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7 unusual facts about commandant


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.

Ahmad Tasnim

In 1984, he was promoted to Rear Admiral and commanded the Pakistan Fleet (COMPAK); followed by another assignment as Commandant of Pakistan Naval War College.

Battle of Kakarong de Sili

On January 1, 1897, a massive force of fresh Spanish "Cazadores" marching in 6 columns, arrived at the fort, led by the Commandant José Olaguer Feliú.

Commandant of the Coast Guard

The Commandant is assisted by a Vice Commandant, two Assistant Commandants/Area Commanders and a Chief of Staff, all of whom are three-star Vice Admirals.

The title of Commandant dates to a 1923 act that distributed the commissioned line and engineer officers of the Coast Guard in grades.

Commandant-general

Comandante generale (commandant general), in Fascist Italy's MVSN, was the title of the head of the Blackshirts, held by Benito Mussolini from 1922 to 1943.

Marine Doom

In 1996, General Charles C. Krulak, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps issued a directive to use wargames for improving "Military Thinking and Decision Making Exercises".


1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos

Initially its Commandant was then-Lieutenant de Vaisseau (Lieutenant) Philippe Kieffer of the Free French Navy, under whose command they participated in the Normandy landings.

Andrijaš Mrnjavčević

From Ragusa they headed for Hungary where they settled with other Serbs, Dmitar became "Great Zupan of Zărand" and "Royal Commandant of the city of Villagoš" where there were many Serbs.

Antoine Huré

On 3 August 1914 he became attached to the staff of the 1st Moroccan Infantry Division, being promoted to commandant (major) six days later, and served in the defence of France in the First World War.

Battle of Dublin

The garrison consisted of roughly 180 men drawn from the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the IRA's 1st Dublin Brigade, commanded by Commandant Paddy O'Brien, armed for the most part only with small arms, (rifles, five Thompson submachineguns and two Lewis light machine guns) apart from one captured armoured car, which they named "The Mutineer".

Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Since 2002, the current Commandant of the Combined Military Academy is Colonel General Vladimir Popov.

Corps Léger d'Intervention

While the commandos trained in Jijel, Commandant de Crevècoeur arrived at Meerut, North West India on November 10, 1943 to introduce the CLI to British Special Operations Executive (SOE) Force 136's Colin Hercules Mackenzie.

Don José Vidal

The Spanish Commandant, José Vidal, preferred to remain on Spanish territory, and petitioned the Spanish Governor-General Manuel Gayoso de Lemos for a land grant across the Mississippi River from Natchez.

Emperor Gaozong of Tang

Emperor Gaozong order withdrawal of Tang forces from the Korean Peninsula entirely and moved the Protectorate General to Pacify the East to Liaodong (遼東, in modern Liaoyang, Liaoning) and the commandant of Xiongjin (熊津), who governed the former Baekje territory at Sabi, to Geonan (建安, in modern Yingkou, Liaoning), allowing Silla eventually expelled Tang out of the Korean Peninsula and unified the parts of the peninsula south of the Taedong River.

Eugene K. Bird

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene K. Bird (11 March 1926 – October 28, 2005) was US Commandant of the Spandau Allied Prison from 1964 to 1972 where, together with six others, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess was incarcerated.

Frederick C. Billard

Billard was appointed by President Herbert Hoover to a third four-year term as Commandant in January 1932, but died of pneumonia on 17 May.

Ge Hong

He was appointed to the position of Defender Commandant, and ordered to raise a militia of several hundred to fight Shi Bing, an ally of the rebel, Zhang Chang, who sought to overthrow the Western Jin.

General Greene

Wallace M. Greene (1907–2003), United States Marine Corps general, Commandant of the Marine Corps

George Stobart

George Herbert Stobart, Deputy Lieutenant of Durham 1924; commandant of Harperley POW Camp 93

Giovanni Galzerani

He was born in Porto Azzurro on the Isle of Elba and began his education in Gaeta where his father was the military commandant at the time.

Gustave Biéler

The "rue du Commandant Guy Biéler" in Saint-Quentin was named for him and as one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, he is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département.

Gyrocam Systems

In addition to Mr. Egner, Gyrocam System’s Board includes two retired Army General Officers, General Leon E. Salomon and General Peter Schoomaker; along with the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, General William L. Nyland; former Under Secretary of Defense, Dr. Jacques Gansler; and strategy and investment experts, Peter Rudaizky and Barry Brott.

Irish Free State offensive

The Free State forces in the city consisted of the pro-Treaty First Western Division of the IRA under Michael Brennan and the Fourth Southern Division under Commandant General Donochadh O'Hannigan.

Jiang Ji

During the reign of the emperor Cao Fang (reign 239-255), he was promoted to Grand Commandant (太尉).

Joan Bartlett

During World War II Bartlett worked in the European Broadcasting division of the BBC, and at night was a Commandant of the Red Cross.

John Adrian Chamier

After it was founded, Chamier became the Air Training Corps' first Commandant, until his retirement in 1944.

