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He will always be listed among freedom's most gallant and faithful servants.

Certainly he was one of the most gallant and loveworthy persons we shall ever know.

Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) > Lieut. (Hon. Capt.) William Lancelot Jordan, D.S.C. (late R.N.A.S.). > A brilliant and most gallant leader who has already been awarded the D.S.C. > and Bar for distinguished services and devotion to duty. He has led numerous > offensive patrols into action, displaying at all times marked ability, > determination and dash.

It was called one of the "most gallant finishes ever witnessed". From l'Anson, Chaloner picked up a ride on Blair Atholl, winner of the 1864 Derby. The horse's regular jockey, Jim Snowden was an alcoholic, so Chaloner was made his replacement for the valuable Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp. The voyage was rough and the welcome cold.

In the storming of Fort Napoleon at Almaraz, Stewart led the right wing of his regiment "in a most gallant and spirited manner". The hardships of the retreat to Portugal in the autumn of 1812 broke down his health, and he died at Coria on 11 December, and was buried with military honours in the campo santo (cemetery). He was unmarried.

On 2 November 1944, as part of Operation Infatuate, they attacked the port of Walcheren in the Netherlands. It was a strategically important location for access to Antwerp, Belgium. It was strongly defended by the Germans and General Eisenhower described the battle as "one of the most gallant and aggressive actions of the war". After the end of the war, Forfar returned to civilian life.

Anyway, Sirtori was amongst the most gallant defenders of the city, which fell in August 1849. Sirtori escaped on a French vessel, which left him in Corfu. Then he moved to Paris, where, as a fervid Republican, grudgingly witnessed to Napoleon III's suppression of the French 2nd Republic. In Lausanne, he met the Italian Republican leader Giuseppe Mazzini, becoming one of his most faithful followers.

He led a platoon in the attack in the most gallant manner, reached his objective, and consolidated his position under very heavy hostile shallfire.London Gazette,24.4.1917Later that year, he was wounded at Ypres by a shell which caused slight damage to his throat. In 1920 at Cologne, he fell from a horse and a blow to the forehead led to headaches and bad memory.

In doing so, Lanzelet becomes the most gallant knight in the court. Having become a knight and an accomplished husband, he exercises his right to sovereignty in his father’s kingdom. It is then that he regains the throne of Genewis as well as his mother. The story ends with Lanzelet's return to King Arthur's court, where he chooses to become a Lord in his wife Iblis's kingdom.

His colonel wrote to his old school: > "Captain Massy Miles was with this division for a long time, and was one of > my ablest and most gallant officers. He did splendid work during the > retirement in March, and was awarded the Military Cross for his gallant > work. We all deplore his loss deeply, and I lose a valued friend and trusty > officer." R.I.P. The Bloxhamist, September 1918, Vol XLIV.

Haig was sent the message that the prince "was killed by a shell whilst gallantly leading his company forward to attack across a ridge, east of Zonnebeke". Haig shared the news with GHQ at 7.00 the next morning. He said, "By the death of H.H. Prince Maurice of Battenberg the Army loses a most gallant and valuable officer. In peace and war he has done his duty to King and Country".

His games kit, including plimsolls and the special medal which following the games the Duke of Edinburgh sent to Jim inscribed "To a most gallant marathon runner." were given to the Sports Hall of Fame, Vancouver in 1967 for exhibition. He served as president of the then recently formed Road Runners Club from 1955 - 1956. After retiring from competitive athletics, Peters worked as an optician in Mitcham, Surrey and Chadwell Heath, Essex.

Major General Horatio Gates, in charge of the entire shipbuilding effort, eventually asked Arnold to take more responsibility in the effort, because "I am intirely uninform'd as to Marine Affairs."Nelson (2006), p. 243 Arnold took up the task with relish, and Gates rewarded him with command of the fleet, writing that "[Arnold] has a perfect knowledge in maritime affairs, and is, besides, a most gallant and deserving officer."Nelson (2006), p.

A map of the two phases of the battle The Maratha infantry made a most gallant defence, standing their ground until the survivors laid down their arms. The cavalry also suffered heavily. The British captured 72 guns and a large quantity of ammunition and stores. Lake later wrote, "I never was in so severe a business in my life or anything like it… these fellows fought like devils, or rather like heroes".

