if so, he would not be the first or last commanding officer who has succumbed to bad information and dubious estimates of the future.

The next thing he knew he was reporting for duty as commanding officer of Troop H, 7th Cavalry, in the middle of corps maneuvers in Japan.

* Adder, a fictional commanding officer in the Advance Wars video games

However, command problems ensued, as the assault guns were considered to be artillery by the Wehrmacht and therefore the assault guns were not under the control of the Panzer unit's commanding officer, reducing unit effectiveness.

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

In the center he designated Domitius as the commanding officer.

About a dozen of the crewmen managed to escape the sinking submarine, and Lieutenant Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, ordered the surviving sailors to be summarily executed after they boarded the Nicosian.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

On 24 September 1915, Baralong sank the U-boat, for which her commanding officer at the time, Lieutenant-Commander A. Wilmot-Smith, was later awarded £ 170 prize bounty.

This reorganization permitted the establishment of a commanding officer ( the flight leader ), added support officers, and further redefined the squadron's mission emphasizing the support of recruiting efforts.

Commander Tony Less was the squadron's first official commanding officer.

The rank of commanding officer of the crossbowmen corps was one of the highest positions in any army of this time.

Because of their immobility, most Ballistas were constructed on site following a siege assessment by the commanding military officer.

His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).

He finished the war as a major general, commanding a full division, and at 25 was the youngest major general in the history of the U.S. Army.

However, lacking requested reinforcements from McClellan, now commanding the Army of the Potomac, Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington for a second time.

At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effectiveness of the theater commander in England, Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney.

* Sir Arthur Currie, Lieutenant General, British Army, commanding Canadian Corps

At the same time, Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery replaced Auchinleck as the general officer commanding the Eighth Army.

Prior to forming and commanding the Xiang Army, Zeng Guofan had no military experience.

In the opening scene, where the marshals are attempting to persuade Napoleon to abdicate, Marshal Soult is present: in 1814, Soult was commanding the defence of Toulouse against Wellington's Army.

In July 1932, Patton served under Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur as a major commanding 600 troops, including the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.

After Hood's Army of Tennessee was all but destroyed at the Battle of Nashville, Forrest distinguished himself by commanding the Confederate rear guard in a series of actions that allowed what was left of the army to escape.

The Expedition was led by Chiang Kai-shek and the National Revolutionary Army ( NRA ), an amalgam of earlier military forces with significant guidance from Russian military advisors and numerous Communists as both commanding and political officers.

Beauregard continued commanding these troops as the new First Corps under Gen. J. E. Johnston as it was joined by the Army of the Shenandoah on July 20, 1861, when command was relinquished to General J. E. Johnston.

Haig started the war as the commanding officer of British I Corps, then was promoted to command the British First Army and then the BEF, an army group eventually comprising sixty divisions in five armies.

* Chris Cooper as Colonel Harry Burwell: One of Benjamin's commanding officers in the French and Indian War and a colonel of the Continental Army.

In July 1792, the Duke of Brunswick, commanding general of the Austro – Prussian Army, issued his Brunswick Manifesto, in which he threatened the destruction of Paris should any harm come to King Louis XVI.

Liddell Hart speculated that this was why he allowed himself to be persuaded by Joffre to order the attack at Loos in September 1915, an attack on ground not favoured by French or Haig ( then commanding British First Army ).

On January 1, 1781, Wayne, then the commanding officer of the Pennsylvania Line of the Continental Army, was faced with a mutiny over pay and conditions that was one of the most serious of the war.

Biron wrote to War Minister de Grave, praising the young colonel, who was then promoted to brigadier, commanding a brigade of cavalry in Lückner's Army of the North.

He also served as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, the second-highest ranking officer in the Army, and as Supreme Allied Commander Europe commanding all US and NATO forces in Europe.

It is named in honor of Robert E. Lee, commanding general of the Confederate Army.

Late in 1957, General Raoul Salan, commanding the French Army in Algeria, instituted a system of quadrillage ( surveillance using a grid pattern ), dividing the country into sectors, each permanently garrisoned by troops responsible for suppressing rebel operations in their assigned territory.

Five commanding generals ( chiefs of staff after the 1903 reorganization ) of the United States Army held Engineer commissions early in their careers.

Breckinridge entered the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War as a brigadier general on November 2, 1861 and on April 14, 1862 became a major general, originally commanding the 1st Kentucky Brigade.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.

Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

The Cuttle Cart II was a success by homebrew standards, selling out both production runs and commanding high prices on eBay.

It was the most important center of trade in the whole empire ; and its primacy as an emporium of ideas was more commanding than that of Rome or Constantinople, Antioch or Marseilles.

The Allied commanders agreed that Marlborough would command 36, 000 troops and attack Tallard's force of 33, 000 on the left ( including capturing the village of Blenheim ), whilst Eugene, commanding 16, 000 men would attack the Elector and Marsin's combined forces of 23, 000 troops on the right wing ; if this attack was pressed hard the Elector and Marsin would have no troops to send to aid Tallard on their right.

Voris was again tasked with assembling the team ( he was the first of only two commanding officers to lead them twice ).

Octavian's fleet was waiting beyond the straits, led by the experienced admiral Agrippa, commanding from the left wing of the fleet, Lucius Arruntius commanding the centre and Marcus Lurius commanding from the right.

The name Île de la Passion () was officially given to Clipperton in 1711 by French discoverers Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, commanding the French ships La Princesse and La Découverte.

Constantinople was the largest and richest urban center in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the late Eastern Roman Empire, mostly as a result of its strategic position commanding the trade routes between the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea.

In ancient Greece, the Acropolis ( literally: " peak of the city "), placed on a commanding eminence, was important in the life of the people, serving as a refuge and stronghold in peril and containing military and food supplies, the shrine of the god and a royal palace.

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.