Sentence examples for command of a division from inspiring English sources

He was in command of a division of French troops in Morocco, with H.Q. at Casablanca, when the Americans landed.

Alas for Wellington, Erskine proved to be mad, drunk and "blind as a beetle", but was still given command of a division.

He was thirty-four years old in the summer of 1962 and had been promoted to command of a division when he was twenty-nine — an extraordinarily rapid rise in any army.

On October 7, Longstreet was promoted to major general and assumed command of a division in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia —four infantry brigades and Hampton's Legion.

Stone then was given command of a division, called the Corps of Observation, guarding the fords along the upper Potomac River that fall.

When the Prince became Commander-in-Chief of the entire Polish (Crown) Army on May 3, 1792, Kościuszko was given command of a division near Kiev.

In August 1805, Gazan commanded of a division of the army that encircled Austrians in Ulm.

In August 1805, Gazan commanded of a division of the Army that encircled the Austrians in Ulm.

Pickett rose to major general in October and was given command of a Virginia division.

By April 1862 he had been promoted to colonel, and before the end of the year he was a brigadier general in command of a cavalry division.

And while NATO's secretary-general insists that it must first get Afghanistan right, the alliance's Istanbul summit in June is expected to explore ways it could be of help to a new Iraqi government (beyond already supporting the Polish command of a multinational division there).