* Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah ( who remained commander in chief of the Rashidun army in Syria )

The army reforms were not yet completed by the war of 1809, in which Charles acted as commander in chief, yet even so it proved a far more formidable opponent than the old and was only defeated after a desperate struggle involving Austrian victories and large loss of life on both sides.

The President of the Republic () is the head of state and the commander in chief of the Croatian armed forces and is directly elected to serve a five-year term.

The president is the commander in chief of the armed forces, has the procedural duty of appointing the prime minister with the consent of the Sabor ( Parliament ) through a simple majority vote, and has some influence on foreign policy.

In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

Unrest and rebellion plagued the government until 1965, when Lieutenant General Mobutu, by then commander in chief of the national army, seized control of the country and declared himself president for five years.

He merged the military general staff with his own presidential staff and appointed himself chief of staff again, in addition to the positions of minister of defence and supreme commander that he already held.

The president is the commander in chief for the military.

Beatty was strongly commended by Captain E. H. Bayley, who had been his commander during the siege, and by the commander in chief.

* commander in chief — commanding the state's armed forces and determining military policy and the cabinet ministers.

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

A brigade of Dutch Royal Marines and Royal Marines, 1, 800 strong, under the command of Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, chief commander of the Alliance Army in Spain, began to besiege Gibraltar, in the name of the Archduke Charles.

The president also was head of the PAIGC and commander in chief of the armed forces.

Galaxy Quest is a once-popular television space-drama series starring Jason Nesmith as the commander of a spaceship called the NSEA Protector, Alexander Dane as the ship's alien science officer, Fred Kwan as the chief engineer, Gwen DeMarco as the computer officer, and Tommy Webber as a precocious child pilot.

Lescot declared himself commander in chief of the military, and power resided in a clique that ruled with the tacit support of the Garde.

General Ivanov, commander of the 2nd Bulgarian Army, acknowledged the role of the Greek fleet in the overall Balkan League victory by stating that " the activity of the entire Greek fleet and above all the Averof was the chief factor in the general success of the allies ".

The onslaught of Hannibal's cavalry was irresistible, and Maharbal, Hannibal's chief cavalry commander, who led the mobile Numidian cavalry on the right, shattered the Roman cavalry opposing them.

On 8 July, de Valera met General Macready, the British commander in chief in Ireland and agreed terms.

Kornilov became the military commander of the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army with Alekseev as the political chief.

He was the son of Mohammed Nadir Shah, a senior member of the Barakzai royal family and commander in chief of the Afghan army under former king Amanullah Khan.

Under an agreement between President-elect Chamorro of the National Opposition Union ( Unión Nacional Oppositora-UNO ) and the defeated FSLN party, General Humberto Ortega, former defense minister and commander in chief of the EPS under the Sandinistas, remained at the head of the armed forces.

By a law that took effect in April 1990, the EPS became subordinate to President Chamorro as commander in chief.

Early in 1954, recently fired Central Bank Director Epifanio Méndez Fleitas joined forces with Stroessner, at that time a general and commander in chief of the armed forces, to oust Chaves.

When Stroessner took office on August 15, 1954, few people imagined that this circumspect, unassuming forty-one-year-old commander in chief would be a master politician capable of outmaneuvering and outlasting them all.

* 1944 – William J. Fallon, U. S. Navy Admiral, former U. S. Central Command commander

Achieving career success at an early age, he commanded the British battlecruisers at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after which his aggressive approach was contrasted with the caution of his commander Admiral Jellicoe.

Beatty died after catching a chill as pallbearer at the funeral of his old commander Admiral Jellicoe.

The current commander is Vice Admiral Mohab Mamish.

On 1 September Admiral Ahsan assumed the command of the Eastern Military High Command, and became a unified commander of Pakistan Armed Forces in East-Pakistan.

East Pakistan's Martial Law Administrator Admiral Ahsan, unified commander of Eastern Military High Command ( EMHC ), and Air Marshal Mitty Masud, Commander of Eastern Air Force Command ( EAFC ), were the only officers to object to the plans.

Admiral Shariff served as the deputy unified commander of Pakistan Armed Forces in East Pakistan.

His handling of the Grand Fleet during the battle remains controversial, with some historians faulting the battlecruiser commander, Admiral David Beatty.

Admiral von Tirpitz became the commander of the Navy.

After the end of World War I, the bulk of the Navy's modern ships ( 74 in all ) were interned at Scapa Flow where the entire fleet ( with a few exceptions ) was scuttled by its crews on 21 June 1919 on orders from its commander, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter.

In June 2009, the Somali navy was re-established with a new commander appointed: Admiral Farah Omar Ahmed.

In 1976, Admiral Sa-ngad Chaloryu, the armed forces commander, staged a massacre and coup that brought hardline anti-communists to power and reversed these reforms.

Already gunned into a wreck, Admiral Togo, the IJN commander, had ordered his torpedo boats to finish off the enemy flagship as he prepared to pursue the remnants of the Russian battle fleet.

He and Admiral John Benbow, commander of the smaller British fleet, avoided one another, and Château-Renault eventually escorted home the Spanish treasure fleet from Vera Cruz that met its end at Vigo Bay.

Ten days after the attack, Lt. General Short and Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the Navy at Pearl Harbor, were both relieved of their duties.

Meanwhile his colleague and commander of the New York fleet, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves, had spent several weeks trying to intercept a convoy organized by John Laurens to bring much-needed supplies and hard currency from France to Boston.

French and British patrol frigates each spotted the other's fleet around 9: 30 am ; both at first incorrectly undercounted the size of the other fleet, leading each commander to believe the other fleet was the smaller fleet of Admiral de Barras.

This placed the squadron of Hood, his most aggressive commander, at the rear of the line, and that of Admiral Francis Samuel Drake in the van.

The commander of the joint French and Spanish forces, Admiral Villeneuve, was captured along with his ship Bucentaure.

As the right-hand man to Admiral Adolf von Trotha, the Navy's commander, Raeder played a prominent role in rallying support for the putsch.

On 9 August, Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft, commander of the 1st Pacific Squadron, was ordered to sortie his fleet to Vladivostok, link up with the Squadron stationed there, and then engage the IJN in decisive battle.

As a junior commander, he was subject to the orders of his Commander in Chief ( Admiral Jervis ); in taking this action he was acting against the " form line ahead and astern of Victory " order and using his own wide interpretation of " take suitable stations " in the later signal.

Admiral Chester Nimitz, based at Pearl Harbor, was designated as overall Allied commander in chief for Pacific forces.

The commander of the Allied expeditionary force was U. S. Vice Admiral Frank Fletcher ( flag in aircraft carrier ).

However, he was treated to a surprise: Admiral François Darlan — the commander of all French forces — was also in Algiers on a private visit.