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George A . McCall George Archibald McCall ( March 16 , 1802 – February 25 , 1868 ) was a United States Army officer who became a brigadier general and prisoner of war during the American Civil War . He was also a naturalist . Biography . McCall was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , and was appointed from that state to the United States Military Academy at West Point , graduating in 1822 . He was assigned to the 1st U . S . Infantry then the 4th U . S . Infantry before serving as aide - de - camp to Gen . Edmund P . Gaines into the beginning of the Second Seminole War . He distinguished himself during the Mexican - American War under Zachary Taylor , receiving brevet promotions to major for gallantry at Palo Alto and to lieutenant colonel for Resaca de la Palma . He retired with 31 years service as Colonel and Inspector General of the Army in 1853 . At the beginning of the Civil War , McCall helped organize Pennsylvania volunteers as major general of the state militia and was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers in May 1861 . He helped organize and led the famous Pennsylvania Reserves Division , which served as the 2nd Division , I Corps , Army of the Potomac , and 3rd Division , V Corps . He was one of the oldest West Point graduates to serve in the war . McCall served in the Peninsula Campaign and was wounded and captured at Frayser ' s Farm , Virginia , in June 1862 . He was imprisoned in Libby Prison in Richmond , Virginia . Previous illness was aggravated by his confinement in prison , and after his exchange ( for Simon Bolivar Buckner ) in August , McCall resigned due to poor health in March 1863 . In retirement , McCall farmed in Pennsylvania . He died at his " Belair " estate in West Chester , Pennsylvania , and is buried in Christ Church Cemetery in his native Philadelphia .
François Dominique de Barberie de Saint - Contest François Dominique de Barberie de Saint - Contest ( 26 January 1701 – 14 July 1754 ) was a French Foreign Minister . Born into an old Norman family that had helped keep the city of Caen allied to Louis XIII , in 1620 , François - Dominique , son of Councilor of State - Claude Dominique Barberie de Saint Contest was named King ' s attorney at the Chatelet in Paris , 27 November 1721 , and advisor to Parliament ( 1724 ) , master of requests , advisor to the Hotel de Ville ( 1728 ) , steward of Beam ( 1737 ) , Caen ( 1739 ) and Dijon , from 1740 to 1749 . On 15 July 1749 , he was appointed as Ambassador of France in Switzerland , and like Champeaux , resident in France to Geneva , Switzerland to discuss the contentious issues relating to the territories located in Geneva Gex . Appointed Ambassador of France to Holland , in the winter 1749 , he went to The Hague , in September the following year . He soon returned from his embassy at the request of the Marquise de Pompadour , who appointed him , on 11 September 1751 , Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , on the resignation the Marquis de Puisieux . In this department , he worked to set up against Austria , Russia and England , an alliance comprising France , Spain , Sweden , Denmark , Prussia and Turkey . He also blamed later for not maintaining the system , with Marquise de Pompadour , the Marshal de Noailles , the Marquis de Saint - Severin . In the twilight of his life , he was made provost and master of ceremonies of the king ' s orders , on 12 May 1754 . Family . He married , on 27 September 1735 , Monique Jeanne , who had a salon in Dijon . Among their children there :
Charles Ross ( 1864 – 1930 ) Major - General Charles Ross ( 10 March 1864 – 21 December 1930 ) , CB , DSO , was a British Army officer , active during the Boer War and the First World War , where he commanded 6th Division from 1915 to 1917 . He was the younger brother of Sir Ronald Ross , who received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the method by which malaria was transmitted . Early life . Ross was born in 1864 , the third son of General Sir C . C . G . Ross . His eldest brother , Ronald , would later become a medical researcher , and was eventually awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the transmission of malaria . He was educated at Stubbington , and joined the Norfolk Regiment in 1884 . He was attached to the Egyptian Army in 1893 and 1894 , and attended the Staff College , Camberley from 1897 to 1899 . Shortly after leaving , he was posted to South Africa , following the outbreak of hostilities there , to act as a divisional signalling officer . He was then assigned to intelligence work on the staff , and remained in the country until July 1902 , being mentioned in despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order . In 1904 he was posted to the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , as an instructor , and in 1905 was transferred to the Royal Military College , Sandhurst as the commander of a cadet company . He remained at Sandhurst until January 1908 , when he was posted to the Staff College as an instructor ; he was well regarded as a lecturer by his students . First World War . During the early stages of the war , Ross commanded a brigade . On 14 November 1915 , he was appointed to command the 6th Division in the place of Walter Congreve , who had been promoted to command a corps . He commanded the division during the Battle of the Somme , where it was engaged in September and October 1916 . He held command until 18 August 1917 , when he was relieved . Whilst commanding the division , he was made a Companion of the Bath . Later life . Ross wrote three books stemming from his academic work : " Representative Government and War " ( 1904 ) ; " The Problem of National Defence " ( 1907 ) ; and " An Outline of the Russo - Japanese War 1904 – 1905 " ( 1912 ) . He also wrote fiction , publishing at five mystery novels : " The Fly - By - Nights " ; " The Haunted Seventh " ; " Every Man ' s Hand " ; " When the Devil Was Sick " ; and " The Castle Fenham Case " . He married Clara Marion Horton , the widow of an officer in the Royal Artillery , in 1905 ; they had no children .
