* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1797 – Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.

* Payne-Gallwey, Ralph, Sir, The Crossbow: Mediaeval and Modern, Military and Sporting ; its Construction, History & Management with a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and An Appendix on the Catapult, Balista & the Turkish Bow, New York: Bramhall House, 1958.

* The Crossbow by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, BT

* Sir John in Love, 1924 – 1928, an opera by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

* 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.

He left one daughter and sole-heiress Grace de Tracy who married John de Sudeley, They had two children: Ralph de Sudeley ( d. 1192 ), the eldest, who became his father's heir, and Sir William II " de Tracy " ( d. post 1172 ), who inherited his mother's barony of Bradninch and assumed her family name in lieu of his patronymic.

It opened at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson, Coral Browne, Stanley Baxter, and Hayward Morse.

Famed psycho-anatomist Ralph Greenson and Sir Peter Scott were good friends.

Sir Ralph Abercromby ( sometimes spelt Abercrombie ) ( 7 October 1734 – 28 March 1801 ) was a Scottish soldier and politician.

After holding for a short period the office of commander-in-chief in Scotland, Sir Ralph, when the enterprise against the Dutch Batavian Republic was resolved upon in 1799, was again called to command under the Duke of York.

Death of Gen Sir Ralph Abercrombie by Sir Robert Ker Porter.

A public house in central Manchester, the ' Sir Ralph Abercrombie ', is named after him.

* Encyclopaedia Britannica, Sir Ralph Abercromby

Spanish rule over the island, which nominally began in 1498, ended when the final Spanish Royal Governor, Don José Maria Chacón surrendered the island to a British fleet of 18 warships under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on 18 February 1797.

* Sir Ralph Stevenson, 1936 – 39

He once recalled that when Sir Ralph Richardson " wanted the low-down on Pozzo, his home address and curriculum vitae, and seemed to make the forthcoming of this and similar information the condition of his condescending to illustrate the part of Vladimir ...

He was head of the Durham Militia band 1760 – 61 and visited the home of Sir Ralph Milbanke at Halnaby Hall in 1760, where he wrote two symphonies, as well as giving performances himself.

* March 21 – Second Battle of Abukir in Egypt: British troops defeat the French, but the British commander, Sir Ralph Abercromby, dies later of a wound received in the action.

* February 18 – Spanish Governor José Maria Chacón peacefully surrenders the colony of Trinidad to a British naval force commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby.

* April 17 – Sir Ralph Abercromby unsuccessfully invades San Juan, Puerto Rico in what will be one of the largest British attacks on Spanish territories in the western hemisphere, and one of the worst defeats of the English navy for years to come.

* Peace – Sir Norman Angell ( Ralph Lane )

Sir John Abercromby ( 1772 – 1817 )

* August 30 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: Vlieter Incident: A squadron of the Batavian Republic's navy, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, surrenders to the British Royal Navy under Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell near Wieringen without joining action.

* October 7 – Sir Ralph Abercromby, British general ( d. 1801 )

Near Abū Qīr, on 8 March 1801, units of the British army commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby landed from their transports in the face of a strenuous opposition from a French force entrenched on the beach.

When Sir Ralph Abercromby communicated in 1796 that he was transferring 4, 000 prisoners from the West Indies, the Board began the search for a site for a new prison.

In 1799 the 49th was assigned to the Helder Expedition against the Batavian Republic ( now known as the Netherlands ), to be led by Sir Ralph Abercromby.

The left column, commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby, consisted of:

Sir Ralph Abercromby

Contrary to all reasonable expectations, the force under Sir Ralph Abercromby took no direct part in this action ; consequently the allied troops engaged amounted to no more than between 15, 000 to 18, 000 men.

The corps under Sir Ralph Abercromby began their march on the evening of 18 September, but his advance was delayed by the bad state of the roads, and he arrived at Hoorn many hours later than was expected.

Sir Ralph Abercromby had equally well accomplished his task by capturing the town of Hoorn, on the coast of the Zuiderzee, and placing himself in a favourable position for completing the turning movement.

