He became convinced that Melas would not attack, and further, that the Austrian was about to retreat.

The kidnapper replied that he would make it up to Melas, but also threatened him with unspecified retribution should the evening ’ s business ever be made public.

The man not only answered Latimer that he would never sign these papers, but he also answered Melas that his name was Paul Kratides, that he had been in London for three weeks, that he had no idea what house he was in, and that his captors at the house were starving him.

Instead, he advanced on Milan, to improve his lines of communication ( via the Simplon and St Gotthard passes ) and to threaten Melas's lines of communication with Mantua and Vienna, in the belief that this would cause Melas to raise the siege of Genoa.

Nonetheless, by abandoning the San Giuliano plain, where the superior Austrian cavalry could have given him an edge, Melas probably made a serious mistake.

They have the right to lead the procession at Kumbh Melas.

After the necessary legal procedures for securing a warrant have been completed, the group proceeds to Beckenham only to discover that the house, which indeed turns out to be as Melas has described, has been abandoned.

Thessaloniki was also home to a military camp-converted-concentration camp, known in German as " Konzentrationslager Pavlo Mela " ( Pavlos Melas Concentration Camp ), where members of the resistance and other non-favourable people towards the German occupation from all over Greece were held either to be killed or sent to concentration camps elsewhere in Europe.

* Argus, Phrontis, Melas and Cytissorus, sons of Phrixus and Chalciope, joined the crew only after being rescued by the Argonauts: the four had been stranded on a desert island not far from Colchis, from where they initially sailed with an intent to reach their father's homeland.

The fact is that when Melas and Arevanias came there from Argos and Troezen and founded a colony together, they drove out the Carians and Lelegans who were barbarians.

He also had several sons, namely Melas, Talus, Maron, Euanthes, Salagus and Athamas, who all sailed with him to Chios from Crete.

Melas also committed a serious tactical blunder, detaching Generalmajor ( GM ) Nimptsch's brigade of 2, 300 hussars and two artillery batteries back over the Bormida bridge to block the corps of General Louis Gabriel Suchet, which was mistakenly reported around 9 am from Acqui Terme to be approaching Alessandria from the south.

It took Bonaparte ( 5 kilometers away from Marengo ) until about 10 am to recognize that the Austrian activity was not a diversionary attack to cover the anticipated retreat by Melas.

His father was a merchant, originally from Veria ( then under Ottoman rule, now in Macedonia ( Greece )) and his mother, Smaragda, was a member of the rich Melas family.

Melas was ushered back into the coach for another interminable ride and was deposited far from his home on Wandsworth Common.

He therefore advanced from Stradella towards Alessandria, where Melas was, apparently doing nothing.

* Photographs from the website of the Hellenic army academy including one of Melas with his family

Melas, who resumed command of Coalition forces in Italy, now almost exclusively Austrian, paused the offensive and consolidated his forces, now that the Russians had been removed from Italy.

Lysimachia () was an important Hellenistic Greek town on the north-western extremity of the Thracian Chersonese ( the modern Gallipoli peninsula ) in the neck where the peninsula joins the mainland in what is now the European part of Turkey, not far from the bay of Melas ( the modern Gulf of Saros ).

* Chalciope, daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, sister of Medea and wife of Phrixus, by whom she had four sons: Argus, Phrontis, Melas and Cytisorus ( some authors add Presbon ).

After cutting Melas ’ s line of communications by crossing the river Po and defeating Feldmarschallleutnant ( FML ) Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz at Montebello on 9 June, the French closed in on the Austrian army, which had massed in Alessandria.

Melas, trapped in Alessandria with his hopes of breaking through the east shattered, sent the same evening to Vienna a message in which he explained that the " charge of Kellermann had broken the soldiers and this sudden and terrible change of fortunes finished by smashing the courage of the troops.

In 1876, in the wake of the economic crisis that had started in 1873, and in order not to lose the profits of their work, Vikelas and his uncles dissolved their business ( now called " Melas Bros-D. Vikelas ").

While Latimer and his giggling companion had Melas translate demands that this man sign some papers, Melas added his own short questions to the dialogue.

* about 100, 000 men in Northern Italy under Michael von Melas defending the Austrian possessions in Northern Italy, and the Po valley, which Napoleon had used as a backdoor to Vienna in his previous Italian campaigns

Melas attacked first, and by the third week in April had advanced to the Var, with Massena and half his army in Genoa besieged by land by the Austrians and under tight blockade by the Royal Navy.

However, Melas had not raised the siege of Genoa, and on 4 June, Massena had duly capitulated.

Napoleon was effectively defeated in a tough battle in the morning and early afternoon ; Melas, thinking he had already won, had turned over delivery of the coup de grace to a subordinate, when the prompt return of a detached French force under Desaix and a vigorous French counter-attack ( in the course of which Desaix was killed ) converted the battle into an important French victory.

While coaching one of his clients, Albert Brennaman ( Kevin James ), who is smitten with a client of his investment firm, celebrity Allegra Cole ( Amber Valletta ), Hitch finds himself falling for Sara Melas ( Eva Mendes ), a gossip columnist who is determined to unmask and ruin the so-called " date doctor " after one of his " clients " had a one-night stand with her best friend.

Melas had some 100, 000 men under his command, opposed by just 50, 000 French troops who were thoroughly dispersed.

Melas was sly enough to observe that his kidnappers were utterly ignorant of Greek, and used this to find out some information.

The municipalities that are included in the Thessaloniki Urban Area are those of Thessaloniki ( the city center and largest in population size ), Kalamaria, Neapoli-Sykies, Pavlos Melas, Kordelio-Evosmos, Ampelokipoi-Menemeni, and the municipal unit of Pylaia, part of the municipality of Pylaia-Chortiatis.

The great names of this school are Theodorus and Rhoecus of Samos ; Bathycles of Magnesia on the Maeander ; Glaucus of Chios, Melas, Micciades, Archermus, Bupalus and Athenis of Chios.

* A son of Parthaon, king of Calydon in Aetolia, and Euryte ; he was the brother of Oeneus ( who succeeded his father as king of Calydon ), Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus, and Sterope.

In Greek mythology, Porthaon (), sometimes referred to as Parthaon or Portheus, was the king of Calydon, husband of Euryte and father of Oeneus, Agrius, Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus and Sterope, also of the Argonaut Laocoön by an unnamed female servant, or by Euryte too.

* Eumedes, son of Melas.

# Euryalus was one of the eight sons of Melas, who plotted against their uncle Oeneus and were slain by Tydeus.

Licymnius married Perimede, daughter of Alcaeus and sister of Amphitryon, and became the father of Melas, Argius and Oeonus.

Salem at one time was called Melas.

Melas renewed the main assault and the Austrians broke the central French position.

Melas split his army into three corps facing the Bormida, in front of Alessandria.

alt = Half-length portrait of General Melas dressed in a white Austrian general's uniform with a decoration on his chest.

Melas has white hair and keeps his right hand on his belt and his left one on a table, while looking to the right.

The Austrian centre ( about 18, 000 under Melas ) advanced towards Marengo until halted by GdD Gardanne's French infantry deployed in front of the Fontanone stream.

First, at 8 am, Melas hurled FML Karl Joseph Hadik von Futak's division ( four battalions ) at Victor's defences, supported by Frimont ’ s advance guard battery along the stream.

The Marengo farm garrison was abandoned and at around 2: 30 pm Melas led two cavalry squadrons to capture them.

Melas, who was slightly wounded, and 71, handed over command to his chief-of-staff, General Anton von Zach, and Kaim.