Sentence examples for an independent command from inspiring English sources

In 1848, an Australian Division of the East Indies Station was established, and in 1859 the British Admiralty established an independent command, the Australia Station, under the command of a Commodore who was assigned as Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station.

Hyder received an independent command in Mysore in 1749.

So he remained in town and hatched a plan to recruit volunteers for an independent command.

When Pretoria was occupied by the British he became a full-time soldier, eventually receiving an independent command.

He created an independent command for the land-based nuclear rockets, bought new long-range ballistic missiles and cut the conventional forces.

To keep his Senate seat, and realizing that the War Department would not give him an independent command, he resigned his military commission.

Angus King, running as an Independent, commands 56 percent of the vote in a three-way matchup with Summers (21 percent) and Dunlop (12.1 percent), according to a recent poll taken by the Maine People's Resource Center.

Through a political friendship, he secured a small independent command and quickly demonstrated a military brilliance that has had few equals in history.

He was given an almost independent command in the Tirol, and once again he emerged from the war with a good deal more credit than any of the regular soldiers.

Namangani appeared to have permanent guerrilla forces in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and a new, independent command structure that could operate without his presence.

In the West Indies he was for a time in independent command because of Rodney's absence in England: and, when the British islands of St. Kitts and Nevis were attacked by the French admiral Comte de Grasse, Hood, after initial defeats, succeeded in beating off the attacks of the enemy.