In the early days of the French Revolutionary Wars, Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg remained as brigade commander of a small Austrian corps, approximately 10,000 men, under the overall command of Anton, Prince Esterházy.
He explained that he was the commander of a small unit, with around 100 men.
"I was the deputy commander of the Small Boy Unit under General Iron Jacket.
At a public bathhouse in the Moqor district of Ghazni Province, they met the commander of a small pro-government militia.
At the outbreak of war, Lettow-Vorbeck had been commander of a small garrison in Tanganyika, which came under British attack at Tanga in November 1914.
When Lee was finally named Confederate general in chief, he promptly reinstated Johnston as commander of the small forces striving to oppose the Federal advance.
His father, Ibrahim Agha, the commander of a small provincial military force that was maintained by the governor of Kavala, died when Muḥammad ʿAlī was a boy, and he was brought up by the governor.
After the Serb withdrawal in June , 1999 General Ceku, working closely with NATO, oversaw the K.L.A.'s demobilization, and became the commander of a small successor force, the Kosovo Protection Corps, which was seen as the nucleus of a Kosovo army.
Travis was the commander of the small, valiant Texas force that held off, but was ultimately wiped out by, the Mexican Army at the Battle of the Alamo, in 1836, when Texas was fighting to become an independent republic.
The general, who was field commander of the small force that sparked the nation to oust Ferdinand E. Marcos, sent a message to the troops announcing that he was demoting some of the strongest Marcos supporters among command officers.
