Sentence examples for a colonel of the from inspiring English sources

He was a colonel of the Luftwaffe.

He was receiver general and a colonel of the county militia, both of which his father had been.

Efforts to reach Mr. Long, who identifies himself as a colonel of the Buffalo Soldiers 10th Cavalry, were unsuccessful.

But I came out all right without being hurt, or hurting my guide's feelings by refusing to meet his uncle, a colonel of the Afghan Army.

Regal military clothing – uniform of a colonel of the Irish Guards for the groom – was the headline look for the leading royal men.

By A. J. Liebling The New Yorker, May 2 , 1942P. 38 REPORTER AT LARGE about a Colonel of the Free French Air Forces.

(NYT) THE AMERICAS COLOMBIA: GENERALS CHARGED Colombia's attorney general accused four army generals and a colonel of allowing the 1997 massacre of 18 villagers in the town of Puerto Alvira by a rightist paramilitary group.

He initially served as a volunteer in the employ of Benjamin Franklin, but on October 18, 1776, Congress commissioned him a colonel of engineers in the Continental Army.

Moore served as a colonel of an artillery company in the colonial militia during the War of the Regulation, a revolt by western settlers against perceived injustices in the colonial government of North Carolina in the decade immediately preceding the American Revolution.

He also served as a colonel of Royal Governor William Tryon's artillery during the War of the Regulation.

In 1790, he became a captain and, in 1791, a lieutenant colonel of the local volunteer battalion of the Var.