Hunton missed both the Battle of Williamsburg and the Battle of Seven Pines due to sickness. Anticipating the Seven Days Battles he disregarded his physician's advise and returned to the army to fight at the Battle of Frazier's Farm and Battle of Gaines' Mill (which Hunton later cited as the unit's most gallant charge).Autobiography pp. 64–74 On August 21, 1862, the regiment fought at the Second Battle of Bull Run.

Other specific details about his actions at Chickamauga and general praise for Carson are found in letters from other officers shown in the text of this article. "Washington, D. C, September 3, 1864" "It gives me much pleasure to recommend William J. Carson, an old member of my company. Carson is a most gallant soldier, was mentioned in orders for his conduct at Chickamauga, is thoroughly reliable, honest, Sober and intelligent." Henry Keteltas, Captain 15th Infantry.

Finally, Colonel Parkhurst returned to the Regiment. At the Battle of Stones River on December 26, 1862. When the Union right was crushed at Stone River, the Ninth did most gallant service in checking the stampede to the rear, by firmly holding the Nashville Pike, the disorganized forces were stopped and returned to their commands. Major General Thomas complimented Colonel Parkhurst and the Regiment for the very important service rendered at this critical point of battle.

He served in the British army in the Wiltshire Regiment 4th Battalion, attached to the Gloucestershire Regiment, during the First World War. On the 18 June 1917 he was awarded the Military Cross as a lieutenant for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his company in the most gallant manner and personally tried to cut gaps in the enemy’s wire. Later, although wounded, he remained at his postUnited Kingdom : during a battle on 6–7 April 1917 at Maissemy, France.

Besides, he will > be chief of Cavalry, which would otherwise be commanded by General Spear, a > most gallant, experienced and efficient officer. I beg of you to put General > Dodge on duty elsewhere. He is very young, and should be under an > experienced officer if he to be continued in the Cavalry service. There were no other cavalry officers available with an earlier date of rank, and Dodge refused to be subordinated to someone who was junior to him in seniority.

He accordingly dedicated Figures of Earth to "six most gallant champions" who had rallied to Jurgen's defense: Sinclair Lewis, Wilson Follett, Louis Untermeyer, H. L. Mencken, Hugh Walpole, and Joseph Hergesheimer. The scandal that surrounded Cabell's name at this time may have adversely affected reviews of Figures of Earth, which, according to the author, registered "some disappointment over its lack of indecency"; he himself preferred Figures of Earth to Jurgen.Edward Wagenknecht (ed.) The Letters of James Branch Cabell (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975) pp. 137, 251.

John Gunby (March 10, 1745 - May 17, 1807) was an American planter and soldier from Somerset County, Maryland who is considered by many to be "one of the most gallant officers of the Maryland Line under Gen. Smallwood".Covington He entered service volunteering as a minuteman in 1775 and fought for the American cause until the end earning praise as probably the most brilliant soldier whom Maryland contributed to the War of Independence. Gunby was also the grandfather of Senator Ephraim King Wilson II.

The Battle of the Combahee River was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on August 27, 1782, near Beaufort, South Carolina, one of many such confrontations after the Siege of Yorktown to occur before the British evacuated Charleston in December 1782. Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, a 27-year-old Southern abolitionist, previously a diplomat and an aide-de-camp to George Washington, who was lauded as "one of the bravest and most gallant of the American officers", died during the confrontation.Ward, p. 842.

She took part in the Invasion of Algiers in 1830 and remained in service until 1865, when she was hulked and used as a prison.Roche, p.364 Otter remained a prisoner in France until the end of the war; he was court martialed for the loss of his ship on 30 May 1814, and honourably acquitted, the court determining that he had defended his ship in the "most gallant and determined manner, and that her colours were not struck until resistance was of no avail".Marshall, p.556.

He was gazetted Captain in 1916, and awarded the D.S.O. for his services at the Battle of Jutland. He won his V.C. as a leader of the landing party from the Vindictive on the Zeebrugge Mole on St. George's Day, 1918, and he will always be remembered as one of the outstanding heroes of that most gallant adventure. He died of pneumonia on September 30th, in China, where he held the appointment of Instructor of Small Arms and Musketry Officer at Hong Kong. In him Sherborne mourns one of her most distinguished sons.

Captain Diron was made a hero for being one of the few privateer commanders to make a prize out of a Royal Navy warship during the war. Diron was already well known before the battle and Dominicas demise added to his notoriety. Barette was also reported by the Americans as having defended his ship until death in a most gallant fashion and when the survivors were released after the war, they said that they were treated well by Diron and his crewmen. The British never surrendered in the battle and were defeated by force alone.

