The adjutant general of Massachusetts complained in 1834 that only "town paupers, idlers, vagrants, foreigners, itinerants, drunkards and the outcasts of society" manned his militias.
The daughter of an Irish army officer and his English wife, Gonne made her debut in St . Petersburgand later acted as hostess for her father when he was assistant adjutant general in Dublin.
During World War I he was made a captain and served as assistant adjutant general on the staff of General John J. Pershing in France and Germany and in the army of occupation (1917 19).
Gorchakov was appointed military governor of Warsaw (1846), served as chief of staff of the Russian army that helped Austria suppress the Hungarian revolution of 1848, and afterward became chief of staff of the Russian army and adjutant general to Tsar Nicholas I.
The Directory then appointed one of the most brilliant young French generals, Lazare Hoche, to command the expedition and made Tone an adjutant in the French army.
Returning to the War Office, first as quartermaster general (1880) and then as adjutant general (1882), he devoted himself to reform until interrupted by a nationalist uprising in Egypt under ʿUrabī Pasha.
Between 1934 and 1936 Himmler and his chief adjutant, Reinhard Heydrich, consolidated SS strength by gaining control of all of Germany's police forces and expanding their organization's responsibilities and activities.
Catherine then gave her lover the title of count, promoted him to the rank of adjutant general, and made him director-general of engineers and general in chief, but her political mentor, Nikita Panin, frustrated her intention of marrying Orlov.
From 1848 to 1861 he acted chiefly as assistant adjutant general.
Thein Sein's appointment as adjutant general marked his entry into government service in the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the ruling military regime in Myanmar at the time.
Other constitutional officers, all elected for four years with no limitation on consecutive terms, are secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general, comptroller general, adjutant general, superintendent of education, and commissioner of agriculture.
