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major-general

NOUN
  1. a general officer ranking above a brigadier general and below a lieutenant general

How To Use major-general In A Sentence

  • Much depends on the point of view from which a man writes; and I can only say that, if the distinguished Major-general is right, _from a purely British point of view_, in depreciating the island and its resources, he thereby furnishes a _very strong argument why Great Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor
  • I was not aware of the reasons for this course, and therefore strongly recommended him for a major-generalcy. Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
  • Major-General Pratt ordered his men to dig a long sap trench.
  • The commander of the ongoing operation in Bajaur, Major-General Tariq Khan, told a group of local and foreign reporters on Saturday that troops were now in complete control of the town of Loisam.
  • The statement also said a meeting of the government's council of ministers had "entrusted" the running of the country to Kabila's son, Major-General Joseph Kabila. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • According to informed sources, those taken into custody include at least one major-general.
  • Recognised as an effective and efficient leader, he had attained the rank of major-general in 1942.
  • Colonel O.iver O. Howard, the present Major-General and Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, had been up to the end of September, 1861, in command of the Fifth Maine Regiment, but at that time was promoted to the command of a brigade; and Dr. Palmer was advanced to the post of brigade surgeon, while Dr. Brickett succeeded to the surgeoncy of the Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
  • Cooper arrived in Iraq in early 2005 as a major-general fresh from acting as a deputy theatre commander in Afghanistan, where the insurgency had then largely been stabilised.
  • The interviewing panel was civil and included a peer of the realm, a major-General, and a gentleman farmer.
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