Brigadier Gerard is the comedic hero of a series of 17 historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Brigadier Etienne Gerard is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity – he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often.

At the Battle of Stones River on December 26, 1862. When the Union right was crushed at Stone River, the Ninth did most gallant service in checking the stampede to the rear, by firmly holding the Nashville Pike, the disorganized forces were stopped and returned to their commands. Major General Thomas complimented Colonel Parkhurst and the Regiment for the very important service rendered at this critical point of battle. The Ninth Michigan Infantry guarded guerrilla Champ Ferguson in 1865Historical Sketch of the 9th Michigan Infantry The regiment was mustered out on September 15, 1865.

One of the first to give British intelligence any details about the Freya Radar was a young Danish Flight Lieutenant, Thomas Sneum, who, at great risk to his life, photographed radar installations on the Danish island of Fanø in 1941. He brought the negatives to Britain in a dramatic flight which is fictionalized in Ken Follett's novel Hornet Flight. Sneum's deed is also mentioned in R. V. Jones's Most Secret War as a 'most gallant exploit' and is one of the featured stories in Courage & Defiance by Deborah Hopkinson.

In full daylight and under sustained and intense enemy fire, Hall, Cpl Payne and Pvt Rogerson crawled out toward the wounded. Payne and Rogerson were both wounded, but returned to the shelter of the front line. When a wounded man who was lying some 15 yards from the trench called for help, Company Sergeant-Major Hall endeavored to reach him in the face of very heavy enfilade fire by the enemy. He then made a second most gallant attempt, and was in the act of lifting up the wounded man to bring him in when he fell, mortally wounded in the head.

The 1946-47 edition of the Kimberley Dynamiters will have to go down in the record book as one of the most gallant Dynamiter hockey teams. Coach Redding elected that year to go along with a rookie defenceman named Bill Jones, a small but determined player from Canmore, Alberta. Many thought Jones couldn't stand the rough WIHL play, but what they didn't know was that what he lacked in size, he more than made up for it in guts. What a good investment it was: for Bill Jones stayed around for years and season-after-season, was one of the Dynamiters' top performers.

In 1694, he was appointed governor of French Flanders and of the town of Lille. He was besieged in Namur in 1695, and only surrendered to his besiegers after he had lost 8,000 of his 13,000 men. In the conferences which terminated in the Peace of Ryswick he had a principal share. During the following war (the War of the Spanish Succession), when Lille was threatened with a siege by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugène of Savoy, Boufflers was appointed to the command, and made a most gallant resistance of three months.

The Liverpool Scottish followed this barrage closely and got as far as the enemy wire, which was uncut. But because of the late arrival of the orders and the crowded trenches on the way up, the 1/5th Loyals could not get into position until after 05:00, long after the barrage had ended. Nevertheless, the battalion 'made a most gallant assault' at 05:25; unable to reach the enemy trenches they were forced back to their starting point. Every officer with the right hand companies became a casualty. Battalion losses totalled 33 killed, 85 wounded and 20 missing.

During the First World War Hall was awarded the Military Cross and Bar, and the Croix de Guerre with Palm and Star. Perhaps his most gallant action occurred on 1 April 1918 when, with 138 men of the 20th Hussars, he formed a dismounted company in support of the 4th Dismounted Battalion, leading them in a counter-attack against Rifle Wood (Bois d'Hourges ) near Domart-sur-la-Luce. The wood was well defended, and the 20th suffered heavy casualties in the action. Nonetheless, Hall and his men captured the wood and held it until relieved by the infantry.

In his death the country lost one of her truest and bravest sons, and the army one of its most gallant and efficient officers." Gen. Early in his report wrote: "I had to regret the absence of the gallant Brigadier-General Hoke, who was severely wounded in the action of May 4, at Fredericksburg, and had not recovered, but his place was worthily filled by Colonel Avery, of the Sixth North Carolina Regiment, who fell, mortally wounded, while gallantly leading his brigade in the charge on Cemetery Hill, at Gettysburg, on the afternoon of July 2. In his death the Confederacy lost a good and brave soldier.

