[commander] I command.” Philippone ended his career with three surgeries to repair his back. “I was an Airborne Ranger,” he explains, “jumping out of planes and hunting terrorists. Being a parachutist that long beats down on your body.” (He has recovered sufficiently to become an ...
The first is that of the commander of the royal horse, Prince Rupert, a son of the Winter-King. He had now been domiciled in England for seven years, in the course of which he had found time to serve the Dutch, as we have seen, at the siege of Breda in 1639, and the Swedes ...