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brigadier general

NOUN
  1. a general officer ranking below a major general

How To Use brigadier general In A Sentence

  • The Defense Department announced on Friday that the President has formally nominated three colonels for promotion to Brigadier General.
  • He rendered valuable service to his country, and had he lived, would probably have been recommended by me before this time for a brigadier generalcy.
  • They were put up for brigadier generalcies and he was rewarded with governorship of Sonora.
  • Brigadier General Edward Johnson held the crest of the Allegheny Mountains with a small contingent and had beaten off one attack with so much success that he had received the nom de guerre "Allegheny" Johnson. LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
  • An officer of the 3rd Cavalry, Bourke was Brigadier General George Crook's aide-de-camp for 14 years, serving in every major campaign in Arizona and the Northern Plains.
  • He saw a lot of action in his rise to a brigadier generalcy during World War I, but perhaps the toughest fight of his career occurred when he was a second lieutenant and was a sparing partner for James ‘Gentleman Jim’ Corbett, who was preparing for his famous heavyweight title match with John L. Sullivan in 1892.
  • Promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier general, his division was prominent in the last stages of the war.
  • And they hit it off right away, as much as a four-star general and a brigadier general hit it off.
  • By 1921, Conner was a 47-year-old brigadier general preparing for his first command of an infantry brigade.
  • The brigadier general, a polite little man who has lectured at the staff college for twenty years and who knows the last word in the science of warfare, especially of artillery, called the howitzer battery by telephone. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
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