Captain

Captain, of Latin caput, capitis, head is it military rank highest of officers subordinates.

The expression large captain appoint the big bosses of war, whatever were their ranks or their titles.

The term is also employed captain in marine commercial.

In the French Army

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 of it of 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),
• Flotilla: Air Force (flying personnel).

These unit are known as elementary. The captain is the first officer to have an official command. It has the prerogatives of them, in particular as regards notation as of the its subordinates (except officers).

Badges

• captain of the Weapons to foot
• captain of the Weapons heiresses of old Horse weapons

Famous captains of fiction

Captain of ships

• Haddock Captain, companion of
• Némo captain, of novel Twenty thousand miles under the seas of
• Captain Hook, in Peter Side

The term is also transmitted to the commanders vessels of science fiction:

• Flam Captain
• Captain James T. Kirk, Captain Picardy Jean-Luc ()

Military captains

In :

• Stark captain, directing the 22^E of cavalry in Blue Tunics.
• Captain Michel Tanguy, of the flotilla of the storks, in the adventures of Tanguy and Laverdure

Famous military captains

• (fighter pilot of the First World War Celebrates)
• Danjou captain (Ordering Foreign legion with battle of Camerone)