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Conscription in Mexico Military Service in Mexico ( in Spanish , Servicio Militar Nacional , or SMN ) currently involves all males reaching the age of eighteen years . Selection is made by a lottery system using the following color scheme : those who draw a black ball must serve as " availability reservists " , that is , they must not pursue any activities whatsoever and receive their discharge card at the end of the year . The ones who get a white ball serve in a Batallón del Servicio Militar Nacional ( National Military Service Battalion ) composed entirely of one - year SMN conscripts . In certain cities , such as Veracruz and Ciudad Madero , the lottery system also includes a blue ball ; whoever draws it must serve in the navy . Military service is also ( voluntarily ) open to women . Conscripts are trained in basic combat with fire weapons , in one Infantry Battalion . Their formation was brought about after German submarine attacks against Mexican oil tankers that were providing fuel and material to the Allies . These attacks eventually caused the Mexican government to declare war on Germany . Mexico sent an expeditionary force , the Escuadrón 201 , to fight in the Pacific War .
Alan Brooke , 3rd Viscount Brookeborough Alan Henry Brooke , 3rd Viscount Brookeborough , Bt . , DL ( born 30 June 1952 ) , is a Northern Irish peer and landowner . He is one of the 92 hereditary peers who remain , for life , in the House of Lords . Early life and career . Lord Brookeborough was educated at Harrow School , Millfield , and the Royal Agricultural College , Cirencester . He joined the British Army in 1971 , being commissioned into the 17th / 21st Lancers . In 1977 he transferred to the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) , which was to become the Royal Irish Regiment in 1992 . He was promoted to Lieutenant - Colonel in 1993 , and became Honorary Colonel of the 4th / 5th Battalion , Royal Irish Rangers , in 1997 . Personal life . Lord Brookeborough ( known to his family and friends as Alan Brooke or Alan Brookeborough ) married Janet Elizabeth Cooke ( daughter of J . P . Cooke , of Doagh ) , now Viscountess Brookeborough , in 1980 . They farm the Colebrooke Estate , just outside Brookeborough in County Fermanagh , Northern Ireland . The centre of the estate is Colebrooke Park , an early 19th - century neo - Classical country house that is the ancestral seat of the Brooke family . Peerage . Brooke succeeded his father as The 3rd Viscount Brookeborough in 1987 . Although he lost his automatic right to a seat in the House of Lords , with all other hereditary peers after the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999 , Lord Brookeborough returned to the House as an elected crossbench peer in 1999 . He has been a Lord - in - Waiting to The Queen since 1997 . He is President of the Co . Fermanagh Unionist Association and was appointed as an independent member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board in 2001 . The Lord Brookeborough has represented The Queen as HM ' s Lord - in - Waiting , instead of The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall , on the arrival of the U . S . President , Barack Obama , and First Lady Michelle Obama to the United Kingdom on their official state visit , on 24 May 2011 . Family . Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ( 1883 - 1963 ) was also a member of the same family . Lord Alanbrooke was an uncle of The 1st Viscount Brookeborough . The current Lord Brookeborough has no children . His younger brother , The Hon . Christopher Brooke ( who has four sons ) , is his heir presumptive . Lord Brookeborough intends to eventually leave the Colebrooke Estate , including Colebrooke Park , to his nephew , his brother ' s eldest son and heir .
1896 Defense of Van The 1896 Defense of Van or Van Rebellion was an act of self - defense by the Armenian population in Van against the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire in June 1896 during the Hamidian massacres . Background . The Van region had avoided the earlier stages of the Hamidian massacres in 1895 . However , by January 1896 there was increasing violence - a report by the British vice - consul in Van , W . H . Williams , said the many Armenian villages had been looted and " " Armenians are everywhere in a state bordering on panic , afraid lest the spring will bring still further disasters " " . The Ottoman authorities eventually sent an expedition to attack the Armenian population of Van in June 1896 . Defense and Massacre . Between the 3 and 11 June some six to seven hundred Armenian men defended the Armenian sections of the Aigestan ( Garden City ) district of the city . After a week of fighting , the sultan sought assistance from the Western powers to end the violence , promising that he would guarantee the lives and safety of the Armenians of Van . After some negotiations , and making clear they had been acting in self - defense in the face of continual massacre , the Armenian defenders agreed to leave for Persia , escorted by Ottoman troops . En route , as nearly 1 , 000 Armenians marched towards the border , they were massacred by Ottoman troops and Kurdish tribesmen . This was followed by further massacres throughout the Van region . Vice - consul Williams estimated that some 20 , 000 Armenians had been killed and some 350 Armenian villages destroyed . Aftermath . In July 1897 , an Armenian Fedayee group undertook a revenge attack , known as the Khanasor Expedition , against the Kurdish Mazrig tribe that had been responsible for the massacre of the defenders of Van when they were moving towards the Persian border .
