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Example sentences for "independent command"

  • Summing up the organization, it should be stated here that the detachment was organized at the first, and has ever since remained an independent command, receiving its orders directly from the corps commander.

  • The detachment at once assumed the position of an independent command.

  • Secretary Stanton was profoundly distrustful of Lane, and said that he would leave the Cabinet rather than put him in independent command.

  • Like others, they made mistakes; the one was sometimes slow, the other careless; neither gave the slightest sign that they were capable of independent command, and both were at times impatient of control.

  • At Bautzen his timidity ruined Napoleon's combinations; in the campaign of Leipsic he showed himself incapable of independent command; and he cannot be acquitted of hesitation at Quatre Bras.

  • It is not often that one gets the chance of an independent command.

  • But in spite of Ney's lack of strategic skill and his well-known vacillation when confronted with problems he did not understand, Napoleon was forced to employ him on an independent command.

  • On arriving in Italy the old soldier found that Prince Eugene, unaccustomed to an independent command, had opened the gate of Italy to the Austrians by his impetuous action at Sacile.

  • McLaws and another general of his command, and also asks to be relieved, unless he has an independent command, as Gen.

  • Buckner, who assumes to have an independent command in East Tennessee and West Virginia.

  • Bragg is hurt, because one of his captains has been given an independent Command, without consulting him, to defend Atlanta, in his department.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being persuaded; enjoy the; felt the; independent company; independent creation; independent existence; independent government; independent kingdom; independent member; independent power; independent sovereign; independent state; independent treasury; keep you; little else; making himself; name and; opposite the; primary cause; sacred place; school instruction; temperate regions; terminal racemes; three quarts; wicked woman; wind instrument