Josef Kramer

Josef Kramer (November 10, 1906 – December 13, 1945) was the Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Joseph Maria Gordon

Major General Joseph Maria Gordon CB (18 March 1856 – 6 September 1929), was an officer in the British Army, later holding the position of Commandant of the South Australian Military Forces and serving in the Second Boer War in South Africa.

Lance Kinsey

Kinsey has appeared in television, film, and theatre productions, but is probably best known to audiences as Proctor, the supercilious sidekick of Commandant Mauser and Captain Harris in the Police Academy film series.

Les Fisher

Fisher returned to RAAF Base Edinburgh in 1987 as Commander Maritime Patrol Group, and then served as the Commandant Australian Defence Force Warfare Centre between 1990 and 1991.

Lloyd Bochner

He appeared in the episode "The Pisces" of the short-lived TV show The Starlost (1973), and was Commandant Leiter in the Battlestar Galactica original series episode "Greetings from Earth".

Louis Marie Baptiste Atthalin

On 26 April 1815, during the Hundred Days of Napoleon, he was employed as the Commandant of Engineering at Landau.

Marine Barracks

Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C., listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C. as the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks and Commandant's House

Mary Stevenson

She was a commandant of No. 750 Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Second World War, and was awarded a citation from the Duchess of Gloucester in her capacity as spouse of the Governor-General.

Micheál Ó Droigheaín

Following his release he became commandant in 1919, and retained this position following the reorganisation of the Connemara units by Richard Mulcahy in September 1920.

Military engineering of the United States

The Engineer Regiment is headquartered at Fort Leonard Wood, MO and commanded by the Engineer Commandant, currently a position filled by an Army Brigadier General from the Engineer Branch.

Miraj Junior

Raja Govind Rao Patwardhan, 1st Ruler of Miraj, began as a commandant of the body of horse, distinguished himself in several expeditions against the Nizam of Hyderabad and Hyder Ali of Mysore, established the Maratha ascendancy in southern India and pushed the Maratha conquests to the frontier of Mysore.

Mirzapur Cadet College

Lieutenant General Sina Ibn Jamali,(retd), last served as Commandant of the National Defense College,

Organization of the United States Coast Guard

Rear Admiral Gary T. Blore, Assistant Commandant for Acquisition, leads the directorate.

Oscar Beregi, Jr.

The show featured Beregi as a former Dachau commandant who returns to the concentration camp to relive old memories, only to be confronted by the spirits of prisoners he brutalized.

Pal-Kshatriya

They also call themselves Nikhar / Naikar which might be a corrupted form of Nayak, meaning commandant (नायक) as in case of Holkar Maratha of Indore, they also call themselves as Assal or Asali Dhangar.

Pic-Pic

In 1916 Commandant Yves le Prieur, a naval officer, used a Pic-Pic to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of the Le Prieur rocket.

Pierre-Charles de Liette

Pierre-Charles de Liette, (b? d?) was aide to Henri de Tonti; commandant at Fort Saint-Louis and Chécagou; and captain in the colonial regular troops from 1687 to 1721.

Royal Military College Paladins

The West Point series originated when the commandant of RMC, Sir Archibald McDonnell and the superintendent of the United States Military Academy (West Point), Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur, suggested a game of hockey between the two schools in 1921.

Sandhurst Competition

In 1975 the then Commandant, BG Philip R. Feir and the British Exchange Officer, Major Robert Hodges, KORBR, studied the criteria and determined that they were inappropriate.

Seven Beauties

The wife of the camp's commandant Karl Otto Koch, she took sadistic pleasure in torturing inmates, and was accused of having lampshades made out of their skin, though these charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.

Shamim Alam Khan

Shamim Alam Khan, NI(M), SJ, SBt, (born 1937) is a retired four-star rank general in the Pakistan Army who served as the Supreme Commandant of the Pakistan Defense Forces as Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1991 to 1994.

Siege of Calcutta

Yet when the garrison was mustered, everyone, including Captain-Commandant Minchin, was surprised to find only 180 men fit for duty, and only 45 were British.

Tom Mahir

In 1955 he was seconded as Deputy Commandant of the National Police College at Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, a post in which he served until 1957.

Tsuboi Kōzō

Promoted to rear admiral from September 1890, Tsuboi was Commander of the Sasebo Naval District to December 1892, Commandant of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy from 1892–1893, and Commandant of the Naval Staff College from 1893-1894.

United States naval districts

"Each naval district shall be commanded by a designated commandant, who is the direct representative of the Navy Department, including its bureaus and offices, in all matters affecting district activity." (Art. 1481, Navy Regulations.)

William Blacker

He was confirmed Lord Dublin and was the great grandfather of Sir Cecil Blacker Commandant of Horse.

William Ward Burrows

William Ward Burrows I (Marine Lieutenant Colonel) (1768–1805), second Commandant of the Marine Corps

Xu Jingzong

He was demoted to the post of military assistant of the commandant at Hong Prefecture (洪州, roughly modern Nanchang, Jiangxi).


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