Sentence examples for to assume command of from inspiring English sources

Gordon, obviously thinking poorly of his battalion commander, now asserted a claim to assume command of the 750 survivors.

He chose Franz Stangl, who had previously been the commandant of the Sobibór extermination camp, to assume command of the camp as Eberl's successor.

Why was Hargrove available to assume command of this dysfunctional outfit?

Israel promptly invited the Italians to assume command of the peacekeeping force instead of the French.

Chirac also told Annan that "France was prepared to assume command" of the bolstered U.N. force, according to the statement.

He was about to assume command of the unit, and he invited me to the change-of-command ceremony.

Venizelos, Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis and General Panagiotis Danglis formed a triumvirate provisional government and on 9 October moved to Thessaloniki to assumed command of the National Defense.

He was not able to assume command because of his age, and his family also felt he was too young for service.

On July 11 he ordered Gen. Henry Halleck, commander of Federal armies in the West, to assume command, under the president, of all Federal armies — thus making him McClellan's superior.

While Iroquois commanding officer, Commander W.B.L Holms, was the most senior officer present, he chose to not assume command of the convoy as his destroyer would not remain with the troopships for their entire journey.

More important, he fostered the cause of the revolution by persuading the exiled Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda, who in 1806 had attempted to liberate his country single-handedly, to return to Caracas and assume command of the independence movement.