Many of the French infantrymen sought the protection of the British infantry to escape the sabres of the dragoons. Le Marchant, knowing he had achieved a magnificent success, was leading a squadron against the last of the formed French infantry when he was shot and his spine broken. Wellington's despatch after the battle stated: "the cavalry under Lieutenant-General Sir Stapleton Cotton made a most gallant and successful charge against a body of the enemy's infantry, which they overthrew and cut to pieces. In this charge Major-General Le Marchant was killed at the head of his brigade, and I have to lament the loss of a most able officer".

Private Wold's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > He rendered most gallant service in aiding the advance of his company, which > had been held up by machinegun nests, advancing, with 1 other soldier, and > silencing the guns, bringing with him, upon his return, 11 prisoners. Later > the same day he jumped from a trench and rescued a comrade who was about to > be shot by a German officer, killing the officer during the exploit. His > actions were entirely voluntary, and it was while attempting to rush a 5th > machinegun nest that he was killed. The advance of his company was mainly > due to his great courage and devotion to duty.

She is cited in "Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal" by Yuval Taylor (2020). Black feminist scholar bell hooks writes critically of the relationship between Mason and Hurston: "It is difficult to believe that Hurston was blind to the cultural imperialism, the white supremacy of her sponsor, Mrs. Mason. This "world's most gallant woman" had compelled Hurston to sign a legal agreement which specified that all material she gathered would be the legal property of her patron and that Hurston could use such material only when granted permission".bell hooks, "Saving Black Folk Culture: Zora Neale Hurston as anthropologist and writer".

The Royal Humane Society issues the Stanhope Medal as the highest of several heroism awards. The award is presented annually for the most gallant rescue of the previous twelve months. The first gold medal awarded went to Matthew Webb in an attempt to rescue a man drowning in the Atlantic Ocean in 1873. The medal is inscribed with Lateat Scintillvia Forsan, the motto of the Royal Humane Society, which means “a small spark may perhaps lie hid.” Beginning in 1962 several societies began nominating rescues for the award, including the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society and the Humane Societies in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

Part of the battery was withdrawn but one section could not get its horse teams up under the heavy fire. The section commander, Lt N. Roberts, with some gunners manhandled some ammunition wagons to provide flank protection against the fire, and then got his teams up and 'snatched his two heavies from under the very noses of the enemy, a most gallant and courageous act'.Farndale, pp. 274–5. Fifth Army was reconstituted as Fourth Army at the beginning of April, and 21st (Mobile) Bde remained with it until the Armistice, through the later phases of the Spring Offensive and then the Allied Hundred Days Offensive (see above).

After the sinking, Admiral John Tovey said, "The Bismarck had put up a most gallant fight against impossible odds worthy of the old days of the Imperial German Navy, and she went down with her colours flying." The Board of the Admiralty issued a message of thanks to those involved: Unaware of the fate of the ship, Group West, the German command base, continued to issue signals to Bismarck for some hours, until Reuters reported news from Britain that the ship had been sunk. In Britain, the House of Commons was informed of the sinking early that afternoon. After the battle, the British warships returned to the United Kingdom with 111 Bismarck survivors.

As one of > his leading followers once said to me, "If the British sucked our blood, the > Japanese ground our bones!" He became more and more disillusioned with the > Japanese, and early in 1943 we got news from Seagrim, a most gallant officer > who had remained in the Karen Hills at the ultimate cost of his life, that > Aung San's feelings were changing. On 1 August 1944 he was bold enough to > speak publicly with contempt of the Japanese brand of independence, and it > was clear that, if they did not soon liquidate him, he might prove useful to > us. ... At our first interview, Aung San began to take rather a high hand.

With his experience it was logical that Marlborough took charge of the 8,000 English troops sent to the Low Countries in the spring of 1689; yet throughout the Nine Years' War (1688–97) he saw only three years service in the field, and then mostly in subordinate commands. However, at the Battle of Walcourt on 25 August 1689 Marlborough won praise from the Allied commander, Prince Waldeck – "... despite his youth he displayed greater military capacity than do most generals after a long series of wars ... He is assuredly one of the most gallant men I know". Since Walcourt, though, Marlborough's popularity at court had waned. William and Mary distrusted both Lord and Lady Marlborough's influence as confidants and supporters of Princess Anne (whose claim to the throne was stronger than William's).

