Sentence examples for command of the regiment from inspiring English sources

The commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion, Corley, succeeded to the command of the regiment.

While there, Lieutenant Colonel Harold McIntosh took command of the regiment following Royston's elevation to temporary commander of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade.

Command of the regiment then fell to Barnes.

Command of the regiment passed to Lt. Col. George P. Hawkes.

Change in command of the regiment occurred for the third time in late 1780.

Whitehorn returned on 16 December to resume temporary command of the regiment.

When Massachusetts Gov. John Andrew sought to form one of the Union Army's first African American regiments from a Northern state (other units had been formed of emancipated slaves in the South), he offered the command of that regiment, the 54th Massachusetts, to Shaw.

After the First Battle of Zurich, he refused a battlefield promotion to brigadier general, asking instead for a cavalry regiment; he received command of the 12th Regiment of Chasseurs-a-Cheval (light cavalry) as Chef-de-Brigade, a rank equivalent to colonel.

"Your name has been spoken of in connection with the command of this Regiment, by some friends in whose judgment I have confidence.

On 28 October 1797 Brock purchased the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and became acting commanding officer of the regiment, assuming substantive command on 22 March 1798 with the retirement of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Keppel.

For that feat he won the rank of lieutenant colonel and command of the 84th Regiment.