But the rash attempt of the Marshal de Montmorenci, who was in supreme command, to relieve it with a far inferior force, led to his total defeat (August 10).
Generals von Scholz, von Eichhorn, von Fabeck, and von Woyrsch, were in command of these difficult units, with Field Marshal von Hindenburg in supreme command.
South of the Pripet Marshes General Alexeieff was in supreme command.
Meanwhile, Sir Arthur Wellesley, in supreme command of the allied armies, had been actively engaged with the enemy from month to month, and had won several hard-fought battles.
General Cavaignac, the Minister of War, was placed in supreme command, the executive commission resigning its powers.
Prince Chrzanovsky, who had fought under Napoleon at Leipzig and Waterloo, and had subsequently commanded a Russian division at Varna, was put in supreme command, seconded by Alexander La Marmora.
Early in 1841, weary of the vacillation of the Chinese, the British Government sent out considerable reinforcements, and Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Gough was placed in supreme command.
He fretted at the action of the officers in supreme command.
And it raises to supreme command four-and-twenty distinct powers, each professing to be under a general government, and yet each setting its laws at defiance at pleasure.
Grant was now appointed to supreme command of all the armies of the Union.
Lincoln, having supported McClellan as long as he could, was now obliged to abandon his cause, and General Pope was appointed to supreme command of the campaign in Eastern Virginia.
Here Hindenburg, who was still in supreme commandof the Austro-German forces on the Eastern front, had no longer General Ruzsky opposing him, Ruzsky having handed over the Russian northern command to Alexieff owing to ill-health.
General Franchet d'Esperey, who had succeeded General Sarrail in supreme command of the Allied forces, launched an offensive which rapidly transformed the whole military situation.
That Crassus was invested with the supreme command in 682, follows from the setting aside of the consuls (Plutarch, Crass.
To solve the difficulty Shelby proposed that supreme command should be given to Col.
As he had a commission as brigadier-general, some of the British thought he was in supreme command at King's Mountain; in a recent magazine article Gen.
They were explicitly bidden by those in supreme command to push back the frontier, to expel the settlers from the country.
In supreme command of a motley army of fellow-knights, Franz made an energetic attack upon the rich landed estates of the Catholic prince-bishop of Trier.
Vice-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe had assumed supreme command of the British home fleet on August 4, with the rank of admiral.
And the generalissimo, in supreme command of all the armies that fought on the side of Christ, is Christ's man.
Illustration: Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the great strategist in supreme command of the allied forces on the Western front, who wrested the initiative from the Germans and sent them reeling back in 1918.
Vitus Behring, the Dane in the Russian service, was in supreme command of the expedition; and to him belongs the glory.
He was deeply hurt and humiliated by the insolent and supercilious treatment of naval officers who considered him of inferior position, notwithstanding the fact that he was in supreme command of all the Russian territory in America.
Despite the fact that Behring was placed by the emperor in supreme command of both expeditions, the Russians looked upon Chirikoff as the real hero.
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