Peter Bailey (military Officer)
Peter Bailey may refer to: *A. Peter Bailey (born 1938), American journalist, author, and lecturer *Peter Bailey (cricketer) (born 1939), Australian cricketer *Peter Hamilton Bailey (1927–2021), Australian public servant and academic *Peter James Bailey III (1812–1836), soldier and eponym of Bailey County, Texas *Peter Bailey, a character in ''It's a Wonderful Life'' See also * *Peter Bayley (other) *Peter Baillie Peter Baillie (1771 – 1 September 1811) was a British West Indies merchant, and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1807 to 1811. Baillie was the eldest son of Evan Baillie of Dochfour and his wife Mary Gurley, daughter of Pet ...

Peter Bailey (cricketer)
Peter Bailey (born 16 August 1939) is an Australian former cricketer. He played ones first-class cricket match for Victoria in 1960. See also * List of Victoria first-class cricketers This is a list of Victoria first-class cricketers. The Victoria cricket team have played first-class cricket since 1851, when they played the Tasmania cricket team at Launceston. Below is a chronological list of cricketers to have represented Vi ... References External links * 1939 births Living people Australian cricketers Victoria cricketers Cricketers from Melbourne {{Australia-cricket-bio-1930s-stub ...
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Peter Hamilton Bailey
Peter Hamilton Bailey (3 September 1927 – 7 November 2021) was a former Australian public servant and academic. He served as an advisor to seven Australian prime ministers, and later became a professor in human rights law at the Australian National University (ANU). Early life Bailey was born in Melbourne to Editha (née Donnison) and Kenneth Bailey. His father served as Solicitor-General of Australia. Bailey attended Carey Baptist Grammar School and Wesley College, and then completed a Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Melbourne. He won a Rhodes Scholarship in 1949, emulating his father who had been a Rhodes Scholar in 1918. They both attended Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After Oxford, Bailey returned to Australia to complete a Master of Laws degree at Canberra University College.
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Peter James Bailey III
The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a crucial conflict of the Texas Revolution. In 1835, colonists from the United States joined with Tejanos (Mexicans born in Texas) in putting up armed resistance to the centralization of the Mexican government. President Antonio López de Santa Anna and the government in Mexico City believed the United States had instigated the insurrection with a goal of annexing Texas. In an effort to tamp down on the unrest, martial law was declared and military governor General Martín Perfecto de Cos established headquarters in San Antonio de Béxar, stationing his troops at the Alamo. When the Texian volunteer soldiers gained control of the fortress at the Siege of Béxar, compelling Cos to surrender on December 9, many saw his expulsion to the other side of the Rio Grande as the end of Mexican forces in Texas. Most Texian soldiers in Béxar left to join a planned invasion of Matamoros, Mexico. Garrison commander James C. Neill ...
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It's A Wonderful Life
''It's a Wonderful Life'' is a 1946 American Christmas by medium#Films, Christmas Fantasy film, fantasy drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet ''The Greatest Gift'', which Philip Van Doren Stern self-published in 1943 and is in turn loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella ''A Christmas Carol''. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life), George Bailey, a man who has given up his personal dreams in order to help others in his community and whose thoughts of suicide on Christmas Eve bring about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he touched and what the world would be like if he did not exist. Theatrically, the film's break-even point was $6.3 million, about twice the production cost, a figure it did not come close to achieving on its initial release. Because of the film's disappointing sales, Capra was seen by some stud ...
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Peter Bayley (other)
Peter Bayley may refer to: * Peter Bayley (poet) ( 1778–1823), English writer and poet * Peter Bayley (cricketer) (1916–1996), West Indian cricketer from British Guiana * Peter Bayley (literary critic) (1921–2015), British academic, fellow in English at University College, Oxford * Peter Bayley (scholar of French literature) (1944–2018), British academic of French literature See also * Peter Bailey (other) *Peter Baillie Peter Baillie (1771 – 1 September 1811) was a British West Indies merchant, and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1807 to 1811. Baillie was the eldest son of Evan Baillie of Dochfour and his wife Mary Gurley, daughter of Pet ...