Action of 11 March 1727 The Action of 11 March 1727 was a minor naval engagement of the Anglo - Spanish War . On 11 March the brand new Spanish 46 - gun fifth rate warship " Nuestra Senor Del Rosario " was out on trials after just being fully completed . The ship was on a journey bound from Santander to Cadiz . Meanwhile HMS " Royal Oak " detached on a cruise with the HMS " Canterbury " from the main body of a Royal Naval squadron reinforcing Gibraltar from a Spanish siege . They sighted the Spanish frigate near the port of Cadiz and gave chase . Soon the " Royal Oak " caught up and after a few broadsides the Spanish warship soon surrendered . " Canterbury " was not able to get up till just as the Spanish surrendered . The prize was carried with the rest of the squadron , which managed to slip past the besieging Spanish forces to relieve Gibraltar on the 13 March .
German submarine U - 239 German submarine " U - 239 " was a Type VIIC U - boat of the Nazi German " Kriegsmarine " during World War II . The submarine was laid down on 14 May 1942 at the " Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft " yard at Kiel as ' werk ' 669 , launched on 28 January 1943 and commissioned on 13 March under the command of " Leutnant " Ulrich Vöge . After training with the 5th U - boat Flotilla at Kiel , she went to the 22nd flotilla as a ' school ' boat and then back to the 5th flotilla . She was damaged in Kiel by British bombs in July 1944 and broken up in the same year . Fate . She was damaged in a British air raid at the " Germania Werke " in Kiel on 24 July 1944 which also killed one crewman , she was then broken up later that same year .
USS Virginia ( SP - 1965 ) USS " Virginia " ( SP - 1965 ) was a two - masted , auxiliary schooner in the United States Navy . " Virginia " , built in 1902 by F . W . McCullough at Norfolk , Virginia , was acquired by the US Navy on Christmas Eve of 1917 under free lease from W . M . Holland of Norfolk . In Navy records , she does not appear as an active unit until July 1918 when she was listed in the Navy Directory as a unit of the 5th Naval District section patrol force — probably operating in and around Norfolk . Initially , she retained the name " Virginia " semi - officially and was so listed in several editions of the 1918 Navy Directory . However , after December 1918 , she was carried on all Navy records as USS " SP - 1965 " , but frequently with a parenthetical " Virginia " added after the official designation . The schooner served the Navy until 3 January 1919 when her name was struck from the Navy List , and she was returned to her owner .
1 Reconnaissance Commando ( South Africa ) The 1 Reconnaissance Commando was the first South African special forces unit , founded by General Fritz Loots - the founder of the South African Special Forces , and the first General Officer Commanding of the South African Special Forces . He appointed 12 qualified paratroopers ( known as " The Dirty Dozen " ) as the founder members . Included in these 12 paratroopers was Jan Breytenbach , who was placed in command of the Founder Members by General Loots . History . Major General Loots and the then Chief of the Army , Lt . General Willem Louw realised the need for a South African Defence Force to have a special operations capability but the Chief of the South African Defence Force , General Rudolph Hiemstra resisted . It was not until that Admiral Hugo Biermann became Chief of the South African Defence Force in 1972 that the go - ahead was granted . The unit was originally based at Oudtshoorn in the Cape Province , but was to Durban in 1974 , where it was formally named 1 Reconnaissance Commando . It was renamed " 1 Reconnaissance Regiment " in 1996 , but was disbanded and integrated into 4 Reconnaissance Regiment and 5 Reconnaissance Regiment in 1997 .
