Sentence examples for general commanded from inspiring English sources

When his father was king, Abdullah, then a general, commanded these men.

Instead, the speaker of the lower house of Parliament, Thura Shwe Mann, a former general, commanded the spotlight.

Sharon, by then a major general, commanded one of three armoured divisions operating against Egypt in the Six-Day War of June 1967.

Mr. Bunker and Lieutenant General Palmer had worked together in the Dominican Republic in 1965, when the general commanded American troops sent to that country to quell civil war and Mr. Bunker headed diplomatic efforts to end the violence.

As head of the 509th Composite Group, Colonel Tibbets, who eventually retired as a brigadier general, commanded 1,800 men who practiced B-29 runs under extraordinary secrecy in a variety of places.

The General commanded the Army Ground Forces until he was succeeded by Lieutenant-General Ben Lear last July, less than two weeks before McNair was killed by an American bomb in Normandy.

A general commanding an infantry division in France, Goltz was transferred to Finland in March 1918 to help the Finnish national army against the Finnish-Russian Red Army. Finnish-Russian Red Army

Now passive resistance is bolstered by physical retaliation.The militant core group once numbered dozens, says the Israeli general commanding the West Bank, Gadi Shamni.

Christopher Owens, the general commanding the aircraft wing at Futenma, thinks the move to a base facing fewer restrictions would be preferable.At one point it even seemed feasible.

The general, commanding the French forces, was replaced by Moreau, and new defensive positions were taken along the Adda River.

While awaiting Genghis' reply, Jebe and Subutai (another general pursuing Muhammad) led their army of 20,000 men, with each general commanding a tumen.