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See also: Captain (homonymy), Cne

Captain , of Latin caput, capitis “head”, whose abbreviation is Cne , is the military Grade highest of the Officier S subordinates of the Armée S with ground and of the air in the majority of the French-speaking countries, in the French National police, like at the Sapeurs-pompiers.

In the French Army

The name captain also comes from the Italian capitano (and before of the Latin caput (head), to appoint the chief with the head of a company).

Attributions

Currently, the term of captain (Ground, air, gendarmerie) corresponds to the rank of Lieutenant in the navy. Whatever the weapon, the captain generally has charges a troop with it with 100 to 150 men approximately. This troop can take following names:

  • Battery: Army (artillery),
  • Company: Army, Gendarmerie,
  • Squadron: Army (cavalry), Air force (not flying personnel), Gendarmerie (Anti-riot police, Republican guard),
  • Flotilla: Air force (flying personnel).
These units are known as elementary. The captain is the first officer to have an official command. He has the prerogatives of them, in particular as regards notation as of his subordinates (except officers).

Badges

  • captain of the Weapons to foot

  • captain of the Weapons heiresses of old the Weapons to horse and captain of the national police force.

In the National marine

The equivalent rank is that of Lieutenant , which one calls “captain”.

Lieutenant commander, Commander and Captain are ranks of senior officers in the navy.

The captain of weapons is a Petty officer in charge of the discipline on the buildings of the National marine. It is popularly called the bidel .

In the Swiss army

The captain is the third rank of the officers of the Swiss Armée. He is located between the rank of first lieutenant and Major. He is of an intermediate row between the “subalterns” (lieutenant and Premier-lieutenant) and the “senior officers” (Major, Lieutenant-colonel and Colonel).

It orders in theory a company (or a battery in artillery). He can also be an officer in the staff of a Bataillon.

Its badge is composed of three gallons fine gilded (or three band black horizontal fines on the battle dress).

The Furrier and the quartermaster-sergeant of unit (with the rank of Quartermaster-sergeant chief) are his direct collaborators to assist it in the administrative management and the service market of the company.

Famous captains of fiction

Captains of ships

The term also transmits to the commanders vessels of science fiction:

Military captains

In cartoons:

  • Stark Captain, directing the 22e of cavalry in blue Tunics
  • Captain Michel Tanguy, of the flotilla of the storks, in the adventures of Tanguy and Laverdure
  • Captain Francis Blake, of the series Blake and Mortimer
Out of films or novels:
  • Capitaine Conan
  • courageous Capitaines Romance of Rudyard Kipling
  • Capitaine Crashes to pieces
  • Capitaine John.H.Miller interpreted by Tom Hanks in the film It is necessary to save the soldier Ryan "

Famous military captains

  • Alfred Dreyfus

  • Georges Guynemer (fighter pilot of the First World War celebrates)
  • Capitaine Danjou (ordering the Foreign legion with the Bataille of Camerone)
  • Pierre Sergent celebrates captain of Legion in Indo-China and Algeria

Quotations

the bidel captain of weapons,

And its book of punished,
In Cayenne f' knows
charm has I do not know which mouse.

Pierre Mac-Orlan (song the quay Gueydon )

dead O old captain, it is time! Let us weigh the anchor!

This country annoys us, Dead O! Let us install!
If the sky and the sea are black like ink,
Our hearts which you know is filled of rays!

Charles Baudelaire (the Voyage)

That it was beautiful, my frigate,

When it sailed in the wind!
It had, with the rising sun,
All the colors of agate;
Its veils shone the morning
Like satin balloons;
Its skittle thin, long and punt,
Carried two bands of
scarlet On twenty-four hidden guns;
Its masts, behind leaning,
Appeared with half-lying.
Ten times sharper than a pirate,
In hundred days of the Havre to Surate
It often carried us.
-- That it was beautiful, my frigate,

Alfred de Vigny (the complaint of the captain)

O how much sailors, how much captains

Who left merry for remote races
In this dull horizon are disappeared!
Combien disappeared, hard and sad fortune!
In a sea bottomless, by one night without the moon,
In the blind man ocean hidden forever!

Victor Hugo (Oceano Nox)

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