According to his obituary in The New York Times, "It was the custom for men to marry young in the antebellum days, and Mr. Marié was one of the very few bachelors in town, who, although most gallant and most devoted to the fair sex, was content with his own lot, and who lived in a house of his own and entertained as a bachelor host." He hosted many society dinners from his residence at 48 West 19th Street and, later at, 6 East 37th Street in Manhattan and summered in Bar Harbor, Maine and Newport, Rhode Island. He died on January 13, 1903 at his residence, 6 East 37th Street, in Manhattan. His funeral took place at St. Patrick's Cathedral and he was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens.

Phelps Official After > Action Report South Mountain, (Col Walter Phelps, Jr's Official Reports > Reports of September 1862 on South Mountain and Antietam.) The Brigade was noted again for its performance at the battle of South Mountain, as noted by Phelps: > I cannot allow the conduct of Lieutenant Cranford, Fourteenth New York State > Militia, and Lieutenant Schenck, Twenty-second New York Volunteers, aides to > myself, to pass unnoticed. I was often obliged to send them, through a > galling fire, to different parts of the field with orders. Their conduct on > this occasion was most gallant, and all that I could have desired. It was > the more striking that their line of duty did not require their presence on > the field at that time, the former being acting commissary of subsistence, > and the latter regimental quartermaster.

In August 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, he was 50 years old. Recalled, and promoted to a temporary Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Reserve of Officers, British Army, commanding the 6th Battalion, the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 25–26 September 1915 during operations on Hill 70 at the Battle of Loos, France, Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas-Hamilton, when the battalions on his right and left had retired, rallied his own battalion again and again and led his men forward four times. The last time he led all that remained, about 50 men, in a most gallant manner, and was killed at their head. It was due to his bravery, and splendid leadership that the line at this point was able to check the enemy's advance.

Ruth soon decided it was time to move on, and after an appearance in the French resort town Biarritz to perform for a charity event at the Chateau- Basque, accompanied the Spanish actor, Valeriano Ruiz Paris, into Barcelona to open his revue, "Not-Yet" at the Teatro Cómico where she introduced her new dance, the Chotiston, which was a mixture of the Charleston and the Chotis. While in Barcelona, she was followed by an old friend, Robert Wiene, a German film director, who wanted Ruth to star on in his latest film based on the love affair of one of the most gallant European Sovereigns and the most beautiful colored dancer in Europe at the moment. Filming wrapped up by the end of September and the German crew returned to Berlin. Ruth also moved on, in October, to Valencia to appear in the El Folies-Bergere cabaret, where a painting of herself (and Josephine Baker) hung above the stage.

Rear Admiral Sir Horace Lambert Alexander Hood (2 October 1870 - 31 May 1916) was a British Royal Navy admiral of the First World War, whose lengthy and distinguished service saw him engaged in operations around the world, frequently participating in land campaigns as part of a shore brigade. His early death at the Battle of Jutland in the destruction of his flagship was met with mourning and accolades from across Britain. Admiral Hood was a youthful, vigorous and active officer whose service in Africa won him the Distinguished Service Order and who was posthumously appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in recognition of his courageous and ultimately fatal service in the Battle of Jutland, during which his ship was constantly engaged from its arrival at the action and caused fatal damage to a German light cruiser. He has been described as "the beau ideal of a naval officer, spirited in manner, lively of mind, enterprising, courageous, handsome, and youthful in appearance … His lineage was pure Royal Navy, at its most gallant".

Wittenberg, 2006, pp. 292-298. A Confederate officer later recounted: "I think that without exception the most gallant charge, and the most desperate resistance that we ever met from the Federal cavalry, was at Fairfax, June 1863, when Stuart made a raid around the Union Army just before the battle of Gettysburg."Dagwell, 1897. p. 84.Fairfax Court House and its immediate vicinity would be the scene of several small battles or skirmishes and raids during the war. Other skirmishes or small battles at Fairfax Court House occurred on June 1, 1861 (a skirmish which was the first engagement between uniformed land forces of both sides), July 17, 1861, November 18, 1861, November 27, 1861, September 2, 1862, December 27, 1862, December 28, 1862, January 9, 1863, January 28, 1863, June 4, 1863, June 27, 1863, August 6, 1863, August 24, 1863. Mosby's Fairfax Court House Raid occurred March 9, 1863. Operations were conducted around Fairfax Court House on July 28-August 3, 1863. Expeditions were conducted from Fairfax Court House August 4, 1863 and December 26-27, 1864. Scouts were conducted from Fairfax Court House on December 24-25, 1861, May 27-29, 1863, February 6-7, 1865, February 15-16, 1865 and April 8-10, 1865.