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He was rewarded by William with the earldom of Marlborough, membership of the Privy Council, confirmation of his military rank, and a succession of commands in Flanders and in Ireland between 1689 and 1691, in which he was uniformly successful.

In 1803, after a succession of commands, Heywood was promoted to post-captain.

The best order within each linkage group was found using the following succession of commands: 'order', 'compare'trytry' and 'ripple' (likelihood difference between the first and second best order = 2.0).

Often the keep stood in line with the outer line of defenses, so that while one side looked toward the bailey (or succession of baileys) commanding the operations of the defense there, the other side commanded the field and the approaches to the castle.

He held a succession of important commands during World War II.

Generals Alexander McDougall of New York and Lachlan McIntosh of Georgia were appointed in succession to temporary command of the North Carolinians while in winter quarters.

But the Libyan leader, despite a succession of heavy strikes on his command compound in Tripoli in the past month, has held fast to his vow to hang on to power.

In 1936 he graduated from the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, and in 1937 40 he was attached to the War Plans Division of the General Staff in Washington, D.C. From 1941 to 1943 (during which time the United States entered World War II), he was given command, in succession, of an infantry division, an armoured brigade, an armoured division, and finally an armoured corps.

During World War II, Captain Patzert served in the Merchant Marine, commanding a succession of the supply ships that helped form a steel bridge across the Atlantic.

British prosecutors representing the Serbian government yesterday outlined evidence that Dr Ganic, a friend of Baroness Thatcher, "personally commanded" a succession of atrocities in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, when for 48 hours he became the country's President on 2 and 3 May 1992.

A succession of Canadian commodores also held the prestigious command of the coalition fleet in the Arabian Sea in support of international forces in Afghanistan.

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