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  Colonel General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In cases where a Colonel General was acting in the capacity of a Field Marshal, the rank was referred to as Generaloberst mit dem Rang eines Generalfeldmarschalls.
The equivalent of a Colonel-General in the Kriegsmarine was a General Admiral (Generaladmiral).
In 2000, the Colonel General in command of Panmunjon was comically referred to as "The Iguana" by U.S. forces, as the General's Korean surname bore a resemblance to the English word.
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 Colonel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colonel [ˈkɜː(r)nl] is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with the corresponding ranks existing in nearly every country in the world.
In the modern age, a Colonel is usually a military title rated as the highest field rank below the general grades.
By the time of the late 19th century, Colonel was a professional military rank and typically held by an officer in command of a regiment.
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General Henry Dearborn held command near Plattsburg and Greenbush, and was the commanding officer of all the forces on the northern frontier.
General Scott was again engaged in repelling the former of these, and the last I saw of him on the field of battle he was near the head of his column and giving to its march a direction that would have placed him on the enemy's right....
Colonel Gadsden, the commissioner on the part of the United States, addressed a letter to the Secretary of War, in which he said: "There is a condition prefixed to the agreement without assenting to which the Florida Indians most positively refused to negotiate for their removal west of the Mississippi.
www.gutenberg.org /files/17444/17444-8.txt   (18110 words)

  
 Iowa History Project
Colonel Sigel was ordered to march by the Fayetteville road and open on the enemy in the rear with artillery, while General Lyon, with the main body, was to attack in front.
Crocker was appointed Colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment, on the 30
The regiment continued with General Sherman’s army to the close of that brilliant campaign and marched north by Richmond and Washington, and at the close of the war, was disbanded at Davenport.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
General Lee could not have expected Stuart to pass around Hooker's rear to cross the Potomac, and at the same time keep in touch with the main army and in communication with him unless he had a machine that could fly over Hooker's head and navigate the air.
Colonel Talcott quotes from my book what is said about the premature movements in the Shenandoah Valley, making the Gettysburg campaign the Iliad of the South, and claims that this is an admission that the disaster was due to the absence of the cavalry.
General Lee's report says: "It was expected that as soon as the Federal army should cross the Potomac, General Stuart would give notice of its movements, and nothing having been heard from him since our entrance into Maryland, it was inferred that the enemy had not yet left Virginia.
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 USRJC - Third Meeting of Principals, April 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Colonel Golumbovsky, General Zolotarev's deputy, observed that the archival review is proceeding as efficiently as possible given the fact that it is an additional duty levied upon the Russian Armed Forces, whose resources are already strained.
Colonel Vinogradov spoke briefly about the methodology used by the CWWG to investigate the fates of crewmembers from this and other U.S. aircraft that were shot down over or near Soviet territory during the Cold War era.
Colonel Nikiforov requested and received permission from the U.S. side to send the "list of 39" to Viktor Konosov in Kazakhstan who, he claims, wrote his dissertation on the Gulag and could be very helpful in researching the American servicemen on the list.
www.dtic.mil /dpmo/sovietunion/010423_third_mtg_principals.htm   (5429 words)

  
 Naval traditions: Names of ranks
The king or his Captain General would often be away from the army since they had interests elsewhere so the job of actually running the army fell to the Captain General's assistant--his lieutenant--the Lieutenant General.
General Washington might have chosen the stars because the generals and admirals of the French forces serving in that war wore stars.
General Washington was the first to wear three stars when he became the nation's first Lieutenant General in 1798.
www.history.navy.mil /trivia/triv4-5m.htm   (1250 words)