Dudley C . Haskell Dudley Chase Haskell ( March 23 , 1842 – December 16 , 1883 ) was a nineteenth - century politician and merchant from Kansas . He was the grandfather of Otis Halbert Holmes . He is the namesake of Haskell County in southwestern Kansas . Biography . Born in Springfield , Vermont , Haskell moved to Lawrence , Kansas with his parents in 1855 . He attended schools back in Springfield in 1857 and 1858 , engaged in business as a shoe merchant and followed the Pike ' s Peak Gold Rush in 1859 , residing in Pikes Peak , Colorado until 1861 . During the Civil War , Haskell served as an assistant to the quartermaster of the Union Army in Missouri , Arkansas , Kansas and the Indian Territory in 1861 and 1862 . He left the army and entered Williston ’ s Seminary in Easthampton , Massachusetts in 1863 and graduated from Yale College in 1865 . Afterward , he returned to Lawrence , Kansas , engaged in the shoe business from 1865 to 1867 and was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives in 1872 , 1875 and 1876 , serving as Speaker of the House in 1876 . Haskell was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1876 , serving from 1877 until his death in Washington , D . C . on December 16 , 1883 . There , he served as chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs from 1881 to 1883 . He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence , Kansas .
Joseph Henderson ( Pennsylvania ) Joseph Henderson ( August 2 , 1791 – December 25 , 1863 ) was a Jacksonian member of the U . S . House of Representatives from Pennsylvania . Joseph Henderson was born in Shippensburg , Pennsylvania . He moved with his parents to Centre County , Pennsylvania , in 1802 . He attended the public schools and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia in 1813 . During the War of 1812 , he was commissioned first lieutenant in the Twenty - second Regiment , Pennsylvania Volunteers , in the spring of 1813 . He was promoted to captain in the fall of the same year . He was then brevetted major and given command of a regiment in 1814 . He settled at Browns Mills , Pennsylvania , at the close of the war and engaged in the practice of medicine . Henderson was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty - third and Twenty - fourth Congresses . He was not a candidate for renomination in 1836 . He moved to Lewistown , Pennsylvania , in 1850 and continued the practice of medicine . He died in Lewistown in 1863 . Interment in St . Mark ’ s Cemetery .
USS Lilian ( 1863 ) USS " Lilian " ( 1863 ) was a large steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries . Captured by the Union and commissioned as a Union Navy vessel . " Lilian " , an iron wide - wheel steamer built on the Clyde River , Scotland , in 1863 , was captured some 100 miles east of Cape Fear , North Carolina , 24 August 1864 by and other Union ships . Among the prisoners were five Wilmington , North Carolina , pilots being carried to Bermuda to guide Confederate ships through the blockade . Purchased by the Navy from the Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , Prize Court 6 September 1864 , she was commissioned 6 October at the Philadelphia Navy Yard , Acting Volunteer Lt . T . A . Harris in command . Assigned to join the Union fleet attacking Fort Fisher . " Lilian " joined the fleet attacking Fort Fisher , Cape Fear River , 23 to 24 December 1864 and 13 to 14 January 1865 . She landed troops above the fort on the 13th , and then bombarded it . After this attack , she patrolled the inlet , and with captured the British steamer " Blenheim " 25 January . Post - war decommissioning , sale , and civilian career . She decommissioned 5 April 1865 and was sold at public auction at New York City 30 November 1865 . Documented 8 October 1866 , " Lilian " operated in merchant service until 1868 .
