field-marshals

The royal army was marshalled by four generals or field-marshals, each in command of three hundred thousand men.

Anabasis 2007

Each growing thing flourished in its set place according to rank, like soldiers in an army, from the humble privates beneath our feet to the lofty generals and field-marshals far overhead.

A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

Hitler's doubts about the invasion and his intention to postpone the critical decision were again evident at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery next day, when he presented the new field-marshals with their batons.

Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958

[Three field-marshals were also created in the Luftwaffe.]

Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958

At the same time he described at length the brilliant successes achieved by German arms in Norway and in France, and he distributed promotions to his victorious generals, nine of whom became field-marshals.

Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958

Gerfaut had at last made a place for himself among that baker's dozen of writers who call themselves, and justly, too, the field-marshals of French literature, of which Chateaubriand was then commander-in-chief.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Tolly, painted, as the field-marshals are in every case in this gallery of portraits, at full length.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

"Alexandre Jules Cæsar," colonel of the "brave battalion of the Marais," was evidently worth a dozen field-marshals in his own opinion; and his contempt for Vendôme, Marlborough, and

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

The platform at Berlin was overrun with officials of all sorts and descriptions, ranging from puny collectors to big burly fellows smothered with sufficient braid and decorations to pass as field-marshals.

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

_ I've twigg'd field-marshals, pickings snug and handsome,

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1