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.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

* George Scott ( first baseman ), Major League Baseball player nicknamed " Boomer "

* 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.

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 –).

On 28 August 1924 Blyton married Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO ( 1888 – 1971 ), editor of the book department in the publishing firm of George Newnes, which published two of her books that year.

During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.

* Major George Ashley Wilkes: The gallant Ashley married his cousin, Melanie, because " Like must marry like or there'll be no happiness.

There were four men chiefly responsible for bringing Major League Baseball to Houston: George Kirksey and Craig Cullinan, who had led a futile attempt to purchase the St. Louis Cardinals in 1952 ; R. E.

Major was Prime Minister during the first Gulf War of 1991, and played a key role in persuading US President George H. W. Bush to support no-fly zones.

John Major with then-US President George H. W. Bush at Camp David in 1992

Reverend Major George Neal began to preach in Niagara in October 1786, and was ordained in 1810 by Bishop Philip Asbury, at the Lyons, New York Methodist Conference.

* 1962 – George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher ( b. 1889 )

Major figures in these fields include Knut Schmidt-Nielsen and George Bartholomew.

* 19-Ken Brett, 55, former Major League Baseball player, brother of George Brett.

** Major Edmund Lockyer arrives at King George Sound to take possession of the western part of Australia, establishing a settlement near Albany.

* December 25, 1826 – Major Edmund Lockyer arrives at King George Sound to take possession of the western part of Australia, establishing a settlement near Albany.

** George Brett, American Major League Baseball player

* Boies represented New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner in a suit against Major League Baseball.

To counter the French military presence in Ohio, in October 1753 Dinwiddie ordered the 21-year-old Major George Washington ( whose brother was another Ohio Company investor ) of the Virginia Regiment to warn the French to leave Virginia territory.

Major bus depots include the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 42nd Street, the George Washington Bridge Bus Station, and the Journal Square Transportation Center in Jersey City.

They had three children, Beatrice Smith ( March 19, 1911 – October 24, 1952 ), Ruth Ellen Patton Totten ( February 28, 1915 – November 25, 1993 ), who wrote The Button Box: A Loving Daughter's Memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton, and George Patton IV ( December 24, 1923 – June 27, 2004 ), who followed in his father's footsteps, attending West Point and eventually rising to the rank of Major General as an armor officer in the United States Army.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

An alternative theory, which has gained only limited acceptance among professional scholars, derives the name Arthur from Arcturus, the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, near Ursa Major or the Great Bear.

At the Supreme Command conference, General Eisenhower led the meeting, which was attended by General Patton, General Bradley, General Jacob Devers, Major General Sir Kenneth Strong, Deputy Supreme Commander Arthur Tedder, and a large number of staff officers.

The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in Australia.

Major ancestry groups reported by Lake Arthur residents include:

* Arthur Willard Davis ( born June 6, 1942 in Graceville, Minnesota ) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who played for three seasons.

Arthur Peterson, Jr. (" The Major ") played Rev.

** The Major ( Arthur Peterson, Jr .)— The father of Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell.

The persons constituted to be of that committee were Sir Henry Vane the Younger, Sir Arthur Haslerig, Lieutenant-General Fleetwood, Col. Sydenham, Major Saloway, Col. John Jones, and Endmond Ludlow.

It opened with " Strike Up The Band " by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, followed by 5 – 10 minutes of 25-word POW messages read by Major Cousens.

General Eisenhower meets in North Africa with ( foreground, left to right ): Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, and ( top row ): Mr. Harold Macmillan, Major General W. Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers.

* Heyman, Max L., Jr .: Prudent Soldier: A Biography of Major General ERS Canby, 1817-1873, Frontier Military Series III, Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1959.

Other Westerners who wrote about Sri Ramana include Arthur Osborne ( the first editor of the ashram journal, The Mountain Path ), Major Chadwick ( who ran the Veda Patasala during Ramana's time ), Ethel Merston, and S. S. Cohen.

Major P. Copland-Crawford, Vice-Consul of the Benin District, made the first attempt, Mr. Locke, the Vice-Consul Assistant, made a second one and the third one was made by Captain Arthur Maling, the Commandant of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force detachment based in Sapele.

Claud Cockburn married three times: to Hope Hale Davis, with whom he fathered Claudia Cockburn Flanders ( wife of Michael Flanders ); to Jean Ross ( part model for Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles of Cabaret fame ), with whom he fathered Sarah Caudwell Cockburn, author of detective stories ; and in 1940 to Patricia Byron ( née Patricia Evangeline Anne Arbuthnot ( 17 March 1914-6 October 1989 ), married firstly on 10 October 1933 to Arthur Cecil Byron, son of Cecil Byron, by whom she had a son Darrell Byron, who died in Ireland aged two, divorcing in 1940, daughter of Major John Bernard Arbuthnot and Olive Blake ), who wrote the book The Years of the Week and also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight, with whom he fathered Alexander, Andrew ( husband of Leslie Cockburn ), and Patrick, all three of whom are also journalists.

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.

Her godparents were: Sir Felix Brunner, 3rd Baronet ( her maternal uncle ); Major Sir Digby Lawson, 2nd Baronet ; Mrs Arthur Colegate ( her paternal aunt ); and Mrs Ronald Fife.

Groves warned General Dwight D. Eisenhower of the possibility that the Germans might disrupt the Normandy landings with radioactive poisons, and sent Major Arthur V. Peterson to brief his chief of staff, Lieutenant General Walter B. Smith.

Nominees for the 9th Grammy Awards ( 1967 ) included Julian Bream for Baroque Guitar, pianist John Browning for Prokofiev: Concert No. 1 in D Flat Major for Piano ; Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Piano ( conducted by Erich Leinsdorf with the Boston Symphony Orchestra ), pianist Raymond Lewenthal for Operatic Liszt, violinist Yehudi Menuhin for Elgar: Concerto for Violin, Ivan Moravec for Chopin: Nocturnes, Arthur Rubinstein for Rubinstein and Chopin ( featuring Frédéric Chopin's Bolero, Tarantelle, Fantaisie in F minor and Trois nouvelles études ), violinist Isaac Stern for Dvořák: Concerto in A Minor for Violin ( conducted by Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra ), and Australian classical guitarist John Williams for Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra / Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concerto in D Major for Guitar ( conducted by Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra ).

Major Sir Frederic Arthur Kelley OBE ( 6 May 1863 – 29 May 1926 ) was a British Unionist Party politician, Justice of the Peace ( JP ) for the West Riding of Yorkshire and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Rotherham from 1918 to 1923.

The Baronetcy, of Newtown in the County of Mayo, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland in 1662 for Major Arthur Gore, who represented County Mayo in the Irish House of Commons.

In 1799 the regiment took part in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in a Division commanded by Colonel Arthur Wellesley, as part of a British East India Company army, commanded by Major General Harris, with Major General Sir David Baird as second in command.