Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

* 1797 – Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English military commander ( b. 1717 )

* 1803 – Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Brazilian military commander ( d. 1880 )

The arrangement of crowning a successor as royal prince and military commander is well known among other Germanic tribes, such as the Swedes and Franks, to whom the Anglo-Saxons were closely related.

* Alfons Rebane ( 1908 – 1976 ), Estonian military commander

He developed a reputation as a military commander during wars with Russia and the Ottoman Empire, as an early modernizer of Persia's armed forces and institutions, and for his death before his father, Fath Ali Shah.

The Chief Captain ( senior military commander ) of the Nephites during this time was Captain Moroni.

During this time, Montgomery faced serious trouble from his military superiors and the clergy for his frank attitude regarding the sexual health of his soldiers, but was defended from dismissal by his superior Alan Brooke, commander of II Corps.

Statue of Augustus in the garb of Roman imperator ( military supreme commander ).

* Abdallah Banda ( born 1963 ), Sudanese military commander

The Soviet military commander in Sofia assumed supreme authority, and the communists whom he instructed, including Kimon Georgiev ( who was not a communist himself, but a member of the elitarian political organization " Zveno ", working together with the communists ), took full control of domestic politics in the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

* Charon, a Theban military commander ( fl.

His military career continued when Constantine I made his son field commander during the 332 campaign against the Goths.

Taking over as military commander-in-chief, now titled Captain General, was newly promoted General de Division Bumba Moaso, former commander of the parachute division.

Amongst those arrested were Générals Daniel KATSUVA wa Katsuvira, Land Forces Chief of Staff, UTSHUDI Wembolenga, Commandant of the 2nd Military Region at Kalemie ; FALLU Sumbu, Military Attaché of Zaïre in Washington, Colonel MUDIAYI wa Mudiayi, the military attaché of Zaïre in Paris, the military attache in Brussels, a paracommando battalion commander, and several others.

He merged the military general staff with his own presidential staff and appointed himself chief of staff again, in addition to the positions of minister of defence and supreme commander that he already held.

In January 1979 General de Division Boyenge Mosambay Singa was named as both military region commander and Region Commissioner for Shaba.

The president is the commander in chief for the military.

* 1761 – Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander ( d. 1818 )

Born to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia, Diocletian rose through the ranks of the military to become cavalry commander to the Emperor Carus.

In his biographical work Agricola, Tacitus maintains that Agricola was forced into retirement because his triumph over the Caledonians highlighted Domitian's own inadequacy as a military commander.

* 1945 – George Smith Patton Jr., American military commander ( b. 1885 )

Henry then went about his own business outside Aquitaine, leaving Earl Patrick ( his regional military commander ) as her protective custodian.

While Titus received a court education in the company of Britannicus, Vespasian pursued a successful political and military career.

Vespasian was assigned to lead the Roman army against the insurgents, with Titus — who had completed his military education by this time — in charge of a legion.

Although he attained the standard succession of public offices, holding the consulship in AD 51, Vespasian became more reputed as a successful military commander, participating in the Roman invasion of Britain in 43, and subjugating Judaea during the Jewish rebellion of AD 66.

In preparation for a praetorship, Vespasian needed two periods of service in the minor magistracies, one military and the other public.

Vespasian served in the military in Thrace for about 3 years.

Yet it was the second time that a man had achieved the purple while owing his advancement purely to his military career ; both Vespasian and Septimius Severus had come from noble or middle-class families, while Thrax was born a commoner.

Cremona was rebuilt with the help of Vespasian himself, but it seems to have failed to regain its former prosperity as it disappeared from history until the 6th century, when it resurfaces as a military outpost of the Eastern Roman ( Byzantine ) Empire during the Gothic War.

In a full-blown military campaign, the legions, under generals such as Vespasian, were far more numerous.

While Titus received a court education in the company of Britannicus, Vespasian pursued a successful political and military career.

Unlike previous emperors who had seized power in military coups d ' état ( Vespasian and Septimius Severus, both from traditional middle-class Equestrian stock ), the barracks emperors tended to be low-class commoners ( often from outlying parts of the empire ); the first barracks emperor, Maximinus Thrax, had begun his military career as an enlisted soldier.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

The idea eventually rose through the military bureaucracy and gained supporters.

The new military leaders were unable to retain for long the popularity that they had gained through their overthrow of Tombalbaye.

Regional military governors, known as Jiedushi, gained increasingly autonomous status while formerly submissive states raided the empire.

Domitian's youth and early career were largely spent in the shadow of his brother Titus, who gained military renown during the First Jewish-Roman War.

Countries like Russia and China had already delivered a small quantity of military equipment some years earlier, but gained on importance during the past few years.

" Foobar may have derived from the military acronym FUBAR and gained popularity because it is pronounced the same.

Although Washington never gained the commission in the British army he yearned for, in these years the young man gained valuable military, political, and leadership skills.

Since then both Israel and Hezbollah have asserted that the organization has gained in military strength.

Hannibal ’ s vision of military affairs, derived partly from the teaching of his Greek tutors and experience gained alongside his father, stretched over most of the Hellenistic World of his time.

Under their auspices, she gained a second meeting, where she made a remarkable prediction about a military reversal near Orléans.

As the term ' knight ' became increasingly confined to denoting a social rank the military role of fully armoured cavalryman gained a separate term, ' man-at-arms '.

The movement gained strength and support in the northeastern jungles and established firm footing when Cambodia's leader Prince Sihanouk was removed from office during a military coup in 1970.

Although the mercenaries quickly gained the nearby airport on Hulule, they failed to capture President Gayoom, who fled from house to house and asked for military intervention from India, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Niue gained its autonomy in 1974 in free association with New Zealand, which handles the island's military and foreign affairs.

He had gained three years concentrated military experience in different theatres and seen at first hand some key events and people.

The insights he gained from his political and military experiences, combined with a solid grasp of European history, provided the basis for the book.

Rhys gained his first recorded military experience at the age of fourteen when he participated in the storming of Llansteffan Castle in 1146.

With the plunder he gained further military forces could be paid, enabling him to raid the Moorish cities of Lisbon, Zamora, and Coimbra.

" Although positions were complicated by rival Muslim leaders, the bulk of the Syrian rulers supported Saladin due to his role in the Egyptian expedition, in which he gained a record of military qualifications.

Similar experience can be gained through military service in software engineering.

Despite the economic growth and results in diplomacy, the government, having gained power by coup d ' etat, was essentially a military regime.