  
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In this case the deputy is air-borne with the Wing, and General Ripper refuses to recall the planes.
GENERAL SCHMUCK Mister President, I know you think I've let you down, but we had to have a Plan-R. If we completely centralized the command and control, all a potential aggressor would have to worry about was knock- ing out maybe half a dozen headquarters and the Capitol, and we'd be out of business.
GENERAL RIPPER You see, Major, at this very moment, while we sit and chat, a decision is being made by the President in the War Room.
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 THE STRANGE DEATH OF COLONEL SABOW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Colonel Sabow was informed that he was under investigation for the alleged misuse of government aircraft.
Colonel Sabow answered, saying, 'Colonel Sabow...[pause]...Colonel Sabow...[pause]...This is Colonel Sabow.' What was further said by Jimmy is unknown, for just at that moment, Sally closed the door behind her as she left for Mass.
It is presumed that Colonel Sabow, who had just been on the telephone, had gone into his back yard, put the dogs in the garage, and was intending to return to his living room to resume viewing the reporting on the Gulf war.
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 14th MS Infantry Reg
General Baldwin served with distinction through the siege of Vicksburg, took his brigade to Dalton, Ga., in the fall of 1863, and being ordered back to Mobile was killed there by being thrown from his horse on the evening of February 19, 1864.
Maury, in announcing his death, said: "General Baldwin was one of the most exemplary men in all the relations of life and one of the most accomplished soldiers in our army.
General Adams, leading the brigade against the second line of works, was shot down on the parapet, across which his men found his horse lying after the Union troops had retreated in the night.
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 The British Army in Portugal and Spain
Major General Mackenzie with his Brigade, Fane's Cavalry Brigade and May's Company R.A. under Baynes [light 6 pounders] were to remain on the line of the Tagus River and guard Abrantes to Santarem.
Lieutenant General Payne was to command the cavalry.
[Wellesley was the Marshal General of the Portuguese army, appointed April 1809.] Two regiments, the 10th Regiment of two battalions and the 16th Regiment of two battalions [with a unit known as the 1st Portuguese Grenadiers formed from the Grenadier Coys of the 1/6th and 2/6th Regiment.
www.napoleon-series.org /military/battles/c_britarmy5.html   (1228 words)

  
 Every Man a Captain, Colonel, or General   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Frances Trollope made the trip from New Orleans to Memphis in 1828, she was surprised to find that most of the men on the boat were addressed by the title of general, colonel, or major.
The architect Latrobe had the feeling that everyone he met in the South was either a captain, colonel, or general.
The principal banker and the principal bookseller were both colonels, while the hotel keeper was a major.
www.adena.com /adena/usa/cw/cw180.htm   (459 words)

  
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Israel Shreve served as both Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel of the Second New Jersey Regiment in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Colonel Israel Shreve was born in 1739 in New Jersey.
Shreve was appointed commander of the expedition's base at Fort Sullivan at Tioga, while General Sullivan and his troops went on a punishing spree against the Indians, burning 40 of their towns and destroying corn, vegetables, and orchards.
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 Democracy Now! | Col. Janis Karpinski, the Former Head of Abu Ghraib, Admits She Broke the Geneva Conventions But Says ...
She was demoted to colonel in May. She oversaw all military police in Iraq and was the first female ever to command soldiers in a combat zone.
She is the only one of the generals to have been demoted for the scandal at Abu Ghraib for the torture.
AMY GOODMAN: Once General Miller came and said the things that you objected to -- “Treat the prisoners like dogs” -- you knew, though, that the word had gone out, right, to the military intelligence and that the military police were supposed to be involved, at least in taking the prisoners to military intelligence.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/10/26/1423248   (6250 words)

  
 Chief of General Staff Replaced by Deputy - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Colonel-general Yuri Baluyevsky, a deputy for the chief of the General Staff, Anatoly Kvashnin, who handed in his resignation last week in connection with last month’s Ingushetia attacks, has, by presidential decree, taken his superior’s place, Interfax reported.
Another possible cause for Kvashnin’s decision was said to be a recent bill that considerably weakens the General Staff in comparison to the Defense Ministry.
introduced amendments to the law in early June, the General Staff lost that status, and was effectively reduced to an operative organ responsible for mobilization and operative planning.
www.mosnews.com /news/2004/07/19/baluyevsky.shtml   (805 words)

  
 The General's Comments
(The General): "Pie plates, or as reflections in the atmosphere."
(The General): "Honey and men- I have something awesome to reveal to you."
(The General): "Men- our greatest fear is realized- we are under attack from superior consciousness."
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 general - Wiktionary
a commissioned rank in the U.S. Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps that is above lieutenant general
Rank in the army and air force that is higher than colonel or brigadier, and is usually the highest rank group next to commander in chief, except in countries that use the rank of field marshal.
This page was last modified 20:16, 11 May 2006.
en.wiktionary.org /wiki/General   (129 words)

  
 The Vest Pocket Standby
As I said to the General yesterday, blood will tell.
And she said, "Colonel, you're my idea of a perfect gentleman." Pretty little girl, - but her joints squeaked.
(General indicates by a gesture that Captain and
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