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Battle of Gibraltar ( 1607 ) The naval Battle of Gibraltar took place on 25 April 1607 during the Eighty Years ' War when a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar . During the four hours of action , most of the Spanish ships were destroyed . Forces . A Dutch fleet of 26 warships was led by Jacob van Heemskerk . The Dutch flagship was " Æolus " . Other Dutch ships were " De Tijger " ( The Tiger ) , " De Zeehond " ( The Seal ) , " De Griffioen " ( The Griffon ) , " De Roode Leeuw " ( The Red Lion ) , " De Gouden Leeuw " ( The Gold Lion ) , " De Zwarte Beer " ( The Black Bear ) , " De Witte Beer " ( The White Bear ) and " De Ochtendster " ( The Morningstar ) . A Spanish fleet of 21 ships ( according to the Dutch ) or 10 ships ( according to the Spanish ) , including 10 galleons , was led by Don Juan Álvarez de Ávila . The Spanish flagship " San Augustin " ( St Augustine ) was commanded by Don Juan ' s son . Other ships were " Nuestra Señora de la Vega " ( Our Lady of Vega ) and " Madre de Dios " ( Mother of God ) . The Spanish fleet was covered by a fortress , although the Dutch fleet was out of range of its guns at all times and they could not intervene in the battle . The battle . Van Heemskerk left some of his ships at the bay entrance to prevent the escape of any Spanish ships . Twenty from the Dutch fleet were ordered to focus on the Spanish galleons while the rest attacked the smaller vessels . Van Heemskerk was killed during the first approach on the Spanish flagship as a cannon ball severed his leg . The Dutch then doubled up on the galleons and a few of the galleons caught fire . One exploded due to a shot into the powder magazine . The Dutch captured the Spanish flagship but let it go adrift . Following the destruction of the Spanish ships , the Dutch deployed boats and killed hundreds of swimming Spanish sailors . The Dutch lost 100 men including admiral Van Heemskerk . Sixty Dutch were wounded . Depending on the sources , most or all of the Spanish ships were lost and between 3500 and 4000 Spaniards killed or captured . Álvarez de Ávila was amongst the dead .
Chlodomer Chlodomer , also spelled Clodomir or Clodomer ( born c . 495 ) was the second of the four sons of Clovis I , King of the Franks . On the death of his father , in 511 , he divided the kingdom of the Franks with his three brothers : Theuderic I , Childebert I , and Clotaire I . Although Theuderic , the eldest , had a better claim , Chlodomer divided half of the kingdom with his two other brothers . This was the kingdom of Orléans , taken from the former kingdom of Syagrius . This kingdom included , most notably , the bishopric s of Tours , Poitiers and Orléans . Chlodomer married Guntheuc , with whom he had three sons : Theodebald , Gunthar , and Clodoald . In 523 – 24 , possibly at the instigation of his mother Clotilde , who was eager to avenge her nephew who had been assassinated by Sigismund of Burgundy , Chlodomer joined with his brothers in an expedition against the Burgundians . After capturing Sigismund , Chlodomer returned to Orléans . However , Sigismund ' s brother Gondomar returned triumphantly to Burgundy at the head of the troops sent by his ally , the Ostrogoth ic king Theodoric the Great . There , he massacred the garrison the Franks had left behind . Although victorious , Chlodomer had Sigismund and his sons Gisald and Gondebaud assassinated on 1 May 524 . He then led a second expedition against the Burgundians . He was killed on this expedition , in the spring or summer of the same year , at the Battle of Vézeronce . His three sons were entrusted to his mother until his widow married Clotaire I . Clotaire , however , had Chlodomer ' s children killed , although Clodoald managed to escape . Better known as Saint Cloud , he later became abbot of Nogent , having given up his hair , the symbol of the Frankish royalty , rather than giving up his life .
