Sentence examples for served as colonel from inspiring English sources

The son of a prominent merchant, Garašanin became a customs official in 1834 and joined the army in 1837, where he served as colonel and commander.

Samuel L. Spitzberg, a former Army lawyer who served as Colonel Jordan's lawyer in Baghdad in 2004, said a lawyer for the Military District of Washington, Lt. Col. John Tracy, had told him about the impending charges, but that he had not seen the exact details.

Sheridan, who served as colonel of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry in 1862, was later promoted to the rank of major general during the war.

With the outbreak of the Spanish American War in 1898, Bosbyshell organized and served as colonel of the Nineteenth Pennsylvania National Guard Regiment, which was used for homeland defense.

He served as Colonel Commandant for the Australian Corps of Signals in Southern Command from June 1958 to June 1963, and was Colonel Commandant of the corps from September 1959 to December 1960.

(Students do still elect a young man to serve as "Colonel Rebel" alongside the homecoming queen; this year he will take the field with the first elected African-American queen).

He later served as a colonel in the USAF Reserve during the Cold War.

Early joined the Confederate army after Virginia seceded in April 1861, and he served as a colonel commanding the 24th Virginia Infantry Regiment.

Shreve's father was a Quaker who nevertheless served as a colonel in the American Revolutionary War and lost all his possessions at the hands of the British.

After studying law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, Guzmán joined the Mexican Revolution and served as a colonel in the revolutionary forces of Pancho Villa.

The families of John Turner II and John Turner III occupied the house until 1782, when it was sold to Samuel Ingersoll, a ship captain who served as a colonel in the American Revolution.