Reiss is writing a biography of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the mixed-race son of a Norman marquis and an Haitian slave, who became a swashbuckling swordsman in Paris and then a military hero of the French Revolutionary Wars, remaining the highest-ranking black military figure in a Western army until Gen. Colin Powell 200 years later.

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.

The two highest-ranking RUC officers to be killed in the Troubles were Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Robert Buchanan when they were ambushed by the Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade outside Jonesborough, County Armagh, on 20 March 1989.

He was the highest-ranking American to be killed in action in World War II.

Fort Hunt is the site of the death of Lieutenant Commander Werner Henke, the highest-ranking German officer to be shot while in American captivity during World War II.

Johnson ordered that the highest-ranking Marine officer, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, be deleted from the official roll of chiefs of service branches authorized a driver and limousine, and for whom a special gun salute was prescribed on ceremonial occasions.

* November 19: Ammar al-Saffar, Deputy Health Minister, becomes the highest-ranking Iraqi to be kidnapped.

* Colin Winchester ( 1933 – 1989 ), highest-ranking officer to be murdered in Australian policing history

A Chief Operating Officer ( or Chief Operations Officer ; COO ) or Director of Operations ( or Operations Director ) can be one of the highest-ranking executives in an organization and comprises part of the " C-Suite ".

In the U. S. and Canada, an editor who does this work is called a copy editor, and an organization's highest-ranking copy editor, or the supervising editor of a group of copy editors, may be known as the copy chief, copy desk chief, or news editor.

At the time, Taniwal was the highest-ranking post-Taliban official to be killed by insurgent forces in the country.

The dead included Bradley's friend and fellow West Pointer Lieutenant General Lesley McNair — the highest-ranking U. S. soldier to be killed in action in the European Theater of Operations.

As is to be expected with such units, specific operational details such as success and casualty rates are considered to be top secret and withheld even from the highest-ranking members of the Bundestag.

Obviously, the highest-ranking CA's certificate can't be attested by some other higher CA ( there being none ), and so that certificate can only be " self-signed.

Upon learning that only the highest-ranking officials of the Confederacy were being punished, and that it might be possible for all others to have their civil rights restored, he returned to Tennessee and resumed the practice of law in Memphis, Tennessee.

* Lesley J. McNair, U. S. Army general, one of the two highest-ranking Americans to be killed in action in World War II

However, the General Prologue also provides an ideal member of each estate as a model with which the others can be compared and contrasted-the Parson, the Knight ( technically not a nobleman, but the highest-ranking layman present ), and the Plowman.

The Deputy Secretary of the Treasury is eventually found, and deemed to be the highest-ranking politician to survive the war.

McNair, Frank Maxwell Andrews, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Millard Harmon, all lieutenant generals at the time of their deaths, were the highest-ranking Americans to be killed in World War II ; McNair and Buckner were both promoted posthumously to general, on July 19, 1954, by Act of Congress.

The highest-ranking officer at Hanscom AFB after the reorganization will be a major general, who will be the Program Executive Officer for the C3I and Networks AFPEO.

On larger bases, the officers ' housing may be broken down into different categories, with senior officers receiving larger and more opulent housing ; sometimes, the highest-ranking officers live in a row of large houses often referred to as " Colonels '/ Captains ' Row " or " Generals '/ Admirals ' Row ," as the case may be.

After a grueling battle, Hyoh and Ken reconcile their differences and Kenshiro seeks out the highest-ranking and most powerful of the three overlords, Kaioh, who is Raoh's biological older brother.

Võ Văn Kiệt was the highest-ranking former government official to have openly spoken out about reconciliation with Vietnamese exiles and democracy activists.

Walter Hays was the highest-ranking elementary school in the state that year, with a score of 958 out of 1000.

In the aftermath of the 1953 Iranian coup d ' état carried out by the CIA with support from the British spy service, MI6, the National Front was outlawed and its highest-ranking leaders arrested and brought before a military court.

Johnston was the highest-ranking casualty of the war on either side, and his death was a strong blow to the morale of the Confederacy.

In the obituary of Michael Andreevich Romanoff, the highest-ranking member of the Russian imperial family at the time of his death in 2008, it was noted that his family spent most of WWII at Craigowan Lodge.

Former Pope Gregory XII was then created titular Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Ruffina by the Council, with rank immediately below the Pope ( which made him the highest-ranking person in the Church, since, due to his abdication, the See of Peter was vacant ).

The highest-ranking official whose term unquestionably continued during the interim was Polk's Secretary of State, James Buchanan ( later elected President himself in 1856 ), whose term did not formally expire until his successor, John M. Clayton, took office on March 7.

While Alden did not participate in the fight ( which left one person dead ) he was the highest-ranking member from Plymouth that the Massachusetts Bay colonists found to arrest.

He was the highest-ranking catcher.

This was interpreted as arrogance by both Richard and Philip, as Leopold was a vassal of the Holy Roman Emperor ( although he was the highest-ranking surviving leader of the imperial forces ).

In 1999, Williams was ranked as number eight on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, where he was the highest-ranking left fielder.

Agnew's Vice Presidency was also the highest-ranking US political office ever reached by either a Greek American citizen or a Marylander.

The Romans made a desperate attempt to storm the wall, but failed, and the highest-ranking officer next to Varus, Legatus Numonius Vala, abandoned the troops by riding off with the cavalry ; however, he too was overtaken by the Germanic cavalry and killed, according to Velleius Paterculus.

Jupiter was served by the patrician Flamen Dialis, the highest-ranking member of the flamines, a college of fifteen priests in the official public cult of Rome, each of whom was devoted to a particular deity.

As George I had repudiated his wife Sophia Dorothea of Celle in 1694 prior to his becoming King of Great Britain, there was no queen consort, and Caroline was the highest-ranking woman in the kingdom.

Backes, formerly the third highest-ranking officer of Clearstream and a primary source for Denis Robert's book on Clearstream's scandal, Revelation $, claims he " was fired because ( he ) knew too much about the Ambrosiano scandal.

The Corps of Engineers was the usual appointment for the highest-ranking cadets in a class.

Integrating François Mitterrand's circle, he became the second highest-ranking member of the party in 1979, then its First Secretary when Mitterrand was elected President of France in 1981.

The Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, was interested and sent the highest-ranking nonpolitical representative and a military lawyer to continue the negotiations.