Sentence examples for briefly command from inspiring English sources

He was probably engaged during the Battle of Vigo Bay in 1702, where Rooke's fleet captured a Spanish treasure fleet and was instrumental in the capture of the 56-gun Modéré, which he went on to briefly command as HMS Modéré.

He briefly commanded the before becoming Commander of Destroyer Division 17 in the Pacific.

During the 1980s, the battalion was briefly commanded by Charles Krulak, later the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps, who nicknamed 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines Americaa's Battalion" because it was similar to the nickname used by the Dallas Cowboys.

As the Japanese advanced, he briefly commanded a battalion before surrender was ordered.

Named brigadier general in 1861, Garnett briefly commanded Confederate troops in western Virginia before being shot dead in the battle of Corrick's Ford on July 13 , 1861

After commanding a division in 1911 and briefly commanding an army corps, he was, in August 1913, put in command of the XX Army Corps in Nancy, which protected the Lorraine frontier.

He then briefly commanded the troops of the western front for the provisional government, but because he did not believe that an offensive should be undertaken by the weakened Russian forces, he came into conflict with A.F. Kerensky, the minister of war.

She was briefly commanded by Louis Mountbatten before World War II.

He also briefly commanded her on the New York to Bermuda route.

In Egypt, Berryman briefly commanded the 4th Brigade Ammunition Column before it was absorbed into the 2nd Division Ammunition Column.

In 1781 Harvey briefly commanded HMS Dolphin, but took leave once again four months later.