However, 8th Army was not ready to make an offensive and so Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie, the army commander, anticipated fighting a battle on his prepared position, meeting an Axis attack and destroying his enemy's armoured forces in the process.

The combatants on the Axis side were the Panzer Army Afrika, consisting of German and Italian units and commanded by the " Desert Fox " Colonel-General Erwin Rommel ; the Allied forces were the Eighth Army, commanded by Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie under the close supervision of the Commander-in-Chief Middle East, General Sir Claude Auchinleck.

Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie

On 22 October 1772 Amherst was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance and soon gained the confidence of George III who had initially hoped the position would go to a member of the Royal Family.

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.

Most prominent and wealthiest among the immigrants was Count Lefebvre Desnouettes, who had been a cavalry officer with the rank of Lieutenant-General, under Napoleon.

The leadership of the Catholic League had devolved to the Duke de Mayenne, who was appointed Lieutenant-General of the kingdom.

The son of a distinguished general, Lieutenant-General Edward Wolfe, he had received his first commission at a young age and saw extensive service in Europe where he fought during the War of the Austrian Succession.

The central planner of this operation was Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul who gained Bhutto's permission and authorization after he had briefed her on the Afghanistan situation.

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.

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.

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 ).

Buckingham had been Lieutenant-General of Normandy between 1430 and 1432 and was created, in 1431, the Count of Perche, a province in English-occupied Normandy by King Henry VI.

His father, Lieutenant-General Illarion Matveevich Kutuzov, had served for thirty years with the Corps of Engineers, had seen action against the Turks and served under Peter the Great.

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.

He had a brilliant privateering and naval career and eventually became " Lieutenant-General of the Naval Armies of the King ", i. e., admiral, ( French: Lieutenant-Général des armées navales du roi ), and a Commander in the Order of Saint-Louis.

When First Army commander Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson ordered the 9th and its organic artillery support to Le Kef to meet an expected German attack, U. S. Major General Ernest N. Harmon ( who had been sent by Eisenhower to observe and report on the battle situation and the Allied command ) partially countermanded the order, instructing the 9th ′ s artillery to stay where they were.

Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage, commander-in-chief of forces in British North America, and other British officers who had fought in the French and Indian War, had found it hard to persuade colonial assemblies to pay for quartering and provisioning of troops on the march.

When Browning asked to see the plans for Operation Husky, Ridgway replied that they would not be available for scrutiny until after they had been approved by the US Seventh Army commander, Lieutenant-General George S. Patton, Jr.

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command ( SEAC ), had need of a new chief of staff owing to the poor health of Lieutenant-General Henry Royds Pownall.

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.

It was formed to command the British and American land forces which had landed as part of Operation Torch in Morocco and Algeria on 8 November 1942 and it was commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Kenneth Anderson.

Robert Alexander, son of Alderman Nathaniel Alexander and elder brother of the 1st Earl of Caledon, had several sons, including Nathaniel Alexander, Bishop of Meath ; Henry Alexander, MP for the Londonderry City and for Old Sarum ; Lieutenant-General William Alexander, Mayor of Derry ; James Alexander, MP for Old Sarum ; and Joseph Josias Du Pré Alexander, MP for Old Sarum.

A provisional target date of May 1944 was set, the code-name Overlord decided upon, and a joint Anglo-American planning staff created under Lieutenant-General Frederick E. Morgan, who was given the title of Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander ( COSSAC ).

General Harold Alexander and Lieutenant-General Montgomery had decided to make a " clean sweep " when replacing the dismissed Claude Auchinleck as Commander-in-Chief Middle East and Eighth Army commander respectively.

One detachment served with Lawrence of Arabia, while during the Battle of Loos ( June – December 1915 ) a battalion of the 8th Gurkhas fought to the last man, hurling themselves time after time against the weight of the German defences, and in the words of the Indian Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Sir James Willcocks, "... found its Valhalla ".

Conscious of the opportunity to bypass Caen's western defences by exploiting the Caumont Gap, British Second Army commander Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey met with Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall, commanding XXX Corps, and Major-General George Erskine, commanding the 7th Armoured Division.

However, XIII Corps commander — Lieutenant-General William Gott — rejected this and ordered the attack but on a centre line south of the original plan which he incorrectly believed was mine-free.

However, Gott was killed on the way to take up his command when a Messerschmitt Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery was appointed in his place.

Lt-Gen Blattmann replaced Lieutenant-General ( Korpskommandant ) Roland Nef who resigned on 25 July 2008 following allegations of sexual harassment.

The lord in question, whose identity was veiled by Messrs Lea and Perrins ( who used to assert on the bottle's paper wrapping that the sauce came " from the recipe of a nobleman in the county ") was Arthur Moyses William Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys ( 1792 – 1860 ) of Ombersley Court, Worcestershire, Lieutenant-General and politician, a member of the House of Commons at the time of the legend.

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 comte d ' Artois ruled as Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom until his brother's arrival in Paris on 3 May.

" Promoted to Lieutenant-General on 7 November ( O. S.

After witnessing the Japanese surrender aboard the on September 2, together with Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, he returned to the Philippines to receive the surrender of the local Japanese commander, Lieutenant-General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

In 2012, Indian media reports claimed that Benazir Bhutto took tough rhetoric on India over the Kashmir problem, and threatened India with an atomic attack ; her foreign minister Lieutenant-General Yaqub Ali Khan convened the message to higher authorities of India.

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 ).

The inexperienced 2nd Armoured Division was soundly defeated and on 2 April Wavell came forward to review matters with Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Neame, by now the commander of British and Commonwealth troops in Cyrenaica ( Wilson having left to command the Allied expeditionary force in Greece ).

Christian August was designated on 28 May 1732 Lieutenant-General and on 8 April 1741 Infantry General.

Norfolk was appointed Lieutenant-General north of Trent on 29 January 1541, and Captain-General in a campaign against the Scots in August 1542.

In June 1543 he declared war on France in the King's name and was appointed Lieutenant-General of the army.

From this post he drew a salary of 600 pounds and was Lieutenant-General for war even after York's appointment on 2 July 1440.

In 1643, upon the death of Louis XIII, Gaston became Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom, and fought against Spain on the northern frontiers of France.