Banswara State Banswara State was a princely state in India from about 1497 until 1949 . It was located in what is today the state of Rajasthan . Banswara was established by Udai Singh , the ruler of Bagar as a domain for his son Jagmal Singh . In 1913 Govindgiri lead an unsucceful revolt of the Adivasi Bhils against the raja . In 1949 Banswara was merged into India . History . Banswara state was founded in 1527 . It was ruled by the Shishodhya dynasty who were titled Maharawal .
Confederate Military History Confederate Military History is a 12 - volume series of books written and / or edited by former Confederate general Clement A . Evans that deals with specific topics related to the military personalities , places , battles , and campaigns in various Southern United States states , including those of the Confederacy . Volumes . The books were first published in 1899 in Atlanta , Georgia , by Evans ' Confederate Publishing Company . The original title was " Confederate Military History : A Library of Confederate States History , written by distinguished men of the South . " Several reprint editions exist , with varying numbers of volumes .
USS Eastern Light ( ID - 3538 ) USS " Eastern Light " ( ID - 3538 ) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919 . Construction , acquisition , and commissioning . " Eastern Light " was built as the commercial cargo ship SS " Eastern Light " and completed in September 1918 by the Osaka Iron Works Company at Innoshima , Japan , for the United States Shipping Board . After she was converted for naval use at the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton , Washington , the Shipping Board transferred her to the U . S . Navy on 6 November 1918 . The Navy assigned her the naval registry identification number 3538 and commissioned her on 6 December 1918 as USS " Eastern Light " ( ID - 3538 ) with Lieutenant Commander W . J . Johnson , USNRF , in command . Operational history . After loading a cargo of flour and other stores at Tacoma , Washington , " Eastern Light " departed Seattle , Washington , on 29 December 1918 , bound for Norfolk , Virginia , where she arrived on 9 February 1919 . She loaded cargo for the United States Food Administration there , then departed Norfolk on 13 February 1919 bound for Rotterdam in the Netherlands , where she arrived on 5 March 1919 . Her cargo was transferred to barges there for use by the Commission for Relief in Belgium in relieving hunger in Belgium and northern France in the aftermath of World War I . Ballasted with sand , " Eastern Light " got underway from Rotterdam and moved to Plymouth , England , then departed Plymouth for New York City , which she reached on 10 April 1919 after a 16 - day transatlantic crossing . Decommissioning and disposal . " Eastern Light " was decommissioned on 16 April 1919 . The Navy transferred her back to the U . S . Shipping Board the same day .
John Cogswell Oakes Lieutenamt General John Cogswell Oakes was a United States Army general who served as Commanding General of VII Corps from 1961 to 1962 and as Commanding General , Seventh Army from 1962 to 1963 . Oakes was a 1928 graduate of the United States Military Academy . After service in World War II he served on an advisory mission to Greece during the Greek Civil War . Oakes commanded the 25th Infantry Division in the Korean War , followed by an assignment as the chief of staff of the Eighth Army . He later served as VII Corps and Seventh Army commander . Oakes died of congestive heart failure in 1982 at Walter Reed Hospital .
4th Regiment , Royal Australian Artillery The 4th Regiment , Royal Australian Artillery is an artillery unit of the Australian Army . Currently it provides direct - support to the 3rd Brigade and is based at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville , Queensland . The unit was raised in 1960 and is currently re - equipping with M777A2 lightweight towed howitzer s . The unit deployed during Australia ' s commitment to the Vietnam War and has subsequently deployed to Singapore and East Timor . History . The 4th Field Regiment was raised at Wacol on 3 May 1960 , being the first major Regular Army unit to be raised in Queensland . The Regiment moved to Lavarack Barracks in 1968 . As a complete unit , the Regiment served two tours of duty in South Vietnam , as well as sending individual batteries to South Vietnam , Singapore , Malaya and East Timor . In January 2011 the Australian Regular Army field regiments were reorganised in preparation for re - equipment with new guns and battle management systems to each contain three observation post batteries , supported by a single gun battery equipped with 12 guns . As part of this reorganisation the regiments were renamed , with the word " field " removed from their title . Under the new structure each regiment is capable of providing a brigade - level Joint Fires and Effects Coordination Centre ( JFEEC ) and every observation post batter provieds a battle group JFECC as well as three combat team joint fires teams . Every gun battery now comprises three troop s of 155 mm towed howitzers . Under the Land 17 project in 2011 4th Regiment will receive 12 M777A2 lightweight towed howitzers to replace its L119 field gun s , and the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System ( AFATDS ) , which is a fully automated digital battle - management system . In early 2012 it will take delivery of the Digital Terminal Control System for observation post batteries . The regiment is currently based at Chau Pha Lines , Lavarack Barracks in Townsville .