Friction between Moore and the new British viceroy of Corsica led to his recall and posting to the West Indies under Sir Ralph Abercromby.

Sir Ralph Abercromby was here engaged in personal conflict with some French dragoons, and about this time received a mortal wound, though he remained on the field and in command to the end.

For example, His Eminence Sir Norman Cardinal Gilroy did receive the accolade on his appointment as Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1969.

This multi-volume work was taken chiefly from the papers of Lord Macartney and from the papers of Sir Erasmus Gower, who was Commander of the expedition.

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.

In 1997 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE )-though since he is an ordained priest in the Church of England it is technically incorrect to call him " Sir John Polkinghorne ".

* In 1965, while he was still an American citizen, Menuhin was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which entitled him to use the postnominal letters KBE, but not to style himself Sir Yehudi.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours, and in the 2000 New Year Honours he was knighted as Sir Maurice Micklewhite CBE.

The Allied Naval Commander of the Expeditionary Force would be Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham ; his deputy was Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, who would plan the ground effort.

Gort had ordered Sir Ronald Adam, 3rd Corps Commander, and French General Falgade, to prepare a perimeter defence of Dunkirk.

* Commander Sir George Mouat Keith Baronet., R. N.

Sir Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, begins investigating the crime, originally suspecting both a Klatchian named 71-Hour Ahmed and a senior Morporkian peer, Lord Rust, of being involved.

New Zealanders in the RAF itself included pilots, such as the first RAF ace of the war, Flying Officer Cobber Kain, Alan Deere ( whose book Nine Lives was one of the first post war accounts of combat ) and leaders such as the World War I ace, Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, who commanded No. 11 Group RAF in the Battle of Britain and went on to the air defence of Malta and, in the closing stages of the war, Commonwealth air units under South East Asia Command, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham Air Tactical Commander of D-Day.

In December 1944, following the death of Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Wilson was relieved as Supreme Commander, promoted field marshal and sent to Washington to be Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission, a post he took up in January 1945.

The new Allied Supreme Commander, Mediterranean Theatre was British General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, replacing American General Dwight Eisenhower who had moved to command the forces preparing for Operation Overlord, the Normandy landings.

) President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara tried to resist Speight's takeover, but was abruptly removed himself on 29 May by Commodore Frank Bainimarama, the Commander of the Military who subsequently abrogated the constitution, made himself Prime Minister and swore in his own President, Ratu Epeli Nailatikau ( Ratu Jope Seniloli's cousin ).

The Joint Commander Gulf Forces ( based in the United Kingdom at RAF High Wycombe ) was Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick Hine 1 October 1990 — 31 March 1991, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon from 31 March 1991.

The Commander British Forces Middle East, the in-theatre commander ( based in Riyadh ), was initially Air Vice Marshal Andrew Wilson ( September — October 1990 ), then Lieutenant-General Sir Peter de la Billière 6 October 1990 — March 1991, and Air Commodore Ian Macfadyen from March 1991.

*-Despatch by Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick Hine GCB ADC FRAES CBIM RAF Joint Commander of Operation Granby

His actions there were rewarded in March 1915 with appointment to the Order of St. Michael and St. George as a Knight Commander, the second highest level in the order, and which entitled Byng to the honorific prefix of Sir.

The Nigeria's 1963 Republican Constitution which was an amendment of the 1960 Independent Constitution has the following words: “ Nnamdi Azikiwe shall be deemed to have been elected President and Commander in-Chief of the Armed Forces ,” as submitted by then Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa who posited that, “ Nigeria can never adequately reward Dr. Azikiwe ” for his nationalism.

He sat for artists such as Sir William Rothenstein, who painted Don Roberto as The Fencer ; Sir John Lavery whose famous Don Roberto: Commander for the King of Aragon in the Two Sicilies for many years graced the cover of the Penguin Books edition of Conrad's Nostromo and whose equestrian portrait of Don Roberto on his favourite horse Pampa ; G. P. Jacomb-Hood who painted his official portrait on entering parliament, who along with Whistler were personal friends.