Sentence examples for over the command from inspiring English sources

He joined with the forces of the station's current commander, Sir John Laforey several days later, and took over the command from him.

Later that year, he took over the command of the 2nd Army in southeastern Anatolia.

Francesco then took over the command, defeating and fatally wounding Braccio near L'Aquila, northeast of Rome.

Then Lucius Mummius Archaicus, consul of 146, took over the command and defeated Diaeus and the remaining Achaeans.

Last year, Brigadier General Loretta Reynolds took over the command at Parris Island, where Barbara Gove served.

King John III Sobieski of Poland took over the command of the relieving army, which descended upon the Turks and dispersed them.

I hurried over, uttering the command, "Leave it.

On October 16, Colonel Joseph R. Russ of the US 32nd Infantry Regiment took over the operational command from Moses.

Abu Ubaidah joined Khalid at Bosra and Khalid, as per the caliph's instructions, took over the supreme command.

After leading an ineffectual siege of Quebec until April 1776, he took over the military command of Montreal.

Through its political control of Tibet it is China that lords over the commanding heights of Asia's water towers.