In October 1918, he was placed in command of the 16th Infantry Brigade when its previous commander, Brigadier-General Henry Walker, was wounded in an artillery barrage, and led it through to the armistice.
In 1939 Wilson was placed in command of British troops in Egypt.
Hannibal was placed in command of an army of many raw recruits and 80 untrained elephants.
He was caught in the siege of the island and placed in command of a unit of light tanks.
She was recalled to active duty in 1949, and placed in command of a training company at Fort Lee, Va.
At the end of the war he was placed in command of the arsenal at Rock Island.
In February , 1992 when most of them had been placed in command of troops at strategic locations around Venezuela, they attempted a coup d'état.
In October 1944 he was placed in command of the Sixth Panzer Army, which spearheaded the German offensive through the Ardennes in the Battle of the Bulge.
After commanding a corps in the attempt to relieve Vienna on Oct. 30, 1848, he was placed in command of the Hungarian forces on the upper Danube River.
Later, in Iraq, Petraeus was able to put his ideas into practice in the field, when he was placed in command of multinational forces during the 2007 surge – which he was key in helping to orchestrate.
Although Meade retained command of the Army of the Potomac until the end of the war, his independence of action was sharply curtailed after March 1864, when General Ulysses S. Grant was placed in command of all Union forces.
