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Richard Byrnes Richard Byrnes ( 1832 – June 10 , 1864 ) was an Irish - American officer in the United States Army , who rose to command the Union Army ' s Irish Brigade during the American Civil War . Life . Byrnes was born in County Cavan , Ireland , and emigrated to New York in 1844 . In 1851 , he enlisted in the regular army of the United States , joining the 2nd U . S . Cavalry , a regiment then commanded by Colonel E . V . Sumner . In this regiment young Byrnes distinguished himself in the Indian campaigns in Florida and Oregon . At the breaking out of the American Civil War he was , on the recommendation of his old commander , Colonel Sumner , commissioned First Lieutenant in the 5th U . S . Cavalry , one of the new regiments authorized by Congress . During the campaigns of 1861 and 1862 he remained with the regiment of regulars and was then appointed by Governor John Albion Andrew , Colonel of the 28th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment , an Irish regiment of which he took command , October 18 , 1862 . In the November following , this regiment was attached to Thomas Francis Meagher ' s Irish Brigade and with it participated in all the fierce fighting in which the Army of the Potomac was subsequently engaged . At its head Colonel Byrnes charged up the slope of Marye ' s Heights at the Battle of Fredericksburg , and after it , like the other regiments of the brigade , had been almost wiped out in the sanguinary conflicts at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg , he was sent back to Massachusetts to recruit its ranks during the winter and spring of 1863 and 1864 . When the campaign reopened in May he returned to the front and as the senior officer took command of the Irish Brigade . Two weeks after assuming command , on June 3 , 1864 , Colonel Byrnes fell , mortally wounded , while leading the brigade at the attack on the entrenchments at Cold Harbor , Virginia . He lived long enough to be conveyed to Washington , where his wife reached him before he died . His commission as brigadier general had just been made out by President Abraham Lincoln , but he was dead before it could be officially presented to him so his promotion to brigadier general did not become effective . His remains were sent to New York and buried in Calvary Cemetery .
Forceful ( tugboat ) Forceful is an ocean - going tugboat built for the Queensland Tug Company . " Forceful " was built by Alexander Stephen and Sons Ltd in Govan , Scotland . She arrived at her homeport of Brisbane , Queensland on 7 March 1926 . While she spent most of her career operating along the coast of Queensland , she was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy during most of 1942 and 1943 as HMAS " Forceful " ( W126 ) . During her war service she was based at Darwin and operated mainly in northern Australian waters . She received two battle honour s for her wartime service : " Darwin 1942 - 43 " and " Pacific 1943 " . " Forceful " was retired from service in September 1970 and was handed over to the Queensland Maritime Museum in Brisbane on 10 June 1971 . The vessel was kept operational and used for trips along the Brisbane River and to Moreton Bay until 2006 , when a hull survey revealed that the tugboat was not safe to operate , and required extensive repairs . Following a number slippings of the vessel at the Brisbane slipway in order to preserve her in a safe condition , Forceful now has several repairs on her hull in order to keep her watertight and is currently being maintained as a static exhibit at the Queensland Maritime Museum in Brisbane . But age and lack of funding was taking its toll . In June 2012 Forceful was at risk of being condemned for scrap as a small leak had developed in the vessels stern . Forceful was given a deadline to be out of the water and repaired by Maritime Safety Queensland ( MSQ ) . With no funds available , the outlook was not good . Media attention by television and radio networks as well as maritime newsletters and social media ended up with an anonymous donation being made to facilitate the repairs Forceful needed . She came out of the water in June 2012 for repairs and returned to the Queensland Maritime Museum in July 2012 .
