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1805 in New Zealand

Mid-September – Te Pahi and four of his sons board the Venus intending to thank in person both Acting Commandant Piper at Norfolk Island and Governor King for the animals they have been sent.

Abd al-Karim al-Nahlawi

Abd al-Karim al-Nahlawi (Arabic: عبد الكريم النحلاوي) (born 1926) is a former Syrian military officer and head of the coup which ended the union of Syria and Egypt as the United Arab Republic on Sept. 28, 1961.

Army Officer Selection Board

Army Officer Selection Board (AOSB) is an assessment centre used by the British Army as part of the Officer selection process for the Regular and Territorial Army and related scholarship schemes.

David P. Jenkins

During the American Civil War, Jenkins served in Union Army under Generals Grant, Pope, Sherman and Burnside in the Western Theater.

Enrique Líster

Enrique Líster Forján (April 21, 1907, Ameneiro, A Coruña – December 8, 1994, Madrid) was a Spanish communist politician and military officer.

George K. Sanderson

Captain Sanderson was transferred to 33rd U.S. Infantry 21 Sept 1866 and served as Acting Assistant Adjutant-General (AAAG), on the staff of Brevet Major General Pope commanding, Third Military District, at Headquarters (Atlanta, Georgia).

Great Swamp Fight

On August 12, 1676 the leader of the Wampanoag sachem, Metacomet (also known as King Philip) was shot and killed by John Alderman, a Native American soldier in Benjamin Church's company.

Henry Lee Morey

Morey then enlisted in the 75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry for a term of three years, and served under Generals Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, John Pope and Edward Hatch in Florida and Quincy A. Gillmore at the siege of Charleston.

Metacomet

Hunted by a group of rangers led by Captain Benjamin Church, he was fatally shot by a praying Indian named John Alderman, on August 12, 1676, in the Miery Swamp near Mount Hope in Bristol, Rhode Island.

New-York Tribune

After the failure of the Peninsular Campaign in the spring of 1862, the Tribune pressured President Abraham Lincoln into installing John Pope as commander of the Army of Virginia.

Raid on Deerfield

In the summer of 1704, New Englanders under the leadership of Benjamin Church raided Acadian villages at Pentagouet (present-day Castine, Maine), Passamaquoddy Bay (present-day St. Stephen, New Brunswick), Grand Pré, Pisiquid, and Beaubassin (all in present-day Nova Scotia).

Sardar

As a military rank, a Sardar typically marked the Commander-in-Chief or the highest-ranking military officer in an Army, akin to the modern Field Marshal, General of the Army or Chief of Army.


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Andrew Parker

Andrew Parker Bowles (born 1939), retired English military officer, first husband of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall

Arthur Ray Hawkins

For this work, he was awarded the Emperor of Japan Third Order of the Sacred Treasure, which is the highest Japanese award ever given to a foreign military officer.

Banza

Alexandre Banza (1932–1969), Central African military officer and politician

Caspar Peter Hagerup

Their son Henrik Steffens Hagerup became a notable military officer and politician.

Cavit

Cavit Erdel (1884-1933), military officer of the Ottoman Army and Turkish Army general

Charles Hastings

Sir Charles Hastings Doyle (1804–1883), British military officer and Lieutenant Governor in Canada

Charles May

Charles A. May (1818–1864), American military officer and hero of the Battle of Resaca de la Palma

Christian Malanga

Christian Malanga Musumari (commonly known as Christian Malanga, born January 2, 1983) is a Congolese politician, businessmen, and former military officer.

Cuniberti

Vittorio Cuniberti, an Italian military officer who envisioned the concept of the all big gun battleship, best exemplified by HMS Dreadnought.

Czinege

Lajos Czinege (1924–1998), Hungarian military officer and politician

D'Aguilar, Queensland

The town is named for George Charles D'Aguilar, a military officer who wrote Regulations and Punishments of the British Army, the army textbook in use at the time of the town's establishment.

Dartnell

Pedro Dartnell (1873–1944), Chilean military officer and member of the Government Junta of Chile in 1925

De Güemes

Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo (1740-1799), Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain

Deanna

Deanna Marie Brasseur, retired Canadian military officer and one of the first two female CF-18 Hornet fighter pilots in the world

Domnentiolus

Domnentiolus was a Byzantine military officer, active in the reign of Justinian I (r. 527–565).

Dorothea Christensen

She then became a sister-in-law of military officer Sophus Christensen, and Julius and her were parents of physician Reidar Gording and grandparents of Elisabeth Gording.

Edward Willis

Edward Banker Willis (1831–1879), United States military officer during the American Civil War

Flavius Euodius

Flavius Euodius (fl. 4th century) was a Roman politician and military officer, who was appointed consul in AD 386 alongside Honorius, the infant son of the emperor Theodosius I.

Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby

Major-General The Honourable Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, GCMG, KCB, KCH (6 July 1783 – 11 January 1837), styled The Honourable from 1806 to 1837, was a British military officer, the second son of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough and Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough.

Germaine Dulac

Germaine Dulac was born in Amiens, France into an upper-middle-class family of a career military officer.

Giovanni Feroce

Giovanni Feroce is a retired American military officer, former Rhode Island State Senator, and the CEO of Alex and Ani.

Government Flight Representative

A Government Flight Representative (GFR) is a US Military Officer or similarly qualified US Government Civilian with the responsibility for aircraft operations conducted by commercial contractors using Department of Defense (DoD) aircraft.

Harvey Brown

Harvey E. Brown, Jr. (1836–1889), American military officer and army surgeon

Hautpoul

Alphonse Henri, comte d'Hautpoul (1789–1865), French military officer and politician

Jehuda L. Wallach

Jehuda Lothar Wallach (21 May 1921 in Haigerloch, Germany – 1 August 2008 in Tel-Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli military officer and military historian.

José Morales

José María Morales (1818–1894), military officer and Afro-Argentine legislator

Júlio Dantas

The son of a military officer, he studied at Lisbon's Colégio Militar, and later Medicine at the University of Lisbon.

Kuini Speed

Adi Kuini was married three times, first to Military officer Savenaca Draunidalo (a Minister from 2001 to 2006), subsequently to Bavadra and finally to Clive Speed, a former Director of the Business Council of Australia.

Lâm

Lam Quang Thi, senior military officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War

László Széchenyi

Count László Széchenyi de Sárvár-felsővidék (LÁSZLÓ Jenő Mária Henrik Simon) (Horpács, 18 February 1879–Budapest, 5 July 1938) was an Austro Hungarian military officer, Imperial Chamberlain, diplomat and venture capitalist.

Louis, Count of Clermont

"He was a curious character: prince of the blood, abbé of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, military officer, libertine, man of letters (or at least a member of the Academy), anti-Parlement, religious during his final years, he was one of the most striking examples (and one of the most amusing on certain days) and also one of the most shocking (although not at all odious), of the abuses and disparities pushed to scandal, under the Old Order, of pleasure and privilege." (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve).

Manuel Freire de Andrade

Manuel Alberto Freire de Andrade y Armijo (4 November 1767 – 7 March 1835) was a Spanish cavalry officer and general officer during the Peninsular War, and later Defense Minister.

Mario Biaggi

In 1975 Biaggi introduced a joint resolution of Congress, Public Law 94-479, to posthumously promote George Washington to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States and restore Washington's position as the highest-ranking military officer in U.S. history.

Monmouth Tract

Colonel Richard Nicolls, and English military officer, had conquered the territory that is now the states of New Jersey and New York when he forced the Dutch surrender of the New Netherland colony at the onset of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1664.

Moosa Ali Jaleel

MSc ndc psc was the former Chief of Defence Force of the Maldives National Defence Force and most senior military officer in the country at his time.

Mouzinho de Albuquerque

Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque (1792–1846), military officer, poet, engineer, scientist, liberal politician and statesman

Nagl

John Nagl (born 1966), American military officer and author

Nicholas Rowe

James N. Rowe, James Nicholas "Nick" Rowe, (1938–1989), American military officer and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War

Norman Eddy

Norman Eddy (December 10, 1810 in Scipio, New York – January 28, 1872 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American politician and military officer.

Ömer Lütfi

Ömer Lütfi Argeşo (1879–1942), Ottoman military officer and Turkish politician

Raúl Chibás

Raúl Chibás Rivas (April 25, 1916 – August 25, 2002) was a Cuban politician and military officer who initially supported Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution but later defected to the United States.

Reisehaandbog over Norge

Among the map suppliers for the book were topographer and military officer Kristen Gran Gleditsch and engineer Gunnar Sætren.

Robert Ireland

Robert Innes Ireland, British military officer, engineer, and motor racing driver

Samuel Armstrong

Samuel C. Armstrong (1839–1893) - Hawaiian-born military officer and educator

Saxlund

Alf Eivind Saxlund (1890–1973), Norwegian military officer and barrister

Serve the People

Writer Yan Lianke wrote a satirical novel set during the Cultural Revolution titled Serve the People about an affair between the wife of a military officer and a peasant soldier.

Thomas Bridges

Tom Bridges (1871–1939), British military officer and Governor of South Australia

William Worthington

William H. Worthington (1828-1862), American farmer, lawyer, and military officer