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William Foster & Co . William Foster & Co Ltd was an agricultural machinery company based in Lincoln , Lincolnshire , England and usually just called " Fosters of Lincoln . " The company can be traced back to 1846 , when William Foster purchased a flour mill in Lincoln . William Foster then proceeded to start small scale manufacturing of mill machinery and threshing machinery . The mill was converted to an iron foundry by 1856 , thus becoming the original Wellington Foundry . During the First World War they built the first tank s for the British Army . Agricultural machinery . The company was known for producing threshing machine s , regarded as among the best available . They also made traction engine s , steam tractor s such as the " Foster Wellington " and showman ' s road locomotive s . Foster were briefly involved in a deal to market tractors built by Daimler in Britain but this was dropped after the war . ( Little is known about the Daimler tractors which mainly were exported ) . The tank . Foster ' s , as builders of agricultural machinery , were involved in the production and design of the prototype tanks , which were , in effect , agricultural tractors with armoured bodies . After the First World War , The " Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors " decided that the inventors of the Tank were Sir William Tritton , managing director of Fosters together with Major W G Wilson . An example of the first tanks that were used in the 1st World war is preserved and on display in the Museum of Lincolnshire Life . This is a Mark IV . The tanks were described as " Water carriers for Mesopotania " during production for security . The firm used the symbol of the tank after the war on other machinery they built as a trade mark . Gwynnes Pumps . John Gwynne manufactured motor cars and centrifugal pump s in Hammersmith until acquired by Foster & Co . in 1927 . Pump production was moved to Lincoln in 1930 and the company renamed Foster Gwynnes . Pump production ended in Lincoln in 1968 . In 1964 vertical pumps were supplied to the Deeping fen IDB for the pumping station at Pode Hole , where they remain in use . Takeover . The company was acquired by W H Allen & Co in 1960 , and subsequently by Amalgamated Power Engineering . In Fiction . There is a traction engine in both Rev W Awdry ' s Railway Series and The Thomas & Friends TV Series based on one of these named Trevor .
Archibald Paris ( Royal Marines officer ) Major - General Sir Archibald Paris , KCB ( 1861 – 1937 ) was a British Royal Marine officer who commanded the Royal Naval Division in World War I . He was father of Brigadier Archibald Paris , who served in World War II in Malaya . Paris commanded the Naval Division from its concentration in Antwerp and he was seen to have preserved the particular identity and character of the Division while it fought alongside the Army . On 14 October 1916 , he was wounded in the shoulder , the back and he lost his left leg and consequently had to relinquish his command . He died on 30 October 1937 . For his war service , Paris was made a Commander of the Belgian Order of Leopold ( with Swords ) , awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre and the French Croix de Guerre .
Scott Cassell Scott Cassell is an American explorer , underwater filmmaker and counter - terrorism operative . His documentary credits include over thirty - five programs for the Disney Channel , MTV ( " Wildboyz " ) , Spike TV , the Discovery Channel , Animal Planet , the Space Channel , the BBC and the History Channel . He has over 13 , 000 hours as a diver , and is a United States Coast Guard - qualified submersible pilot , with over 900 dives in the SeaMagine SeaMobile submersible . He holds the world record for longest distance traveled by a diver ( 52 miles in 9 . 5 hours ) . Cassell grew up in California and worked as an underwater welder as a teenager . He began diving in 1977 . For fifteen years , Cassell served as principal investigator in studies of Humboldt squid and developed body armor to protect against attacks . It has been claimed that in November 2006 Cassell became the first person to film a giant squid in its natural environment , leading an expedition that filmed an " Architeuthis dux " with an estimated length of 40 feet in predatory behavior . The footage aired on a History Channel program , " MonsterQuest : Giant Squid Found " . Cassell subsequently distanced himself from this documentary , claiming that it contained multiple factual and scientific errors . Cassell is a former U . S . Army combat medic ( 68W ) , and served as an AeroScout Observer ( 93B ) in the Army National Guard from 1985 to 2000 . He served as a combat diver for fifteen years . He has served as a sniper , an anti - piracy consultant and a Counterterrorism Combat Dive Instructor for Special Ops personnel . Cassell has twenty years of experience with closed circuit rebreather s . He is also an experienced cave diver and a former instructor at the College of Oceaneering . Cassell is a featured contributor to " California Diver Magazine " . Cassell is the founder and head of Sea Wolves Unlimited and the Undersea Voyager Project ( UVP ) . Sea Wolves uses Special Ops techniques on " rECOn missions " to identify the killers of marine endangered species . UVP is a non - profit organization dedicated to ocean health . Over a five - year period , UVP plans to circumnavigate the world underwater performing scientific missions on Cassell ' s submersible . UVP ' s first mission was conducted in Lake Tahoe and included 58 submersible dives and 33 scuba dive s . On September 17 , 2011 , Cassell attempted to set a new world record for longest distance traveled by a diver . Cassell planned to swim a distance of 30 miles , from Santa Catalina Island to San Pedro Harbor , during one continuous scuba dive while conducting experiments related to the decline in shark populations . He suffered a near - fatal equipment failure , forcing him to surface and give up the record attempt , but completed the dive after correcting the technical problems . No sharks were found during the dive .
