Police Magistrate at Rockhampton; took command of the settlement at Cape York, Somerset.
Took command of a search expedition for Leichhardt, organised by the ladies of Victoria, but when in the Gulf of Carpentaria died of malarial fever.
Mr. Jardine, Police Magistrate at Rockhampton, took command, and a detachment of marines was stationed there.
Brune, a French general, took command of the combined French and Dutch forces, and failing in an attempt on the British position, established his quarters before Alkmaar.
At this crisis Clinton came over from Boston, took command of two battalions, a body of marines, and the 47th, and did good service in helping to rally the troops.
Mack, the Austrian strategist, took command of the army, and by Nelson's advice Ferdinand declared war on France.
Then a Russian army joined the Austrians, and Suvorov, the captor of Ismail, took command of the allied forces.
After this Bayan, Kublai's best lieutenant, a man of high military genius and noble character, took command.
Accordingly, when we got settled down at our new post, he took command of the regiment at a battalion drill.
Soon after I took command at Cairo, General Fremont entered into arrangements for the exchange of the prisoners captured at Camp Jackson in the month of May.
This was in my mind from the moment I took command in person at Young's Point.
General Ord had joined Hurlbut on the 4th, and, being senior, took command of his troops.
Hill took command of the Twenty-fourth and Lieutenant-Colonel Napier, Georgia battalion, took command of Gist's brigade.
In moving to the right Colonel Hunt was informed that all his seniors had been killed or wounded and he took command of the brigade.
Anticipating this, on the 13th, General Lee ordered Longstreet, with twelve brigades and their artillery, to move by railroad to Gordonsville, and on the 15th took command in person on the Rapidan.
After I took command on the plains and issued positive orders for detachments to stay by their posts and never leave them, not a single detachment that I remember of was captured in its block-house or stockade.
When I took command at St. Louis I found the prisons full of Confederate prisoners.
Washington, whose advice had been laughed at, took command of the Virginians and covered the headlong rout of the British regulars, who threw away their rifles and ran blindly into the woods.
But his heart may well have sunk when he took command, for no worse scene of confusion and inefficiency can be imagined than that of the American army when it was first mustered together.
I took commandof the troops employed on this occasion on the 18th.
Lieutenant Morris of the Argus, took command of No.
When the senior officers of two companies had become casualties in the firing line he took command, and, by his fine example, kept his men together under intense fire.
He took command of his company when the other officers had become casualties, and showed great pluck when driving off a counter-attack.
He took command of the two leading battalions when the situation was critical, and displayed the greatest determination under shell and machine-gun fire.
When the regiment was about leaving, however, he took command, Colonel Tyler having gone to Virginia in advance of the starting of the regiment.
The noble Crane was disabled; and the brave Molyneaux, for the moment, took command.
He went with his company to Charleston, where, in the absence of Lieutenant Weed, he took command.
There was another shift and "Fighting Joe Hooker" took command of the Army of the Potomac.
In the year 1864, General Sheridan, the great cavalry leader, took command of the Army of the Shenandoah.
As soon as hetook command of the Army of the Shenandoah, aggressive fighting at once began.
In a few days, as we have read in Chapter XII, he took command of the patriot army at Cambridge.
Washington, when he took command of the army soon after the battle of Bunker Hill, said that he abhorred the idea of our separating from the mother country, and becoming an independent nation.
Perry sprang on board of the Niagara, took command, sailed his vessels into the enemy's line, and thundered a series of broadsides right and left into five of their best ships.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "took command" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
