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Deputies: Vice Admiral Petar Petrov, General Atanas Zaprianov, General Dimitar Zekhtinov.
The current commander is Vice Admiral Mohab Mamish.
Lieutenant-General Sahabzada Yaqub Khan was sent in to East Pakistan in emergency, following a major blow of the resignation of Vice Admiral Ahsan.
During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.
Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral ( 1540 – 27 January 1596 ) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era.
Jellicoe served as chief of staff to Vice Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour during the Seymour expedition to relieve the legations at Peking in June 1900.
* Battle of Coronel ( Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee )
* Battle of the Falkland Islands ( Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee )
* Battle of Dogger Bank ( Vice Admiral Franz Hipper )
* Battle of the Gulf of Riga ( Vice Admiral Erhard Schmidt )
* Battle of Jutland ( Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer ; Vice Admiral Franz Hipper )
* Operation Albion, including Battle of Moon Sound ( Vice Admiral Erhard Schmidt )
* Vice Admiral
General Gilles Andriamahazo ruled after Ratsimandrava for four months before being replaced by another military appointee: Vice Admiral Didier Ratsiraka, who ushered in the socialist-Marxist Second Republic that ran under his tenure from 1975 to 1993.
* 1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
The flotilla was under the command of Vice Admiral Wang Yongguo, the commander-in-chief of the South Sea Fleet.
The flotilla was under the command of Vice Admiral Ding Yiping, the commander-in-chief of the North Sea Fleet, and Captain Li Yujie was the commanding officer of the Qingdao.
* Gilbert Stephenson ( 1878 – 1972 ), British Vice Admiral
Both of these accomplishments come to the attention of U. S. Navy Vice Admiral James Greer, the Deputy Director ( Intelligence ) at the CIA.
Key and Skinner boarded the British flagship HMS Tonnant on September 7 and spoke with Major General Robert Ross and Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane over dinner while the two officers discussed war plans.
Vice Admiral William Bligh, FRS, RN ( 9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. ( May 27, 1911January 13, 1978 ), served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States.
Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood ( 1748 – 1810 ) born in Newcastle upon Tyne ; admiral of the Royal Navy, a partner with Horatio Nelson in many sea victories, and as Nelson's successor after Trafalgar, completing the destruction of the Napoleonic fleet.
Both commanders would have seen the parallels of Macdonough's anchorage on Lake Champlain to that of the French under Vice Admiral Francois-Paul Brueys, opposing British Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, at the Battle of the Nile in Aboukir Bay on 1 August 1798.
The death of Admiral Horatio D ' Ascoyne was inspired by a true event: the collision between HMS Victoria and HMS Camperdown off Tripoli due to an order given by Mediterranean Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon.
It was the former residence of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson.
It is famous for being the birthplace of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, victor at the Battle of Trafalgar and one of Britain's greatest heroes.
The Nelson Monument is a commemorative tower in honour of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, situated on top of Calton Hill, in Edinburgh, Scotland and provides a dramatic termination of the vista along Princes Street from the west.
The news of the death of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson following the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 was received first in Britain by the arrival of HMS Pickle en route to Falmouth under the command of Lieut.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States and 49th Governor of New York, graduated cum laude from Dartmouth with a degree in economics in 1930.
* 1908 – Nelson Rockefeller, American politician, 41st Vice President of the United States ( d. 1979 )
Gerald Ford was the first Vice President selected by this method, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973 ; after succeeding to the Presidency, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President.
The resulting Vice Presidential vacancy was filled by Nelson Rockefeller.
* November 17 – Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.
** U. S. President Gerald Ford appoints Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a special commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the CIA.
* January 26 – Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States ( b. 1908 )
The second time was when Ford, after becoming President upon Nixon's resignation, chose Nelson Rockefeller ( originally Agnew's mentor in the moderate wing of the Republican Party ) to succeed him as Vice President.
* In 1974, during the four-month period between Gerald Ford's succession to the Presidency and the confirmation of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller.
Bob Dole ( far left ) at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City with ( from left ) Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, President Gerald Ford, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Susan Ford and Betty Ford
On August 20, 1974, after having previously considered Melvin R. Laird and George H. W. Bush, President Ford nominated former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to succeed him as Vice President.
Vice President Nelson Rockefeller argued that if the U. S. did not respond forcefully to this event, then it risked being ' nibbled to death ' by a series of small affronts.
Following Richard Nixon's resignation as President, Laird was reported to be the first choice of successor Gerald Ford to be nominated Vice President, a position ultimately filled by Nelson Rockefeller.
His descendents included a number of U. S. congressmen, including Senator Nelson Aldrich, who started the Federal Reserve Bank, and Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller.
* Nelson Rockefeller, then the Vice President of the United States, directed the gesture to hecklers at a 1976 campaign stop near Binghamton, New York, leading it to be called the " Rockefeller Gesture ".
Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York becomes the second person to be appointed Vice President under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution
In a similar vein, Nelson Rockefeller was said to be a caretaker Vice President of the United States ( 1974 – 1977 ).
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