Sentence examples for colonel led from inspiring English sources

Three years later, in 1992, Chávez, then a lieutenant colonel, led a military rebellion.

Three other troopers were killed by an exploding mine, but the colonel led the survivors to safety.

Mr. McCrary was a journalist and, as a former Army Air Corps colonel, led the first journalists into the ruins of Hiroshima.

Indeed, when the good colonel led the Libyan coup in 1969, many right-thinking Westerners thought him to be a modernizing democrat".

The surprise winner with 20.4% of the vote was Lucio Gutierrez, who as an army colonel led a coup which toppled an elected president in 2000.

In September 1843, antagonistic to the rule of King Otto I, Kallérgis, then a colonel, led a revolt that caused Otto to dismiss his Bavarian administration and to adopt a new, more liberal constitution (1844).

As commander of a special forces battalion who also received training at Fort Benning, Ga., the colonel leads some of the army's more delicate missions in Gaza.

In the afternoon, apparently without specific orders, two impetuous colonels led several militia units in a charge.

Human rights groups have said the militia leader, Ali Kushayb— also known as Ali Muhammad Ali and-al-Rahman and the "colonel of colonels" — led attacks on civilians and ordered villages to be burned to the ground and the women in them raped.

Many liken Sisi to Gamal Abdel Nasser, the colonel who led a coup against the monarchy in 1952, set up an army-led autocracy and rounded up thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members.

When the commanders sneaked, Colonel Davis led a patrol to escort them out again.