After the war he became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine ( BAOR ) in Germany and then Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

However, following a visit in early August to Egypt by British prime minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa.

First, Britain must give an assurance of full independence for India after the war and allow the election of a constituent assembly to frame a new constitution ; second, although the Indian armed forces would remain under the British Commander-in-Chief, Indians must be included immediately in the central government and given a chance to share power and responsibility.

* 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

The colony's new name honoured the fourth son of King George III, Prince Edward Augustus, the Duke of Kent ( 1767 – 1820 ), who subsequently led the British military forces on the continent as Commander-in-Chief, North America ( 1799 – 1800 ), with his headquarters in Halifax.

Although the Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces is legally the Sovereign: under constitutional practice the Prime Minister can declare war, and through the Secretary of State for Defence ( whom he may appoint, dismiss or even appoint himself as ) as chair of the Defence Council the power over the deployment and disposition of British forces.

He rose to the rank of lieutenant-general in the British Army, was noted for his services during the Napoleonic Wars, and served as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland.

After the failure of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the large British offensive in March 1915, the British Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal John French blamed the lack of progress on insufficient and poor-quality artillery shells.

Dönitz talked Hitler out of the plan to scrap the capital ships after taking over as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, arguing successfully to Hitler that a fleet-in-being in Norway tied down British warships which could be used in the Battle of the Atlantic or against Japan.

In October 1807 Major George Johnston wrote a formal letter of complaint to the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, stating that Bligh was abusive and interfering with the troops of the New South Wales Corps.

The National Museum of Fine Arts is a Rococo palace dating back to the late 1570s, which served as the official residence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet during the British era from 1789 onwards.

It was known as Admiralty House when it became the official residence of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Mediterranean fleet.

Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst KCB ( sometimes spelled Geoffrey, or Jeffrey, he himself spelled his name as Jeffery ) ( 29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797 ) served as an officer in the British Army and as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.

By 19 December 1915, General Sir Douglas Haig had replaced General Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ).

He aspired to be Viceroy of India, but the Secretary of State for India, John Morley, was not keen and hoped to send him instead to Malta as Commander-in-Chief of British forces in the Mediterranean, even to the point of announcing the appointment in the newspapers.

General Haig, recently appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in France, attended a Cabinet meeting in London ( 15 April 1916 ) to discuss the upcoming Somme offensive.

In the spring of 1777, the British Commander-in-Chief, North America General William Howe, in New York City, ordered William Tryon to interrupt the flow of supplies from Connecticut that were reaching the Continental Army.

From 1951 to the end of 1952, De Jong commanded a naval frigate HNLMS De Zeeuw, after which he joined the staff of the Allied Commander-in-Chief Channel in the British naval base at Portsmouth.

In 1745 Cumberland was given the honorary title of Captain-General of the British land forces and in Flanders became Commander-in-Chief of the allied British, Hanoverian, Austrian and Dutch troops despite his inexperience.

* Prince George, Duke of Cambridge ( 1819-1904 ): Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, 1856-1895

* Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig ( 1861-1928 ): Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies in France, 1915 to 1918 ( known as the Earl Haig Memorial )

Admiral Mark Kerr, who was Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Hellenic Navy in the early part of World War I and later Commander-in-Chief of the British Adriatic Squadron, wrote in 1920:

In the wake of the Gordon Riots, Amherst was forced to resign as Commander-in-Chief in February 1782 and was replaced by Henry Conway.

With the advent of the French Revolutionary Wars, Amherst was recalled as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in January 1793: however is generally criticised for allowing the armed forces to slide into acute decline, a direct cause of the failure of the early campaigns in the Low Countries: William Pitt said of him " his age, and perhaps his natural temper, are little suited to the activity and the energy which the present moment calls for ".

On 3 April 1795, George appointed him effective Commander-in-Chief in succession to Lord Amherst although the title was not confirmed until three years later.

General Carleton was given independent command of forces in Quebec and the northern frontier, while General William Howe was appointed Commander-in-Chief of forces along the Atlantic coast, an arrangement that had worked well between Generals Wolfe and Amherst in the French and Indian War.

Colonel James Wolfe is promoted to Major-General in the American theatre, and Amherst is promoted to Commander-in-Chief, North America.

From 1772 to 1778 the office was vacant, but from 1778 to 1782 Sir Jeffery Amherst officiated as Commander-in-Chief with the title of General on the Staff.

He was a noted soldier and served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in North America during the American Revolutionary War.

He was the son of the noted naval commander Admiral Adam Duncan who was Commander-in-Chief of the North Sea from 1795 to 1801 and defeated a Franco-Dutch fleet at the Battle of Camperdown in October 1797.

This was in part a clash of personalities: Curzon once wrote on a document “ I rise from the perusal of these papers filled with the sense of the ineptitude of my military advisers ”, and once wrote to the Commander-in-Chief in India, Lord Kitchener advising him that signing himself “ Lord Kitchener of Khartoum ” took up too much time and space, which Kitchener thought petty ( Curzon simply signed himself “ Curzon ” as if he were an hereditary peer, although he later took to signing himself “ Curzon of Kedleston ”).

Haldane thought he had “ been a great Commander-in-Chief, a soldier of the first order, who held the Army as no other could ”.

However, Macready, British Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, confirmed the death sentence describing Mac Eoin as “ nothing more than a murderer ” and writing that he was probably responsible for other " atrocities ", but also later recorded in his memoirs that Mac Eoin was the only IRA man he had met, apart from Collins, to have a sense of humour.

Clark pinned down the Commander-in-Chief Allied Armies in Italy, General Sir Harold Alexander: “ I said, ' You give me a direct order and we ’ ll do it ,' and he did.

