Sentence examples for ranks to command from inspiring English sources

Like other Egyptian officers of his generation, he never saw combat, but he advanced through the ranks to command a mechanized infantry division and then served as the commander of Egypt's northern military region.

He trained at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, joining the navy in 1946 at the age of 13, and quickly rising through the ranks to command submarines.

He entered the rebellious Texas army as a private and rose mercurially to the rank of colonel to command the cavalry at the Battle of San Jacinto.

He said he would push for more Latino officers to be promoted to command ranks.

A final problem was white officers promoted from the ranks who were "unsuited" to command "colored troops".

Several months after Cape St Vincent, on 20 July, Downman was promoted to the rank of commander and appointed to command the 14-gun brig.

In September, Bradley Patton's junior in both rank and experience was selected to command the First United States Army that was forming in England to prepare for Operation Overlord.

A naval aviator in World War II stationed at Pearl Harbor, Moorer rose through the ranks of the U.S. Navy to command the Pacific Fleet from 1964.

An ascent up the ranks of the interwar Army to command his nation's greatest military endeavor during World War II, the D-Day invasion, required formidable political talent.

For months, a public rivalry between General Younes and another rebel military leader, Khalifa Hifter, contributed to the pervasive sense of chaos in the ranks, as both men claimed to command the fighters in the field.

This can be done by giving them more responsibilities and allow them to command lower ranks.