The senior generals sent to the fort to command the enlarged garrison, Gideon J. Pillow and John B. Floyd, squandered their chance to avoid having to surrender most of the garrison and on February 16, 1862, Brig.

Not only did senior army generals occupy the presidency from 1964 until 1985, but most of the officers who held cabinet posts during that time were from the army.

" On November 17, 1958, the army's two senior generals, Major General Ibrahim Abboud, the armed forces commander, and Ahmad Abd al Wahab, seized power in a military coup.

In a different and more controversial account, Aureolus forges a document, in which Gallienus appears to be plotting against his generals, and makes sure it falls into the hands of the emperor's senior staff.

He unwillingly chose to put Lee in charge as he was the most senior of his generals.

The expansion demanded generals for the senior commands, so promotion came at a rapid pace and did not always reflect ability.

Relations did cool significantly in 1974-1975 over Mobutu's increasingly radical rhetoric ( which included his scathing denunciations of American foreign policy ), and plummeted to an all-time low in the summer of 1975, when Mobutu accused the Central Intelligence Agency of plotting his overthrow and arrested eleven senior Zairian generals and several civilians, and condemned ( in absentia ) a former head of the Central Bank.

On the evening of 18 August, a group of senior ARVN generals met to discuss the Buddhist crisis and decided that the imposition of martial law was needed to disperse the monks who had gathered in Saigon and other regional cities and return them to their original pagodas in the rural areas.

The Grand Cross was intended for senior generals of the Prussian or later German Army.

However, his influence over Confederate strategy was marred by his poor professional relationships with President Jefferson Davis and other senior generals and officials.

( He was promoted on July 21 to be one of the eventual seven full generals in the Confederate Army ; his date of rank made him the fifth most senior general, behind Samuel Cooper, Albert Sidney Johnston, Robert E. Lee, and Joseph E.

In 69, during the year of civil wars that followed the death of Nero ( see Year of four emperors ), he was one of Otho's senior generals and military advisors.

In addition, most of the members of both the Party and the State Central Military Commission are uniformed senior generals, giving the People's Liberation Army a degree of autonomy.

These proposals were not actively discussed because of opposition from senior generals.

A notable exception was Marshal Bessières, commander of the Guard cavalry, who was one of the very few senior generals to strongly advise against the intervention of the Guard.

One of the senior generals, Johann von Hiller, commander of VI Korps was overtly critical of Charles's strategy and resigned on 4 July, on the eve of the battle of Wagram, pretexting health reasons.

Then on 16 May, while Mengistu had left for a four-day state visit to East Germany, senior military officials attempted a coup and the Minister of Defense, Haile Giyorgis Habte Mariam was killed ; Mengistu returned within 24 hours and nine generals, including the air force commander and the army Chief of Staff, died as the coup was crushed.

In February he arranged for Hitler to meet with senior generals, including Rundstedt.

Like nearly all senior Army officers, Rundstedt welcomed the July 1934 purge of Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung ( SA ) leadership, although he was angered that two generals, Schleicher and Ferdinand von Bredow, were killed: he was among the senior officers who later persuaded Hitler to have these two officers posthumously ( but secretly ) rehabilitated.

While Patton is often viewed today as the prototype of the intolerant, impulsive commander, Bradley actually sacked far more generals and senior commanders during World War II, whereas Patton relieved only one general from his command — Orlando Ward — for cause during the entire war ( and only after giving General Ward two warnings ).

By the time of the advance into India, after the deaths of senior generals from the older generation, there had been worrying instances among senior officers of their own generation, of treachery, a lack of sympathy with Alexander's aims of further integration of Persians into the army, and of sheer incompetence.

The new arrangement left many senior Prussian generals with serious misgivings about leading diverse military forces to guard a pre-war frontier that, except for the northernmost section was part of two other states of the new Empire – Baden and Bavaria.

The system of promotion in the Austrian military, which offers no incentive for early retirement, means that the military is top-heavy with senior officers.

Although morale among the rank and file remained fair following Aspern-Essling, the atmosphere among the Austrian senior commanders was particularly rotten and Charles's insufficiently assiduous preparations for another battle further sapped their confidence in him.

Ignoring the advice of his senior commanders-Maréchal Berthier was vocal in advising the continuation of hostilities and destruction of the Austrian Empire-Napoleon accepted.

Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary ( now Komárno, Slovakia ), the eldest son of Franz Lehar ( senior ) ( 1838 – 1888 ), an Austrian bandmaster in the Infantry Regiment No. 50 of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Christine Neubrandt ( 1849 – 1906 ), a Hungarian woman from a family of German descent.

