Sentence examples for british command from inspiring English sources

A compromise was reached, by which Canada sent volunteers to serve under British command and with British pay, but the rift between French and English Canadians had been further exacerbated.

El Alamein was the last large-scale British military victory won exclusively under British command.

British special forces remained in the country, ready to carry it out, but the UN and the British command feared that the RUF would retaliate against other UNAMSIL forces they had besieged if the UNMOs were extracted.

An overriding factor was the British command of the sea.

The armies under British command suffered some 275,000 casualties at Passchendaele.

Denmark has 550 soldiers in the country, mostly in Helmand Province under British command.

It was also decided that a new Southeast Asia theatre of war should be organized, under British command.

In the intervening years, Sky had served in Jerusalem as Political Advisor to General Ward, the US Security Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process; and as Advisor to the Italian and British Commanding Generals of the NATO forces in Afghanistan in 2006.

The overall command was to be retained by Papagos and the Greek and British commands agreed to fight a delaying action in the north-east.

Troops were in limited supply, so Washington found the defenses incomplete, but Lee had concluded that with the British commanding the sea it would be impossible to hold the city.

A spokesman for the British military command in Basra, Maj.