French, finally forced to " resign " early in December 1915, recommended Robertson as his successor and Kitchener told Esher ( 4 December ) that the government intended to appoint Robertson Commander-in-Chief, although to Esher ’ s disappointment “ dear old R ” was not appointed.

It became “ Admiralty House ” – the official residence of the Naval Commander-in-Chief, and was commandeered by Japanese during their occupation.

When their commanding officer, Colonel Eyre Crabbe, was about to retire in 1845 after 38 continuous years with the regiment, he “ submitted to the Commander-in-Chief … the earnest desire of the officers and men to be permitted to resume the national garb and designation of a Highland regiment, under which the 74th had been originally embodied .” The aged Duke of Wellington agreed, but although the regiment had hoped to adopt the full Highland dress of kilt and feathered bonnet, they had to settle for the trews and bonnet which the 71st regiment wore.

Kumagai beckons Atsumori with his fan, taunting Atsumori saying, “ I see that you are a Commander-in-Chief.

Macready ( Commander-in-Chief, Ireland ) had been initially impressed by Tudor ( June 1920 ) and thought he was getting rid of “ incompetent idiots ” from senior police positions.

Washington had submitted recommendations to the Continental Congress almost immediately after he had accepted the position of Commander-in-Chief, but these took time to consider and implement.

The publication of the President's assessment conveys information to Congress-information uniquely gleaned from the President's perspective in her various roles as Commander-in-Chief, chief law enforcer, negotiator with foreign powers, and the like-that shall aid the legislature in public deliberation on matters that may justify the enactment of legislation because of their national importance.

Certainly, Sir Garnet Wolseley, taking over as Commander-in-Chief from Lord Chelmsford later that year, was unimpressed with the awards made to the defenders of Rorke ’ s Drift, saying " it is monstrous making heroes of those who shut up in buildings at Rorke ’ s Drift, could not bolt, and fought like rats for their lives which they could not otherwise save ".

While in Delaware, the Chews rented their house on Third Street to Don Juan de Miralles ( Spanish representative to the American government ); the Marquis de Chastellux ( principal liaison officer between the French Commander-in-Chief and George Washington ); and to George and Martha Washington, from November 1781 to March 1782, during the Second Continental Congress.

In reality, the German commanders in Sicily were contemptuous of their allies, and German units took their orders from the German liaison officer attached to Italian 6th Army HQ, Generalleutnant Frido von Senger und Etterlin who was subordinate to Albert Kesselring, the German Commander-in-Chief Army Command South ( OB Süd ).

The Jäger conflict derived from the German-influenced Jägers and politicians who saw Germany as their ally in conflict with the faction oriented towards the Swedish Entente, centering on the former Russian General and Finnish Commander-in-Chief Baron Gustaf Mannerheim.

The British monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II, as Sovereign and head of state is the " Head of the Armed Forces " and their Commander-in-Chief.

Mesić held that active duty officers could not write public political letters without approval of their Commander-in-Chief.

The President of Georgia concludes international treaties and agreements and conducts negotiations with foreign states ; with the consent of Parliament, appoints and dismisses Georgian ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives ; receives the credentials of ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives of foreign states and international organizations ; with the consent of Parliament, appoints Prime Minister and members of the Government ; is empowered to remove ministers from their posts ; submits to Parliament the draft state budget, after agreeing upon its basic content with parliamentary committees ; declares a martial law and state of emergency ; with the consent of Parliament has the right to halt the activities of representative bodies of self-government or territorial units as well as of state bodies ; signs and promulgates laws ; has the right to dissolve Parliament under certain conditions set by the Constitution ; decides questions of citizenship and the granting of political asylum ; grants pardons ; schedules elections to Parliament and other representative bodies ; has the right to revoke acts of subordinate executive bodies ; is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ; and appoints members of the National Security Council, chairs its meetings, and appoints and dismisses military commanders.

Once the departure of the German ships was discovered, Admiral Sir John Tovey, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Fleet, sailed with the King George V, Victorious and their escorts to support those already at sea.

The Official Historian Brigadier Edmonds later alleged that French had removed Smith-Dorrien as he stood in the way of Haig becoming Commander-in-Chief, but this seems unlikely as their antipathy went back a long way and French was later ( December 1915 ) replaced by Douglas Haig as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF against his will.

On the night of August 29, General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, evacuated his entire army of 9, 000 men and their equipment across the water to Manhattan.

At Ambala in particular, which was a large military cantonment where several units had been collected for their annual musketry practice, it was clear to General Anson, Commander-in-Chief of the Bengal Army, that some sort of riot over the cartridges was imminent.

This they achieved by using their own money as well as borrowing £ 50 from, the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Raglan ( 1788 – 1855 ).

Maharajahs came with great retinues from all over India, many of them meeting for the first time while the massed ranks of the Indian armies, under their Commander-in-Chief Lord Kitchener, paraded, played their bands and restrained the crowds of common people.

The government in exile, located first in France and later in the United Kingdom, with the President, Prime Minister and the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army was the top military and civilian authority, recognized by the authorities of the Underground State as their commanders.

In February 1945, the Government Delegate, most members of the Council of National Unity, and the Home Army Commander-in-Chief were invited by Soviet General Ivan Sierov to a conference on their eventual inclusion in the Soviet-backed Provisional Government.

At the same time, the British Cabinet ordered Field Marshal Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, to send home artillery brigade and battery commanders " selected for their eminence and experience " to form an Equipment Committee.

The toast of the Royal Navy, Duncan Boyes was invested with his Victoria Cross on 22 September 1865 by Admiral Sir Michael Seymour GCB ( Commander-in-Chief to Portsmouth ) on the Common at Southsea, along with William Seeley and Thomas Pride who also won their VCs at Shimonoseki.

They have agreed that all those forces, irrespective of their nationality, should the placed under the command of a single Commander-in-Chief ...