Colonel Linnan was portrayed as half-European, a change which she found insulting to his Chinese lineage, and she felt her reputation damaged by the Hollywood-embellished love scenes in the film ; not only had she never kissed any man, but also the film's ending portrayed her character abandoning the orphans in order to join the colonel elsewhere even though in reality she did not retire from working with orphans until she was sixty years old.

* Joseph Trumbull ( 1737 – 1778 ), a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1774 ( did not attend sessions ), and colonel in the Continental Army.

Unlike the rest of MacArthur's headquarters, Casey, who was promoted to colonel on 19 December 1941 and brigadier general on 25 January 1942, did not relocate to Corregidor but remained on Bataan with a small staff of five officers.

Rockingham's sister Mary wrote to him from London, saying the King " did not doubt but that you was as good a colonel as he has in his army " and his other sister Charlotte wrote that " you have gained immortal honour and I have every day the satisfaction of hearing twenty handsome things said of the Blues and their Collonel ".

On July 1, 1920, Mitchell was promoted to the permanent rank of colonel, Signal Corps, but also received a recess appointment ( as did Menoher ) to become Assistant Chief of Air Service with the rank of brigadier general.

Knox did not have a commission in the army, but John Adams in particular worked in the Second Continental Congress to acquire for him a commission as colonel of the army's artillery regiment.

In any case, this did not stop his promotion to full colonel in June 1915.

Colonel Linnan was portrayed as half-European, a change which she found insulting to his Chinese lineage, and she felt her reputation damaged by the Hollywood-embellished love scenes in the film ; not only had she never kissed any man, but also the film's ending portrayed her character abandoning the orphans in order to join the colonel elsewhere even though in reality she did not retire from working with orphans until she was sixty years old.

Jackman did not serve in the military, but received the Canadian Forces Decoration in recognition of his appointment as a former honorary colonel of the Governor General's Horse Guards, a Toronto militia unit.

Nevertheless Colonel Pike and his company commanders on the eve of battle still held the Argentine commanders in low regard and did not expect them to put up much resistance. For this reason the British colonel hoped to surprise them by advancing as close to their forward platoon as possible under cover of darkness, before storming into their trenches with fixed bayonets.

During cease-fire negotiations at the Britbat HQ in Gornji Vakuf, colonel Andrić, representing the HVO, demanded that the ARBiH forces lay down their arms and accept HVO control of the town, threatening that if they did not agree he would flatten Gornji Vakuf to the ground.

William at first is indignant about being kept by his aunt, then he discovers the village she lives in isn't so dull after all ... Two elderly gentleman, a colonel and another man find themselves bickering like they did the year before, and the one before that and so on, about their prizes.

He successfully did so and received the rank of colonel for his bravery.

The assault failed though, as did a simultaneous from Basel, and he forfeited his military rank of colonel.

In 1948, Parker received the rank of colonel in the Louisiana State Militia from Jimmie Davis, the governor of Louisiana and former country singer, in return for work he did on Davis's election campaign.

The colonel lived with his wife Maggie Belle and her sister Sue, who did not trust the colonel at all.

He saw Thorneycroft's message for help but then did nothing to assure the lieutenant colonel of his nearby presence or support.

Judging the claim of not interrogating Oswald about the U-2 improbable, given Oswald's familiarity with the U-2 program, and faced with further challenges to Nosenko's credibility ( he was thought to have falsely claimed to be a lieutenant colonel, a higher rank than it was thought he held ), Angleton did not object when David Murphy, then head of the Soviet Russia Division, ordered him held in solitary confinement for approximately three-and-a-half years.

( He did receive a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel in the regular army, probably based solely on the inflated claims of his battle report, which were not substantiated by the reports of other generals.

While the honorary colonel of this usage has no actual military role, the title did evolve from the military.

However, de Boigne, who was now in his fifties, did not want to return to his former rank of colonel, under the orders of younger men.

