Sentence examples for receive command of from inspiring English sources

The following year he would receive command of the 44-gun razee HMS Indefatigable as a result.

His former commander, William Shield, had received command of the 32-gun by July 1795, and Lydiard transferred that month to serve as his first lieutenant.

His nephew Charles Rivers Ellet received command of the Queen of the West.

Walker also received command of the Republic of Korea Army ROKAandand of other United Nations forces as they arrived.

Scheer received command of the fleet in January 1916; he hoped to precipitate a strategic division of the British Grand Fleet and catch it at a disadvantage.

He began his senatorial career before the normal age, became consul (ad 33), received command of the Upper German army (40 42), and served a proconsulship in Africa (44 45).

Fitzroy entered the Royal Navy in 1819 and, after service in the Mediterranean and in South American waters, received command of the 240-ton brig Beagle in 1828.

Ewing received command of the District of the Border because the Lincoln administration saw him as a moderate Unionist, who was neither so radical as to offend Missourians nor so conservative as to put off the Kansans.

Usually several strategi were assigned to a particular operation; sometimes one strategus alone received command of a small-scale campaign, and occasionally all 10 may have been employed on a major undertaking.

In July 1963, he received command of an aircraft carrier, the.

Paulet then received command of the 74-gun.