Sentence examples for sole commander from inspiring English sources

After being appointed sole commander of all Texian troops, Houston journeyed to Gonzales to take command of the 400 volunteers who were still waiting for Fannin to lead them to the Alamo.

In 27 bc the emperor Augustus created a permanent corps of nine cohorts, stationing them around Rome; in 2 bc he appointed two equestrian prefects to command them, but in ad 23 Tiberius' powerful prefect Sejanus became their sole commander.

Having blamed the subsequent defeat on his colleagues, Chares was left sole commander.

When Montmorency was captured, Guise became the sole commander of the royal army; and when Condé was captured, the admiral Gaspard de Coligny took over the direction of the Huguenot troops.

In response, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced that he was appointing the army commander, Gen. Anupong Paochinda, the sole commander of what had been a civilian-military security office, in effect putting security operations entirely in the hands of the military.

Travis became the sole commander of the forces when Bowie was confined to bed.

The sole Pushtun commander in the watch, a village leader from Jalrez, offered to patrol the district's violent areas.

They acted more like a light military force than many had before — organizing resupply convoys, rotating diverse units through the front lines, and appointing a sole tactical commander.

Ludendorff, however, whose ambition was as immense as his strategic gifts, at the close of the lost war claimed to have been the sole real "commander" of World War I.

On Sunday, an independent group, including the sole surviving commander of the ghetto uprising, Marek Edelman, will unveil a monument to two Polish Jews who sought to organize resistance to the Nazis during World War II but were executed by Stalin.

Tirumala Deva Raya, Rama Raya's younger brother who was the sole surviving commander, left Vijayanagara for Penukonda with vast amounts of treasure on the back of 1500 elephants.