12th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery 12th Indiana Battery Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The battery was organized at Jeffersonville and Indianapolis , Indiana and mustered in for a three - year enlistment on January 25 , 1862 . The battery served unattached , Army of the Ohio , to June 1862 . Reserve Artillery , Army of the Ohio , to September 1862 . Post and Defenses of Nashville , Tennessee , Department of the Ohio , to November 1862 , and Department of the Cumberland to July 1865 . The 12th Indiana Battery Light Artillery mustered out of service on July 7 , 1865 . Detailed service . Left Indiana for Louisville , Ky . , January 25 , 1862 . Moved to Nashville , Tenn . , February 14 - March 6 , 1862 , thence march to Savannah , Tenn . , March 20 - April 7 . Advance on and siege of Corinth , Miss . , April 29 - May 30 . Buell ' s Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August . Assigned to duty as garrison at Fort Negley , Defenses of Nashville , Tenn . , August 18 , 1862 to July 1865 . Siege of Nashville , Tenn . , September 12 - November 6 , 1862 . Repulse of attack on Nashville by Breckenridge , Forest and Morgan November 5 , 1862 . One half of the battery was ordered to Chattanooga , November 1863 , and participated in the battles of Chattanooga , November 23 – 25 , 1863 . Battle of Nashville December 15 – 16 , 1864 . Non - veterans mustered out December 23 , 1864 . Casualties . The battery lost a total of 24 men during service ; 2 officers and 22 enlisted men died of disease .
Strafing Strafing is the practice of attacking ground targets from low - flying aircraft using aircraft - mounted automatic weapon s . This means that , although ground attack using automatic weapons fire is very often accompanied with bombing or rocket fire , the term " strafing " does not specifically include the last two . Less commonly , the term can be used — by extension — to describe high - speed firing runs by any land or naval craft ( e . g . fast boats ) using smaller - caliber weapons and targeting stationary or slow - moving targets . Etymology . The word is an adaptation of German " strafen " , to punish , specifically from the humorous adaptation of the World War I German catchphrase " Gott strafe England " ( May God punish England ) . History . The earliest use of military aircraft was for observation and directing of artillery but strafing was frequently practiced in World War I . Trenches and supply columns were routinely attacked from the air in the second half of the war . Strafing with machine gun s was used when precision was needed ( facing small targets ) , but non - strafing attack methods ( primarily small bombs ) were preferred for larger targets , area targets , or when low - altitude flying was too risky . The German army was the first to introduce a class of aircraft specially designed for strafing , the ground - attack aircraft . These developments continued through World War II with dedicated aircraft including the concept of the heavily - protected cockpit or " bathtub " to permit the pilot to survive counterfire . A Spitfire strafed the command car of Erwin Rommel on 17 July 1944 , affecting his possible participation in the 20 July 1944 Operation Valkyrie coup . In the Korean War in 1950 - 3 USAF planes strafed targets deep behind the front line and had a perceptible impact on the progress of the ground war - but the concept of strafing was already in decline . In 1960s , when precision - guided weapon s became widespread , strafing temporarily fell out of favor as unnecessarily risky — some American fighter aircraft or attack aircraft of that time ( such as the F - 4 Phantom and A - 6 Intruder ) did not have built - in cannon or machine guns . In the Vietnam War this was found to be a deficiency , and improvised " gunship s " had to be used in strafing missions . Since 2001 , NATO pilots in Iraq and Afghanistan have used strafing runs to support ground forces in areas where explosive ordnance could cause unacceptable civilian casualties . The cities of Damascus and Aleppo were strafed by helicopter gunships in the Syrian civil war . Planes built specifically for strafing include the German World War I Junkers J . I , the World War II Soviet Ilyushin Il - 2 and the modern American A - 10 Thunderbolt as well as the AC - 130 Gunship . In 2004 , the United States Air Force accidentally strafed one of its own country ' s middle schools in the strafing of the Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School incident .
Chapple Norton General John Chapple Norton ( 2 April 1746 – 19 March 1818 ) , son of Fletcher Norton , 1st Baron Grantley , was a British Army officer who served in the American Revolutionary War and who later became a Member of Parliament for UK Parliament constituency .
Coventry armoured car The Coventry armoured car ( AFVW19 ) was a British four wheel drive ( 4X4 ) armoured fighting vehicle developed at the end of World War II as a potential replacement for the lighter Humber and Daimler armoured car s . Development . The Coventry was a combined effort between Daimler and the Rootes group to produce a standard armoured car design . The Coventry was an advanced design and featured a similar layout to the more compact Daimler , but with a more conventional suspension and drive system . It included duplicate driving controls to allow rapid disengagement in combat . There were two production versions . The Mark 1 employed a three man turret with a 2 - pdr gun and a 7 . 92 mm coaxial Besa machine gun . The protoypes from Daimler and Humber were produced with a 2 pounder gun . In , 1943 orders were placed for 1 , 700 vehicles which were to be able to carry the 6 pounder gun . A version - AFVW90 - with a larger turret with a 75 mm gun but one less crewman was planned and 900 of these ordered . Deliveries of the Coventry Mk 1 , from the Humber assembly line , began in June 1944 and 63 vehicles had been produced by the end of the year . It was decided , in 1943 , that instead of replacing the Daimler production of that armoured car would be continued . As a result the order for the 2 pdr Coventry was reduced to 300 and that they would be sent to India . The 75 mm armed Mark II did not enter production . Output concluded with a further 220 vehicles in 1945 . The Coventry was deployed by the British Army , but they arrived too late for wartime service . Some of these units were sold to France and later saw action against the Viet Minh in French Indochina .