Demetrios Ypsilantis Demetrios Ypsilantis ( also spelt using Dimitrios , Demetrius and / or Ypsilanti ; ; ; 1793August 16 , 1832 ) was a dragoman of the Ottoman Empire , served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army in Moldavia and was appointed as modern Greece ' s first Field Marshal by Ioannis Kapodistrias , a hero of the Greek War of Independence . Ypsilantis was the brother of Alexander Ypsilantis , a leader of Filiki Eteria . Early life . A member of an important Phanariote family , he was the second son of Prince Constantine Ypsilantis of Moldavia . He was sent to France where he was educated at a French military school . Union of Moldavia and Wallachia . He distinguished himself as a Russia n officer in the campaign of 1814 . In 1821 there was a Greek rebellion under Demetrios Ypsilantis , in Moldavia , that indirectly benefited the Principalities ( of Moldavia and Wallachia ) . The Greek War of Independence . In 1821 he went to the Morea , where the Greek War of Independence had just broken out . He was one of the most conspicuous of the Phanariote leaders during the early stages of the revolt , though he was much hampered by the local chiefs and by the civilian element headed by Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos , as a result the organisation of a regular army was slowed and operations were limited . On 15 January 1822 , he was elected president of the legislative assembly . However , due to the failure of his campaign in central Greece , and his failure to obtain a commanding position in the national convention of Astros , he was compelled to retire in 1823 . In 1828 , he was appointed by Ioannis Kapodistrias as commander of the troops in eastern Greece . On 25 September 1829 , he successfully compelled the Turkish commander Aslan Bey to capitulate at the Pass of Petra , thus ending the active operations of the war . Romance . He was known for an affair with Manto Mavrogenous who was a Greek heroine of the Greek War of Independence . Death . He died at Nafplion on August 16 , 1832 . The city of Ypsilanti , Michigan in the United States - founded in 1825 , during the Greek struggle for independence - is named after him . A bust of Demetrios Ypsilanti stands between American and Greek flags at the base of the landmark Ypsilanti Water Tower .
USS Alligator ( 1809 ) The first USS " Alligator " was a schooner in the United States Navy , built in 1809 as " Gunboat No . 166 " and placed in ordinary at Wilmington , North Carolina . She was commissioned sometime in mid - 1809 , under Master Commandant Joseph Tarbell . Built and commissioned as a part of the Democratic - Republican Party ' s defensive " Gunboat Navy " , " Gunboat No . 166 " served on the coast of the Carolinas , protecting coastal commerce . . She was still operating on that station when the War of 1812 opened . That same year , she received the name " Alligator " . On 29 January 1814 , she was anchored in the mouth of the Stone River , South Carolina , when two British ships — a frigate and a brig — sailed close inshore . It was quite apparent from their movements that they would send a boat expedition in to cut her out during the night . " Alligator " made her preparations to ward off the expected attack . At about 1915 that evening , lookouts spied seven boats approaching with muffled oars . " Alligator " hailed the newcomers whereupon they raised a cheer and opened with their boat carronades and small arms . " Alligator " cut her cable , made sail , and opened a withering fire on the intruders . The return fire stopped the attackers cold , but , in the darkness , " Alligator " ran aground . Fortunately , her assailants had lost heart and rowed back downstream to their ships , apparently having suffered heavy casualties . " Alligator " lost two men killed and two wounded . She was soon refloated and returned to service . In July , however , she sank in Port Royal Sound during a heavy storm . Twenty - one of her crew drowned . < rerf name = Silverstone > Sivlerstone ( 2001 ) , p . 55 . Refloated once again , " Alligator " resumed service until she was sold on 12 June 1815 .
