Chapter Cantabric Ocean to Captain is a Bold Man of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Captain of Kent. So Jack Cade called himself (died 1450).

The Black Captain, lieutenant-colonel Dennis Davidoff, of the Russian army. In the French invasion he was called by the French Le Capitaine Noir.

The Great Captain (el Gran Capitano), Gonzalvo di Cordovo (1453–1515).

The People’s Captain(el Capitano del Popolo), Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882). A Copper Captain, a poor captain, whose swans are all geese, his jewellery paste, his guineas counters, his achievements tongue-doughtiness, and his whole man Brummagem.

To this copper captain was confided the command of the troops.—W. Irving

Let all the world view here the captain’s treasure…
Here’s a goodly jewel…
See how it sparkles, like an old lady’s eyes…
And here’s a chain of whitings’ eyes for pearls…
Your clothes are parallels to these, all counterfeits.
Put these and them on, you’re a man of copper;
A kind of candlestick; a copper, copper captain.
   —Fletcher: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (1640).

A Led Captain, a poor obsequious captain, who is led about as a cavalier servantê by those who find him hospitality and pay nunky for him. He is not the leader of others, as a captain ought to be, but is by others led.

When you quarrel with the family of Blandish, you only leave refined cookery to be fed upon scraps by a poor cousin or a led captain.—Burgoyne: The Heiress. v. 3 (1781).

Captain Loys [Lo-is]. Louise Labé was so called, because in early life she embraced the profession of arms, and gave repeated proofs of great valour. She was also called La Belle Cordière. Louise Labé was a poetess, and has left several sonnets full of passion, and some good elegies (1526–1566).

Captain Right, a fictitious commander, the ideal of the rights due to Ireland. In the last century the peasants of Ireland were sworn to captain Right, as chartists were sworn to their articles of demand called their charter.

Captain Rock, a fictitious name assumed by the leader of certain Irish insurgents in 1822, etc. All notices, summonses, and so on, were signed by this name.

Captain Swing, a fictitious character, in whose name threats were issued and attacks made by the barn-burners and machinery-destroyers early in the nineteenth century.

Captain is a Bold Man (The), a popular phrase at one time. Peachum applies the expression to captain Macheath.—Gay: The Beggar’s Opera (1727).