Ballands Castle Ballands Castle was a castle near the village of Penselwood , Somerset , England . History . Balland Castle was a motte and bailey castle , probably built after the Norman conquest of England in 1066 , near the village of Penselwood in Somerset . The castle sits close to the contemporary Norman castles of Cockroad Wood and Castle Orchard , and may have been built as part of a system of fortifications to control the surrounding area . The motte of the castle is now around 5 m high , and up to 9 m wide . The bailey lies to the south , and both the motte and the bailey are surrounded by ditches . Today the castle site is a scheduled monument .
Greek destroyer Ierax Ierax ( , " Hawk " ) served in the Hellenic Royal Navy from 1912 – 1946 . The ship , along with her three sister ships of Wild Beast class destroyer s " Aetos " , " Panthir " and " Leon " , was ordered from England . They were purchased in 1912 , ready for delivery , each for the sum of £148 , 000 from the English shipyards Camell Laird in Liverpool , when the Balkan Wars seemed likely . These ships had originally been ordered by Argentina ; " Ierax " was originally named " Santa Fé " . " Ierax " was accepted by Captain Ath . Miaoulis , RHN in Palermo , Sicily . where she arrived manned by foreign crew . During the Balkan Wars , the Royal Hellenic Navy purchased only the minimum amount of ammunitions , 3 , 000 rounds of torpedoes . Torpedoes were not available for this class of ship , and for this reason these ships were initially named ' scouts ' rather than ' destroyers ' . On October 21 , 1912 , under the command of Commander A . Vratsanos , RHN , " Ierax " was part of the Greek flotilla that captured the island of Psara from the Ottomans . During World War I , Greece belatedly entered the war on the side of the Triple Entente and , due to Greece ' s neutrality the four Beast Class ships were seized by the Allies in October , 1916 , taken over by the French in November , and served in the French Navy from 1917 - 18 . By 1918 , they were back on escort duty under Greek colors , mainly in the Aegean Sea . " Ierax " participated in the evacuation of Greeks from Russia during the Russian Civil War in 1918 , and saw action in the Greco - Turkish War ( 1919 - 1922 ) in the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea . After the war , " Ierax " was refurbished from 1925 – 1927 . She also participated in the Second World War , after surviving the German invasion of April , 1941 , " Ierax " was based in Alexandria , Egypt . In April , 1944 , a wave of mutiny swept through some of the Hellenic Royal Navy , with seamen agitating in favor of the pro - Communist guerillas , ELAS , who were fighting a campaign in Greece against the occupying Nazis . " Ierax " was one of the ships whose crew mutinied and the mutiny was put down in the early morning hours of April 22 , 1944 . After the end of World War II , " Ierax " was stricken ( decommissioned ) in 1946 .
USS Volador ( IX - 59 ) USS " Volador " ( IX - 59 ) was a wooden - hulled schooner acquired by the United States Navy and after transfer to the United States Army seeing service in the Southwest Pacific Area during World War II as an early command and communications ship . The schooner was designed by William Gardiner and built at Wilmington , California by William Müller and Company in 1926 . Service history . The Navy acquired " Volador " from W . L . Valentine on 2 February 1942 and placed the vessel in service on 19 February 1942 as a miscellaneous auxiliary vessel designated as IX - 59 with the Port Director , San Pedro , California . The vessel operated locally within the 11th Naval District until July 1943 when she was temporarily transferred to the Coast Guard for operational training of Coast Guard district personnel . On 17 August 1943 , " Volador " was delivered to the War Shipping Administration and struck from the Navy List on 3 September 1943 . The War Shipping Administration transferred the schooner to the War Department for operation by the US Army as a communications ship in the Southwest Pacific Area ( SWPA ) . " Volador " was a part of the " CP fleet " , a flotilla of small vessels equipped with radio and Signal Corps personnel first acting as relays from forward areas that expanded into full forward command post communications facilities . " Volador " participated in the Papua - New Guinea campaign along with the Australian acquired vessels " Harold " and " Argosy Lemal " and " Geoanna " , another US vessel sent to SWPA and used as a communications ship . In addition to standard CP fleet duties " Volador " became a radio repair ship " to supply floating maintenance wherever most required . "
USS LST - 29 USS LST - 29 was a built for the U . S . Navy during World War II . She was designed to carry troops and military equipment to the shores of the battle front and quickly deliver her cargo . She served in the Pacific Ocean and post - war returned home proudly with four battle stars to her credit . She was laid down 8 January 1943 at Dravo Corporation , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; launched , 17 May 1943 ; and commissioned as USS LST - 29 , 10 July 1943 . World War II Pacific Theatre operations . During World War II , USS LST - 29 was assigned to the Asiatic - Pacific theater and took part in the following operations : Decommissioning . She was decommissioned on 11 March 1946 and struck from the Naval Register on 8 May 1946 . She was sold on 17 June 1946 to Foss Launch & Tug Co . , Seattle , Washington . Her ultimate fate is not known . Awards . " LST - 29 " earned four battle stars for World War II service .