Gu Zhutong Gu Zhutong ( ; 1893 – January 17 , 1987 ) , courtesy name Moshan ( 墨山 ) , was a military general and administrator of the Republic of China . Early life and career . Gu was born in Lianshui , Jiangsu province and attended army elementary academy at age 19 , When the Chinese Revolution of 1911 broke out , he soon joined the Revolution . In 1912 , he joined the Chinese Nationalist Party , and enrolled in Wuhan reserve officer candidate school , and then attend the Baoding Military Academy . In 1922 , he went to Canton and became a staff officer of Second Cantonese Army . When Whampoa Military Academy was founded in 1924 , he became one of the academy instructors . When the newly formed nationalist government launched a campaign against a local warlord , he became a battalion commander . During the Northern Expedition , Gu was promoted division commander and then corps commander . In the Central Plains War , he was the commander of the 16th route army . In 1931 , he became garrison commander of Nanjing , the capital of the nationalist government . In 1933 he participated the anti - communist Encirclement Campaigns . In 1935 he was promoted to general and put in charge of three southwestern provinces , meanwhile he was also the chairman of Jiangsu province . After the breakout of the second Sino - Japanese war , he was named commander - in - chief of the third war zone , during the New Fourth Army Incident in 1941 nationalist units under his command destroyed a large contingent of communist troops , and Chiang Kai - shek decorated him with order of blue sky and white sun , the highest honor for a Chinese commander . Chinese Civil War . In 1946 , he was named commander - in - chief of the nationalist army and pacification director of Zhengzhou , and was put in charge attack communist - controlled areas in Shandong province . In 1947 , he lost the critical Menglianggu Campaign , in which the elite 74th independent enhanced division was wiped out by the communist forces . Chiang Kai - shek relieved him of command , and appointed him as Chief of Staff instead . In March 1950 , he arrived in Taiwan and was appointed as defense minister , and in 1954 he was promoted to four - star general . In 1956 , Gu was appointed as secretary general of the National Defense Council ; in 1967 he was named as deputy head of the strategic advisory committee . In 1972 , he became an advisor to Chiang Kai - shek and died on January 17 , 1987 .
Battle of Taiyuan The Japanese offensive called 太原作戦 or the Battle of Taiyuan ( ) was a major battle fought between China and Japan named for Taiyuan ( the capital of Shanxi province ) , which lay in the 2nd Military Region . This battle concluded in loss for the NRA , including part of Suiyuan , most of Shanxi and their most modern arsenal at Taiyuan and effectively ended large - scale regular resistance in the North China area . With these territories occupied , the Japanese obtained the coal supply in nearby Datong , but it also exposed them to attacks by the guerrilla forces of the Nationalist army including the Eighth Route Army , tying down a large number of Japanese troops which could have been diverted to other campaigns . Chronology . In September 1937 , Hideki Tojo sent the Japanese army stationed in Chahar to invade Shanxi in order to exploit its resources . The city of Datong fell , and the NRA was forced to go on the defensive , and concentrated their troops along the Great Wall in battles at places like Pingxingguan and to the east at in Niangziguan . Yan Xishan also sent troops to reinforce Shijiazhuang , but that caused a lack of personnel to defend the North China area , allowing the Japanese army to break through in the north forcing the Chinese to fall back to a new line at Xinkou . Fighting continued in October in the Battle of Xinkou until the Japanese outflanked Niangziguan in late October , compromising the Chinese defense resulting in the fall of Taiyuan .