George Washington Fleeger George Washington Fleeger ( March 13 , 1839 – June 25 , 1894 ) was a Republican member of the U . S . House of Representatives from Pennsylvania . Biography . George W . Fleeger was born in Concord Township , Pennsylvania . He attended the common schools and West Sunbury Academy . He was enlisted in the Union Army on June 10 , 1861 , as a private in Company C , 11th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment , and was commissioned a first lieutenant in June 1862 . He was brevetted captain , and served until March 13 , 1865 . He studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Butler . Fleeger served as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1871 and 1872 . He was the chairman of the Republican State central committee , and a delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1882 and 1890 . Fleeger was elected as a Republican to the Forty - ninth Congress . He resumed the practice of law in Butler , Pennsylvania , and died there in 1894 . Interment in the North Cemetery .
William Johnstone ( VC ) Leading Stoker William Johnstone VC ( 6 August 1823 – 20 August 1857 ) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces . He enlisted and served as John Johnstone . Of uncertain background , he may have been a Swedish Johannsen whose name was Anglicized as Johnstone . He is listed as being born in Hanover . Details . He was 31 years old , and a stoker in the Royal Navy during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 9 August 1854 in the Baltic , Stoker Johnstone and a lieutenant ( John Bythesea ) from HMS Arrogant , landed on the island of Vårdö , Åland Islands off Finland in order to intercept important despatches from the Czar which were being sent via Vårdö to Bomarsund . The two men spent two nights reconnoitring the island and on 12 August when the despatches arrived , they ambushed the five Russians carrying them . Two of the carriers dropped their mail bags and ran but the other three surrendered and were taken to " Arrogant " . In this action the officer and stoker were armed with just one pistol . Death . He died on 20 August 1857 from self - inflicted wounds whilst serving aboard HMS Brunswick in the West Indies . He cut his own throat after attacking another man with a knife , and was buried at sea in the St Vincent Passage , West Indies . The medal . Johnstone ' s medal is displayed in the County Museum of Natural History , Los Angeles , California
Arthur Julian Andrew Arthur Julian Andrew ( born Pictou County , Nova Scotia in 1915 - died 1994 ) is a former Canadian diplomat . He was the Chargé d ' Affaires a . i . to Austria and Czechoslovakia and the High Commissioner to Cyprus and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Israel , Sweden and Greece . He was also an author of books about international relations . Joyce Mowbray Sircom married Arthur Andrew in 1940 . The couple had two daughters , Stephanie and Victoria . Joyce Andrew was one of the founding members of the External Affairs Wives Association ( now the Foreign Service Community Association ) , a mutual aid group for families in the Foreign Service .
33d Combat Communications Squadron The 33d Combat Communications Squadron ( 33 CBCS ) is a United States Air Force combat communications squadron , located at Tinker AFB . They deploy quality communications - computer systems and air traffic services for military operations and emergency missions under hostile and base conditions anytime , anywhere . The 33d CBCS ( Combat Communications Squadron ) was inactivated as part of the overall inactivation of the 3 CCG ( Combat Communications Group ) in May 2012 . In January 2013 the 33d was unofficially merged with the 31st CBCS as part of the inactivation proceedings . The unit is expecting to be completely inactivated no later than October 2013 . Mission . Provide engineering team and expeditionary communications to support advance , initial reception of forces , and " reach forward " deployment of key personnel . Provide communications infrastructure to activate and robust two air expeditionary wings ( AEW ) with a maximum boots on ground of 3 , 000 persons each . Provide deployed base information infrastructure across the full spectrum of operations . Provide connectivity for base infrastructure and from base infrastructure to theatre information infrastructure . Provide power and environmental control where these services are not available from host or wing civil engineering . Provide theatre - level services including global broadcast system tactical receive suite , line of sight and intra - theatre information infrastructure . Provide air traffic control services to one AEW . History . The 33d has been a part of the 3d Combat Communications Group since its re - inception as a unit in 1988 . The 33d has deployed in support of missions throughout both conflicts in the Mid East , including direct support of operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn . The 33d has provided reliable deployable communications and tactical air field and air traffic control support for more than two decades . In May 2012 the 33d , along with all of its sister squadrons and command group , we slated for inactivation in fiscal year 2013 .
