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was and brevetted
He rose to the rank of major and was later brevetted lieutenant colonel and colonel.
He was twice brevetted for bravery — at Molino del Rey and Chapultepec.
For his service in the Meuse-Argonne Operations, Patton received the Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal, and was brevetted full colonel.
In 1783, in recognition of his dedicated service, he was brevetted by the Continental Congress to the rank of brigadier general, made a naturalized citizen of the United States, and given a land grant.
Worth, and Robert Patterson, and was brevetted to first lieutenant for gallant conduct at the Battle of Monterrey.
He was brevetted to major general in the regular army for his success at Chattanooga, but he was disappointed to find that Grant's official report of the battle credited his friend William Tecumseh Sherman's contribution over Hooker's.
He was brevetted to the rank of major on July 21 for his actions during Bull Run.
At the end of the war ( 1783 ), he was brevetted to major general and settled in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
He was brevetted captain at Buena Vista and served in the Adjutant General's department after the war.
Because of his actions at Cedar Mountain, McDowell was eventually brevetted major general in the regular army ; however, he was blamed for the subsequent disaster at Second Bull Run.
On November 29, 1865, he was brevetted as major-general of the volunteers for " efficient and meritorious services.
Colonel Marshall was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers, dated March 13, 1865.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1857, third in his class of 38 cadets, and was brevetted a second lieutenant of Engineers.
Despite losses, another wound ( in the left arm and chest ), and nearly being captured, Chamberlain was successful and brevetted to the rank of major general by President Abraham Lincoln.
For his services during the Peninsular Campaign he was brevetted brigadier general of U. S. Volunteers.
When he finally showed up, he embellished his own role in the victory, and was brevetted as a brigadier general and appointed to the newly created board of war.
In September 1783, at the end of the war, he was brevetted a major general in the Continental Army.
Hartranft was brevetted major general by Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant for defeating Confederate General Robert E. Lee's last offensive at the Battle of Fort Stedman, bringing his untested division from its reserve position and counterattacking to recover the captured fort.
" Parker was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers on April 9, 1865.
While there he was nicknamed " Seminole " after his native state, and brevetted a second lieutenant in the 5th U. S. Infantry on July 1, 1845.
A few months later he was made major ; was wounded at the Battle of Niagara on July 25, 1814, and the following November was brevetted colonel.

was and brigadier
There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).
He was brigadier of the club's locker-room light infantry, and at one time or another declared war on Russia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and China.
During the Civil War, Custer, who achieved a brilliant record, was made brigadier general at the age of 23.
Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.
He was appointed brigadier general of volunteers on February 3, 1862, and was assigned to duty in northern Virginia while the Army of the Potomac conducted the Peninsula Campaign.
Pike was commissioned as a brigadier general on November 22, 1861, and given a command in the Indian Territory.
On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.
He was promoted to brigadier general and commanded an armed brigade and division in Turkey.
While serving in this capacity, he was selected for promotion to brigadier general in November 1988.
Their second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3, 1922, while they were in Panama ; John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U. S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.
After successfully participating in the Louisiana Maneuvers, he was promoted to brigadier general on October 3, 1941.
He was promoted to brigadier general on September 24, 1861.
He was advanced to brigadier general on April 23, 1992.
This surrender was accepted by the brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General Sturdee, the commander of the First Australian Army, on board the warship HMAS Diamantina Arrangements were made to repatriate from Chuuk the 737 Nauruans who survived Japanese captivity there.
Early in 1940, he was trained for a commission after, whilst working in a kitchen, answering the question of an inspecting brigadier with a Greek proverb ; on several occasions, he told colleagues that he expected to be at least a major-general by the end of the war.
He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in August 1942, telling his parents that he was doing the work of three people and expected to be a brigadier within a year or two, and in that role helped plan the Second Battle of El Alamein, having previously helped plan the attack on Rommel's supply lines.
For a few weeks he was the youngest brigadier in the British Army, and he was one of only two men in the entire war to rise from private to brigadier ( the other being Fitzroy Maclean ).
He was offered a regular commission as a brigadier in the Indian Army, and the post of Assistant Commandant of an Indian Officers ' Training Academy, which he declined.
He was promoted to colonel in 1792 and by 1794 was a brigadier attached to the army of the Sambre et Meuse.

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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