Sentence examples for being placed in command from inspiring English sources

None of the flag officers or staff of the Combined Fleet was penalized, with Nagumo later being placed in command of the rebuilt carrier force.

After Operation Desert Storm, Freakley commanded the 1st Battalion of the 5th Cavalry Regiment, before serving in staff positions with the 24th Infantry Division and III Corps, until being placed in command of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division.

On 24 April, the day after the Katia and Oghratina, Chauvel, commander of the Anzac Mounted Division, was placed in command of all the advanced troops: the 2nd Light Horse Brigade and the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigades at Romani and an infantry division; the 52nd (Lowland) at Dueidar.

In October 1918, he was placed in command of the 16th Infantry Brigade when its previous commander, Brigadier-General Henry Walker, was wounded in an artillery barrage, and led it through to the armistice.

In 1939 Wilson was placed in command of British troops in Egypt.

At the end of the war he was placed in command of the arsenal at Rock Island.

Hannibal was placed in command of an army of many raw recruits and 80 untrained elephants.

After commanding a corps in the attempt to relieve Vienna on Oct. 30, 1848, he was placed in command of the Hungarian forces on the upper Danube River.

In October 1944 he was placed in command of the Sixth Panzer Army, which spearheaded the German offensive through the Ardennes in the Battle of the Bulge.

In January 1940 during the Russo-Finnish War, he was placed in command of faltering Soviet forces, and by March he had forced the Finns to sue for peace.

He was placed in command of the heavily Unionist East Tennessee District, and was of the right temperament to administer a policy of lenience toward the Unionist "Tories" of East Tennessee.