Born at Trieste, Austria ( today Italy ), and known as " Prince Napoléon " or by the sobriquet of " Plon-Plon ", he was a close advisor to his first cousin, Napoleon III of France, and in particular was seen as a leading advocate of French intervention in Italy on behalf of Camillo di Cavour and the Italian nationalists.

Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of Mad Anthony.

Brock's actions, particularly his success at Detroit, earned him a knighthood, membership in the Order of the Bath, accolades and the sobriquet " The Hero of Upper Canada ".

His cadets at West Point gave him the nickname of " Slow Trot Thomas ", and this sobriquet was used to diminish his reputation.

When at Oxford his white hat, rough white coat, and huge white dog earned for him the sobriquet of the White Bear, and he outraged the conventions of the place by exhibiting the exploits of his climbing dog in Christchurch Meadow.

The most famous of the explorers was John Charles Frémont ( 1813 – 1890 ), a commissioned officer in the Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers with a talent for exploration and a genius at self-promotion that gave him the sobriquet of " Pathmarker of the West " and led him to the presidential candidate of the new Republican Party in 1856.

For his tenacity at defending Little Round Top he was known by the sobriquet Lion of the Round Top.

Especially the large Sephardi community of Thessaloniki, which had earned the city the sobriquet " Mother of Israel " and had first settled there in the early 16th century at the invitation of the then-ruling Ottoman Empire, was eliminated.

The name of Rastignac, meanwhile, has become an iconic sobriquet in the French language ; a " Rastignac " is synonymous with a person willing to climb the social ladder at any cost.

Also known as the khaki election ( the first of several elections to bear this sobriquet ), it was held at a time when it was widely believed that the Second Boer War had effectively been won ( though in fact it was to continue for a further two years ).

The School opened at 16 Gower Street ( from where the sobriquet ' Old Gower ' derives ) on November 1, 1830, under the name ' The London University School '.

While refraining from extreme partisanship, he was an adherent of the Reformation ; he retired into private life at Dunnottar Castle about 1567, thereby gaining the sobriquet " William of the Tower.

Venables gained a good reputation as a manager with his successes at Crystal Palace and QPR, and this attracted offers from some of Europe's most prestigious clubs and in 1984, he took the role of manager at Barcelona, earning the sobriquet " El Tel ".

The cause of death – a sudden and horrible disease – is not mentioned in any other source, but it raises the interesting possibility that the true provenance of Ivar's Old Norse sobriquet lay in the crippling effects of an unidentified disease that struck him down at the end of his life ; though " sudden and horrible " death by any number of diseases was a common cause of mortality in the 9th century.

He gained the sobriquet " Honest Tom " for his forthright and straightforward manner, although these same qualities would earn him the occasional disapproval of fellow politicians and the electorate, and caused his defeat at the polls in 1871.

Under Mary, who as Queen earned the sobriquet " Bloody Mary ", three " heretics " ( that is, protestants who refused to become catholic ) were burnt at the stake in Hertfordshire.

Giovanni Canestrini, when editor of La Gazzetta dello Sport, a popular Italian sporting newspaper, was the very first to bestow the sobriquet " barchetta " on a car, using it to describe the new Ferrari 166MM displayed at the 1948 Turin Auto Show.

It was at a banquet at the Hotel Culemburg on April 8, presided over by Bréderode, that the sobriquet of les Gueux, or " the Beggars ," was first given to the opponents of Spanish rule.

Not for nothing that among the most common sobriquet used at the time for the new Mainland Colony was " the Gold Colonies ".

A signboard declaring the sobriquet can be seen hung on Platform 1 at the station.

So rigorous were her penances that she gradually renounced food itself, at one stage subsisting on one bilva leaf a day, and then giving up even that nourishment ; this particular abstinence earned her the sobriquet Aparnā.

His military experience led to his appointment during the Napoleonic Wars as barrack master at Nottingham where in later years, known by the sobriquet Old Labrador, he was a distinguished and popular figure.

Ptolemy XII's personal cult name ( Neos Dionysos ) earned him the ridiculing sobriquet Auletes ( flute player ) — as we learn from Strabo's writing ( Strabo XVII, 1, 11 ):

Lin Sen (; 1868 – August 1, 1943 ), courtesy name Zichao ( 子超 ), sobriquet Changren ( 長仁 ), was Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China from 1931 until his death.

Banana slugs are often bright yellow ( giving rise to the banana sobriquet ) although they may also be green, brown, or white.

He was instrumental in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria for which he earned fame taking the nickname ' Lawrence of Manchuria ', a reference to the Lawrence of Arabia., although according to Jamie Bisher this flattering sobriquet was rather misapplied given that T. E.

Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, FRS ( 10 April 1707 – 18 January 1782 ) was a Scottish physician who has been called the " father of military medicine " ( although Ambroise Paré and Jonathan Letterman have also been accorded this sobriquet ).

GS was instrumental in developing the British railway network that he has been dubbed the ' Father of Railways ', although other great pioneers also merit a similar sobriquet.

