Eisenhower and Marshall privately agreed that Patton would command a follow-on field army after Bradley's army conducted the initial invasion of Normandy; Bradley would then command the resulting army group.
The hill was topped by a large cairn and commanded a long field of fire over the plain southwards across the Nahr Sukhereir.
The underlying question of the unity of our types of knowledge was explicitly addressed by Plato in the Sophist as follows: "Knowledge also is surely one, but each part of it that commands a certain field is marked off and given a special name proper to itself.
The Germans on Chipilly Spur commanded a wide field of fire to the south of the Somme, and their flanking fire held up the left units of the Australian Corps until late on 9 August, when a small Australian party slipped across the river and captured the village of Chipilly itself, together with a renewed attack by III Corps.
After the event, Judith Webb, the first woman to command an all-male field squadron in the British army, asked if it was OK for Joyce (Aoko Aruga, a trainee teacher and aspiring politician from Kenya) to visit her family in Somerset before Joyce's flight home.
Hamilton served as inspector general of the United States Army from July 18 , 1798 to June 15 ,1800; because Washington was unwilling to leave Mount Vernon unless it were to command an army in the field, Hamilton was the de facto head of the army, to Adams's considerable displeasure.
The German defenders of Hamel were deeply dug in, and their position commanded a very wide field of fire.
In his diary he wrote that he would resign if he was not given command of a field army.
Naik Kirpa Ram's citation "At thondebhavi on 12 November 1945, Naik [Corporal] Kirpa Ram was commanding a section on a field-firing exercise.
X Corps found itself under attack from the 20th, 26th and 27th Chinese field armies, commanding a total of 12 divisions.