Thomas Gardner Col . Thomas Gardner ( 1724 – July 3 , 1775 ) was an American political figure and soldier . Gardner was born in Cambridge , Massachusetts . He was a descendant of Thomas Gardner of Roxbury . In 1755 , he married Joanna Sparhawk , a member of one of Brighton ' s founding families . Gardner , a political figure in Massachusetts on the eve of the Revolution , was in the forefront of those urging resistance to the King ' s dissolution of the General Court in 1774 , following the Boston Tea Party . He was chosen to represent Cambridge in the Middlesex County Convention , called to consider measures for public safety , as well as in the First and Second provincial Congresses . In May 1775 he was elected to the Revolutionary Council of Safety . During the spring of 1775 , he was commissioned a Colonel of a regiment he had organized largely at his own expense . Gardner ' s rapid rise to prominence ended when he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill , in June 1775 . Lingering until July 3 , 1775 , Gardner was the second - highest ranking American officer killed at Bunker Hill . His funeral services were attended by General George Washington . Places named for him include Gardner Street in Boston , Massachusetts , the Gardner Pilot Academy school , and the city of Gardner , Massachusetts in 1785 .
Gun data computer The gun data computer was a series of artillery computers used by the U . S . Army for coastal artillery , field artillery and antiaircraft artillery applications . In antiaircraft applications they were used in conjunction with a director . Systems . The last TACFIRE fielding was completed in 1987 . Replacement of TACFIRE equipment began in 1994 . TACFIRE used the AN / GYK - 12 , a second - generation mainframe computer developed primarily by Litton Industries for Army Divisional Field Artillery ( DIVARTY ) units . It had two configurations , division and battalion level , housed in mobile command shelters . Field Artillery Brigades also use the division configuration . Components of the system were identified using acronyms : The successor to the TACFIRE system is the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System ( AFATDS ) . Surviving examples . One reason for a lack of surviving examples of early units was the use of radium on the dials , which officially made them hazardous waste , and as such were disposed of by the United States Department of Energy . Currently there is one surviving example of FADAC at the Fort Sill artillery museum .
Dundee Castle Dundee Castle was a castle that was located in Dundee , Scotland . The site of the castle is now St . Paul ' s Cathedral . Dundee was created a royal burgh by King William the Lion in the 13th century . William Wallace laid siege to Dundee Castle in 1297 , before the Battle of Stirling Bridge . The castle was captured again by the English in 1296 and again in 1303 . King Edward I of England visited the castle both times and made repairs to the castle . King Robert the Bruce captured the castle in 1313 and destroyed the castle .
