On 24 April, the day after the Katia and Oghratina, Chauvel, commander of the Anzac Mounted Division, was placed in command of all the advanced troops: the 2nd Light Horse Brigade and the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigades at Romani and an infantry division; the 52nd (Lowland) at Dueidar.
In October 1918, he was placed in command of the 16th Infantry Brigade when its previous commander, Brigadier-General Henry Walker, was wounded in an artillery barrage, and led it through to the armistice.
In 1939 Wilson was placed in command of British troops in Egypt.
Hannibal was placed in command of an army of many raw recruits and 80 untrained elephants.
At the end of the war he was placed in command of the arsenal at Rock Island.
After commanding a corps in the attempt to relieve Vienna on Oct. 30, 1848, he was placed in command of the Hungarian forces on the upper Danube River.
Crippled from his wounds, Arnold was placed in command of Philadelphia (June 1778), where he socialized with families of loyalist sympathies and lived extravagantly.
In October 1944 he was placed in command of the Sixth Panzer Army, which spearheaded the German offensive through the Ardennes in the Battle of the Bulge.
Li Shimin went to the capital to see off a third brother, Li Yuanji, who was placed in command of an expedition against the Turks; his elder and younger brothers are said to have plotted to murder him.
Later, in Iraq, Petraeus was able to put his ideas into practice in the field, when he was placed in command of multinational forces during the 2007 surge – which he was key in helping to orchestrate.
After the disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run the same month, McClellan was placed in command of what was to become the Army of the Potomac.
