Shielded as they were from observation by a slight fold in the land, their commander, Brigadier-General Van Pallandt, ordered the regimental colours to be left in place on the edge of the plateau to convince their opponents they were still in their initial position.

The German Division was also hampered by the fact that their commander — Brigadier-General ( Generalmajor ) G. H.

Trenchard was succeeded as commander of the Independent Air Force by his deputy Brigadier-General Courtney.

In July, 1941, he became deputy commander of the Home Army ( Armia Krajowa or " AK "), and in March, 1943, gained appointment as its commander, with the rank of Brigadier-General.

When handing over the U. S. II Corps position to the New Zealand Corps, Brigadier-General Frederic Butler, deputy commander of U. S. 34th Division, had said " I don't know, but I don't believe the enemy is in the convent.

Operation Athena began on 17 July 2003 with the installation of Brigadier-General Peter Devlinas commander of the ISAF's Kabul Multi-National Brigade.

It was established on September 2, 1914 in Ottawa, Canada, as Automobile Machine Gun Brigade No. 1 by Canadian Brigadier-General Raymond Brutinel, who initiated the program and was the unit's first commander.

The current commander, Brigadier-General Heinz Feldmann, was appointed on 30 September 2010.

In the mid-1990s, he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and given the position of commander.

While serving on the staff of Brigadier-General Grenville M. Dodge, he requested a transfer to the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment ( Union ), a volunteer regiment made up of Southern Unionists, which did not have a permanent commander.

The French commander, Brigadier-General Paul Legentilhomme, had some 7, 000 men in seven battalions of Senegalese and Somali infantry.

Before advancing, the generals decided to reconnoitre ; Brigadier-General Potter of the 9th Brigade ( 3rd Division ) and Major-General Watts, commander of the 7th Division, eventually walked almost to the edge of High Wood without a shot being fired.

The first invasion had already failed, although Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty, commander of the second invasion force, was unaware of this failure.

Brigadier-General Marian Sowiński has been commander of the special forces unit " GROM " ( Thunder ) from December 19, 1995 until December 6, 1997.

The commander of the expedition was Brigadier-General William Draper.

However, until Smyth was available, the division was temporarily commanded by the commander of the 6th Brigade, Brigadier-General John Gellibrand.

Most of them halted in the cover of Green Hill, west of Scimitar Hill, but Brigadier-General Lord Longford, led his 2nd ( South Midland ) Brigade in a charge over Green Hill and up to the summit of Scimitar Hill.

During the First World War Lord Longford commanded the 2nd ( South Midland ) Brigade of the British 2nd Mounted Division, a yeomanry, with the rank of Brigadier-General.

The Australian 2nd Infantry Brigade, under the command of Brigadier-General M ' Cay, was given 35 minutes warning that it was about to join the attack.

* Brigadier-General Charles George Vivian Tryon, 2nd Baron Tryon, GCVO, KCB, DSO, DL, OStJ 1952-1971

* Brigadier-General Sir Smith Child, 2nd Baronet, GCVO, CB, CMG, DSO 1936 – 1941

* Brigadier-General Sir Smith Child, 2nd Baronet 1929 – 1936

The right-hand column, comprising the New Zealand Infantry Brigade under Brigadier-General Francis Johnston, would head for Chunuk Bair.

The left-hand column, commanded by Major-General Vaughn Cox, heading for Hill 971 and neighbouring Hill Q, contained the Australian 4th Infantry Brigade of Brigadier-General John Monash and Cox's 29th Indian Brigade.

Some 3, 500 soldiers and two companies of elite commandos under Brigadier-General Acdel Vilas began immediately deploying in the Tucuman mountains in Operacion Independencia, joined later by 1, 500 more troops from the Fourth Airborne Infantry Brigade and Eighth Mountain Infantry Brigade.

He was succeeded as Director of the AMN by other three US Army senior officers, Brigadier-General Fred T. Cruse ( 1942 – 1943 ), Brigadier-General Lee Roy Bartlet ( 1943 – 1946 ) and Brigadier-General John F. Greco ( 1947 ) until GN Infantry Colonel Anastasio Somoza Debayle was appointed its first Nicaraguan-born Director in 1948.

At the end of hostilities in November 1918 he was commanding the 14th Infantry Brigade of the 32nd Division with temporary rank of Brigadier-General.

The Argentinian Army Fifth Brigade, then consisting of the 19th, 20th and 29th Mountain Infantry Regiments and commanded by Brigadier-General Acdel Vilas received the order to move to Famailla in the foothills of the Monteros mountains on 8 February 1975.

* 1st Infantry Brigade ( Brigadier-General George Burrows, commanding )

As a Brigadier-General he commanded the 6th Infantry Brigade at Fort Rosecrans, San Diego, California from 1927.

This weak brigade, under the command of Brigadier-General Ayub Khan ( local rank Major-General – GOC of 14th Army Division ), together with the East Pakistan Rifles which was tasked with defending East Pakistan during the Kashmir War of 1947.

On December 12, 1863 Brigadier-General Jeff C. Davis of the Second Division 14th Army Corps US reported to General Sherman about the condition of the area around the Ocoee and Hiawassee Rivers.

Brigadier-General R. Oxley took acting command of the Division on 27 July 1915, being succeeded by Major-General Havelock Hudson on 1 August 1915.

He was replaced by his assistant, Brigadier-General E A Wood, who commanded the Division until it was demobilized.

However, in 2007, retired Pakistan Army's Brigadier-General Feroz Khan, previously second in command at the Strategic Arms Division of Pakistans ' Military told a Pakistani newspaper that Pakistan had " about 80 to 120 genuine warheads.

While a few commanders varied this slightly, such as Brigadier-General Tudor, CRA of 9th Division, who chose 75 % HE and 25 % smoke, the opening was notable for the first use of a coordinated fireplan across the whole front of several armies, with a common strategy linking infantry with artillery and coordinating the advance of various types of artillery.

Brigadier-General Edward Harding-Newman, CRA of 14 Division issued the following order " This attack must and can be stopped by artillery fire.

With the army stretched very thin by the deployment of 2 extra divisions to Iraq, and the threatened British coal strike in September 1920, Tudor created the Auxiliary Division, a temporary gendarmerie composed of ex-officers, whose numbers peaked at 1, 500 in July 1921, and commanded by a pair of experienced colonial warriors: Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier and Brigadier-General E. A.

Acting as commander-in-chief of the territory, Mason appointed Brigadier-General Joseph W. Brown of the Third U. S. Brigade to head the state militia, with the instructions to be ready to act against Ohio trespassers.

Rice County ( standard abbreviation: RC ) is a county located in the U. S. state of Kansas ; it was named in memory of Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier-General, United States volunteers, killed April 30, 1864, at Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas.

Mason appointed Brigadier-General Joseph Brown of the Third U. S. Brigade to be ready to strike against any Ohio trespasser.

U. S. Brigadier-General Howard C. Davidson and later Air Commodore F. J. W. Mellersh commanded the Strategic Air Force.