Sentence examples for accepted command from inspiring English sources

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

Under the Second Republic he published many antisocialist pamphlets and accepted command of the Army of the Alps.

You may find the occasional counterfactual sentence in a serious history book — What if Lee had accepted command of the Union army?

During the Civil War Higginson accepted command of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, later the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, the first black regiment in the U.S. armed forces.

In reforming the Italian army, Fanti opposed concessions to Garibaldi and his volunteers a position that made Fanti unpopular and led to his resignation in June 1861, but in April 1862 he accepted command of an army corps in Florence.

The previous November Ambrose Burnside had reluctantly accepted command of the Army of the Potomac after President Lincoln finally lost all patience with the combat-averse George B. McClellan.

The transponder supports different states, which influence the accepted commands from the transponder (see Figure 9).

On accepting command of the American army, in 1775, he protested that he was unequal to the task and claimed that he had done everything in his power to avoid such a burden falling upon him.

But when the Civil War broke out, experienced naval officers were at a premium, and Preble answered his nation's call to duty, accepting command of the steam-gunboat Katahdin.

The chief goes on to suggest two options in the case: to continue with the officer's suspension and the investigation, or for the officer to accept "command discipline".

In addition, many of these programs do not accept command line arguments, limiting their ability to serve as a "helper" application to be run by other applications.