List of Victoria Crosses by school The Victoria Cross has been awarded 1 , 355 times to a person of any rank in any service and civilians under military command . This list however only shows 317 winners awarded mainly to non - state schools with more than thirty schools known to have educated more than one VC recipient . Only five of the schools with more than one VC recipient are state schools ( Dudley Public School , George Mitchell School , Queen Elizabeth ' s Grammar School for Boys , Royal Grammar School High Wycombe and Royal High School Edinburgh ) . " Although the terms of the creation of the VC emphasised that it was open to both services and to all ranks , it is clear that there is a bias towards officers and NCOs " as " War was an aristocratic trade and military glory reserved for Nobles and princes " . Also , education only became compulsory in the UK in the 1870s , and secondary education only some time later , so many private soldiers who won the Victoria Cross in the past may never have gone to school , or never gone to secondary school ( see British Army during the Victorian Era ) . Four schools educated the only three boys who went on to win the Victoria Cross and Bar , Christ ' s College , Canterbury , New Zealand ( Charles Upham ) , Magdalen College School / Liverpool College ( Noel Godfrey Chavasse ) and Westminster School ( Arthur Martin - Leake ) . The bars are included as separate awards in the columns of the table . The order of the schools is by the number of Victoria Crosses received . Victoria Crosses by school and campaign . ! style = " background : # ffdead ; " | School ! style = " background : # ffdead ; " | Location ! style = " background : # ffdead ; " | Total ! Crimean War | | Persian War | | Indian Mutiny | | 1860 - 1878 | | Zulu War | | Second Afghan War | | 1879 - 1902 ( excl . Boer War ) | | South African War ( Boer War ) | | 1903 - 1905 | | First World War | | 1919 to 1935 | | Second World War | | post WW2
Battle of Asseiceira The Battle of Asseiceira , fought on 16 May 1834 , was the last and decisive engagement of the Portuguese Civil War , or " War of the Two Brothers " , between Dom Pedro , ex - Emperor of Brazil ( fighting to restore his daughter Dona Maria da Glória as rightful Queen of Portugal ) and the usurper Dom Miguel . Dom Miguel ' s rebel forces were defeated . Miguel ' s army , under the command of General Guedes , had been retreating eastward before the advance of Dom Pedro ' s forces , and had camped in a strong position on the Heights of Asseiceira , a system of hills and valleys about four miles from Tomar . Miguel himself was at Santarém and was not involved in the ensuing battle . Pedro ' s general , the Duke of Terceira , advanced from Tomar on the morning of the 16th and attacked their position in three columns commanded by Colonels Queirós , Nepomuceno and Vasconcelos . The Miguelite forces attempted to repel them with artillery bombardment and cavalry charges but the loyalist forces persisted in their attacks and eventually a charge by their own cavalry carried the heights . Many of the enemy were killed or wounded , their guns captured , and some 1400 men taken prisoner . The remainder fled towards Golegã , which was occupied by Terceira the following day . Dom Pedro ( already ill with the sickness that would kill him shortly after his final victory ) arrived there on the 18th from Cartaxo . Miguel rallied his forces at Évora , but his officers were unwilling to risk a final battle after nearly two years of warfare , and he was presently induced to seek terms of capitulation . The war would finally end ten days later with the signing of the Concession of Evoramonte , where Dom Miguel surrendered and abandoned his claim to the Portuguese throne , being also banished from the kingdom .
Bernard Kilkeary Bernard Kilkeary ( 1827 – after 1902 ) was Irish soldier and survivor of " HMS Birkenhead " . Kilkeary was born in what is now Birr , County Offaly ( then Parsonstown , King ' s County ) . He joined the British Army as a youth , serving in the 73rd ( Perthshire ) Regiment of Foot . He was one of the few survivors of the " Birkenhead " which went down at two o ' clock in the morning on 28 February 1852 . He was aboard the cutter which rescued women and children as she sank . Twelve hours later , they themselves were rescued by the schooner , " Lioness " , of Cape Town . Kilkeary spent thirty - two years as a soldier , all but two in non - commissioned ranks . He was a colour Sergeant with the 73rd , which he served with for twelve years and two hundred and one days . The remaining twenty years he spent in the Auxiliary s , his last corps being the Mid Ulster Artillery , of which he was the Paymaster Sergeant . His active service included the 1852 – 53 Kaffir War , the battle of Berea and the Indian Mutiny . As of 1902 , he was residing at Dungannon , County Tyrone .