John Miles Steel Air Chief Marshal Sir John Miles Steel GCB , KBE , CMG , RAF ( 11 September 1877 – 2 December 1965 ) was a senior Royal Air Force commander . Military career . Steel attended Britannia Naval College in 1892 and subsequently served in the Royal Navy . He was promoted to Sub - Lieutenant in 1897 and served in the Second Boer War as a member of the Naval Brigade . He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1900 , Commander in 1912 and Captain in 1916 . In 1917 Steel was transferred from fleet duties to the Royal Naval Air Service and was appointed Officer Commanding RNAS Eastchurch . In early 1918 Steel was appointed Officer Commanding No . 58 Wing which was based at Eastchurch and in March , at the age of 40 , Steel learned to fly . Meanwhile he became General Officer Commanding No . 8 Group . On 1 April 1918 the Royal Naval Air Service merged with the Royal Flying Corps to form the Royal Air Force . Steel , like other RNAS personnel transferred to the RAF and was promoted to the temporary rank of Brigadier - General . Promoted to Group Captain and then Air Commodore in 1919 he was appointed Deputy Chief of the Air Staff and Director of Operations and Intelligence and , following his promotion to Air Vice - Marshal in 1925 , he was made Air Officer Commanding the Wessex Bombing Area and then Air Officer Commanding RAF India . He was promoted to Air Marshal in 1932 and appointed Air Officer Commanding - in - Chief , Air Defence of Great Britain in August 1935 . When Bomber Command was created from the Air Defence of Great Britain command in July 1936 , Steel became its first Air Officer Commanding - in - Chief in the rank of Air Chief Marshal . World War II . In August 1939 Steel came back from retirement to serve as Air Officer Commanding Reserve Command . In April 1940 he was succeeded as AOC by William Welsh and Steel returned to retirement . The following year in April once again returned to active service , this time as the Controller - General of Economy at the Air Ministry . He retired for the last time on 26 September 1945 . References .
RAFGL RAFGL , the " Revised Air Force Geophysical Laboratory " ( S . D . Price and T . L . Murdock , 1983 ) , is a four color infrared sky survey catalog . It contains measurements at 4 . 2 , 11 . 0 , 19 . 8 and 27 . 4 micron of 2970 sources , obtained with sounding rocket s , in combination with some ground - based data . The catalog includes most of the AFCRL ( Air Force Cambridge Research Lab ) with the same number , omitting unconfirmed sources , and also , 306 new sources of the southern hemisphere , numbered from 4001 to 4306 . It also gives updated positions and more accurate results .
Battle of Samothrace ( 1698 ) The Battle of Samothrace was an inconclusive battle which took place on 20 September 1698 near Samothrace , Greece . It was between Venice on one side , and Ottoman Turkey and its Tripolitanian and Tunisian allies on the other . Venetian casualties were 299 killed and 622 wounded .
145th Indiana Infantry Regiment The 145th Indiana Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment from Indiana that served in the Union Army between February 16 , 1865 , and January 21 , 1866 , during the American Civil War . The unit was organized very late in the war and its service consisted of a few skirmishes and guard duty . Service . The 145th Indiana Regiment was raised in the 3rd district and organized at Indianapolis , Indiana , with a strength of 1 , 023 men and mustered in on February 16 , 1865 . It was ordered to Nashville , Tennessee between February 18 and 21 . On February 22 , the regiment was moved to Chattanooga and then proceeded to Dalton , Georgia . The regiment was engaged in skirmishes at Spring Place ( now Chatsworth , Georgia ) , on both February 27 and April 20 . Skirmishes were fought , by a detachment , near Tunnel Hill , Georgia , on March 3 . After the skirmishes at Tunnel Hill , the regiment performed railroad guard duty at Dalton , Marietta and Cuthbert , Georgia until late January , 1866 . The regiment was mustered out on January 21 , 1866 . During its service the regiment incurred sixty - eight fatalities , another fifty - five deserted .
