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When the Croats under Josip Jelačić attempted to return Međimurje, which was then part of Hungary, to Croatia, Andrássy placed himself at the head of the gentry of his county, and served with distinction at the battles of Pákozd and Schwechat, as Arthur Görgey's adjutant ( 1848 ).
At the start of the American Civil War, Wallace was appointed state adjutant general and helped raise troops in Indiana.
During the war he initially served with heavy anti-aircraft guns around Liverpool ( which suffered heavy German bombing in May 1941 ) and by early 1942 was regimental adjutant, with the rank of Captain.
The OKW was almost always represented at daily situation conferences ( Lagevorträge ) by Jodl, Keitel, and the officer serving as Hitler's adjutant.
Instead of returning to India, he was reassigned to units in England, serving as an adjutant to the 2nd South Middlesex Volunteers ( amalgamated into the 7th Middlesex during the Haldane Reforms ) and helping form the 10th Middlesex, until he was accepted into the Staff College at Camberley in 1913 ( starting work there in January 1914 ).
A year later he was named adjutant to the Russian Academy of Science in the physics department.
Maguire was wounded and his adjutant killed, but the column managed to escape with no further casualties.
In 1889, he was made adjutant to the director of the Établissement de Bourges, a government arsenal, and promoted to captain.
At the outbreak of war in August 1914, he was adjutant of the 1st Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment König.
In a June 1992 interview with the Daily Telegraph, Irving claimed to have heard from Hitler's naval adjutant that the Führer had told him that he could not marry because Germany was " his bride ".
Irving then claimed to have asked the naval adjutant when Hitler made that remark, and upon hearing that the date was 24 March 1938, Irving stated in response " Herr Admiral, at that moment I was being born ".
Ordered by Kearny to report to the adjutant general in Washington to stand for court-martial, Frémont was convicted of mutiny, disobedience of a superior officer and military misconduct.
* David Wade, Lieutenant General of the United States Air Force, former commander of Barksdale Air Force Base, state corrections director and adjutant general, was reared in the Holly Springs community of Claiborne Parish.
In 1947 he was attached to the Naval Staff of the Admiralty and in 1948 became adjutant to the Navy Minister.
Offered a position ( and $ 10, 000 in gold ) as adjutant general of the army of Benito Juárez of Mexico, who was then in a struggle with the Mexican Emperor Maximilian I ( a satellite ruler of French Emperor Napoleon III ), Custer applied for a one-year leave of absence from the U. S. Army, which was endorsed by Grant and Secretary of War Stanton.
He was adjutant general and commander of the Louisiana division of the United Confederate Veterans.
* David Wade, Lieutenant General of the United States Air Force, former commander of Barksdale Air Force Base, state corrections director and adjutant general, was reared in the Holly Springs Community of Claiborne Parish but considered Homer as his hometown.
Popular legend states the founder of Ville Platte was Marcellin Garand, an adjutant major in the Army of the French Empire, during the time of Napoleon.
Henshaw would later become an adjutant general to Artemas Ward, who was second in command to George Washington in the Continental Army.
The regimental standards had been secretly buried by the adjutant shortly before the regiment was summoned to the Tuileries on the night of 8 / 9 August, indicating that the likely end was foreseen.
The battalion adjutant was Éamon de Valera, future Taoiseach and President of Ireland.

was and general
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
He was referring not only to the general college situation but more especially to the preparatory schools.
However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.
As far as I'm concerned, it was a separate matter from the general Committee study of Bang-Jensen's conduct.
Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.
But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.
He was allowed forty-four pounds in all, including fees to the masters of requests, Mr. Fanshawe of the Exchequer, the solicitor general, and other officials and their clerks.
According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.
But there was one thing that he had to stress, and that was that the contribution to the general church expenses, the dollar money, had been seriously falling behind in this church, and that must be looked after immediately.
For many years a state tax on cities and towns was paid by the several municipalities to the state from the proceeds of the general property tax.
The wording of the question was quite general and may have been subject to different interpretations.
On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.
Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.
Of majestic build, rubicund and slash-mouthed, he resembled the late General Winfield Scott, who was said to be the most imposing general of his century, if not of all centuries.
But the warm joy of her brown eyes was open to the general public.
This patient was a 65-year-old white male accountant who entered the New York Hospital for his fourth and terminal admission on June 26, 1959, because of disabling weakness and general debility.
He found, as he had suspected, a general consensus that perhaps over half of the present functionally designed course was not really functional for these students.
The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.
As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.
Fifty years ago the general raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen was an example of this movement.
The general intellectual outlook which had appeared in the eleventh century was now consolidated to a significant degree.
If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.

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