No . 35 Squadron , Finnish Air Force No . 35 Supplement Squadron ( or " T - LLv . 35 " , or later " T - Le . Lv . 35 " ) was a training squadron of the Finnish Air Force during World War II . The unit was first subordinated the Flying Regiment 3 . The unit was initially stationed in Vaasa and later in Parola .
Charles Borzecki Lieutenant Charles Alexandre Bronislas Borzecki was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories . Honors and awards . Médaille Militaire Adjudant observer of Escadrille C43 ; remarkable photographer observer showing skill , courage and sang - froid . He distinguished himself during the period 1 to 10 July 1916 , during the course of which he demonstrated exceptional qualities of spirit and courage . Has executed in very bad weather all the missions assigned to him , often at very low altitudes , in spite of violent fire from infantry and artillery . Attacked twice by enemy planes , on 1 and 3 July , he attacked them causing them to flee , then completed his mission . Wounded and cited in orders . Médaille Militaire citation , 4 August 1916 Légion d ' Honneur Sous Lieutenant observer of Escadrille N62 ; observer of the first order . On 10 February 1917 , during the course of a long range mission , he was attacked by three enemy planes ; he downed one of them and put the others to flight , not returning until his mission was completed . Has downed four enemy planes since July 1916 . Already wounded in the course of the war and cited in orders four times . Légion d ' Honneur citation , 8 March 1917
6th Medical Logistics Management Center ( United States Army ) The 6th Medical Logistics Management Center ( 6MLMC ) , a direct reporting unit of U . S . Army Forces Command FORSCOM at Fort Bragg , North Carolina , with administrative control and training readiness authority to the Medical Research and Material Command USAMRMC Fort Detrick , Maryland serves as the Army ' s only deployable medical materiel management center world - wide . Mission . Provide strategically networked and centrally managed Joint Combat Health Logistics information services supporting multiple Theater - level Full Spectrum operations . Commanders of the 6MLMC and its precursors . Anthony R . Nesbitt
Andronikos Doukas ( general under Romanos IV ) Andronikos Doukas , Latinized as Andronicus Ducas , ( ; died 14 October 1077 ) was a " protovestiarios " and " protoproedros " of the Byzantine Empire . Life . Andronikos Doukas was son of the Caesar John Doukas and Eirene Pegonitissa . His father was a brother of Emperor Constantine X Doukas . His maternal grandfather was Niketas Pegonites . Andronikos himself was a first cousin of Michael VII Doukas . In 1071 Andronikos was the commander of a section of the Byzantine army in the campaign of Romanos IV Diogenes against the Seljuk Turks of Alp Arslan . Commanding the rearguard of the army during the Battle of Manzikert , Andronikos announced that the emperor had been cut down and deserted from the battlefield . He was widely blamed for causing the crushing defeat of the Byzantine forces and the subsequent capture of Romanos IV by the enemy . In 1072 , after Romanos had been released by Alp Arslan , Andronikos and his brother Constantine were sent out by Michael VII and their father the Caesar John to intercept him . They defeated Romanos and hunted him down in Cilicia . It was Andronikos who finally obtained Romanos ' surrender and conducted him towards Constantinople . In spite of his former hatred for the deposed emperor , Andronikos is said to have opposed his blinding on 29 June 1072 . In 1074 , together with his father , Andronikos commanded the imperial army against the rebel mercenaries led by Roussel de Bailleul . Both were captured by the rebels , who released the badly wounded Andronikos to allow him to seek proper medical treatment in Constantinople . There he recovered for a few years , but in October 1077 died of an edema . Family . Andronikos Doukas married Maria of Bulgaria , daughter of Troian , a son of Emperor Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria . They had at least five children :
John Harris Soper John Harris Soper ( November 17 , 1846 , Plymouth , Devon , England - 1944 ) was Marshal of the Kingdom of Hawaii during the period of 1884 - 86 and 1888 - 90 . A military man , he became Commander - in - chief of military forces of the Provisional Government of Hawaii in 1893 ; Adjutant General and Chief of Staff during the period of 1894 - 1907 ; and retired as Brigadier General of the National Guard of Hawaii in 1907 , having previously served in the California National Guard . Also a businessman , he was President of Hawaiian News Company in Honolulu ; and also managed Soper , Wright & Company , a sugar plantation , on ʻŌʻōkala , Hawaii . He served as honorary vice - president of the Societe des Sauveteurs du Dernier Adieu ; and was a member of the Hawaiian Lodge No . 21 , F . & A . M . . Soper married Mary Elizabeth Wundenberg at Vallejo , California in 1871 ; they had five children .
