Sentence examples for provisional commander from inspiring English sources

On May 31 the Paris Commune appointed him provisional commander in chief of the Paris national guard, and on June 2 he surrounded the National Convention with 80,000 armed men and 160 cannons and so compelled it to decree the arrest of 29 Girondin deputies.

Col. David Riley, provisional commander of the corps' Southern California region, said he has reluctantly relieved Crowell of his duties until the matter is resolved.

After Athens was captured by Ibrahim Pasha in June 1826, Makriyannis helped organise the defence of the Acropolis, and became the provisional commander of the garrison after the death of the commander, Yannis Gouras.

One unionist party, the Ulster Unionists, pulled out of the five-party power-sharing coalition after the Police Service of Northern Ireland's chief constable, George Hamilton, confirmed that individual IRA members had killed their former comrade in revenge for the killing in May of ex-Belfast Provisional commander Gerard "Jock Davisonn.

As part of research for a book I co-wrote, one Isis-affiliated cleric said that Naji's book is widely read among provisional commanders and some rank-and-file fighters as a way to justify beheadings as not only religiously permissible but recommended by God and Muhammad.

He did". Adams is challenged on the BBC's Storyville programme over whether he was a senior Provisionals commander in Belfast at the time McConville was abducted, just before Christmas 1972.

Brendan "The Dark" Hughes was a legend within the IRA, rising to become the Provisionals' Belfast commander and leading the first hunger strike for political status in the Maze in 1980.

After the February Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the Romanov dynasty, he became chief of staff to the provisional government's commander in chief, Mikhail V. Alekseyev, but was quickly disillusioned by that government's inability to maintain discipline in the army.

It is also unlikely that the Emperor himself decided to replace him, given Belliard's tentative approach at the Battle of Craonne and this General's subsequent provisional status as commander, after Nansouty's departure.

Chakotay was given a provisional rank of Lieutenant Commander and named Executive Officer, the second-in-command of the vessel and the crew seek to return home to the Alpha Quadrant.

An inscription reads: "Upper Canada has dedicated this monument to the memory of the late Major-General Isaac Brock, K.B. provisional lieutenant-governor and commander of the forces in the province whose remains are deposited in the vault beneath.