Sentence examples for a field commander from inspiring English sources

Crassus was no stranger to Roman politics, or to military command as he had been a field commander under Lucius Cornelius Sulla during the second civil war between Sulla and the Marian faction in 82 BC, and had served under Sulla during the dictatorship that followed.

His reputation as a field commander established, Charles in 1792 reluctantly accepted command of the Prussian army against Revolutionary France.

Abu Ubaidah, in a council of war, transferred the supreme command of the Muslim forces to Khalid, who acted as a field commander in the battle and was the mastermind of the annihilation of the Byzantine army.

Arnold was a field commander.

By contrast, Mr. Karzai was more of a politician than a field commander.

Some historians are more inclined to shower huzzahs on Benedict Arnold, who unlike Gates was a field commander.

"And we are ready for it," said an aide to a rebel field commander I met in a village in neighboring Ingushetia, used by the rebels as a rear base.

He had come too close, he said, to a story about a Chechen field commander and kidnapper suspected of being in the pay of the F.S.B. "I heard voices from the other holes, and it was like a huge graveyard," he said.

Berthier (whose fortè was staff work) proved to be an insufficient field commander, a characteristic made worse by the fact that several messages from Paris were being delayed and misinterpreted when they finally arrived at headquarters.

Alexander Borodai, a Russian national, said a local field commander named Aleksander Zakharchenko would take over his role.

Elder statesman, planter of trees and lover of grandchildren, this is not the pugnacious bulldog who has been lauded as a brilliant field commander, derided as an overly zealous military risk-taker, and alternately applauded and booed for his role as "the Bulldozer" who masterminded settlement expansion.