) This unit was trained as parachute infantry and was intended for insertion into the expected " Alpine Redoubt " on the Austrian / German border, where senior Nazi officials were planning to make their last stand against the advancing Allied armies.

Gustav Schwarzenegger ( August 17, 1907 – December 1, 1972 ) was an Austrian police chief ( Gendarmeriekommandant ), postal inspector, a senior non-commissioned military police officer, who later became notable as the father of bodybuilder, Hollywood star and Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.

From 1924 to 1933 he was employed as a senior editor of the prestigious Der Oesterreichische Volkswirt (' The Austrian Economist ').

SOD / NOCS continues to be a leading unit in Europe and the new senior officers have establish liaisons with similar units of former East Bloc countries and the Austrian EKO Cobra.

The title ' Nobilissimus ' was given to senior army commanders, the future emperor Alexios I Komnenos being the first to be thus honoured.

In 1966 a military coup deposed the first president of Upper Volta, Maurice Yaméogo, suspended the constitution, dissolved the National Assembly, and placed Lieutenant Colonel Sangoulé Lamizana at the head of a government of senior army officers.

For example, after Henry V of England defeated a French army on October 25, 1415, he met with the senior French herald and they agreed to name the battle after the nearby castle and so it was called the Battle of Agincourt.

One of the senior Polish commanders on the day, Duke Bogusław Radziwiłł, wrote that the Polish army had had 80, 000 soldiers.

Mark Antony had been the most important and most successful senior officer in Julius Caesar's army ( magister equitum ) and, thanks to his military record, could claim a substantial share of the political support of Caesar's soldiers and veterans.

As a result, on February 24, 1966, a small number of army officers and senior police officials, led by Colonel Emmanuel Kotoka, commander of the Second Army Brigade at Kumasi, Major Akwasi Afrifa, staff officer in charge of army training and operations, Lieutenant General ( retired ) Joseph Ankrah, and J. W. K.

It had some success in consolidating civilian control over the army, replacing a number of senior officers and persuading the military to participate in peace talks with the URNG.

He placed loyal but often unqualified Cyrenaicans in all senior command positions, limited the armed forces to 6, 500 men, kept the army lightly armed, and built up two rival paramilitary units, the National Security Force and the Cyrenaican Defence Force which was recruited from Cyrenaican Bedouin loyal to the Sanussi.

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.

The Land Element is the PNGDFs army land force, being primarily a light infantry force capable of conducting low-tempo operations only ; it is the senior of the three services.

It had spent US $ 200 million, and its troops formed the senior army of occupation in the country ; as a result Brazil temporarily overshadowed Argentina in control of the country.

With over 30, 000 of its army officers executed or imprisoned, including most of those of the highest ranks, the Red Army in 1939 had many inexperienced senior officers.

Early in that year, Guchkov had been taking soundings among senior army officers and members of the Central War Industries Committee about a possible coup to force the abdication of the Tsar.

An ordinary centurion was the approximate equivalent of a Captain in a modern army, whereas the most senior centurion was closer to the equivalent of a full Colonel.

On 19 July 1975, 14 senior army and government officials including Brigadier David Lansana, former cabinet minister Mohamed Sorie Forna, Brigadier General Ibrahim Bash Taqi and Lieutenant Habib Lansana Kamara were executed after being convicted for allegedly attempting a coup to topple president Stevens ' government.

Patton was still senior to Eisenhower in the Regular Army, but this was soon not the case in the growing conscript army ( known as the Army of the United States ).

A military coup deposed Yaméogo, suspended the constitution, dissolved the National Assembly, and placed Lieutenant Colonel Sangoulé Lamizana at the head of a government of senior army officers.

Despite their alleged forthcoming help the Venetian fleet carried over the Turkish army from Asia into Europe and failed to sail to Varna, a surprising move that Władysław and his most senior military commander Hunyadi failed to anticipate.

Hooker embarked on a reorganization of the army, doing away with Burnside's grand division system, which Hooker considered unwieldy ; he also no longer had sufficient senior officers on hand that he could trust to command multi-corps operations.

Longstreet soon clashed with the much maligned Bragg and became leader of the group of senior commanders of the army who conspired to have him removed.

Meanwhile, Nasser began smuggling agents from Syria into Iraq and senior Iraqi army officers began asking for support in launching a coup against Qasim.

But an unknown person went through the gathering of senior officers convincing them that the workmanship required to produce such a marvellous weapon could only be done by hand, one at a time, and that without the means for mass production Maxim could never produce the machine gun in sufficient quantities to satisfy the needs of a modern army.