Sentence examples for made commandant from inspiring English sources

Johnson was promoted to major general in 1959, and the following year he was made commandant of the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.

A few days before Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz, in January , 1945 Hoecker and Baer fled to Germany, where Baer was made commandant of the Dora-Mittelbau camp, and Hoecker was again his adjutant.

In his place, Lieutenant Commander Henry Minett, Sebree's executive officer, was made acting commandant of the station and therefore acting governor of the territory.

Eventually the king appointed a viceroy, who made Champlain commandant of New France.

In 1673, previous to his coming to France, Frontenac had made him commandant of the Fort of his name which he built on Lake Ontario.

Knowing Gatewood's reputation as one of the army's "Best Apache Men", Crook made him Commandant of the White Mountain Indian Reservation at Fort Apache under Emmet Crawford.

He held the post for five years and during that time was made Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Tank Corps.

But many said that introducing the possibility of sexual tension into combat forces would be disruptive, an argument made by the commandant of the Marine Corps a week before the historic repeal was passed by the Senate on Saturday and sent to President Obama for his signature.

Read was made Officer Commanding RAAF Base Point Cook in January 1966, simultaneously holding the appointment of Commandant of RAAF Academy.

Of the often quoted saga of using gypsy forced labour in her film Tiefland in 1940, Bach shows that the contract she entered into with the camp commandant makes clear the terms on which she had access to these 'extras' and that she knew they were going back to (at the very least) an uncertain future 'in the east'.

In 1960, when the Somali Republic was created out of territories formerly ruled by the Italians and British, he was made a colonel and deputy commandant of the newly formed Somali National Army.