Sentence examples for put in command of from inspiring English sources

After Louisiana left the Union, Bragg was put in command of its militia.

He was put in command of French territory in Oceania in 1849.

He was put in command of the tanker in the Philippines several months before the end of the war.

On Nov. 29, 1861, Bonard was put in command of French forces in Cochinchina and charged with governing the French territories there.

McClellan was a highly respected West Point professional, who had been put in command of the Army immediately after the disaster at Bull Run in July 1861.

Upon his promotion to brigadier general (July 1996), he was put in command of the 2nd Canadian Mechanised Brigade Group in Petawawa.

Archives|EUROPA TAKEN OVER BY CAPTAIN SCHARF; Master of the Stuttgart Put in Command to Succeed Late Captain Johnsen.

EUROPA TAKEN OVER BY CAPTAIN SCHARF; Master of the Stuttgart Put in Command to Succeed Late Captain Johnsen.

After war broke out in Morocco (September 1893), he was put in command and succeeded in negotiating the Treaty of Marrakech (January 29 , 1894.

Roger Clements, clerk of Brafferton Parish Council, said: "We are recognising the effort that all of Bomber Command put in to conducting their part of World War II and, specifically, the Canadian crew that were in the Halifax that crashed near us".

Nonetheless he returned to government in 1798, through maneuvers that put him in command of a new peacetime Army.