Sentence examples for he assumed command from inspiring English sources

Promoted to the rank of commander on 30 June 1983, he assumed command of the frigate HMS Phoebe.

He assumed command in 1943 as a Second Lieutenant USAAF assigned to the Pacific Command in the Philippines.

He assumed command of the Americal Division in 1967.

Still, he emphasized how unprepared the forces in Iraq were for the conflict that reignited just as he assumed command.

He assumed command of the company, somewhat unwillingly, in 1963, and he hands over con trol in July at the end of the company's London sea son.

In August 1903 he assumed command of the Russian garrison at Port Arthur, and from January 1904 he was the commander of the 3rd Siberian Corps stationed there.

General Petraeus took a similar approach when he assumed command in Iraq in 2007 with a surge of troops authorized by Mr. Bush.

In October he assumed command of the North Atlantic blockading squadron and was eventually responsible for the fall of Fort Fisher, N.C.

In 1915, during World War I, he assumed command in France of the Royal Flying Corps, which was then a branch of the British army.

In 1939 he assumed command of the Arab Legion after serving as head of a special police section of it from 1930.

She notes how quickly Lee, still in his mid-50s when he assumed command of the Confederate forces, took on the graying, somewhat haggard look familiar from photographs.