Furthermore, neither Prévost, nor de Rottenburg, nor Prévost's Adjutant General ( Major General Edward Baynes ) had the extensive experience of battle gained by their brigade commanders, and had already gained a reputation for caution and hesitancy.

) Prévost's choice of route on reaching the lake was influenced by the attitude of the American state of Vermont, on the eastern side of the lake.

Macdonough had sent some of his gunboats to harass Prévost's advance, but he knew that his fleet was outgunned, particularly in long guns.

To Prévost's fury, Downie was unable to attack on 10 September because the wind was unfavourable.

Although Prévost's attack was supposed to coincide with the naval engagement, it was slow to get under way.

Tension between Rowe and Prévost was exacerbated by the appearance of Prévost's second book of essays, Minute Particulars, which contained some disparaging comments about Rowe, who then left the group.

In 1733 he left the Hague for London in company with a lady whose character, according to Prévost's enemies, was doubtful.

The British squadron sailed in the early hours of 11 September, and announced their presence to Prévost's army by " scaling " the guns i. e. firing them without shot to clear scale or rust from the barrels.

Betances accompanied the couple in Prévost's return to his country, and would be under their indirect tutelage while boarding at the school.

These yielded a remarkable extension of Pierre Prévost's " Law of Exchanges ," and enabled him to establish the fact that radiation is not a surface phenomenon, but takes place throughout the interior of the radiating body, and that the radiative and absorptive powers of a substance must be equal, not only for the radiation as a whole, but also for every constituent of it.

In his review of Prévost's book, Walter Horn notes that while Prévost offers often scathing opinions of many people, Rowe is singled out for multiple barbs, and " one can hardly fail to wonder whether there's something of a personal nature lurking behind the barrage of what are superficially theoretical complaints.

In Czech literature it is traditionally considered as better than Prévost's original and as one of Nezval's masterpieces.

* R. A. Francis, The Abbé Prévost's first-person narrators, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1993, ISBN 0-7294-0448-X ;

* The standard edition of Prévost's works is Œuvres, dir.

Puccini's publisher, Ricordi, had been against any project based on Prévost's story, because Massenet had already made it into a successful opera, Manon, in 1884.

Manon Lescaut is an opera or opéra comique in 3 acts by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber to a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and, like Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Massenet's Manon, is based on the Abbé Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut.

Tapping telegraph lines, his signalmen intercepted messages between Union commanders and Stuart sent a personal telegram to Union Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs, " General Meigs will in the future please furnish better mules ; those you have furnished recently are very inferior.

In a letter to the Quartermaster General ( QMG ) dated December 24, 1941, the Adjutant General formally requested action be initiated to create a Meritorious Service Medal and provide designs in the event the decoration was established.

Proposed designs prepared by Bailey, Banks, and Biddle and the Office of the Quartermaster General were provided to Assistant Chief of Staff ( G1 ) ( Colonel Heard ) by the QMG on January 5, 1942.

Elizabeth Will, an Army heraldic specialist in the Office of the Quartermaster General, was named to redesign the newly revived medal, which became known as the Purple Heart.

He was commissioned as a major, then became George Washington's aide-de-camp and, on August 14, 1775 Washington appointed him to become the army's first Quartermaster General under order of Congress.

He asked to be relieved of the job of Quartermaster General, but was persuaded to resume those duties because Congress was having difficulty finding a replacement.

* June 19 – Nathanael Greene, major general in the Continental Army, 3rd Quartermaster General

In 1940 Groves, who " had a reputation as a doer, a driver, and a stickler for duty ", became special assistant for construction to the Quartermaster General, tasked with inspecting construction sites and checking on their progress.

Three weeks later, he became special assistant for construction to the Quartermaster General, Major General Edmund B. Gregory.

When Civil War casualties overflowed hospitals and burial grounds near Washington, D. C., Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs proposed in 1864 that of the Robert E. Lee family property at Arlington be confiscated for a cemetery.

Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Moore, Deputy Quartermaster General of the Hillsborough district, was another Revolutionary War hero of note, commanding Person County troops in the Battle of Camden.