At this point Ducrot received gravely flawed intelligence: " on the basis of reconnaissance performed by the colonel commanding the 96th regiment, he did not believe the enemy present in enough strength to attempt any serious enterprise in the immediate future.

He was made colonel of the militia and soon had a well-disciplined force of infantry and artillery .” But all did not go well for the veteran soldier.

Those who passed the vote would have their names submitted by their colonel to the Kaiser, who would approve their promotion to Leutnant.

Loudoun approved the plan before he was recalled that month, also recommending Gage to the king for promotion to full colonel.

The events of 1813 saw him recalled to the Prussian service: as a colonel he accompanied the Russian army from its base in Kalisz to Saxony.

A United States Army colonel in both World War II and the Korean War, Floyd Long recalled that his father sent him to college with $ 25 and told him, " That's all I have ; do the best you can with it ".

In 1981, Rowe was recalled to active duty as a lieutenant colonel to design and build a course based upon his experience as a POW.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

He rose to the rank of major and was later brevetted lieutenant colonel and colonel.

In December of that year, Paraguayan major ( later colonel ) Rafael Franco took matters into his own hands, led a surprise attack on the fort, and succeeded in destroying it.

In his 1870 memoir, Army Life in a Black Regiment, New England abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson ( later editor of Emily Dickinson ), described how he wrote down and preserved Negro spirituals or " shouts " while serving an a colonel in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized Union Army regiment recruited from freedmen during the Civl War ( memorialized in the 1989 film Glory ).

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

After his invention's success in battle on 30 April 1804, Shrapnel was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 20 July 1804, less than nine months later.

The phrase was coined in adverse reaction to something Murphy said when his devices failed to perform and was eventually cast into its present form prior to a press conference some months later — the first ever ( of many ) conferences given by Dr. John Stapp, a U. S. Air Force colonel and Flight Surgeon in the 1950s.

Putnam joined the Continental Army when it was organized in July 1775, was commissioned as colonel of the 3rd Connecticut Regiment, and later became brigadier of the Connecticut militia.

Steen Eiler Rasmussen was born on 19 February 1898 in Copenhagen to Lieutenant colonel and later general Christian Rasmussen and Anna Dorthea ( Dori ) Jung.

Also prominent were Mordecai Hord, a native of Louisa County and prominent early explorer, who lived on his plantation called Hordsville ; and Col. John Dillard, born in Amherst County, Virginia in 1751, wounded at the Battle of Princeton during the Revolution, and later a member of the Committee of Safety and a colonel in the Virginia forces.

He served in the Civil War on the Union side as a lieutenant colonel and later as a general ; after the war he was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served through 1869.

" The lake was later renamed in honor of Seminole Indian War colonel William Jerkins Worth.

Morgan Walker's cousin, William Stewart Walker, a United States Army soldier in World War II who later rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, grew up north of Dodson in the Wyatt community in Jackson Parish.

After a brief stint as a smuggler in Northern Italy ( his knowledge of the road networks would later prove useful ), he rejoined the army in 1791 and was made an officer, rising to the rank of colonel by 1792.

Crown Prince George served as a colonel, and later a major general in the war against Turkey.

Banzer was promoted to colonel in 1961, and appointed three years later to head the Ministry of Education and Culture in the government of General René Barrientos, a personal friend.

Private Mirabeau B. Lamar, from Georgia ( a future President of the Republic of Texas ), performed so bravely, first saving Thomas J. Rusk and later Walter Lane ( with help from Henry Karnes ), he was promoted to colonel and placed in command of the cavalry.

He was later promoted to the rank of colonel and transferred to the Department of the Navy in Washington, DC.

Backed by the CIA and the Programs Evaluation Office, Phoumi, then a colonel, became a cabinet minister in the right-wing government of the Kingdom of Laos in February 1959 and a general several months later.

He was given the rank of colonel and temporary brigadier three days later.