He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

* Miles Gloriosus: ( Latin for " boastful soldier ," the archetype of the braggart soldier in Roman comedies ) A captain in the Roman army to whom Marcus Lycus has promised Philia.

* Deborah the prophetess and Barak the army leader ( 4-5 ) vs. Jabin of Hazor ( a city in Canaan ) and Sisera, his captain

However, Pedro de Valdivia, captain of the army, realizing the potential for expanding the Spanish empire southward, asked Pizarro's permission to invade and conquer the southern lands.

Abijah then rallied his own troops with a phrase which has since become famous: " Jehovah ( God ) himself is with us for a captain ( commander of the army ).

Nikolaus ' Klaus ' Barbie ( 25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991 ) was an SS-Hauptsturmführer ( rank equivalent to army captain ) and Gestapo member.

Five policemen and one army captain were wounded in the battle.

In his seat was a captain from the invading army.

In 1261 he was created Cardinal Deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin by Pope Urban IV, who also appointed him papal prefect in Tuscany and captain of the papal army.

In Ancien Régime France, a nom de guerre ( a French phrase meaning " war name ") would be adopted by each new recruit ( or assigned to him by the captain of his company ) as he enlisted in the French army.

Multiplayer games generally are either " Free-For-All " ( FFA ), where each player has his own army and competes with everyone else, or " Team ," where each army is controlled by a group of players with a captain who disperses units for his teammates to control.

Along with her guardian dragon Mushu, her captain, Li Shang, a lucky cricket, " Cri-kee ," and her companions, Yao, Ling, and Chien-Po, she battles the invading Hun army.

Seeing him surrounded by the King's entourage, the rebel army was in uproar, but King Richard, seizing the opportunity, rode forth and shouted, " You shall have no captain but me ," a statement left deliberately ambiguous to defuse the situation.

* Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ( 1760 – 1836 ), army captain, author of France's national anthem, La Marseillaise.

There, he spent some time in the army of Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise, eventually obtaining rank as a captain, until moving on to Constantinople around 1034.

Abijah then rallied his own troops with a phrase which has since become famous: " Jehovah ( God ) himself is with us for a captain ( commander of the army ).

He was a captain in the army of king Pekahiah of Israel, whom he killed to become king.

Joab was the son of Zeruiah, a sister of king David, who made him captain of his army ( 2 Samuel 8: 16 ; 20: 23 ; 1 Chronicles 11: 6 ; 18: 15 ; 27: 34 ).

A Kater's pendulum is a reversible freeswinging pendulum invented by British physicist and army captain Henry Kater in 1817 for use as a gravimeter instrument to measure the local acceleration of gravity.

Defense minister Wardak confirmed that a police captain was connected with the group behind the assassination attempt and that an army officer supplied the weapons and ammunition used in the attack.

* Maximilien Morrel: Son of Pierre Morrel, an army captain who becomes a friend of Dantès.

Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, a captain in the Imperial army, submitted his " 3-line " calibre (. 30 cal, 7. 62 mm ) rifle in 1889 alongside a 3. 5-line design by Léon Nagant ( a Belgian ) and a 3-line design by captain Zinoviev.

According to the Sephardic tradition, a full 101 blasts are sounded, corresponding to the 100 cries of the mother of Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army who did not return home after being killed by the Yael ( Judges 5: 28 ).

It was just after noon and, despite the failure of the French cavalry assault, Rosenberg was aware that his beleaguered line was about to give way, with possibly catastrophic consequences for the entire Austrian army.

Marlborough later told Bishop Burnet that, ‘ the French army looked the best of any he had ever seen ’.

However, as early as March 12, 1970, the CIA Station Chief told Washington that based on communications from Sirik Matak, Lon Nol's cousin, that " the ( Cambodian ) army was ready for a coup ".

Other evidence to the language of the Cimbri is circumstantial: thus, we are told that the Romans enlisted Gaulish Celts to act as spies in the Cimbri camp prior to the final showdown with the Roman army in 101 BC.

The King and Queen were still optimistic – the Byzantine Emperor had told them that the German King Conrad had won a great victory against a Turkish army ( when in fact the German army had been massacred ), and the great troop was still eating well.

" They won't have me in the army, at any rate at present, because of my lungs ", Orwell told Geoffrey Gorer.

As the Secretary of War told Parliament in 1751, " I am for having always in our army as many Scottish soldiers as possible ... because they are generally more hardy and less mutinous ".

The British Ministry of Defence and Clarence House made a joint announcement on 22 February 2007 that Prince Harry would be deployed with his regiment to the front line in Iraq, to serve as part of the 1st Mechanised Brigade of the 3rd Mechanised Divisiona move supported by Harry, who had stated that he would leave the army if he was told to remain in safety while his regiment went to war ; he said: " There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

Lord Stafford had told the King, " Sir, you have done your duty, and your subjects have failed in theirs ; and therefore you are absolved from the rules of government, and may supply yourself by extraordinary ways ; you have an army in Ireland, with which you may reduce the kingdom.

The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, a high-ranking soldier, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army.

Menzies sent the bulk of the army to help the British in the Middle East and Singapore, and told Winston Churchill the Royal Navy should strengthen its Far Eastern forces.

Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.

The Bulgarian army arrived one day after the surrender of the city to Greece and Tahsin Pasha, ruler of the city, told the Bulgarian officials that " I have only one Thessaloniki, which I have surrendered ".

Hassan replied that his army was indeed the most powerful, and to prove he told one of his men to jump off from the top of the castle in which they were.

" He told Grant that, if he remained in the army, " some happy accident might restore you to favor and your true place.

When he joined the army he told his fellow soldiers about his special ability, and repeated it for their amusement, sucking up water from a pan into his rectum and then projecting it through his anus up to several yards.

Many units of the army also had strong objections toward the uniformly Belgian officers ; General Janssens, the army head, told them their lot would not change after independence, and they rebelled in protest.

During his reign as emperor, Caracalla raised the annual pay of an average legionary to 675 denarii and lavished many benefits on the army which he both feared and admired, as instructed by his father Septimius Severus who had told him on his deathbed to always mind the soldiers and ignore everyone else.

They were told that if they dipped their hands in a nearby lake, they had only to raise their hands to repel army bullets.

The circumstances of the retreat were disastrous, and all told, some 155, 000 Serbs, mostly soldiers, reached the coast of the Adriatic Sea, and embarked on Allied transport ships that carried the army to various Greek islands ( many to Corfu ) before being sent to Salonika.

* In 1945 when the Japanese colonel in charge of the Hue garrison told Bảo Đại that he had ( in line with the orders of the Allied commander ) taken measures ensuring the security of the Imperial Palace and those within it against a possible Việt Minh coup, Bảo Đại dismissed the protection declaring " I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

On the brink of death, David told Solomon to have Joab killed citing Joab's past betrayals and the blood that he was guilty of, and for this Solomon ordered his death by the hand of Benaiah ( 1 Kings 2: 29-34 ), who then replaced him as commander of the army.

He returned to New York, and, having pawned most of his possessions and without money, attempted to enlist at the French consulate, but was told that there was no plan to send a volunteer army from America.

In addition, he told about a major weakness in Trojan army.