Mercenary-on-mercenary warfare in Italy led to relatively bloodless campaigns which relied as much on manoeuvre as on battles, since the condottieri recognized it was more efficient to attack the enemy's ability to wage war rather than his battle forces, discovering the concept of indirect warfare 500 years before Sir Basil Liddell Hart, and attempting to attack the enemy supply lines, his economy and his ability to wage war rather than risking an open battle, and manoeuvre him into a position where risking a battle would have been suicidial.

* 1976 – Sir Basil Spence, British architect ( b. 1907 )

Eisenstein proposed a biography of munitions tycoon Sir Basil Zaharoff and a film version of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw, and more fully developed plans for a film of Sutter's Gold by Jack London, but on all accounts failed to impress the studio's producers.

The campus, designed by Sir Basil Spence, is in the village of Falmer, next to its railway station, and accessed by car from the A27 road.

With Private Eye riding the satire boom, Peter Cook soon took an interest and contributed two serials recounting the bizarre adventures of Sir Basil Nardly-Strobes and the Rhandi Phurr, both of which were admirably illustrated by Rushton, as was " Mrs Wilson ‘ s Diary ".

* In his novel A Coffin for Dimitrios, Eric Ambler is claimed to have patterned Dimitrios on Sir Basil Zaharoff, although Ambler denied having first-hand knowledge of him.

( Chapter on Sir Basil Zaharoff )

* Anthony Allfrey, Man of Arms: the Life and Legend of Sir Basil Zaharoff.

* Donald McCormick, Peddler of Death: the Life and Times of Sir Basil Zaharoff.

* Dr. Richard Lewinsohn The Man Behind the Scenes: The Career of Sir Basil Zaharoff, ' The Mystery Man of Europe London, Gollancz ( 1929 )

* Dominique Venner, Le plus grand marchand d ' armes de l ' Histoire: Sir Basil Zaharoff.

* Basil Rathbone as Sir Guy of Gisbourne

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

* Professor Sir Basil Spence, architect, lived at 1 Canonbury Place

To the north of the area, is the Hyde Park Barracks of the Household Cavalry, with a distinctive 33 storey tower by Sir Basil Spence.

In 1956, Sir Basil Spence was commissioned to prepare a masterplan of the campus for the foreseeable future.

This expansion of its role continued after a brief post-war power struggle with the head of the Special Branch, Sir Basil Thomson.

Other redevelopment in the area, at Great Michael Rise and on Laverockbank Crescent, was the work of the eminent Scottish modern architect Sir Basil Spence.

In the years after the war, Sir Adrian Boult and Basil Cameron took on principal conducting duties for the Proms until the advent of Malcolm Sargent as Proms chief conductor in 1947.

During the 1920s there were concerns about the long queues of cars and lorries at the Mersey Ferry terminal so once Royal Assent to a Parliamentary Bill was received construction of the first Mersey Road Tunnel started in 1925, to a design by consulting engineer Sir Basil Mott.

Angry and frustrated, Wallis secures an interview with Sir Arthur " Bomber " Harris ( played by Basil Sydney ), the head of RAF Bomber Command, who at first is reluctant to take the idea seriously.

* Basil Sydney as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris KCB OBE AFC RAF, GOC-in-C, RAF Bomber Command

* The Rose of Persia ( music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, libretto by Basil Hood ) London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 29

At the outbreak of war he was able to work with Vernon Kell and Sir Basil Thomson of the Special Branch to arrest twenty-two German spies in England.

Dr Login received a knighthood in 1854 from Queen Victoria and was known as Sir John Spencer Login ( he had added the ' r ' to his middle name to change it from Spence to Spencer ).

The most infamous of the towers, the Queen Elizabeth Square flats designed by Sir Basil Spence, was demolished in 1993 to make way for a new generation of housing development.

It was designed by Sir Basil Spence and erected in 1959, and is notable for being the first college building on the Backs to be designed in the Modernist tradition.

Thorn House, designed by Sir Basil Spence, was at the time England ’ s tallest office block.

* Sir James Calvert Spence ( 1892 – 1954 ), nutritionist and paediatrician

Like other Modernist architects, including Sir Basil Spence and Peter and Alison Smithson, Lasdun was much influenced by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but there was a gentler, more classical influence, too, from the likes of Nicholas Hawksmoor.

In the United Kingdom, Architects associated with the Brutalist style include Ernő Goldfinger, wife-and-husband pairing Alison and Peter Smithson, Richard Seifert, Basil Spence, John Bancroft and, to a lesser extent perhaps, Sir Denys Lasdun.

* Swiss Cottage Central Library for the London Borough of Camden, designed by Sir Basil Spence.

Sir Basil Spence was responsible for designing three of these civic centres:

* May 25-The new Coventry Cathedral, designed by Basil Spence, is consecrated in England ; artworks incorporated include: the exterior sculpture St Michael's Victory over the Devil by Sir Jacob Epstein ; the tapestry Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph, designed by Graham Sutherland ; the Mater Dolorosa sculpture by John Bridgeman ; the Baptistry window by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens ; and the engraved glass Screen of Saints and Angels by John Hutton.

The college buildings are in a modernist style, having been designed by architect Sir Basil Spence and arranged in a semi-circular arrangement surrounding a central lawn.

The niches contain the statues of William Roscoe by Chantrey, Sir William Brown by Patrick MacDowell, Robert Peel by Matthew Noble, George Stephenson by John Gibson, Rev Hugh Boyd McNeile by George Gamon Adams, E. Whitley by A. Bruce Joy, S. R. Graves by G. G. Fontana, Rev Jonathan Brookes by B. E. Spence, William Ewart Gladstone by John Adams-Acton, the 14th Earl of Derby by William Theed the Younger, the 16th Earl of Derby by F. W. Pomeroy, and Joseph Mayer by Fontana.

Sievier appeared without a lawyer, while Wotton was represented by Sir Edward Carson KC, Hastings, and E. H. Spence.

Colville commissioned Sir Basil Spence to design his home at Gribloch, near Kippen, in 1939.

* Sir Basil Spence, architect

Scottish architect Sir Basil Spence provided the original conceptual design of the Beehive in 1964.

This building conceived by British architect Sir Basil Spence in 1964, largely designed by the Ministry of Works, was officially opened by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand in 1977.

While it proved unfruitful, Spence became a sailor and Kennedy joined a search for the Arctic explorer, Sir John Franklin.