The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.

In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

The terms are fairly safe to use on this side of the ocean, but before you start spouting them to your date, it might be best to find out if he was a member of Major Pockmanster's Delhi Regiment, since resentment toward the natives was reportedly very high in that outfit.

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.

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

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.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

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.

Vipsania Marcella was Agrippa ’ s second child from his second marriage to Augustus ’ first niece and the paternal cousin of Julia the Elder, Claudia Marcella Major.

Through his mother Antonia Major, Domitius was a great nephew of Augustus, first cousin to Claudius, and second cousin to Agrippina and Caligula.

Antonia Major was the elder sister to Antonia Minor, and the first daughter of Octavia Minor and Mark Antony.

In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.

The current standard of 130 at bats, 50 innings pitched or 45 days on the active roster of a Major League club ( excluding time in military service or on the disabled list ) before September 1 was adopted in 1971.

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 –).

The game's innovation was that " owners " in a Rotisserie league would draft teams from the list of active Major League Baseball players and would follow their statistics during the ongoing season to compile their scores.

Major won by 218 votes to Redwood's 89 ( with 12 spoiled ballots, eight ' active ' abstentions and two MPs abstaining ), enough to win in the first round, but only three more than the target he had privately set himself.

Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories ( now led by John Major ) for the fourth election in succession, but remained politically active.

* Henning von Tresckow ( 1901 – 1944 ), Major General in the German Wehrmacht, active in the military resistance

Clemente's # 21 remains active in Major League Baseball, and is worn by multiple players.

He was the final active player from the 1960s to retire from Major League Baseball, outlasting Carlton Fisk ( the final active position player ) by three months.

New York – Penn League teams may have no more than 3 players on their active lists that have 4 or more years of prior combined Major League / Minor League service, with the exception of position players changing roles to become a pitcher or a pitcher changing into a position player.

* Bruce Dostal ( born 1965 ), former professional baseball player who spent four games on active roster of the Baltimore Orioles in June 1994, but never played in a Major League game.

They also backfill active duty units for Major Theater War contingencies and provide units for Stabilization Force rotations in Bosnia.

* General MacArthur should be called to active duty as a Major General and assigned as commander of Army Forces in the Far East ;

Among active players, male or female, she holds the most Major titles amid singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.

In 1792 Anthony Wayne, a renowned hero of the American Revolutionary War, was encouraged to leave retirement and return to active service as Commander-in-Chief of the Legion with the rank of Major General.

Soyuz 3 was Beregovoy's only spaceflight and soon after it he retired from active duty, having been promoted to Major General.

In 1755, he was promoted to Major General and returned to active service to oversee ordnance.

The Tampa Bay Mutiny was a charter franchise of Major League Soccer active from 1996-2001.

A protégé of Lord Roberts, he was seconded to the staff in 1895, and in 1897, he became Brigade Major of the 3rd Brigade at Aldershot, and from 1899 to 1901 he saw active service during the Second Boer War with the 4th ( Light ) Brigade ( as a Brigade Major ) before becoming Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General and assistant military secretary to Lord Roberts and was Mentioned in Despatches, awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and was recommended for brevet promotion to lieutenant-colonel on attaining a substantive majority.

After his retirement as Foreign Secretary, he remained a key supporter of John Major, and kept a range of active political involvements as well as taking on some business appointments, most notably as a Deputy Chairman of NatWest Markets and a Board Director of NatWest Group, posts he held from October 1995 until 1999.

After appointment to Major of the reserve in 2005, the Prince remains active in the defence reserve.

Communist agents active within Fu's inner circle included Fu's own daughter, Fu Dongju ( 傅冬菊 ), and Fu's most trusted personal secretary, Major General Yan Youwen ( 閻又文 ), who was from the same hometown as Fu, Ronghe, in Yuncheng.

Only 25 of the players on a Major League Baseball team's 40-man major league reserve list may be active for the major league club, except from September 1 to the end of the regular season when teams are allowed to expand their game-day rosters to 40 players.

Young Jackson Refusing to Clean Major Coffin's Boots ( 1876 lithography | lithograph ).

Randy Johnson was awarded with his fourth consecutive Cy Young Award as well the Major League Baseball Triple Crown.

The Cy Young Award is an honor given annually in baseball to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball ( MLB ), one each for the American League ( AL ) and National League ( NL ).

Denton True " Cy " Young ( March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955 ) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher.

Young compiled 511 wins, which is most in Major League history and 94 ahead of Walter Johnson who is second on the list.

Major joined the Young Conservatives in Brixton at this time.

The season was highlighted by starter Zack Greinke, who did not allow an earned run in the first 24 innings of the season, went on to finish the year with a Major League-leading 2. 16 earned run average, and won the American League Cy Young award.

Major advances in the decoding were: recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text ( 1799 ); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names ( 1802 ); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic ( Thomas Young, 1814 ); and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words ( Champollion, 1822 – 1824 ).

* July 3 – Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire: Major Ahmed Niyazi, with 200 followers ( Ottoman troops and civilians ), begins an open revolution by defecting from the 3rd Army Corps in Macedonia, decamping into the hill country.

* Éric Gagné, former three-time All-Star Major League Baseball closer and 2003 NL Cy Young Award winner, begins his MLB-record streak of 84 consective games saved.

With the death of Captain Francis Fowke, Royal Engineers the next architect to work at the museum was Colonel ( later Major General ) Henry Young Darracott Scott, also of the Royal Engineers.

* Matt Young, former American Major League baseball player

* Mike Marshall ( baseball pitcher ), Major League Baseball pitcher who won the 1974 Cy Young Award

That year, Valenzuela became the only player in Major League history to win the Rookie of the Year award and the Cy Young Award in the same season, adding the Silver Slugger Award and World Series championship for good measure.

Major criminal gangs that were founded in Detroit and dominated the drug trade at various times included The Errol Flynns ( east side ), Nasty Flynns ( later the NF Bangers ) and Black Killers and the drug consortiums of the 1980s such as Young Boys Inc., Pony Down, Best Friends, Black Mafia Family and the Chambers Brothers.

Young Marquis de Lafayette in a uniform of Major General of the Continental Army.

Young also has been a director of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, and also is the chairman of the board for the Global Initiative for the Advancement of Nutritional Therapy.

: Nominee: Second Best Young Actress in a Major Motion Picture-Kristy McNichol

A 2007 Avalanche was given away to the Most Valuable Player of the 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Michael Young.

The Iowa Oaks hosted many future Major League Baseball stars such as sluggers Bill McNulty, Harold Baines, Pat Tabler, and 1971 Cy Young and MVP Award winning left-handed pitcher Vida Blue.

The perfect game made him the fifth pitcher in Major League history ( after Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Nolan Ryan, and Hideo Nomo ) to pitch a no-hitter in both leagues.

Although the game does not use any real Major League Baseball teams, one of the default teams, the American Dreams, included players with names that are based on real ( former ) baseball players such as " Pete " ( Pete Rose ), " Hank " ( Hank Aaron ), " Babe " ( Babe Ruth ), " Sandie " ( Sandy Koufax ), " Cy " ( Cy Young ), " Denny " ( Denny McLain ), and " Willie " ( Willie Mays ).

Young served as a Councillor for the London Borough of Lambeth from 1968 to 1971, alongside his wife and John Major.

When John Major became Prime Minister in November 1990, he gave Young to the role of Minister for Housing and Planning.