Sentence examples for as a colonel of from inspiring English sources

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Efforts to reach Mr. Long, who identifies himself as a colonel of the Buffalo Soldiers 10th Cavalry, were unsuccessful.

He plans to dress up as a colonel of a Panzer division and arrange to have the cop on the beat tipped off, so that the minute he appears on the street, he'll be shot down like a dog.

Dressed as a colonel of an elite Russian regiment and mounted on a white stallion, Catherine, an expert horsewoman, led 14,000 infantry soldiers to arrest and unseat her feckless husband, who, Nero-like, ignored reports of conspiracy to go on playing his violin.

He also served as a colonel of Royal Governor William Tryon's artillery during the War of the Regulation.

Governor Morgan then named William Eubanks as a colonel of the National Guard, and ordered him to take command of the forces from Chafin.

The Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (AMGOT), looking for anti-fascist notables to replace fascist authorities, made Don Calogero Vizzini mayor of Villalba, as well as an Honorary Colonel of the US Army.

In England, Nicolls failed to obtain official support for the Creeks, and Josiah Francis failed to receive official recognition for his credentials as the Redstick Creek emissary from the Foreign Office, although he did receive recognition as a former Colonel of the British Army in Florida as well as publicized encounters with British notables, before returning to West Florida in 1816.

Gleason, who retired as a colonel, was one of several veterans of the secretive Office of Strategic Services (OSS) who were recognized Saturday for their heroism at a black-tie dinner in Washington.

He served as a colonel in the regiment of horse of Queen Anne of Denmark and served in the imperial army of Leopold I, being present at the siege of Belgrade in 1688.

He volunteered to serve again in the French army at the beginning of World War I, and finished the war as a lieutenant colonel of artillery.