Tyke ( pigeon ) Tyke , also known as ' George ' and carrying the service number 1263 MEPS 43 , was a male Second World War homing pigeon who was awarded the Dickin Medal for gallantry in 1943 for delivering a message from a downed aircrew . His medal was sold for £4 , 830 ( $ 7 , 313 ) in July 2000 . Military service . Tyke was hatched in Cairo , Egypt , from British and South African parents , and was seconded into military service . Bomber crews would carry homing pigeons in order to get word of their location back to home base should they be shot down . In June 1943 the American bomber he was stationed on was shot down , and Tyke was released in order to get help . He flew over a hundred miles in poor visibility , passing on the crew ' s call for help to friendly forces . The bomber crew credited the pigeon with saving their lives . Tyke was awarded the Dickin Medal for his actions , an animal - only medal issued by the People ' s Dispensary for Sick Animals . Tyke ' s citation reads , " For delivering a message under exceptionally difficult conditions and so contributing to the rescue of an Air Crew , while serving with the RAF in the Mediterranean in June , 1943 . " He was one of the first pigeons to be awarded the Dickin Medal , along with White Vision and Winkie , who each received the award on 2 December 1943 . Legacy . In July 2000 , Tyke ' s Dickin Medal was auctioned by Spink Auction House in London . It was sold for the sum of £4 , 830 ( $ 7 , 313 ) after receiving an initial top estimate of £3 , 500 ( $ 5 , 299 ) . Fellow Dickin medallist Peter ' s medal was auctioned at the same event .
Dartmouth Castle Dartmouth Castle is one of a pair of forts , the other being Kingswear Castle , that guard the mouth of the Dart Estuary in Devon , England ( ) . A small fortalice ( coastal fort ) was built in 1388 under the direction of John Hawley ( rumoured to be the basis for the Shipman in Chaucer ' s " Canterbury Tales " ) . The present Guntower building is the earliest surviving English coastal fortress specifically built to carry guns . It was built by the corporation of Dartmouth between 1481 and 1495 and additions , including open - air gun platforms , were made during the 16th century by Henry VIII and again in the 17th century in order to accommodate new military technology . During the Civil War it was besieged for one month and then taken by the Royalists , who then constructed an earthwork fort above the Castle at Gallant ' s Bower to protect its landward side . After being held by them for three years it was attacked and taken by Sir Thomas Fairfax for the Parliamentarians in 1646 . The castle continued in use as a working fort until the nineteenth century , when it housed no fewer than five huge 64 - pdr cannon on traversing carriages . The 19th century Gun Battery is the most substantial remaining part of the castle and itself remained in military use throughout the First and Second World Wars , overlooking the D - Day preparations in the latter . The castle comprises two linked towers — one round and one square — and sections of wall , the whole of which is built upon a rocky promotory , very close to the water ' s edge . A church , St Petroc ' s , is immediately adjacent to the structure . Dartmouth Castle is now in the ownership of English Heritage .
Sturgeon - class destroyer Three " Sturgeon " - class destroyers served with the Royal Navy . , and were built by the Vickers yard and differed from other similar ships in having their mast stepped before the first funnel . They had Blechynden boiler s which gave them 4 , 000 HP and 27 knots . They were armed with one twelve pounder and two torpedo tubes . They carried a complement of 53 officers and men .