Siege of Minowa The 1566 siege of Minowa was one of several battles fought by the Takeda clan in their campaigns to seize the lands of the Uesugi clan , during Japan ' s Sengoku period . After a period of intense hand - to - hand fighting , Minowa Castle ' s lord , Nagano Narimori , was killed , and the castle fell . Some years before , Nagano Narimasa , lord of Minowa castle and faithful retainer to the Uesugi , died ; in order to protect the region from the depredations of the Takeda , the Nagano family kept his death a secret until his heir could settle into power . The Takeda attacked in 1566 , and were held off for a time , with the young heir , Nagano Narimori , and famous swordsman Kamiizumi Hidetsuna , leading the defence . Intense hand - to - hand fighting eventually led to Hidetsuna leading a bold charge from the castle , which was initially successful . However , Narimori was killed soon afterwards , and the defence fell apart .
Peter Rasmus Krag Peter Rasmus Krag ( 12 May 1825 – 16 April 1891 ) was a Norwegian engineer captain in the Norwegian Army , chief - of - roads and politician . He sat as a member of the Parliament of Norway for several terms . He was the father of writer Vilhelm Krag .
Frank Bernasko Frank George Bernasko ( 7 December 1930 – 3 June 2010 ) was a retired Ghanaian soldier , lawyer and politician . He served as the Commissioner for Agriculture among others in the National Redemption Council ( NRC ) military government of General I . K . Acheampong . He was also the founder and leader of the erstwhile Action Congress Party and contested the presidential election in 1979 . Early life and education . Bernasko was born in Ghana . He had his basic education at Cape Coast in the Central Region and Asante Mampong in the Ashanti Region of Ghana . His secondary education was at the Adisadel College also at Cape Coast . He then attended the University of the Gold Coast ( now University of Ghana ) . Army career . Bernasko was an officer in the Ghana army and rose to the rank of Colonel . He was once the officer in charge of education at the Armed Forces Recruit Training Center in Kumasi . He also served as the Garrison Education Officer in Accra . He held the position of Director of Studies at the Ghana Military Academy and Training School at Teshie in Accra . He later became the Director of Education for the Ghana Armed Forces . Politics . Military government . After the coup d ' état of 13 January 1972 which overthrew the Busia government , he was appointed as the Central Regional Commissioner . He later also served as the Commissioner for Agriculture and then the Commissioner for the newly created ministry of Cocoa Affairs . He is also credited with being instrumental in the completion of various projects in the Region including the Regional House of Chiefs , the moving of prisons from the Cape Coast Castle and the Anomabo Fort . While Commissioner for Agriculture , he supervised the " Operation Feed Yourself " programme geared towards ensuring national food self - sufficiency . Bernasko is also credited with the success of the Dawhenya Irrigation Project and the increased uptake of agriculture which led to the first national agricultural show in 1974 . 1979 elections . Bernasko was one of the founders of the Action Congress Party , which was formed when the ban on party politics was raised in 1978 . He contested the presidential elections in 1979 and came fourth , polling over 9 % of the valid votes cast . National Reconciliation Commission hearings . Bernasko appeared before the National Reconciliation Commission to answer allegations of abuse of human rights while serving as Central Regional Commissioner in the NRC military regime . He denied these allegations . Retirement and death . Frank Bernasko took up private legal practise after leaving the NRC government . In later life , he was resident in the United Kingdom since leaving active Ghana politics . He died in June 2010 at the St George ' s Hospital at Tooting , in the south of London . Honours . Bernasko was honoured by the chiefs and people of the Central Region during the Oguaa Fetu Afahye in 2008 . This was in recognition of his services to the region especially when he was the regional Commissioner in the NRC regime .
SM U - 72 SM " U - 72 " was one of 329 submarine s serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I . " U - 72 " was engaged in the commerce war in First Battle of the Atlantic . Operations . " U - 72 " left the stocks at Hamburg ( AG Vulcan ) in March 1916 , joined the Kiel School , and first entered North Sea on 11 April 1916 . Attached 1st Half Flotilla , under the command of " Kaptlt " . Krafft .
