailspin " with Frankie Trumbauer, the classic jazz standard " I'm Glad There Is You ( In This World of Ordinary People )", " Clarinet Polka ", " I Love You in Technicolor ", " All The Things You Ain't " with Babe Russin, " JD's Boogie Woogie ", " Jumpin ' Jehosaphat ", " I'll Do Anything For You ", " Dorsey Stomp ", " Grand Central Getaway " with Dizzy Gillespie, " Sunset Strip " and " The Champ " with Sonny Burke, " Town Hall Tonight ", " Outer Drive " with Herb Ellis, the jazz standard " It's the Dreamer in Me " with Jimmy Van Heusen, recorded by Duke Ellington and others.

* William Clinton Zepp ( born 1946 ), American pitcher in Major League Baseball whose career with Minnesota Twins and Detroit Tigers lasted from 1969 to 1971 ; best known as Bill Zepp

In mid-January, on orders from London, British Major General Henry Clinton and a small fleet set sail for the Carolinas with 1, 500 men.

Yuma AFB was renamed on 13 October 1956 as Vincent Air Force Base, the installation was named for Brigadier General Clinton D. " Casey " Vincent, one of Major General Claire Chennault's top fighter leaders in the China-Burma Theater and the second youngest General Officer in U. S. Air Force history, receiving his star at the age of 29.

Statesmen repeatedly lampooned by the series include John Major, Michael Heseltine ( who had his picture swapped with a Bosnian old woman ), Chris Patten, Douglas Hurd, Virginia Bottomley, Michael Portillo, and former American President Bill Clinton.

The Sullivan Expedition, also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, was an American campaign led by Major General John Sullivan and Brigadier General James Clinton against Loyalists (" Tories ") and the four nations of the Iroquois who had sided with the British in the American Revolutionary War.

* Philadelphia, 1780 / 81: Sir Patrick Clemens ( King title ), Lady Diana Knight ( Queen title ), Lady Grey ( Queen title ), Elizabeth Shaw-Worthington, Major General Wallace Worthington, Commander Clinton

Major events included passage of elements of the Contract with America and a budget impasse between Congress and the Clinton Administration that resulted in the Federal government shutdown of 1995 and 1996.

Major John Andre and General Sir Henry Clinton are said to have played a game called handball during the American Revolution, in " Treacherous Beauty ," a book by Mark Jacob and Stephen H. Case about the Arnold-Andre conspiracy.

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.

Republican administrations had enjoyed strong links with the Conservative governments, and the new Democratic President Bill Clinton said he intended to maintain the special relationship, avowing: ' I'm a great Anglophile ', but he and Prime Minister John Major were ' an odd couple ', who ' got off on the wrong foot '.