In the words of nominator Karanacs, "This is one of the smaller battles of the Texas Revolution and a terrific illustration of Texan incompetence. One side literally got caught sleeping. The commander escaped due to a series of crazy coincidences. It's a scene worthy of a novelist's imagination."
Collingwood was one of the first British dreadnought battleships and often served as a flagship during her short career. She entered service in 1910 and saw combat at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Due to the rapid development of battleship designs at this time, she was considered obsolete by the end of World War I and was sold for scrap in 1922. The article went through GAN and ACR prior to FAC.
Ian has worked since 2012 on this article on the commander of the Australian Army between 1963 and 1966 and highest-ranked officer in the Australian military from 1966 to 1970. He developed it to FA-class partly to follow up on his Frederick Scherger article (Wilton's predecessor as head of the Australian military) and "partly to see if I could add a general to my list of air marshal and admiral FAs". The article made GA and A-class before FA.
Freikorp's first FA-class nomination is a lively biography of a British Army officer, author, journalist and all-round action man. Bodley saw combat on the Western Front in World War I, travelled widely between the wars, escaped from occupied France, wrote 18 books and was married three times. Freikorps took the article through GAN, PR, and ACR before achieving FA-class.
The third and last instalment in Nick's series of featured articles on Royal Navy carrier-based attacks against the German battleship Tirpitz during 1944, following Operation Tungsten and Operation Mascot. Nick shepherded the article though GAN and ACR before FAC, and has contributed an article on this process for this issue of The Bugle.
Shepard was a New York lawyer, banker, newspaper owner, and colonel in the American Civil War; this is the nominator's first FA with a military connection.
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