Sentence examples for union command from inspiring English sources

Carter House (1830), which served as the Union command post, commemorates the battle and displays Civil War relics.

Thus, as Higginson considered Saxton's offer, he knew that he could count on lukewarm support at best from Union command.

He spurned an offer of high Union command to side with his native South and was put in charge of the Department of the West.

That force of 1,200 French, British, Belgian, Swedish and South African troops, which is under European Union command, arrived in Bunia last month.

CONGO -- An emergency contingent of 1,200 French, British, Belgian, Swedish and South African troops under European Union command arrived in June in Bunia in the Ituri region of northeastern Congo, after savage fighting between rival ethnic militias killed hundreds.

So admired abroad was Garibaldi that in July 1861 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln offered him a Union command in the American Civil War; the offer was declined, partly because Lincoln would not make a sweeping enough condemnation of slavery, but also because he would not give Garibaldi supreme command of the Federal troops.

U.S. naval officer who held important Union commands in the American Civil War (1861 65).

Traveling in four separate pairs, the other eight eventually reached safety among various Union commands.

The former prime minister Harold Macmillan said it was better to be laughed at than ignored, and while English administrators have lamented the damage to the image of the game caused by the fake blood affair and drug problems at Bath, seldom has rugby union commanded so much publicity in the off-season.

It has 1,600 troops in Mogadishu under Africa Union (AU) command, but they are holed up at the airport.

The Ugandan troops, under African Union (AU) command, have formally taken over from Ethiopia, whose troops have occupied Mogadishu since the retreat of the Islamists.