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Lieutenant-General Luigi Frusci, acting Governor of Eritrea and commander of the Italian forces there, was not prepared to relinquish the Italian-held positions in the Sudan.
Orders were sent to Lieutenant-General Luigi Frusci for him to withdraw his forces from Kassala and Metemma in the lowlands along the Sudanese border with Eritrea.

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In the north, in the first week of September, the British 21st Army Group, under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, sent its British Second Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey advancing on a line running from Antwerp to the northern border of Belgium while its First Canadian Army, under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, was pursuing its task of recapturing the ports of Dieppe, Le Havre and Boulogne-sur-Mer.
The British XVII Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Julian Byng, relieved the French Tenth Army in the sector in February 1916, permitting the French to expand their operations at Verdun.
The Eastern Task Force — aimed at Algiers — was commanded by Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson and consisted of two brigades from the British 78th and the U. S. 34th Infantry Divisions, along with two British Commando units ( No. 1 and No. 6 Commando ), totaling 20, 000 troops.
The French left wing, commanded by Lieutenant-General Jean Christophe, comte de Gournay, opened their attack with a cavalry charge but Gournay was killed in the assault ; his death disordered his cavalry who retired to Fleurus to regroup.
The right column, commanded by Lieutenant-General Johan Hermann von Fersen, consisted of:
The left-centre column, commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir James Pulteney, was composed of:
Although Lieutenant-General Lewis H. Brereton commanded the First Allied Airborne Army, his second in command Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning took command of the airborne role.
He was made Colonel of the Regiment of the 5th Dragoon Guards in 1859, but he derived more satisfaction when, after his formal retirement in 1860, and its accompanying promotion to Lieutenant-General, he became colonel of his favourite regiment, the 11th Hussars, which he had first commanded in 1836.
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson ( 1859 – 1941 ), who commanded XII Corps during World War I, was his uncle.
The U. S. Fifth Army was commanded by Lieutenant-General Mark W. Clark and consisted of U. S., French and British units.
From early January 1944, the British 8th Army, with British, Indian, New Zealand, Canadian and Polish units, was from early January 1944 commanded by Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese when General Bernard Montgomery was also recalled to Britain to prepare for Operation Overlord.
The British Eighth Army had four infantry divisions and an independent infantry brigade organised under XIII Corps commanded by Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey and XXX Corps under Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese.
The relieving force for both the commandos and paratroopers would be from the British XIII Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey.
The Allied forces involved came from the U. S Army ′ s II Corps commanded by Major General Lloyd Fredendall, and the British 6th Armoured Division commanded by Major-General Charles Keightley, which were part of the British 1st Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson.
The Japanese garrison commanded by Lieutenant-General Yoshikazu Harada consisted of 3, 811 IJA men including a company of tanks and 700 IJA men.
I Airborne Corps became part of the First Allied Airborne Army, commanded by Lieutenant-General Lewis H. Brereton, when the latter was organised in August 1944.
The Suvla landing was to be made by the British IX Corps, under the command of the aged Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stopford who had retired in 1909 and had never commanded men in battle.
The Allied forces involved came mostly from the U. S. Army's II Corps commanded by Major-General Lloyd Fredendall which was part of the British First Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson.
Company rugby teams within the New Zealand Division competed in a tournament called the Freyberg Cup — named after Lieutenant-General Bernard Freyberg who commanded the division.

