Sentence examples for he was commander from inspiring English sources

Before that he was commander in chief land command and assistant chief of the general staff.

He was commander of the IV Bomber Command from 12 August 1942 to 8 November 1942, and was promoted to brigadier general on 17 September 1942.

He was commander of a heavy brigade at the moment the Soviet Union collapsed; less than a decade later, he was commanding a peacekeeping force in the chaos of Bosnia.

In Central America he was commander of the United Nations Observer Mission (1990 91).

From 1885 to 1893 he was commander in chief in India.

Before his promotion, he was commander of the Shenyang Military Region.

By the time the late Lt Gen Bilimoria retired, he was commander-in-chief of the central Indian army, with 350,000 men under his command.

He was relatively young and had experienced a miscarriage of justice; he wasn't a statesperson, ready to be forgiving: he was commander-in-chief of the armed wing of the party, which was quite prepared to use violence.

After he read the telegram, Hunt turned to his signals officer and said: "They might have added goodbye and the best of British!" Hunt, described on Monday by Sukey Cameron, representative of the Falkland Islands in London, as "stoic", deployed the local defence force of about 60 men (of which he was commander-in-chief) and a contingent of about 80 Royal Marines.

He was commander-in-chief and he would take care of it, which he then did.

He was commander-in-chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States veterans organization from 1879 until his death in 1886.