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  • Captain-general of the hither side of the Seine, in December, 1433, he took Ham and Breteuil from the Burgundians and defeated the Earl of Arundel at Gerberoy 1435.

    Archive 2008-03-02 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Captain-general of the hither side of the Seine, in December, 1433, he took Ham and Breteuil from the Burgundians and defeated the Earl of Arundel at Gerberoy 1435.

    Étienne de Vignolles, Companion of the Maid de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • The people of the late Captain-general, however inclined to oppose, will be obliged to concur.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Under Mem de Sa the state had been so prosperous, that though he had been Captain-general far beyond the term of his original appointment,

    Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham

  • Hayti, and was Captain-general in 1791; Rigaud, Lambert and Christophe wrote their names -- not in the sand.

    The Colored Regulars in the United States Army T. G. Steward

  • Captain-general, and that a _corps de réserve_ should be stationed in the rear, to enforce this obedience, and prevent the combatants from taking to flight.

    A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

  • Alas, the saints are yet but as an army routed, and are apt sometimes through fear, and sometimes through forgetfulness, to mistake the word of their Captain-general the Son of God, and are also too, too prone to shoot and kill even their very right-hand man.

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • There had been for years a colored militia in Saint Domingo, and as early as 1716, the Marquis de Chateau Morant, then governor of the colony, made one Vincent the Captain-general of all the colored militia in the vicinity of the Cape.

    The Colored Regulars in the United States Army T. G. Steward

  • Captain-general of Northern Spain at Burgos and San Sebastian, was in conference with the king.

    Paris War Days Diary of an American Charles Inman Barnard

  • Besides Spengler, there were "Christopher Kress, a soldier, a traveller, and a town councillor;" and Caspar Nützel, of one of the oldest families, and Captain-general of the town bands.

    Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

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