During the Civil War, Custer, who achieved a brilliant record, was made brigadier general at the age of 23.

This was reflected in Constantinople by the construction of the Blachernae palace, the creation of brilliant new works of art, and general prosperity at this time: an increase in trade, made possible by the growth of the Italian city-states, may have helped the growth of the economy.

A brilliant general, he is considered to be a founding figure of the Middle Ages, often credited with a seminal role in the development of feudalism and knighthood, and laying the groundwork for the Carolingian Empire.

I thought it was brilliant satire, not only of Trek, but of fandom in general.

Although his arrogance had slowed the campaign, he was a brilliant general in the field, and his loss was a major blow to the allied campaign.

Critic Stewart Mason wrote, " Over their brilliant first three albums, Wire expanded the sonic boundaries of not just punk, but rock music in general.

He is portrayed as a brave but mediocre general, a brilliant financier, and a true friend of Caesar.

It is said that Robert was a brilliant field commander but a terrible general in the First Crusade.

Romanos appointed the brilliant general John Kourkouas commander of the field armies ( domestikos ton scholon ) in the East.

His brilliant general Count Theodosius defeated a revolt in Africa and the Great Conspiracy, a coordinated assault on Britain by Picts, Scots, and Saxons.

In the 17th century when the objects of a war were, as far as possible, secured without the loss of valuable lives and general decisive battles were in every way considered undesirable, a brilliant victory over a part, not the whole, of the enemy's forces was the tactical idea of the best generals.

A brilliant and intuitive general, John's short reign saw the expansion of the Empire's borders and the strengthening of Byzantium itself.

It was not, however, as a theorist dealing with the fundamental data of economic science, but as a brilliant writer on practical economic questions, that Jevons first received general recognition.

Thus Crispus achieved his most important and difficult victory which further established his reputation as a brilliant soldier and general.

However, Zhou Enlai had previously achieved a brilliant intelligence success by planting more than a dozen moles in Chiang Kai-shek's inner circle, including at the general headquarters for the nationalist forces at Nanchang.

Sending his most brilliant general, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Iraq was conquered in a series of successful campaigns against the Sassanid Persians.

The King of Ingary describes Justin as a brilliant general ; with threats of war looming from both Strangia and High Norland, the King of Ingary becomes anxious and insistent that Prince Justin be found.

However, at this crisis the initiative of a subordinate general, the famous military writer Feuquières, converted the hard-won local success into a brilliant victory.

In spite of his failures as a general and diplomat, his good looks and brilliant wit enabled him to retain the intimacy and confidence of his king.

Setoyama's most brilliant moves were the hiring of Sadaharu Oh to take the reins of manager, a title he would hold until 2008 before he moved into the general manager's position.

The brilliant novelty of this criticism of the literature of major European countries at the beginning of the 19th century, and his description of the general revolt against the pseudo-classicism of the 18th century, at once attracted attention outside Denmark.

However, thanks to the genius of his brilliant new political agent, Benjamin Musgrave, who came from Yorkshire, he won the seat in the general election the following year, and became known in Parliament as a flamboyant and brilliant speaker.

As general of brigade he took part in the Russian campaign of 1812, and in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 he repeatedly distinguished himself, notably at Hanau ( October 1813 ), and in a brilliant affair at Reims ( March 1814 ).

He was a brilliant general who fought in the Fourth Macedonic War, securing, in 146 BC the annexation of Macedonia as a Roman province, hence the agnomen Macedonicus.

And in a series of bitterly fought battles in the jungles and hills and along the great rivers of Burma he waged one of the most brilliant campaigns of the war.

According to Strauss and Gustave, Martel fought a brilliant battle, but realized he could not prevail because he was outnumbered so badly, and retreated.

To some, Young's was a brilliant strategy of neutralizing his opponent's strengths and forcing the bout to be fought on his own terms, exposing Ali's inability to fight a counterpuncher.

The brilliant Starship Commander Flandry fought to save the empire even as he scorned it " ( from the preface to The Rebel Worlds ).

On 13 October 1795 he fought a brilliant rearguard action at the bridge of Neuwied, and in the offensive campaign of 1796 he served as Jourdan's most active and successful lieutenant.

Given command of the Army of the Cumberland, he fought against Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg at Stones River, and later outmaneuvered him in the brilliant Tullahoma Campaign, driving the Confederates from Middle Tennessee.

The following decade during the War of the Austrian Succession he fought with distinction at Dettingen and Fontenoy, where he directed the grapeshot upon the British columns, and three years afterwards he made a brilliant defence of Genoa.

In 1719 he opposed the Hanoverian army which invaded Mecklenburg ( in the course of which he fought a brilliant action at Walsmühlen on 6 March 1719 ), and in the following year entered the service of the king of Prussia.

With a ready zeal and commendable responsibility, they fought on to the end in every mission and set a brilliant example for their fellow soldiers.

Outnumbered 63, 000 to 17, 000, Ney fought a brilliant rear guard action at the Battle of Guttstadt-Deppen on 5 and 6 June.

Against Sir Arthur Wellesley's English army he fought a skillful and brilliant rear-guard action at the Battle of Roliça.

The midnight Battle of Wauhatchie was followed in the next month by the brilliant victory at Lookout Mountain, where the 2nd Division fought its famous " battle above the clouds ".

Its brilliant record is closely interwoven with the history of the Virginia campaigns of 1862 – 1863, in which it fought during two eventful years.

Though this seemingly put Räikkönen in a bad spot, as all of his close competitors had pitted, he fought back with a series of brilliant laps that would give him a 34. 7-second lead by the time he pitted on lap 42.

Dobson had been opposed to the suicide storyline from the beginning, she fought hard to get the scripts changed but she was eventually persuaded to play the scenes and was applauded for a " brilliant performance ".

Emigrating in 1791, he fought two campaigns in the army of Cond, and eventually found his way to Hamburg, where he met Antoine de Rivarol, of whose brilliant conversation he has left an account.

* February 3 – Battle of Lácar ( Third Carlist War )-Carlist commander Torcuato Mendíri secured a brilliant victory when he surprised and routed a Government force under General Enrique Bargés at Lácar, east of Estella, nearly capturing newly crowned King Alfonso XII.

Eisenhower revealed his reasoning in a 1946 review of the book Patton and his Third Army: " George Patton was the most brilliant commander of an army in the open field that our or any other service produced.

Later series ( Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third, Blackadder Goes Forth ) moved the duo through history and switched the relationship: the Edmund Blackadder of Blackadder II was a brilliant schemer, whereas Baldrick had devolved into a buffoon whose catchphrase was " I have a cunning plan " ( which he rarely had ).