Sentence examples for commanded the first from inspiring English sources

He commanded the First Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment.

In 1861 Watie raised and commanded the first volunteer Cherokee regiment the Cherokee Mounted Rifles mustered into the Confederate Army.

John Hawkins commanded the first English slave-trading expedition in 1562 and sold his cargo in the Spanish Indies.

Adam Johann Krusenstern, (born Nov. 19, 1770, Hagudi, [now Rapla], Estonia died Aug. 24, 1846, Revel [now Tallinn]) naval officer who commanded the first Russian expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean and circumnavigate the Earth (1803 06).

C. 1500 Vila Vicosa, Portugal July 21 , 1564Lisbon, Portugal Martim Afonso de Sousa, (born c. 1500, Vila Viçosa, Portugal died July 21 , 1564 Lisbon), Portuguese admiral who commanded the first colonizing expedition to Brazil (1530 33).

He previously commanded the first conventional ground forces that went into southern Afghanistan after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and commanded Marines for the invasion of Iraq and subsequent counterinsurgency operations.

Steinbrenner's hero is George Patton, who commanded the Third Army during the Second World War.

Crippen later commanded the second flight of the space shuttle Challenger.

In an earlier version, the subheading said Nelson and Napoleon had fought at Waterloo, when of course it was Wellington who commanded the seventh coalition army against Napoleon.

In 1945, he commanded the Thirteenth Air Force in the Southern Philippines and Borneo campaigns.

He commanded the Fifteenth United States Army for slightly more than two months.