Lieutenant-General and Northern
** Allied Forces Northern Europe ( AFNORTH ) – Lieutenant-General Sir C. S.
On 26 July 2008, the Joint Committee on Human Rights accused Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram in 2004 and Lieutenant-General Robin Brims, Commander Field Army, in 2006 of misleading the committee when they declared that conditioning practices ( based on the five techniques, banned since their used in Northern Ireland in the 1970s ) were not being used.
However following the arrival of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Royds Pownall as Commander-in-Chief in Northern Ireland, De Wiart was told that he was too old to command a division on active duty.
Following its independence, he was the first Army Commander of Pakistan Army ( 15 August 1947 – 10 February 1948 ) Previous to this he had become a Lieutenant-General in 1945 ; General 1947 ; General Officer Commanding in Chief or ( GOC-in-C ) Northern Command, India ( 1946 – 1947 ).
Leese's command covered three separate groups: the Northern Combat Area Command under US Lieutenant General Dan Sultan, Fourteenth Army under Lieutenant-General William (" Bill ") Slim in central Burma and finally, further south in the Arakan, Indian XV Corps under Lieutenant-General Philip Christison.

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On April 1971, Lieutenant-General Tikka Khan succeeded General Yaqub Khan as Commander of unified forces.
Musharraf superseded Lieutenant General Khalid Nawaz Khan and Lieutenant-General Ali Kuli Khan Khattak who were much senior to him.
Lieutenant-General Kiani maintained that " this impression was created by General Pervez Musharraf which was totally wrong ..".
On 10 October Lieutenant-General von Falkenhayn, Chief of the General Staff ordered an attack towards Dunkirk and Calais followed by a turn south to gain a decisive victory.
In vain, Montgomery complained about this to the Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff in London, Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye.
* Market: airborne forces of Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton's First Allied Airborne Army to seize bridges and other terrain, under tactical command of I Airborne Corps under Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, and
The position of Governor of Edinburgh Castle, which had been vacant since 1876, was revived in 1935 as an honorary title for the General Officer Commanding in Scotland, the first holder being Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Cameron of Lochiel.
Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, KB ( 13 November 1761 – 16 January 1809 ) was a British soldier and General.
This operation planned by then-Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul, with inclusion of U. S. ambassador to Pakistan Robert Oakley.
Dismissal of Lieutenant-General Gul by Benazir Bhutto had played a significant role on Chief of Army Staff General Mirza Aslam Beg who did not interfere in the matters science and technology, remained supportive towards Benazir Bhutto's hard line actions on the President.
Armee ) under the temporary command of Lieutenant-General ( General der Panzertruppe ) Joachim Lemelsen ( in the absence of General ( Generaloberst ) Heinrich von Vietinghoff, who was in Germany on sick leave ).
* July 1939 – 1941: Lieutenant-General ( Local General ) Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, KCB, CMG, MC
The Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, the Earl of Bathurst, sent instructions to Lieutenant-General Sir George Prévost, the Commander-in-Chief in Canada and Governor General of the Canadas, authorizing him to launch offensives into American territory, but cautioning him against advancing too far and thereby risking being cut off.
Maude arrived to catch the end of the British failure at the Siege of Kut where he was promoted to Lieutenant-General, replacing General George Gorringe as commander of the newly dubbed Tigris Corps ( III Indian Army Corps ) in July 1916.
Christian August was designated on 28 May 1732 Lieutenant-General and on 8 April 1741 Infantry General.
* Aksel Airo, Lieutenant-General, Chief Quartermaster General ( chief of operations at the GHQ )-( 18 November 1944 )
The son of George Clinton, an admiral of the fleet, Henry had two sons who continued the family tradition of high command: General Sir William Henry Clinton ( 1769 – 1846 ), and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton ( 1771 – 1829 ).
However, the senior most at that time, Lieutenant-General Mohammad Shariff, though promoted to General, was made the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, a constitutional post akin to President Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry.
* 19. 07. 1914 — 18. 08. 1915: Lieutenant-General ( from 22. 10. 1914, General of Infantry ) Nikolai Yanushkevich
Natividad became General Mamerto Natividad, commanding general of the revolutionary army, while General Llanera was vice-commander with the rank of Lieutenant-General.
Despite these measures Lieutenant-General Haining, the General Officer Commanding, reported secretly to the Cabinet on 1 December 1938 that " practically every village in the country harbours and supports the rebels and will assist in concealing their identity from the Government Forces.

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