It is a singular fact that, after Washington, Joseph Smith was the first man in America who held the rank of lieutenant general, and that Brigham Young was the next.
The letter prepared in that way was sent by me to Lieutenant General Hampton, near Hillsboro, to be forwarded to General Sherman.
By way of answer, the Parliament laid injunctions upon all the officers of the crown to obey none but the Duke of Orleans, lieutenant general of the kingdom.
On the 24th of December, the cardinal crossed the frontier with a large body of troops, and was received at Sedan by Lieutenant General Fabert, faithful to his fortunes even in exile.
See Brigadier general, Lieutenant general, Major general, in the Vocabulary.
The despatch was as follows: "The secretary of war directs me to say that your commission as lieutenant general is signed, and will be delivered to you on your arrival at the War Department.
Just before he had been called to Washington, the bill reviving the grade of lieutenant general in the army had passed both houses of Congress, and had been approved by the president.
On the morrow he was to receive his commission as lieutenant general, and all the armies of the United States were to be placed under his command.
Lee, on General Beauregard's staff (afterwards a Lieutenant General of the Confederate Army).
Three or four divisions constituted a corps, commanded by a Lieutenant General, and a separate army, as two or more corps, was commanded by a General, the highest in rank.
The right wing stood as follows: General Pat Cleburn's Division on right of Stewart, with Breckenridge's on the extreme right of the infantry, under the command of Lieutenant General D.
General Lee had divided his army into two corps; the Department of Richmond having created the rank of Lieutenant General, raised Longstreet and Jackson to that grade in Lee's Army.
He had long been a Marechal de Camp, which is a very different thing, and had been recently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General.
At twenty-two he had served as a volunteer in the parliamentary army; at thirty he had risen to the rank of Lieutenant General.
Under him were Maumont, who held the rank of lieutenant general, and a brigadier named Pusignan.
Congress ought to make the rank of Lieutenant General permanent.
It is simply dishonest for the country to compel a Major General to do the work of a Lieutenant General, just as in the war hundreds of Colonels had to command brigades and divisions.
Although he was the junior in service of Count De Barras, he was made his superior in command, with the title of lieutenant general.
His father, Edward Wolfe, was a lieutenant general, and died in March of the same year, aged 74.
Burgoyne arrived at Quebec, in March, 1777, bearing the commission of a lieutenant general.
Call my son hither, and prepare for him a letter of introduction to lieutenant general Armfelt.
Really, two minutes have already elapsed beyond the time, your excellency,' said the clerk importunately, holding up his watch to lieutenant general Rank.
Acknowledgement is gratefully made to Lieutenant General William K.
The command of the Second Army, whose divisions occupied a sector in the Woevre, was given to Lieutenant General Robert L.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lieutenant general" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