French frigate Résolue ( 1778 ) Résolue was an " Iphigénie " - class 32 - gun frigate of the French Navy . The British captured her twice , once in November 1791 during peacetime , and again in 1798 . The Royal Navy hulked her in 1799 and she was broken up in 1811 . French service . In January 1779 , " Résolue " was part of a squadron under Admiral Vaudreuil that captured Fort St Louis in Senegal from the British in February . The troops were under the command of the Duc de Lauzun . In September she was at Martinique undergoing repairs and refitting . In April 1781 " Résolue " was at Brest , being coppered . In 1783 she was again at Brest for repairs . In November 1791 , as she was escorting merchant ships , " Résolue " was captured at the Battle of Tellicherry by HMS " Phoenix " and HMS " Perseverance " . She suffered 25 men killed and 40 wounded . As this occurred during peacetime , the British restored her to France at Mahé . In 1793 she was at Brest being repaired . She took part in the Action of 23 April 1794 , when a squadron comprising " Résolue " , " Engageante " , " Pomone " and the 22 - gun corvette met a squadron of five British heavy frigates . " Résolue " managed to escape but the British took the other three ships . She took part in the Expédition d ' Irlande , under captain Montalan . On 22 December 1796 , she collided with " Redoutable " in Bantry Bay , dismasting her . A boat was sent to seek help from " Immortalité " , but it was washed up on the shore on Clough Beach and its crew taken prisoner . The boat is now a local attraction . " Résolue " managed to return to Brest under emergency rigging and in tow from " Pégase " . Capture . HMS " Melampus " captured " Résolue " on 14 October 1798 at the Battle of Tory Island . " Résolue " was fitted with hanging ports to her main deck . To meet a coming storm , her crew had run in and double - breeched her 12 - pounders , and shut and barred the ports . She was , therefore , in a comparatively defenseless state with only her quarterdeck guns able to respond to " Melampus " s broadsides . Before she struck her colours , " Résolue " lost ten men killed and had some wounded , out of a crew of about 500 men . British career . She was purchased for the Royal Navy as HMS " Resolue " but never saw active service , instead being hulked in 1799 at Plymouth . " Resolue " was commissioned under Lieutenant D . Wynter in November 1801 . His replacement was Lieutenant T . Richards . She was in ordinary in 1802 . She was again commissioned , in April 1803 , under Lieutenant J . H . Nicols , as a slop ship . In 1807 she served as flagship for Admiral J . Sutton . In 1809 she was a receiving ship . As late as 1810 she did have men aboard , including some African - Americans impressed into service , who wrote letters attempting to secure their release . Fate . " Resolue " was broken up on 10 August 1811 .
Bolesław Bronisław Duch Bolesław Bronisław Duch ( 1885 – 1980 ) was a Polish Major General . Life . Duch served during World War I , 1914 – 18 , in the Polish Legions . After Poland regained independence , he served in the Polish Army . In 1935 - 1938 he commanded the 73rd Infantry Regiment . At the outbreak of World War II , the commander of the 39th Reserve Infantry Division General Brunon Olbrycht was ill and the division was " de facto " commanded by Duch . After Poland was overrun by Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939 , Duch managed to evade capture and served in western Europe , becoming commander successively of the Polish 1st Grenadier Division in France ( 1940 ) , 1st Rifle Brigade of the 1st Polish Corps in Scotland ( 1942 – 43 ) , and of the 3rd Carpathian Infantry Division of the 2nd Polish Corps ( 1943 – 46 ) . In 1947 , Duch settled in London and became chairman of the Council of the World Polish Veterans ' Association . He was the last General Inspector of the Armed Forces ( from February 1980 until his death in October that year ) .