Philip Bloom ( businessman ) Philip Bloom is an American businessman who pled guilty on April 18 , 2006 to conspiracy , bribery and money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud the Coalition Provisional Authority - South Central Region ( CPA - SC ) during the occupation of Iraq . According to the " Sydney Morning Herald " Bloom used CPA funds to pay out over $ 2 million USD in bribes , in cash , real estate , designer cars , watches , and the services of prostitutes he brought to Bagdad . Bloom accepted at least $ 1 million in bribes and stole a further $ 600 , 000 in cash and goods from CPA funds . At the time the charges were laid this case was described as the first instance of many cases of fraud involving US officials . Bloom was accused of bribing Lieutenant Colonel Bruce D . Hopfengardner , Lieutenant Colonel Michael Brian Wheeler , Lieutenant Colonel Debra Harrison and a CPA Comptroller and convicted felon named Robert Stein Jr . . Bloom admitted paying Stein and the others more than $ 2 million in money and gifts in return for them using their official positions to award contracts to Bloom and his companies . Bloom , Stein , and the others also facilitated numerous wire transfers of money that were the proceeds of the fraudulently awarded bids and at least $ 2 million in stolen money from the CPA , in order to conceal the source and origin of the funds . All of the funds that paid for Bloom ' s contracts were from the Development Fund for Iraq — Iraqi oil money , administered on behalf of the Iraqi people , by the United States , during the American occupation . These funds were supposed to be under strict financial controls , overseen by the United Nations . A total of $ 8 . 6 million in rigged contracts was identified during the trial . Bloom ' s Romanian partners have denied all knowledge of his Iraq activities . A summary of the Bloom / Stein conspiracy was published by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction as an appendix to is October 30 , 2006 Quarterly Report to the United States Congress . On February 16 , 2007 , Bloom was fined $ 3 . 6 million , ordered to pay a further $ 3 . 6 million in restitution and sentenced to 46 months in jail with probation following his sentence as part of a deal for cooperating with the investigation . A Summary of the Bloom / Stein Conspiracy Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction , October 30 , 2006 url = http : / / www . sigir . mil / files / testimony / SIGIR _ Testimony _ 06 - 003T . pdf
Mohammad Shafiq Lieutenant General Mohammad Shafiq ( born April 1934 ) is a career Pakistan Army soldier who served as the governor of the Khyber - Pakhtunkhwa from 1999 to 2000 . He was appointed to that position on 21 October 1999 by General Pervez Musharraf . He then served as Pakistani Ambassador to Bahrain from 2000 to 2002 . Early life and army career . Mohammad Shafiq was born in Kohat in April 1934 . He was commissioned in the Punjab Regiment in March 1956 in the 13th PMA Long Course . Lt Gen ( R ) Mohammad Shafiq has been a high profiles career oriented officer while serving in Pakistan Army . He successfully raised XXXI Corps in Bahawalpur and added a defensive potent to Pakistan Army in southern region . Lt Gen ( R ) Shafiq was instrumental in carrying out Gen . ( R ) Aslam Mirza ' s defensive - offensive doctrine . This doctrine was successfully displayed in the Pakistan Army ' s biggest exercise called Zarb - e - Momin , postured against the Indian Army ' s Exercise Brasstacks . During his 35 - year - long military career , General Shafiq served in some important positions , such as the Inspector - General of the Frontier Corps , a posting which provided him with great exposure to the affairs of the country ' s western borders as well as tribal affairs . Post retirement activities . After retiring from the army , Shafiq served as chairman of the prime minister ' s inspection team until 1993 . During the caretaker government of Moeen Qureshi , General Shafiq remained a federal minister , looking after the affairs of at least six federal ministries . He was appointed the first chief executive of the Northern Areas when Benazir Bhutto came to power in 1993 , but he chose to retire before completing his term . Known to be a mild and soft - spoken person , General Shafiq underwent a heart bypass in 1998 .
Alex Tamba Brima Alex Tamba Brima ( also known as Gullit ) ( born 23 November 1971 ) is a former Sierra Leonean military commander . He was one of a group of seventeen soldiers in the Sierra Leone Armed Forces who called themselves Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ) that succefully stage a coup that ousted president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in May 1997 . On 19 July 2007 he was convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison for committing war crime s and crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone Civil War . Biography . Brima was born in the village of Yaryah , Kono District , Sierra Leone to parents from the Kono ethnic group . In April 1985 , he joined the Sierra Leone Army , where he was promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant . In 1998 , Brima was invited by Johnny Paul Koroma to join the AFRC Supreme Council . In this capacity , Brima was a commander of the AFRC and Revolutionary United Front forces that attacked civilians in the north , east , and centre of Sierra Leone in 1998 and in Freetown in January 1999 . Brima was indicted on 7 March 2003 was arrested on 10 March 2003 , and his trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone began on 7 March 2005 . He was tried with Brima Bazzy Kamara and Santigie Borbor Kanu . Brima was found guilt of crimes against humanity and war crime s on 20 June 2007 , including counts of murder , rape , forced labour , and the use of child soldiers . He and his codefendants ' convictions were the first convictions for the Special Court for Sierra Leone and were also the first time anyone had been convicted of the international crime of using child soldiers . On 19 July 2007 , Brima was sentenced to 50 years ' imprisonment which will probably be served in Austria or Sweden .
