Sentence examples for over the brigade from inspiring English sources

But by the time Henderson took over the brigade, General Koster had promised the next battalion command to Barker.

The same month Colonel Pappas took over the brigade, which is based in Weisbaden, Germany, coalition forces came under heavy assault by the insurgency and the demand for intelligence grew.

After the invasion was over, the brigade was supposed to support the operation with bridging and infrastructure support.

Numbered the 5th Parachute Brigade, it was initially commanded by Brigadier Edwin Flavell, but on 5 July he was given command of the Airborne Forces Depot, and Brigadier Nigel Poett took over the brigade.

Later that day infantry from the 15th Scottish Infantry Division, supported by tanks, had advanced to the divisional area and took over the brigade's position.

Charity Restoring a City A Step at a Time With the war over, the brigade's soldiers turned to what Colonel Grimsley called "little good works," projects intended to rebuild Baghdad and to build trust in an occupying force.

Gilmore immigrated to the United States at age 19, and, after leading several bands, he took over the Boston Brigade Band (later known as Gilmore's Band) in 1859.

After a brief gun battle, rebels took over one of the brigade's bases along the road to Tripoli.

It was not an easy fight — over all, the brigade lost 60 men in six months fighting around Kandahar — but the careful preparation paid off.

The battle was over and the brigade captured 1,734 prisoners, twenty-seven machine-guns, five artillery pieces, 298 horses and other military supplies.

Mr Moloney, author of A Secret History of the IRA, claims the Sinn Fein president took over the Provisionals' Belfast brigade in late 1972, and that he had previously set up a special IRA unit which murdered and secretly buried at least nine people in the 1970s and early 1980s, the so-called Disappeared.