The son of a career naval officer, Donaldson spent his early childhood in different seaport cities in the eastern United States and in Germany.

They had a son, Joel White, a naval architect and boatbuilder, who owned Brooklin Boatyard in Brooklin, Maine.

His father, William, was a naval surgeon who later wrote novels and short stories, some of which included illustrations by his son.

He was the illegitimate ( or natural ) son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval officer ( and privateer ) from the south of Brittany, and his mistress Jeanne Rabine, a 27

He bigamously married Adelaide del Vasto, regent of Sicily, in 1113, but was convinced to divorce her as well in 1117 ; Adelaide's son from her first marriage, Roger II of Sicily, never forgave Jerusalem, and for decades withheld much-needed Sicilian naval support.

Unlike some of his predecessors the new Spartan general, Lysander, was not a member of the Spartan royal families and was also formidable in naval strategy ; he was an artful diplomat, who had even cultivated good personal relationships with the Persian prince Cyrus, the son of Darius II.

Utzon was born in Copenhagen, the son of a naval engineer, and grew up in Aalborg, Denmark, where he became interested in ships and a possible naval career.

His son, Vice Admiral Lloyd Mustin ,( 1911 – 1999 ), a 1932 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, took part in developing the Navy's first lead-computing anti-aircraft gun sight, which proved of major importance in the air-sea actions of World War II, and served on the cruiser during the naval battle of Guadalcanal.

One of the squadrons was led by his cousin, Estêvão da Gama ( the son of Aires da Gama ), and two of his maternal uncles, Vicente Sodré and Brás Sodré, were pre-designated to command an Indian Ocean naval patrol.

His second son, Estêvão da Gama was simultaneously appointed Capitão-mor do Mar da Índia (' Captain-major of the Indian Sea ', commander of the Indian Ocean naval patrol fleet ), to replace Duarte's brother, Luís de Menezes.

His third son Sir William Peel was a naval commander and recipient of the Victoria Cross.

Meanwhile, Richard III made plans to marry her to an unimportant naval officer, a son of Robert Stillington.

Located in a house with garden which once belonged to the son and later the grandson of author Jules Verne, the museum contains a small but interesting collection of art objects, many donated by naval officers from the time of the French colonization of Southeast Asia.

* September 3 – Battle of Naulochus: Agrippa defeats Sextus Pompeius, a son of Pompeius, in a naval engagement off Naulochus.

Born in Brill, Tromp was the first son of Harpert Maertensz, a naval officer who became captain of the Olifantstromp, from the name of which ship probably the family name " Tromp " is derived, first appearing in documents in 1607.

Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, second son of the second Earl, was a prominent naval commander.

Augustus Clifford, illegitimate son by the fifth Duke and his mistress and later second wife Elizabeth Hervey, was a naval commander and was created a baronet in 1838 ( see Clifford baronets ).

In the earlier times it was the god Portunes or Fortunus who was thanked for naval victories, but Neptune supplanted him in this role by at least the first century BC when Sextus Pompeius called himself " son of Neptune.

His elder son Ryoichi, who became a naval lieutenant, was killed in action during the Second World War.

He was the third son and seventh child of John Henry Parnell ( 1811 – 1859 ), wealthy Anglo-Irish landowner, and his American wife Delia Tudor Stewart ( 1816 – 1898 ) of Bordentown, New Jersey, daughter of the American naval hero, Admiral Charles Stewart ( 1778-1869 ) ( the stepson of one of George Washington's bodyguards ).

Isaac Guillory was of Jewish heritage and born at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, the son of an American sailor and his Turkish wife.

He was the son of naval officer Louis Barthes, who was killed in a battle in the North Sea before his son was one year old.

The couple were also foster parents to a boy named Gerhard von Ahe, son of an SS officer who had died before the war.

He recounts that the police officer who attended the incident reassured him by saying " Don't worry son, you've only broken your legs ".

He is the son of Charlotte Ann ( née Ground ) and James L. Jones, Sr., a decorated Marine in World War II who was an officer in the Observer Group and the commanding officer of its successor, the Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion.

Of Scottish parentage, Anderson was the son of a British Army officer.

Duncan Kenworthy's 2011 film The Eagle depicts the quest of a Roman officer, portrayed as the son of the commander of the Ninth Legion, into the country of the Picts to retrieve the Ninth's standard along with his Brigantian slave, whom he frees during their journey.

The son of Revolutionary War officer Henry " Light Horse Harry " Lee III and a top graduate of the United States Military Academy, Robert E. Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional officer and combat engineer in the United States Army for 32 years.

It had long been the wish of his father Urthog to have young Martok become an officer and so he enlisted the aid of officers he had earned the respect of and eventually was able to get one to sponsor his son to the Klingon academy.

He was the son of Hyder Ali, at that time an officer in the Mysorean army, and his second wife, Fatima or Fakhr-un-Nissa.

* Zhuge Ke, son of Zhuge Jin, nephew of Zhuge Liang, officer of the Wu Kingdom ( b. 203 )

* Zhuge Ke, son of Zhuge Jin, officer of the Wu Kingdom ( d. 253 )

It is suggested that he was not Peter's son at all, but that his mother had engaged in an affair — to which Elizabeth had consented — with a young officer named Serge Saltykov, and that he was Paul's real father.

Wajda was born in Suwałki, Poland, the son of Aniela ( née Biaxowas ), a school teacher, and Jakub Wajda, an army officer.

His eldest son, air force officer A. L.

Crassus, despondent at the death of his son Publius in the battle, finally agreed to meet the Parthian general ; however, when Crassus mounted a horse to ride to the Parthian camp for a peace negotiation, his junior officer Octavius suspected a Parthian trap and grabbed Crassus ' horse by the bridle, instigating a sudden fight with the Parthians that left the Roman party dead, including Crassus.

The early script notes that he was the son of Commodore Matt Decker, who had been featured in " The Doomsday Machine " ( an episode of the original television series ), and would " command some landing parties ", anticipating the TNG situation where the first officer usually took down away teams.

The difficult relationship between the Han court and various nomadic groups lasted from the start of the second century to the early 160s and the appearance of Tanshihuai ( 檀石槐 b. 120s-d. 181 ), an illegitimate son of a low ranking military officer of Xianbei mercenaries deployed against the Southern Xiongnu.

Leonowens's daughter, Avis, married Thomas Fyshe, a Scottish banker who ended the family's money worries, while her son, Louis, returned to Siam and became an officer in the Siamese royal cavalry.

His son, Pierre Dreyfus, also served in World War I as an artillery officer and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.

* Alexander the Great leaves India and nominates his officer Peithon, son of Agenor, as the satrap of the region around the Indus.