But Morgan evidently reported matters of intelligence much more important to his commanding general.

He finished the war as a major general, commanding a full division, and at 25 was the youngest major general in the history of the U.S. Army.

Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including commanding general Ulysses S. Grant.

Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

He was advanced to that grade on June 5, 1989, and assigned duties as the commanding general, 10th < nowiki > MEB / Assistant </ nowiki > division commander, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina on July 10, 1989.

On June 1, 1990, he assumed duties as the commanding general, 2nd Force Service Support Group < nowiki > Group / Commanding </ nowiki > general, 6th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic and commanded the 2d FSSG during the Gulf War.

General Krulak was assigned as commanding general, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, on August 24, 1992, and was promoted to lieutenant general on September 1, 1992.

On July 22, 1994, he was assigned as commander of Marine Forces < nowiki > Pacific / commanding </ nowiki > general, Fleet Marine Force Pacific, and in March 1995 he was nominated to serve as the commandant of the Marine Corps.

At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effectiveness of the theater commander in England, Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

At the same time, Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery replaced Auchinleck as the general officer commanding the Eighth Army.

In recognition of Davis ' bravery and initiative, commanding general Zachary Taylor is reputed to have said, " My daughter, sir, was a better judge of men than I was.

Returning to the United States, he was advanced to the rank of major general in July 1994 and was assigned as commanding general, 2nd Marine Division, Marine Forces Atlantic, MCB Camp Lejeune.

For example, to cite Cynthia Freeland's catalogue: " Aristotle says that the courage of a man lies in commanding, a woman's lies in obeying ; that " matter yearns for form, as the female for the male and the ugly for the beautiful ;" that women have fewer teeth than men ; that a female is an incomplete male or " as it were, a deformity ": which contributes only matter and not form to the generation of offspring ; that in general " a woman is perhaps an inferior being "; that female characters in a tragedy will be inappropriate if they are too brave or too clever "( Freeland 1994: 145-46 )

Miltiades the Younger ( c. 550 – 489 BC ) was tyrant of the Thracian Chersonese and the Athenian commanding general in the Battle of Marathon.

Grant, as commanding general, immediately had to contend with Maximilian of Mexico and the French army which had taken over Mexico under the authority of Napoleon III, which the Americans felt to be a violation of their Monroe Doctrine.

He was promoted to major general on April 4 and made commanding general of the 2nd Armored Division seven days later.

His tenure as commanding general was marred by political difficulties, and from 1874 to 1876, he moved his headquarters to St. Louis, Missouri in an attempt to escape from them.

Sherman stepped down as commanding general on November 1, 1883, and retired from the army on February 8, 1884.

The rank of commanding officer of the crossbowmen corps was one of the highest positions in any army of this time.

By the time of the Eighth Doctor audio play Terror Firma ( set after Remembrance ), Davros is commanding a Dalek army which has successfully conquered the Earth.

Towards the end of his time in the army, Marrow learned from his commanding officer that he could receive an honorable discharge because he was a single father, so he left four months ahead of schedule.

In addition to the two major conflicting views, prominent Lebanese politicians of the myriad religious denominations in Lebanon have also tended to be feudal warlords commanding their own private militias and feared that a strong army would endanger their personal power.

The army is under the direct command of Headquarters PNGDF, while the air force and navy have their own commanding officers.

The army is under the direct command of Headquarters PNGDF, while the air force and navy have their own commanding officers.

Saladin played a major role, commanding the right wing of the Zengid army, while a force of Kurds commanded the left, and Shirkuh stationed in the center.

They incorporated large numbers of the people they conquered into their army, with the result that by the time they reached Sierra Leone, the rank and file of their army consisted mostly of coastal peoples ; the Mane were its commanding group.

In the Battle of Poltava on June 27, 1709 ( Old Style ), or July 8 ( New Style ), tsar Peter the First, commanding 34, 000 troops, defeated a Swedish army of 17, 000 troops led by Field Marshal Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld ( who had received the command of the army after the wounding of the Swedish king Charles XII on June 17 ).

After Hood's Army of Tennessee was all but destroyed at the Battle of Nashville, Forrest distinguished himself by commanding the Confederate rear guard in a series of actions that allowed what was left of the army to escape.

His father managed to obtain the renewed support of the French government in 1744 ; and Charles Edward travelled to France with the sole purpose of commanding a French army, which he would lead in an invasion of England.

From 1585 the title couldn't be taken away unless treachery was proven, thus most Hetmans served for life, as illustrated by the case of Jan Karol Chodkiewicz literally commanding the army from his deathbed.

Haig started the war as the commanding officer of British I Corps, then was promoted to command the British First Army and then the BEF, an army group eventually comprising sixty divisions in five armies.

Boromir's great stamina and physical strength, together with a forceful and commanding personality, made him a widely-admired commander in Gondor's army: he was made Captain of the White Tower, and quickly became Captain-General, also bearing the title High Warden of the White Tower.

Most of the Irish-American officers who landed at Cork, in the expectation of commanding an army against England, were imprisoned ; sporadic disturbances around the country were easily suppressed by the police, army and local militias.

In 1463 he was forced to submit to Pius II, who left him only Rimini and little more ; Roberto Malatesta, his son ( 1482 ), under pope Paul II nearly lost his state but under Sixtus IV became the commanding officer of the pontifical army against Ferdinand of Naples.

Immediately following the failure of the peace talks, orders were sent out from Sparta to the Spartan king Cleombrotus, who was at the head of an army in Phocis, commanding him to march directly to Boeotia.

Rohan was not executed ( as were leaders of rebellions later in Richelieu's tenure ); in fact, he later became a commanding officer in the French army.

Baron Riedesel, commanding the Hessians in Carleton's army, noted that, " If we could have begun our expedition four weeks earlier, I am satisfied that everything could have ended this year.

The commanding officer at Fort Humbolt, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Robert C. Buchanan, a strict disciplinarian, had reports that Grant was intoxicated off duty while seated at the pay officer's table.

On October 9, 1901, the park was renamed Grant Park in honor of American Civil War commanding General and United States President Ulysses S. Grant.

Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army received a request for terms from the fort's commanding officer, Confederate Brigadier General Simon Bolivar Buckner.

General Ulysses S. Grant, commanding the U. S. Army, was not inclined to blame only Carrington.

Among his appointments, he installed William Ward, a black Union veteran, as commanding officer of Co. A, 6th Infantry Regiment, Louisiana State Militia, a new unit to be based in Grant Parish to help control the violence there and in other Red River parishes.

William Ward, the commanding officer of Company A, 6th Infantry Regiment, Louisiana State Militia, headquartered in Grant Parish, had also been elected state representative from the parish on the Republican ticket.

In season two, reference is made to the war ending six years earlier ( 1871 ) and to the presidential nomination of Ulysses S. Grant ( 1868 ), a neighbor of Adams before the war and eventually his commanding officer.

Grant hoped to compensate for Butler's weaknesses by assigning him two strong subordinate generals: Quincy A. Gillmore, commanding the X Corps, and William F. " Baldy " Smith, commanding the XVIII Corps.

Grant, then commanding the armies of the Union, never forgot the 4th Infantry, with which he had served as a lieutenant in Mexico and on the frontier.