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.

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.

He was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers, 10 November 1864, and mustered out of service at his own request on 22 December of that year, refusing to remain in the army on light duty as he was urged to do.

" 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.

But stupidity was no consolation when it had rank.

It is worth mentioning that the Nepōhualtzintzin amounted to the rank from 10 to the 18 in floating point, which calculated stellar as well as infinitesimal amounts with absolute precision, meant that no round off was allowed, when translated into modern computer arithmetic.

He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel in the regular army for his actions at Antietam and was promoted in March 1863 to major general of volunteers, to rank from November 29, 1862.

This rank and power was, however, often used most beneficially.

For instance, we read of Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury, judicially murdered by Henry VIII, that his house was a kind of well-ordered court, where as many as 300 sons of noblemen and gentlemen, who had been sent to him for virtuous education, had been brought up, besides others of a lesser rank, whom he fitted for the universities.

The lay abbot took his recognized rank in the feudal hierarchy, and was free to dispose of his fief as in the case of any other.

The real reason that Joab killed Abner was that he became a threat to his rank of general.

Her father was a man of consular rank ; her grandfather's name was Catulus.

His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.

The face of the allegorical representation of France calling forth her people on this last was used as the belt buckle for the honorary rank of Marshal of France.

The taxon Branchiopoda was erected by Pierre André Latreille in 1817, initially at the rank of order.

In January 1926 having been promoted to major in 1925, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the Staff College, Camberley in the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel, a position he held until January 1929 by which time he had been made a ( brevet lieutenant-colonel ).

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 confirmed in the permanent rank of lieutenant-general in mid October.

The most notable alteration is the shortening of most feasts from nine to three lessons at Matins, keeping only the Scripture readings ( the former lesson i, then lessons ii and iii together ), followed by either the first part of the patristic reading ( lesson vii ) or, for most feasts, a condensed version of the former second Nocturn, which was formerly used when a feast was reduced in rank and commemorated.

During World War I, Attlee was given the rank of captain and served with the South Lancashire Regiment in the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey.

He was also promoted to the rank of Major.

It was designed for men of senatorial rank.

Scramuzza, in his biography, suggests that Silius may have convinced Messalina that Claudius was doomed, and the union was her only hope of retaining rank and protecting her children.

This punishment and the degradation to the rank of an aerarian were originally the same ; but when in the course of time a distinction was made between the rural or rustic tribes and the urban tribes, the motio e tribu transferred a person from the rustic tribes to the less respectable city tribes, and if the further degradation to the rank of an aerarian was combined with the motio e tribu, it was always expressly stated.