Sentence examples for commanded a division from inspiring English sources

McCaffrey is widely respected in the military, having fought in the Vietnam War, commanded a division in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and later served as the commander for U.S. military operations in Central America and South America.

He commanded a division on the French left wing at Waterloo and attacked with great pertinacity.

commanded a division under EARLY during the recent campaign in the Shenandoah Valley.

By September 1979 he had returned to regular army duties and commanded a division based in Kaduna.

He then commanded a division fighting in eastern France, and after Germany fell he became Rhineland's governor.

He commanded a division during the Wagram campaign (1809) and was given command of the Eighth Corps of the army that, under Napoleon, invaded Russia in 1812.

Poland would also command a division and has offered to contribute a brigade of troops.

Carl Schurz would go on to command a division, fighting at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and elsewhere.

In 1915 he rose to command a division and then the III Corps, which helped stem the German offensive at the Battle of Verdun early in 1916.

After commanding a division in 1911 and briefly commanding an army corps, he was, in August 1913, put in command of the XX Army Corps in Nancy, which protected the Lorraine frontier.

When this occurred in 1955, he went back into uniform as a major-general commanding a division of the new Bundeswehr, and served as Bonn's military representative to Nato for two years until 1958.