5th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion The 5th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion ( Fr : " 5e bataillon de parachutistes vietnamiens " ) was a French - Vietnamese paratroop battalion formed in Hanoi , French Indochina in 1953 . Operational history . The 5th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion ( 5 BPVN ) was one of five battalions of Vietnamese paratroopers raised by the French Army between 1951 and 1957 as part of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny ' s policy to establish a Vietnamese Army . Its cadre was drawn from 3rd and 23rd Indochinese companies of the 3rd Colonial Commando Parachute Battalion ( 3 BCCP ) . The battalion participated in Operation Pike ( September - October 1953 ) , Operation Castor ( November 1953 ) and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu .
Project Halitosis Project Halitosis was a 1965 undertaking by the United States Air Force to study the amount of radioactive gases released from their experimental nuclear - powered bomber program . The heavily modified B - 36H bomber contained a small , open - circuit nuclear reactor to test the physical and radiological stresses it placed on the airframe and was not used for power . The radioactive gases released from the air - cooled reactor gave the program its " bad breath " reference . The project was part of the U . S . Air Force ' s Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion project which operated between 1950 and 1967 .
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle , sometimes spelled de l ' Isle , ( 10 May 1760 , Lons - le - Saunier – 26 June 1836 , Choisy - le - Roi ) , was a French army officer of the Revolutionary Wars . He is known for writing the words and music of the " Chant de guerre pour l ' armée du Rhin " in 1792 , which would later be known as " La Marseillaise " and become the French national anthem . Early life . De Lisle was born at Lons - le - Saunier , reputedly on a market day . His parents lived in the neighbouring village of Montaigu . A plaque was placed at the precise spot of his birth and a statue erected in the town ' s centre in 1882 . He was the eldest son of Claude Ignace Rouget ( April 5 , 1735 - August 6 , 1792 ) at Orgelet and Jeanne Madeleine Gaillande ( July 2 , 1734 - March 20 , 1811 ) . Career . He enlisted into the army as an engineer and attained the rank of captain . The song that has immortalised him , " La Marseillaise " , was composed at Strasbourg , where Rouget de Lisle was quartered in April 1792 . He wrote the words in a fit of patriotic excitement after a public dinner . The piece was at first called " Chant de guerre pour l ' armée du Rhin " ( " War Song for the Army of the Rhine " ) and only received its name of " Marseillaise " from its adoption by the Provençal volunteers whom Barbaroux introduced into Paris and who were prominent in the storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10 August . Rouget de Lisle was a royalist and was cashiered and thrown into prison in 1793 , narrowly escaping the guillotine . He was freed during the Thermidorian Reaction . Rouget de Lisle wrote a few other songs of the same kind as the " Marseillaise " and in 1825 he published " Chants français " ( " French Songs " ) in which he set to music fifty songs by various authors . His " Essais en vers et en prose " ( " Attempts in Verse and Prose " , 1797 ) contains the " Marseillaise " ; a prose tale " Adelaide et Monville " of the sentimental kind ; and some occasional poems . Death . De Lisle died in poverty in Choisy - le - Roi , Seine - et - Oise . His ashes were transferred from Choisy - le - Roi cemetery to the Invalides on 14 July 1915 , during World War I .
Rivolto Air Force Base The Airport of Rivolto is located in Codroipo , province of Udine ( Italy ) . It is famous because it is the base of Frecce Tricolori . Besides it is a military airport and it is an important Air Force Weather Service . The Rivolto Air Force Base was founded after the Italian Royal Decree N . 2207 of 1923 , authorised the establishment of new airports and expropriate land for their construction .