He had thought that the suggestion of taking it himself would tip the colonel in the direction of serving his own order, but the slip of paper was folded and absently thrust into the colonel's belt.

Despite his yearning, the colonel would not go down to see the men come through the lines.

Gauntlett turned down the role of a KGB colonel in the film, however: " I would have loved to have done it but really could not afford the time.

The Libyan leader stated that he would accept the honour as an expression of gratitude from his compatriots but would retain the title of colonel because it had become an accepted and traditional part of his name.

Usually, the Kommodore would hold the rank of Oberstleutnant ( lieutenant colonel ) or, exceptionally, an Oberst ( colonel ).

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.

During his career, White would log more than 3, 000 flight hours with the Air Force, including about 2, 200 hours in jets, and would ultimately attain the rank of lieutenant colonel.

On 8 July 1788 he became colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards and on 30 August 1788 he was created Baron Amherst of Montreal with a special provision that would allow this title to pass to his nephew ( as Amherst was childless, the Holmesdale title became extinct upon his death ).

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.

Pennsylvania, with a quota of 260 men, had the power to nominate a lieutenant colonel, who would be the senior officer.

The command would be based on the 18th-century military works of Henry Bouquet, a professional Swiss soldier who served as a colonel in the British army, and French Marshal Maurice de Saxe.

When foreign heads of state would not grant him an audience, as he was only a private citizen, he persuaded the governor of the state of Connecticut make him a lieutenant colonel and aide-de-camp in the state militia.

In 1942, the COI became the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) and Donovan was returned to active duty in his World War I rank of colonel ( by war's end, he would be promoted to major general ).

Known as the " rule of the colonels ", this term referred to the classic boss system under which the control of patronage was centralized in the hands of a locally dominant oligarch known as a " colonel ", particularly under Brazil's Old Republic, who would dispense favors in return for loyalty.

George III decided that his second son would pursue an army career and had him gazetted colonel on 4 November 1780.

He convinced Rensselaer Van Rensselaer ( nephew of Stephen Van Rensselaer III, an American colonel during the War of 1812 ) to join in a scheme whereby volunteers would invade Upper Canada from Navy Island in the Niagara River.

Giuliano entered the armed branch of the movement, EVIS ( Esercito Volontario per l ' Indipendenza della Sicilia, Volunteer Army for the Independence of Sicily ), as a colonel and was promised that in the event of a separatist victory, he would be pardoned for his crimes and appointed to some position in the newly independent state.

Below major units like armies, soldiers were organized mainly into regiments, the main fighting unit with which a soldier would march and be deployed with, commanded by a colonel, lieutenant colonel, or possibly a major.

" While a colonel, Tesfaye was a member of the Derg, the military committee which seized power from Emperor Haile Selassie, and which would later order the executions of his officials and allegedly the murder of the deposed Emperor himself.

The colonel reported that Schörner had ordered his operational command to observe the surrender, but he could not guarantee that he would be obeyed everywhere.

Other senior officer ranks, such as major, colonel and general, are army-style and may often be reserved for members of the Tal Shiar.

The aspects that an administrative regiment might have in common include a symbolic colonel-in-chief ( often a member of the royal family ), a colonel of the regiment or " honorary colonel " who protects the traditions and interests of the regimental family and insists on the maintenance of high standards, battle honours ( honours earned by one unit of an administrative regiment are credited to the regiment ), ceremonial uniforms, cap badges, peculiarities of insignia, stable belts, and regimental marches and songs.

The exact details of the plot may remain a mystery, but a French colonel named Jean-Claude Mantion served as the head of Kolingba's presidential guard for many years thereafter and was so powerful that he was often referred to in the CAR as " the president's president.

British Army regiments typically have an honorary " colonel ", often a member of the Royal Family or a prominent retired military officer with connections to the regiment, who functions as a kind of patron or guardian of the regiment's interests in high government circles.

Congreve was awarded the honorary rank of Lieutenant colonel in 1811 and was often referred to as " Colonel Congreve.

Napoleon is often represented in his green colonel uniform of the Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale | Chasseur à Cheval, with a large bicorne and a hand-in-waistcoat gesture.

The title " Kentucky colonel " was first formalized in 1813, but was in informal use before that to refer to people with honored reputations, often related to military service in the American Revolution.

The Colonel is also often a shorthand reference to Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC, who was an honorary Kentucky colonel.

Polkovnik (,,, Czech: plukovník ; literally " regimentary ") is often a military rank in Slavic countries which corresponds to a colonel in English-speaking states.

He called himself a colonel of Zaporozhian Sich although the people often called him an Otaman.

* Taft served as a colonel in the Texas Air National Guard, and he was often referred to as " Colonel Taft " on the air, especially through the 1970s.

The colonel grunted, then made a remark which might be construed in either of two ways.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

:" No ," said his military friend, " my colonel does not live here — but my comrade does, and he's worth two of the colonel, so by God, doctor, if you don't do your best for him, it will be the worst for you!

Just as the dialogue is getting " too silly ", Graham Chapman's no-nonsense colonel bursts in and orders the sketch to be stopped.

In 1848 Robert E. Lee, then a lieutenant colonel in the U. S. army, recommended that Mullet Key be used for coastal defense in Florida.

Because he tended to be blunt and tactless, he never rose above the rank of colonel.

Platov's aide was lucky enough to encounter colonel von Toll, an enterprising member of Kutuzov's staff, who suggested that General Uvarov's Ist Cavalry Corps be added to the operation and at once volunteered to present the plan to the commander-in-chief.

A former colonel with the British Army in India, Forbes proved to be a jealous and suspicious tyrant who ruled the household with an iron fist.

Historically, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a full-strength regiment was typically supposed to be a thousand men, and was commanded by a colonel.

In an unpublished page drawn by Hergé for this book, a bust of Kûrvi-Tasch can even be seen in the office of a San Theodorean colonel.

Thomas was promoted in rapid succession to be lieutenant colonel ( on April 25, 1861, replacing Robert E. Lee ) and colonel ( May 3, replacing Albert Sidney Johnston ) in the regular army, and brigadier general of volunteers ( August 17 ).

The entirety of the castle complex was slated to be demolished by government policy, but it was spared by the efforts of Nakamura Shigeto, an Army colonel.

By the end of the war he received a promotion to colonel, the Distinguished Service Cross and two Purple Hearts ( the full text of his Medal of Honor citation can be found further below ).

Until 1788 a rank of brigadier des armées (" brigadier of the armies "), which could be described as a senior colonel or junior brigade commander, was used in the French Army.

Until 1793, a rank of brigadier des armées (" brigadier of the armies ") existed in the French Army, which could be described as a senior colonel or junior brigade commander.

At the end of the war he was made a brevet lieutenant colonel, but despite this he continued to be referred to as " Major ".

By 1758 had risen to be a lieutenant colonel in the 1st Foot Guards, which was later renamed the Grenadier Guards.

Heinzelmann once warned a colonel to be careful on his daily hunt.

In Argentina, three officers ( one from each armed service, of the rank of lieutenant colonel or its equivalent ), are appointed as aide-de-camp to the President of the Republic and three others to the Minister of Defense, these six being the only ones to be called " edecán ", which is one Spanish translation for aide-de-camp (" ayudante de campo " is another – " edecán " is a phonetic imitation of the French term ; " ayudante de campo " is a word-for-word translation of it ).