Commanders

Examples

• Sure enough, as indicated by the change of commanders, the enemy was about to assume the offensive. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The troops engaged in them will have to look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Is it any wonder that its captains and commanders and officials, nay, even its clerks and common soldiers, came back to England loaded with spoils? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Orders were given to all the commanders engaged at Shiloh to send in their reports without delay to department headquarters. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Through this opening no doubt the Confederate commanders had been able to get messengers under cover of night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• One of Birney's most gallant brigade commanders--Alexander Hays--was killed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His command was subdivided into four departments, but the commanders all reported to Sherman and were subject to his orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He had seen enough of commanders to whom all orders were impossible. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Of this mighty Order I am no mean member, but already one of the Chief Commanders, and may well aspire one day to hold the batoon of Grand Master. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They had gained the middle of it, when excitement became obvious in the clerical commanders. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I also notified the other commanders throughout the country, who also fired salutes in honor of his victory. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In time of war the President, being by the Constitution Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy, is responsible for the selection of commanders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• During the whole of Sunday I was continuously engaged in passing from one part of the field to another, giving directions to division commanders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• One thing, however, should be impressed on corps commanders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Wood, one of the division commanders who was to make the charge, standing talking to him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In fact, Potter and Willcox were the only division commanders Burnside had who were equal to the occasion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sherman had on this campaign some bright, wide-awake division and brigade commanders whose alertness added a host to the efficiency of his command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The corps commanders, however, reported that it was so dark that the men could not see to move, and it would be impossible to make the assault then. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His own report, and those of his subordinate commanders, accompanying it, give the details of that most successful campaign. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Their commanders, not supposing the fort had fallen, worked their way through all our fleet and got into the river unobserved. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Even the commanders of these parties were cautioned, not to bring on an engagement. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He went off in a swift galley after her without informing his commanders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All commanders were cautioned against bringing on an engagement and informed in so many words that it would be better to retreat than to fight. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In this assault on Fort Fisher, Bell, one of the brigade commanders, was killed, and two, Curtis and Pennypacker, were badly wounded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• All the corps commanders set their time by mine so that all might open the engagement at the same minute. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• About four in the afternoon I sent for the corps commanders and directed the dispositions to be made of their troops. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Too much credit cannot be given to the troops and their commanders for the energy and fortitude displayed during the last five days. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Are not the chief elements of temperance, speaking generally, obedience to commanders and self-control in sensual pleasures? Plato. The Republic.
• The officers with them, except the division commanders and possibly two or three of the brigade commanders, were equally inexperienced in war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The two commanders arranged their signals so that they could communicate with each other from time to time as they might have occasion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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