In 1338 the latest incumbent of many, Englishman Sir Ralph de Neville was besieged by Sir William Douglas, The Knight of Liddesdale, known as the " Flower of Chivalry ", which sobriquet had to do with his abilities as a knight although it is often misinterpreted by people with a rather romantic view of history.

Next came three sons: Mírzá Taqi, a poet with the sobriquet Parishan, who became a Shaykhí much opposed to Bahá ' u ' lláh ; Mírzá Rid &# 803 ; a-Quli, who earned the designation ' H &# 803 ; ájí ' by his pilgrimage to Mecca, and who kept apart from Bahá ' u ' lláh, even trying to conceal the fact of their relationship, although his wife, Maryam, was greatly devoted to him ; and the third son, Mírzá Ibráhím, who also died in his father's lifetime.

Desdichado's side is soon hard pressed and he himself beset by multiple foes, when a knight who had until then taken no part in the battle, thus earning the sobriquet Le Noir Faineant ( or the Black Sluggard ), rides to Desdichado's rescue.

The " Black Prince " sobriquet is first found in writing in two manuscript notes made by the antiquary John Leland in the 1530s or early 1540s: in one, Leland refers in English to " the blake prince "; in the other, he refers in Latin to " Edwardi Principis cog: Nigri ".

This sobriquet was chosen not only for the yearbook, but also became the name by which the University is now known.

Richelieu is also known by the sobriquet l ' Éminence rouge (" the Red Eminence "), from the red shade of a cardinal's clerical dress and the style " eminence " as a cardinal.

Ladislaus III was killed in a bold attempt to capture the sultan, earning the sobriquet Warneńczyk ( of Varna in Polish ; he is also known as Várnai Ulászló in Hungarian or Ladislaus Varnensis in Latin ).

His sobriquet, in contemporary Latin Viscardus and Old French Viscart, is often rendered " the Resourceful ", " the Cunning ", " the Wily ", " the Fox ", or " the Weasel ".

The phrase " the lucky country ", coined by Donald Horne, is a sobriquet used to describe Australia in terms of weather, lifestyle and history.

This sobriquet, traditionally bestowed by his successor upon his acceptance of the mantle of leadership, is used as the title for his collected writings, which are published posthumously ; by extension, it is also used to refer to the rebbe himself.

The sobriquet applied to these apparitions is Our Lady of Beauraing, the Virgin of the Golden Heart.

The adolescent Elisabeth, who had by then received the sobriquet “ Else ”, is said to have displayed little interest in the young man who was five years her senior, and therefore declined his first proposal of marriage.

A sobriquet is an allusion: by metonymy one aspect of a person or other referent is selected to identify it, and it is this shared aspect that makes an allusion evocative.

He was a remarkably handsome man, and inordinately fond of taking a conspicuous part in court ceremonial ; his vanity, which earned him the sobriquet of " the proud duke ," was a byword among his contemporaries and was the subject of numerous anecdotes ; Macaulay ’ s description of him as " a man in whom the pride of birth and rank amounted almost to a disease ," is well known.

Contemporary evidence for the fairness of this sobriquet is mixed, covenanting traditions and monuments hold Claverhouse directly responsible for the deaths of covenanters.

Although sildenafil ( Viagra ), vardenafil ( Levitra ), and tadalafil ( Cialis ) all work by inhibiting PDE5, tadalafils pharmacologic distinction is its longer half-life ( 17. 50 hours ) – compared to Viagra ( 4. 0 – 5. 0 hours ) and Levitra ( 4. 0 – 5. 0 hours ) – resulting in longer duration of action, and so partly responsible for " The Weekend Pill " sobriquet.

The epithet aghmashenebeli ( აღმაშენებელი ), which is translated as " the Builder " ( in the sense of " built completely "), " the Rebuilder ", or " the Restorer ", first appears as the sobriquet of David in the charter issued in the name of " King of Kings Bagrat " in 1452 and becomes firmly affixed to him in the works of the 17th-and 18th-century historians such as Parsadan Gorgijanidze, Beri Egnatashvili and Prince Vakhushti.

He is commonly nicknamed dottor Sottile, ( which means " Doctor Subtilis ", the sobriquet of the Scottish Medieval philosopher John Duns Scotus, a reference to his political subtlety ).

His name means ' Sky-king ' in Sindarin, and he is given a sobriquet " young and swift ".

Dundas ' sobriquet The Valley Town is used as the title of a song on the album Mountain Meadows by the band Elliott Brood ; one of the band members, Casey Laforet, spent part of his childhood in Dundas.

He came to the throne when his predecessor, King Cadwallon ap Cadfan, was killed in battle, and his primary notability is in having gained the disrespectful sobriquet Cadafael Cadomedd ( fully translated into ).

In the Kevin Smith's 2010 revamp of the continuity, Kato is depicted, in modern times, as the elderly but still physically fit valet of the late Britt Reid, killed by a yakuza mobster going by the Black Hornet sobriquet.