SS Empire Byron Empire Byron was a 6 , 645 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1941 for the Ministry of War Transport ( MoWT ) . Completed in January 1942 , she had a short service career . " Empire Byron " was torpedo ed and sunk on 5 July 1942 by while a member of Convoy PQ 17 . Description . " Empire Byron " was built by Bartram & Sons Ltd , Sunderland for the MoWT . She was yard number 289 . " Empire Byron " was launched on 6 October 1941 and completed in January 1942 . The ship was long , with a beam of and a depth of . She was propelled by a triple expansion steam engine which had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke . The engine was built by North East Marine Engine Co ( 1938 ) Ltd , Newcastle upon Tyne . She had a GRT of 6 , 645 and a NRT of 4 , 796 . Career . " Empire Byron " was operated under the managememt of Haldin & Philipps Ltd . She was a member of a number of convoys during the Second World War . Convoy PQ 12 departed Reykjavík , Iceland on 1 March 1942 . It arrived at Murmansk on 12 March . " Empire Byron " was a member of this convoy . Convoy QP 9 departed the Kola Inlet , Soviet Union on 21 March 1942 and arrived at Reykjavík on 3 April . " Empire Byron " was listed as a member of this convoy , with a destination of Immingham . Convoy PQ 17 departed Reykjavík on 27 June 1942 and scattered at sea on 5 July . " Empire Byron " had started her voyage from Hull . She was carrying a cargo of 15 aircraft , 30 tanks , 2 , 455 tons of military stores and six vehicles . On 4 July , " Empire Byron " was hit by a torpedo dropped by a Heinkel He 111 of II / KG 26 and was damaged , straggling behind the convoy . at 08 : 27 ( German time ) on 5 July , fired another torpedo , which sank " Empire Byron " with the loss of six crew and a passenger at . A second passenger was taken prisoner . He was landed at Narvik , Norway on 15 July . The remaining 62 survivors were rescued by and landed at Archangelsk on 16 July . The ship ' s captain , John Wharton MBE , and the 3rd Radio Officer , R Phillips , were each awarded a Lloyd ' s War Medal for Bravery at Sea for their actions in the sinking of " Empire Byron " . In the case of Phillips , the award was posthumous . Those lost on " Empire Byron " are commemorated at the Tower Hill Memorial , London . Official Numbers and Code Letters . Official Numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers . " Empire Byron " had the United Kingdom Official Number 169005 and used the Code Letters BCTG .
Sunpadh Sunpadh , Sinbad ( ) , or Sinbad the Magus ( " Sinbād̲h̲ al - Majūsī " ) ( died 755 ) was a Persian cleric who incited an uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate in the 8th century . Biography . Sunpadh was a native of a village called Āhan near Nishapur , he was a close friend of Abu Muslim . Following the betrayal and subsequent death of Abu Muslim in 755 , the enraged Sunpadh swore to march on Mecca and destroy the Kaaba . Sunpadh further preached that " Abu Muslim has not died , and when Mansur meant to slay him , he chanted God ' s great name ( ) , turned into a white dove and flew away . Now he is standing with Mahdi and Mazdak in a castle of copper and they shall emerge by and by . " His doctrine received wide support among Persian Shi ' i Muslims , Zoroastrians and Mazdak ites and revolts occurred in Ray , Herat and Sistan . Within only 70 days , Sunpadh ' s forces were however defeated by one of Caliph al - Mansur ' s generals , Juhar ibn Murad . Sunpadh then fled to Khurshid of Tabaristan , but there he was murdered by one of Khurshid ' s cousins , because he had failed to show the man proper respect . Sunpadh also preached a syncretism melding Islam and Zoroastrianism . In combination with his unusual and heretical vow to advance towards Hijaz and raze the Kaaba , this led to the belief that he was in fact a Zoroastrian , rather than a Muslim . Political personality . Sunpadh was a friend and confidant of the Persian general Abu Muslim Khorasani , who had begun the Abbasid revolt in 747 . Nizam al - Mulk states in his " Siyāsatnāma " that Khorasani had delegated his authority and coffers in Rayy to Sunpadh prior to journeying to Baghdad , where he was eventually murdered by order of the second Abbasid Caliph , al - Mansur .