major-general in English

noun
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an officer in the US Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps ranking above brigadier general and below lieutenant general.
All ranks of lieutenant general, major general and brigadier general are staffed by men.

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1. * Major General John A.H.

2. Breveted Major General Augustus Louis Chetlain

3. Chancellorsville is above all a vindication of Major General Joseph Hooker

4. 25 Yan Su, China's civilian Major General, the famous playwright, lyricist.

5. Major General George B. McClellan was put in charge of the Union armies.

6. Major General Frederick C. Blesse is the deputy inspector general of the U.S

7. Brigadier general definition, an officer of the rank between colonel and major general

8. He was postumously Breveted Major General to rank from the date of his wounding

9. In the spring of 1848 Kearny was Brevetted major-general and then sent to Mexico

10. Major General Margaret Wynell Boor assumed command of the 99th Regional Support Command on Oct

11. He retired from the Israel Defence Forces in 1962 with the rank of Major-General.

12. It is named for Richard Butler of Pennsylvania, a major general in the American Revolutionary War

13. Major General of the 42nd Brigade and former Brigadier Commander of the Army's 4th Armoured Division

14. His part in the war brought him great honor and he was Brevetted a major-general

15. Brevetted Major General of Volunteers on June 27, 1864, he assumed district command in New York State, then was awarded brevets to Brigadier and Major General in the Regulars for his action at Laurel Hill and his war service

16. Yamanashi was promoted to major general in 1911, and assigned command of the IJA 30th Infantry Brigade.

17. In 1929, Katsuki was promoted to major general and given command of the IJA 30th Infantry Brigade.

18. In the 1975 Spring Offensive, Major General Nguyen Huu An was Commander of 2nd Corps (Hương Giang).

19. Promoted to colonel he commanded the 28th Infantry Regiment and afterwards the 19th brigade as a major general.

20. A Brigadier general is a commissioned military officer who ranks above a Colonel and below a Major General

21. With the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Iimura was promoted in March 1937 to major general.

22. After his advancement to Major General and Brigadier he stood with the occupation brigade in Metz after 1875.

23. The Commandant of Kumamoto Castle, Major General Tani Tateki had 3,800 soldiers and 600 policemen at his disposal.

24. He was given a battlefield promotion to major general in July 1904 for heroism at the Battle of Shaho.

25. He had received regular army appointments as lieutenant colonel and colonel, and in 1865 was Brevetted brigadier and major general

26. Usually Commanded by a major general, divisions are made up of three or four brigades and include 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers

27. He was Brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army for these services and was awarded the brevet of major-general U

28. It was named for Major General Joseph Henry Pendleton who had long advocated the establishment of a West Coast training base.

29. 2 The government is said to have met in special session and put his eldest son, Major-General Joseph Kabila, in charge.

30. Major-General Abdullah Khalifa Al Merri, Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, hailed the force which solved 86 percent of criminal cases.

31. I know the scientific names of beings Animalculous In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral I am the very model of a modern Major-General Despite being very well-educated, this "modern" major-general has very little knowledge about military matters, favoring obscure facts about math and science.

32. It had an overtly military character, Sirik Matak usually appearing in his full uniform as a Major-General and carrying a swagger stick.

33. Chief military spokesman Major General Asim Bajwa said in a press conference that at least 130 people had been injured in the attack.

34. Prior to her current duty assignment, Major General Boor was the Deputy Director for Logistics Readiness, J4 (IMA), Office of the Joint Chiefs of,

35. With the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ushijima was promoted to major general and appointed commander of the IJA 36th Infantry Brigade.

36. The Battle of Arnhem The British 1st Airborne Division under the command of Major General Robert Urquhart would land in the area of Wolfheze and Oosterbeek

37. I know the scientific names of beings Animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General

38. I know the scientific names of beings Animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General

39. I know the scientific names of beings Animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General

40. I know the scientific names of beings Animalculous, In short, in matters vegetable, animal and mineral, I am the very model of a modern major-general

41. I know the scientific names of beings Animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General

42. I know the scientific names of beings Animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General

43. I know the scientific names of beings Animalculous; In short, in mattеrs vegetable, animal, and minеral I am the very model of a modern Major-General

44. I know the scientific names of beings Animalculous In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral I am the very model of a modern Major-General

45. I know the scientific names of beings Animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General

46. Later, she supported the "leap-frog" amphibious moves employed by Major General George S. Patton in his rampage across northern Sicily to the Strait of Messina.

47. Major-General Gatehouse—commanding 1st Armoured Division—had been unconvinced that a path had been adequately cleared in the minefields and had suggested the advance be cancelled.

48. In January 1962, Suharto was promoted to the rank of major general and appointed to lead Operation Mandala, a joint army-navy-air force command based in Makassar.

49. This verdict was approved and confirmed by Major General N . P . Penny , commanding the Meerut Division on 2nd April , 1858 at Camp Saharun ; and the court was adjourned sine die .

50. Brevet Sentence Examples For his services at Franklin he was awarded the rank of brigadier-general (November 1864) and the Brevet rank of major-general (March 1865) in the regular army