46th Battalion Virginia Cavalry The 46th Battalion , Virginia Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry battalion raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . It fought mostly in western Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley . Virginia ' s 46th Cavalry Battalion was organized in February , 1864 , with six companies . The unit served in W . L . Jackson ' s Brigade , saw action in Western Virginia , then was involved in various conflicts in the Shenandoah Valley . In December it merged into the 26th Virginia Cavalry Regiment . Lieutenant Colonel Joseph K . Kesler and Major Henry D . Ruffner were in command .
Ussuri Cossacks Ussuri Cossack Host ( ) was a Cossack Host in Imperial Russia , located in Primorye south of Khabarovsk along the Ussuri River , the Sungari River , and around the Khanka Lake . The Ussuri Cossack Host was created in 1889 on the basis of an unmounted half - battalion of the Amur Cossack Host and later reinforced with settlers from the Don Cossack Host , Kuban Cossack Host , and other Cossack hosts . The Ussuri Cossack Host headquarters was first located in Vladivostok and then in Iman ( now Dalnerechensk ) . Its nakazny ataman ( who was also the military governor of the region ) subordinated to the Governor General of the Amur region , who , in turn , was the nakazny ataman of the Amur and the Ussuri Cossack Hosts . The Ussuri Cossacks possessed 6740 km² of land . In 1916 , they numbered 39 , 900 people in six stanitsa s , which comprised 76 settlements . In the times of peace , the Ussuri Cossacks supplied one cavalry battalion ( 300 men ) and one platoon . The Ussuri Cossack Host was used for border patrol and postal and police service . It participated in the Russo - Japanese War . During the World War I , the Ussuri Cossacks supplied one cavalry regiment ( 600 men ) , one cavalry battalion , one platoon of guards , and six special sotnya s ( total of 2 , 514 men ) . Most of the Ussuri Cossack Host took the side of the White movement during the Russian Civil War . The Ussuri Cossack Host was disbanded in 1922 . It was re - established in 1990 , although not as an administrative unit of any sort .
1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery , Battery " E " Battery E , 1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . It originally mustered as Battery " D " , 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery , and as late as January 1864 , it was referred to in reports as 1st East Tennessee Heavy Artillery . Service . The battalion was organized in Memphis , Nashville , and Knoxville , Tennessee from June 13 , 1863 through October 16 , 1863 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Clay Crawford . Battery E mustered in for three years service in October 1863 under the command of Captain Henry C . Lloyd . Battery E was attached to District of North Central Kentucky , Department of the Ohio , 1st Division , XXIII Corps , October 1863 to April 1864 . District of Nashville , Tennessee , Department of the Cumberland , to May 1865 . 1st Brigade , 4th Division , District of East Tennessee , to July 1865 . Battery E , 1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery mustered out of service at Nashville on August 1 , 1865 . Detailed service . Duty in District of North Central Kentucky , at Booneville , Camp Nelson , Flemmingsburg , Mt . Sterling and Paris , December 1863 to April 1864 , and at Nashville and Bull ' s Gap , Tenn . , to August 1864 . Pursuit to Greenville , Tenn . , August 21 – 23 . Blue Springs August 23 . Operations in eastern Tennessee August 29 - September 4 . Park ' s Gap and Greenville September 4 . Death of Gen . J . H . Morgan , Blue Springs September 6 . Carter ' s Station September 30 - October 1 . Operations in eastern Tennessee October 10 – 28 . Clinch Valley , near Sneedsville , October 21 . Mossy Creek and Panther Springs October 27 . Morristown and Russellville October 28 . Operations against Breckenridge November 4 – 17 . Bull ' s Gap November 11 – 13 . Morristown November 13 . Russellville November 14 . Strawberry Plains November 16 – 17 . Duty in eastern Tennessee until March 1865 . Stoneman ' s Expedition from eastern Tennessee into southwest Virginia and western North Carolina March 21 - April 25 , 1865 . Wytheville April 6 . Martinsville April 8 . Shallow Ford and near Mocksville April 11 . Saulsbury April 12 . Catawba River April 17 . Catawba River , near Morganstown , April 20 . Howard ' s Gap and Blue Ridge Mountains April 22 . Near Hendersonville April 23 . Duty in eastern Tennessee until June . Ordered to Nashville June 25 .