Bellevue was named for the plantation of Gen. James Taylor Jr., Quartermaster General of the western US Army in the War of 1812.

It is named after Thomas Mifflin, 1st Governor of Pennsylvania, signer of the United States Constitution, and 1st Quartermaster General of the United States Army.

Stuart seized supplies from the area, destroyed a nearby bridge, monitored Union messages passing over the telegraph lines, and then famously sent a telegram to Union Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs complaining of the poor quality of the mules he had captured.

Ridgeley was initially known as St. Clairsville, named for Sir John St Clair, Lt Colonel and Quartermaster General for the British General Edward Braddock.

He was seconded by 39-year-old Maximilian von Wimpffen, the army's Quartermaster General ( Chief of Staff ), a pugnacious and assertive character, who was well respected in the Austrian army for his knowledge of military strategy.

* Lt. Gen. John J. Cusick-Former Quartermaster General of the United States Army

Casey returned to Washington, D. C. in October 1940 to become chief of the Design and Engineering Section in the Construction Division of the Office of the Quartermaster General, under Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell.

He was initially appointed Quartermaster of General Brusilov's 8th Army.

In January 1918 he received a further staff appointment as Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General ( AA & QMG ) working at the Supreme War Council in Versailles.

McCullum named the new community after Major William Radcliffe, head of the Quartermaster Corps at the newly established Camp Henry Knox.

* Quartermaster ( QM ) ( Major )

Conrad managed to get Major General Frank S. Ross to release the 3342nd Quartermaster Truck Company from the Red Ball Express to retrieve the shipment.

Eight generals acted as pallbearers: Lieutenant General John Northcott, Chief of the General Staff ; Lieutenant General John Whitham, Corps Commander, VDC ; Major General James Cannan, Quartermaster General ; Major General Charles Brand ; Major General Cyril Clowes, GOC, Victoria Line of Communications Area ; Major General John Austin Chapman, Deputy Chief of General Staff ; Major General Charles Lloyd, Adjutant General ; and Major General Clive Steele, Engineer in Chief.

In August 1780, the Continental Congress elected Pickering Quartermaster General. Letter from Timothy Pickering to Major General Lord Sterling, 1777

It assembled at the War Office and the Committee consisted of: · Lieutenant Colonel John Lowther du Plat Taylor, · Major CE Webber RE ( a RE telegraphist, who had experience of working with the GPO ), · Captain AC Hamilton RE ( Secretary ), · Major WF Butler RA ( Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General ), · Mr RS Culey ( GPO ) and · Henry Mellersh ( an Assistance Army Postmaster during the Crimean War ).

* Above this appointment there were the appointments of Regimental Quartermaster Havildar ( RQMH ) ( Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant ) and Regimental Havildar Major ( RHM ) ( Regimental Sergeant Major ).

The appointments of Company Quartermaster Havildar and Company Havildar Major also existed in the British Indian Army.

The reason for the perception may be because, in 1885, Major General Sir Charles MacGregor was appointed Quartermaster General and head of the Intelligence Department for the British Indian Army at Simla.

The RQMS is the senior assistant to the Quartermaster of a regiment or battalion and also usually functions as the deputy Regimental Sergeant Major.

Rank and organization: Major and Quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers.

He was Command Sergeant Major of the United States Army Europe ; 8th Infantry Division ( Mechanized ), Bad Kreuznach, Germany ; 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Vilseck, Germany ; 612th Quartermaster Battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina ; 1st Battalion, 58th Mechanized Infantry, 197th Infantry Brigade at Fort Benning, Georgia ; 3rd Squadron, 12th Cavalry Regiment in Büdingen, Germany ; 3rd and 4th Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss, Texas ; and 2nd Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Bamberg, Germany.

* Lieutenant Colonels commanding battalions or units in a brigade outrank the Brigade Major and the Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General

* Major Generals commanding divisions outrank the Brigadier GS and Assistant Adjutant General and Assistant Quartermaster General at a Corps HQ