Francis , Count of Enghien François de Bourbon , Count of Enghien ( 23 September 1519 – 23 February 1546 ) was a French prince of the blood . He was the son of Charles de Bourbon , Duke of Vendôme . Given command of the French army in Italy by Francis I of France during the Italian War of 1542 , he was the French commander at the Franco - Ottoman Siege of Nice in 1543 , and he led it to victory at the Battle of Ceresole in 1544 . His early death at the age of 27 was caused by an accident – falling of a heavy chest – in the castle La Roche - Guyon .
HMS Thunderer ( 1831 ) HMS " Thunderer " was a two - deck 84 - gun second rate ship of the line , a modified version of the " Canopus " / " Formidable " - class launched on 22 September 1831 at Woolwich Dockyard . She was constructed with diagonal framing and improved underwater lines on the principles of Sir William Symonds , Surveyor of the Navy . In 1840 , HMS " Thunderer " fought in the Syria campaign , taking part in the battle of Sidon , which was the last fleet action conducted purely by wooden ships of the line under sail . In the same year she acted as flagship at the bombardment and capture of the fortress at St . Jean d ' Acre , which was the first action at which steam vessels were present , albeit as support vessels rather than fighting ships . She was fitted with iron - clad plate in 1863 for trials of new armour - piercing guns . She was hulked in 1863 as a target ship at Portsmouth . " Thunderer " was renamed twice in quick succession : first in 1869 to " Comet " , and again in 1870 to " Nettle " . HMS " Nettle " was sold in 1901 .
23rd Special Tactics Squadron The 23rd Special Tactics Squadron ( 23rd STS ) is one of the Special Tactics units of the United States Air Force Special Operations Command ( AFSOC ) . The 23rd STS was previously designated 1723rd Special Tactics prior to 1992 . Operations . Members of the unit have participated in Operation Just Cause ( 1989 ) Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm ( 1990 – 1991 ) Operation Provide Comfort ( 1991 ) Operation Allied Force , Kosovo in 1999 and have been engaged in combat since October 2001 in Operation Enduring Freedom ( Afghanistan ) and Operation Iraqi Freedom . Members of the U . S . Air Force ' s 23rd Special Tactics Squadron took part in Haiti earthquake relief operations by providing air traffic control operations at Haiti ' s Toussaint Louverture International Airport .
Marc Warren ( attorney ) Marc Warren is the Deputy Chief Counsel for Operations at the Federal Aviation Administration , and he has held this position since November 2007 . He had been assigned to the US Army ' s Judge Advocate General office . He is at the Center for Military Law and Operations . He was a potential defendant in the proposed international war crimes prosecution for the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay torture scandal , undertaken by the German national Wolfgang Kaleck .
James Allen ( Medal of Honor ) " For the U . S . Army engineer and frontiersman , see James Allen ( Army engineer ) " James Allen ( May 5 , 1843 - August 31 , 1913 ) was an Irish - born Union Army soldier during the American Civil War . He earned the Medal of Honor for bravery at the Battle of South Mountain on September 14 , 1862 , during the Maryland Campaign . On April 24 , 1861 , shortly after the outbreak of the American Civil War , James Allen enlisted in Company F of the 16th New York Infantry . He earned the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action at the Battle of South Mountain on September 14 , 1862 . During the battle , Allen singlehandedly captured 14 Confederate soldiers of the 16th Georgia Infantry , who had mistakenly believed they were opposed by a superior force . Allen also captured a Confederate flag in this action . Allen was discharged along with the rest of the 16th New York in May 1863 , but continued to serve the Union cause as a member of the railroad service . Allen was awarded the Medal of Honor on September 11 , 1890 . After the war , Allen lived in St . Paul , Minnesota and was a member of the Garfield Post of the Grand Army of the Republic . Allen died on August 31 , 1913 , and was laid to rest in the Oakland Cemetery in St . Paul . Medal of Honor citation . Citation :