Sentence examples for appointed colonel from inspiring English sources

In 1658 he was appointed colonel of Louis XIV's foreign dragoons.

He was appointed colonel of the English regiment by Louis XIV in 1674 and served with distinction at Enzheim.

He served in the Italian campaign in 1544 and later was appointed colonel general of the infantry.

A Connecticut-born, Yale-educated attorney from Ohio with close ties to Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, he had been appointed colonel of the newly formed 18th United States Infantry Regiment in the early months of the war.

The only question left in the newly appointed colonel's mind was whether his troops would be allowed to prove their martial capacities on the battlefield.

Acuña appointed Colonel Pedro de Rivera y Villalón to inspect the entire northern frontier.

While the Army quickly swelled with politically appointed colonels and generals with little or no military knowledge, the Navy didn't experience the same expansion.

Morgan was appointed Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Artillery in 1948.

One of al-Badr's first acts was to appoint Colonel Abdullah Sallal, a known socialist and Nasserist, as commander of the palace guard.

However, Dudley's political opponents, especially those involved in the land bank proposal, were active in London, and they convinced the king to appoint Colonel Elizeus Burges as governor later in the year.

Considering that the members of the Military Committee were all too young to be perceived as the real leaders of Syria by the populace, the Military Committee appointed Colonel Amin al-Hafiz to the post of Minister of the Interior.