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Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??
Together with Mark Antony and Marcus Lepidus, he formed the Second Triumvirate to defeat the assassins of Caesar.
* In 27 BC, following his defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, the Roman Senate voted him new titles, officially becoming Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus.
Mark Antony later charged that Octavian had earned his adoption by Caesar through sexual favours, though Suetonius, in his work Lives of the Twelve Caesars, describes Antony's accusation as political slander.
A later senatorial investigation into the disappearance of the public funds made no action against Octavian, since he subsequently used that money to raise troops against the Senate's arch enemy, Mark Antony.
Antonia Minor was the second daughter born to Octavia Minor and triumvir Mark Antony, hence Antonia ’ s maternal uncle was Augustus.
Antonia Minor was a daughter to Octavia the Younger by her second marriage to triumvir Mark Antony, and Octavia was the second eldest sister and full-blooded sister of Augustus.
Antonia Major was the elder sister to Antonia Minor, and the first daughter of Octavia Minor and Mark Antony.
Actium is chiefly famous as the site of Octavian's decisive victory over Mark Antony ( September 2, 31 BC ).
* 43 BC – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is wounded.
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed.
In 61 BC, the notoriously oppressive and militarily incompetent proconsul of Macedonia, Gaius Antonius, nicknamed Hybrida (" The Monster ", an uncle of the famous Mark Antony ) led an army against the Greek cities.
It was a naval engagement fought between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII.
That occurred when Mark Antony, the other most influential member of the Triumvirate, abandoned his wife, Octavian's sister Octavia Minor, and moved to Egypt to start a long-term romance with Cleopatra, thus becoming de facto stepfather to Caesarion.
Mark Antony had been the most important and most successful senior officer in Julius Caesar's army ( magister equitum ) and, thanks to his military record, could claim a substantial share of the political support of Caesar's soldiers and veterans.
Both Octavian and Mark Antony had fought against their common enemies in the civil war that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar.
After years of loyal cooperation with Octavian, Mark Antony started to act independently, eventually raising the suspicion that he was vying to become the sole master of Rome.
In fact, according to a widespread belief, Mark Antony had once offered a crown to Julius Caesar.
Mark Antony transferred to a smaller vessel with his flag and managed to escape, taking a few ships with him as an escort to help break through Octavian's lines.
After Mark Antony lost his fleet, his army, which had been equal to that of Octavian, deserted in large numbers.
Mark Antony then tried to flee from the battle, and as a result of a communication breakdown, came to believe that Cleopatra had been captured, and hence committed suicide.
* Military Heritage published a feature about the Battle of Actium, involving Mark Antony, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus aka.
His maternal grandparents were Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, Augustus ' sister, and therefore the great-great grandnephew of Gaius Julius Caesar.
Cleopatra VII ( 69 – 30 BC ) was the last pharaoh of Egypt, famed lover of Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

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Once free, he was a key part of an effort to forge stronger ties between the UDA / UFF and the LVF, a small breakaway faction of the UVF founded in 1996 by the charismatic Billy Wright and following his killing, commanded by Mark " Swinger " Fulton, with whom Adair was on good terms.
The 28th Bomb Wing is commanded by Colonel Mark Weatherington.
When Jesus sent forth messengers to proclaim his gospel, he commanded them to preach repentance ( Luke 24: 47 ; Mark 6: 12 ).
The U. S. Fifth Army was commanded by Lieutenant-General Mark W. Clark and consisted of U. S., French and British units.
" Decretum de Canonicis Scripturis ," issued in 1846 at the fourth session of the Council, affirms that Jesus commanded that the gospel was to be preached by His apostles to every creature — a statement clearly based on Mark 16: 15.
After the death of the dictator, he joined Mark Antony, for whom he commanded eleven legions in the north of Italy.
The marriages of Fulvia, who commanded troops during the last civil war of the Republic and who was the first Roman woman to have her face on a coin, are thought to indicate her own political sympathies and ambitions: she was married first to the popularist champion Clodius Pulcher, who was murdered in the street after a long feud with Cicero ; then to Scribonius Curio, a figure of less ideological certitude who at the time of his death had come over to Julius Caesar ; and finally to Mark Antony, the last opponent to the republican oligarchs and to Rome's future first emperor.
It was fought by an army of the Roman Republic commanded by Julius Caesar, aided by cavalry commanders Mark Antony, Titus Labienus and Gaius Trebonius, against a confederation of Gallic tribes united under the leadership of Vercingetorix of the Arverni.
Other notable holders of such victory titles include Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, who was replaced by Gaius Marius in command-in-chief of the Jugurthine War ; Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, who commanded Roman anti-pirate operations in the eastern Mediterranean ( and was father of Julius Caesar's colleague in his second consulate, Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus in 48 BC ), and Marcus Antonius Creticus, another anti-piratical commander ( and father of Caesar's master of the horse, Mark Antony of Egyptian fame ).
4 AF is commanded by Maj Gen Mark A. Kyle.
The eldest of the brothers, Lord Mark Kerr, later the fourth Marquess of Lothian, commanded three squadrons of Government cavalry at the Battle of Culloden and survived to serve under the Duke of Cumberland in France in 1758.
The 45th Division would be one of eight divisions under Major General Ernest Dawley's VI Corps, within Fifth Army commanded by Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark.
Just as little, there was no passion to make the bomb ..." In a recent report based on additional documents from Russian archives, historian Mark Walker concludes that " in comparison with Diebner Gerlach ... Heisenberg and finally Weizsäcker did obviously not use all power they commanded to provide the National Socialists with nuclear weapons ".
Astronaut Mark Polansky was originally slated to pilot this mission, but was moved to STS-116, which he commanded.
Scarpus became an ally to Mark Antony and commanded for him in the war against the murderers of Caesar, Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.
In the same year, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of Lord Mark Kerr's Regiment of Dragoons, and commanded the cavalry on the left wing at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
He commanded a four-gun battery called the Rockbridge Artillery, naming his guns " Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John " after the Gospel writers.

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