He formally requested reinstatement as I Corps commander, but Meade refused, and Doubleday left Gettysburg on July 7 for Washington.

In his writing he makes mention of a moment when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition: the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then?

He also served in the U. S. Navy in World War I, as a shipboard radio operator, as an editor of a publication, and as a crash rescue boat commander.

The Duke welcomed the French commander – " I am very sorry that such a cruel misfortune should have fallen upon a soldier for whom I have the highest regard.

Marlborough wrote an appeal to the Duke of Württemberg, the commander of the Danish contingent – " I send you this express to request your Highness to bring forward by a double march your cavalry so as to join us at the earliest moment …" Additionally, the King in Prussia, Frederick I, had kept his troops in quarters behind the Rhine while his personal disputes with Vienna and the States-General at The Hague remained unresolved.

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.

His military career continued when Constantine I made his son field commander during the 332 campaign against the Goths.

The Japanese destroyer commander finished with, " Yesterday I looked at myself in a mirror for a long time ; I was disagreeably surprised to see my face thin, full of wrinkles, and as old as though I were fifty.

Leopold I had warned Eugene to act cautiously, but when the Imperial commander learnt of Sultan Mustafa II's march on Transylvania Eugene abandoned all ideas of a defensive campaign and moved to intercept the Turks as they crossed the River Tisza at Zenta on 11 September 1697.

" I have warned you that you are dealing with an enterprising young prince ," wrote Louis XIV to his commander, " he does not tie himself down to the rules of war.

In 1594, they were visited by English commander Richard Hawkins, who, combining his own name with that of Queen Elizabeth I, the " Virgin Queen ", gave the islands the name of " Hawkins ' Maidenland.

Allied fighters, by gaining air superiority over the European battlefield, played a crucial role in the eventual defeat of the Axis, which Reichmarshal Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe summed up when he said: " When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.

I recognize your superior abilities as a commander.

* Col. Sydney Herring ( 1881 – 1951 ): World War I commander at Gallipoli.

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.

After the victory of blossameg Leo was dispatched on a diplomatic mission to Alania and Lazica to organize an alliance against the Umayyad Caliphate under Al-Walid I. Leo was appointed commander ( stratēgos ) of the Anatolic theme by Emperor Anastasius II.

In 1914, at the start of World War I, Kornilov was appointed commander of the 48th Infantry Division, which saw combat in Galicia and the Carpathians.

* 1916 – World War I: First Battle of the Somme – in France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

During this time, Montgomery faced serious trouble from his military superiors and the clergy for his frank attitude regarding the sexual health of his soldiers, but was defended from dismissal by his superior Alan Brooke, commander of II Corps.

In April 1941, he became commander of XII Corps responsible for the defence of Kent.

One of Rommel's Panzer Corps combined infantry, armour and artillery units under one corps commander.

The OKW believed it too risky to allow German Corps and Army Groups to be operated and commanded independently by one field commander.

Marine Corps C-130 demonstration pilots are required to have 1, 200 flight hours and be an aircraft commander.

He was advanced to that grade on June 5, 1989, and assigned duties as the commanding general, 10th < nowiki > MEB / Assistant </ nowiki > division commander, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina on July 10, 1989.

On July 22, 1994, he was assigned as commander of Marine Forces < nowiki > Pacific / commanding </ nowiki > general, Fleet Marine Force Pacific, and in March 1995 he was nominated to serve as the commandant of the Marine Corps.

Général d ' armée Louis Bobozo, and Generaux de Corps d ' Armee Nyamaseko Mata Bokongo, Nzoigba Yeu Ngoli, Muke Massaku, Ingila Grima, Itambo Kambala Wa Mukina, Tshinyama Mpemba, and General de Division Yossa Yi Ayira, the last having been commander of the Kamina base, were all retired on 25 July 1972.

On 8 July, Auchinleck ordered the new XXX Corps commander — Lieutenant-General William Ramsden — to capture the low ridges at Tel el Eisa and Tel el Makh Khad and then to push mobile battle groups south toward Deir el Shein and raiding parties west toward the airfields at El Daba.

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.

They decided to replace Auchinleck, appointing XIII Corps commander William Gott to the Eighth Army command and General Sir Harold Alexander as C-in-C Middle East Command.

Upon completion of The Basic School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, in October 1967, he was ordered to the Republic of Vietnam, where he served as a platoon and company commander with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines.

Returning to the United States in December 1968, Jones was assigned to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, where he served as a company commander until May 1970.

He was the first Marine Corps general to serve as SACEUR / EUCOM commander.

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

In 1995-98, Lieutenant-General Musharraf was the corps commander ( CC-I ) of I Strike Corps stationed in Mangla, Mangla Military District.

Lieutenant-General Tariq Pervez ( or TP ) was a corps commander of XII Corps, who was a brother-in-law of Prime minister's one of high profile cabinet minister.

For instance, they make a disputed claim that Franks threatened to fire General William Wallace, commander of the Army's V Corps, for saying to the press during that war that the enemy the U. S. was facing was different from the enemy the military had planned against.

** Charles C. Krulak, U. S. Marine Corps commander

Patton was subsequently appointed commander of the newly activated Armored Corps by Devers, and he was in this position when the corps was assigned to Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa.

On March 6, 1943, as a result of Harmon's report, Patton replaced Major General Lloyd Fredendall as commander of the II Corps.

By 14: 30, General Steinmetz, the commander of the First Army, unilaterally launched his VIII Corps across the Mance Ravine in which the Prussian infantry were soon pinned down by murderous rifle and mitrailleuse fire from the French positions.