Sentence examples for appointed to command from inspiring English sources

After the fall of Toulon and the British evacuation he was advanced to commander and appointed to command the sloop, succeeding Commander George Cockburn, who had been appointed to command.

Several months after Cape St Vincent, on 20 July, Downman was promoted to the rank of commander and appointed to command the 14-gun brig.

A real lieutenant general was appointed to command it.

On Jan . 16 1862, Worden was appointed to command John Ericsson's experimental ship, the Monitor.

In January , 1970 Clark was appointed to command a mechanized-infantry unit.

Under Christian V he was appointed to command the Danish fleet against Sweden but died before the expedition.

As consul in the year 12, he was appointed to command Gaul and the two Rhine armies.

Two years later he was appointed to command the army in Tunisia but was recalled because of differences of opinion with Pierre-Paul Cambon, the political resident.

Meanwhile Flinders had returned home and in 1801 was appointed to command an expedition that would circumnavigate Australia and virtually complete the charting of the continent.

In 1944 Sperrle was appointed to command Germany's air forces in western Europe in expectation of an Allied invasion of northern France.

Little is known of his life for the next 10 years, until he was appointed to command of the Roebuck to explore for the British Admiralty.