The capital, Freetown, commands one of the world's largest natural harbours.
There is nothing about the appearance of the New Delhi police, the most visible face of authority in the capital, that commands respect.
These were elite cavalry regiments stationed in or around the capital Constantinople, commanded by officers titled "Domestics" (δομέστικοι, domestikoi) and distinct from the provincial armies of the themes under their respective stratēgoi.
The Capitals took command with three goals in a span of 6 minutes 31 seconds of the second period.
The doctrine of benign neglect of the currency and of capital no longer commands the intellectual consensus it once enjoyed.
In the summer of 1915, with the war going poorly for Russia, Nicholas decided to leave the capital and assume command of the Russian army.
They have twice been bombed into submission in living memory, first by Spanish colonial forces in the 1920s, then in 1958 by soldiers sent from Rabat, Morocco's capital, under the command of the then crown prince, who later became King Hassan.
As a one-star brigadier general, he was sent to Baghdad in 2003 to stabilize the Iraqi capital region in command of an Army division — historically a task reserved for a two-star major general.
Just to the west of the Kurdish capital Irbil, General Sirwan Barzani, who commands a force of 15,000 Peshmerga troops, says that though Isis has suffered losses it can still launch attacks.
At least he reached "The Point", which he wrote was "the jutting terminus of a high ridge which not only commands a capital view of the opposite mountain, but also of the Pine Creek Valley, up and down for miles".
