Sentence examples for appointed to command the 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.

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

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.

In 1694 he was appointed to command the allied armies in Savoy, and in 1697 he received an earldom and was sent as lord justice to Ireland.

Prim distinguished himself in the war between Spain and Morocco (1859 60) and in 1861 was appointed to command the joint English, French, and Spanish expedition to Mexico.

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.

The medical officer appointed to command on the spot estimated that he needed 12 general hospitals, each with 1,200 beds and appropriate staff.

Jervis was promoted vice-admiral of the blue and was appointed to command of the Leeward Islands station.

In 1902, Chauvel was appointed to command of the 7th Commonwealth Light Horse, a unit newly raised for service in South Africa, with the local rank of lieutenant colonel.

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