Sentence examples for went on to command from inspiring English sources

Edmund Allenby, 6th Dragoons, who started the war as the commander of the Cavalry Division, went on to command the Cavalry Corps, then V Corps, the Third Army, and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.

The only officers to command the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front were both cavalrymen, while the original commander of the British Cavalry Division went on to command the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the Palestine Campaign, and another cavalryman became the Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

He went on to command the Navy's first nuclear-powered surface ship, the cruiser Long Beach, from 1959 to 1963.

Turner went on to command other boats and, indeed, was torpedoed once again, and again survived, retiring in 1919 to a village near Dartmoor.

Sperrle went on to command all air forces in North Africa during General Erwin Rommel's operations with the Afrika Korps there.

Pol Pot, the overall leader, went on to command a rebel army that inflicted civil war on the country until the mid 1990s.

Carl Schurz would go on to command a division, fighting at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and elsewhere.

The general, who ran special operations in Iraq before going on to command American forces in Afghanistan, has deplored the leaks.

Why reduce the future debt of students who will go on to command salaries just as high as their classmates from wealthier homes?

The tablet goes on to command the use of plaited palm fibre, waterproofed with bitumen, before the construction of cabins for the people and wild animals.

The problem is that the girl has already been chosen for a local chieftain named Turnus, who, smarting from the insult, goes on to command the forces trying to repel the Trojan invaders.