Sentence examples for distinguished commander from inspiring English sources

Though Berthier was not a distinguished commander, Napoleon esteemed him highly as chief of staff of the Grande Armée from 1805.

Louis William I, margrave of Baden-Baden from 1677 to 1707, was a distinguished commander in the imperial army in wars against the Turks and against the French; he built the palace of Rastatt.

A distinguished commander in the Balkan Wars of 1912 13, Alexander was appointed regent of Serbia by the ailing King Peter (June 24 , 1914 and during World War I served as commander in chief of Serbia's armed forces, entering Belgrade in triumph on October 31, 1918.

In 42 Gaius Cassius and Marcus Brutus, defeated in two battles at Philippi Macedoniaa) in which Antony distinguished himself as commander, killed themselves and, with these acts, the republican cause.

He collaborated with the brothers of the poet Alcaeus in the overthrow of the tyrant Melanchrus (612/611?) and distinguished himself as a commander in the war against Athens for Sigium, killing the Athenian commander, Phrynon, single-handedly.

During the war, he distinguished himself as a commander of subchaser crafts from the Caribbean to the North Pacific.

The local police commander, Muhammad Nabi, distinguished himself throughout Arghandab during the jihad against the Soviet Union, but later fled Afghanistan under Taliban rule and was pushing a handcart around Quetta, Pakistan, scraping by as a street vendor, when he heard of plans to recapture Kandahar with the help of American forces in late 2001.

Solomon was an East Roman (Byzantine) general from northern Mesopotamia, who distinguished himself as a commander in the Vandalic War and the reconquest of North Africa in 533 534.

When war again broke out between Russia and the Turks (1787), he distinguished himself as an outstanding commander.

Aide-de-camp to the emperor Francis Joseph (1909 14), he distinguished himself as a naval commander in World War I by several times breaking the Allied Adriatic blockade.

By the time Indonesia became a republic in 1950, Suharto had distinguished himself as a battalion commander in central Java and achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel.