commandant-general

Named commandant-general of the Paris National Guard on July 15, 1789, he needed something to identify his troops and so invented the tricolor cockade, placing a strip of Bourbon white between the colors of Paris, blue and red.

James Gaines: Lafayette: A Remembrance 2008

Minister Gálvez organized Nueva Vizcaya, Sinaloa, Sonora, the Californias, New Mexico, and Texas into the Provincias Internas, under the governorship of a commandant-general directly responsible to the crown.

1562-70 2001

He said AWB "commandant-general" Steyn van Ringe would take over as

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

This was according to a statement released on Monday by AWB commandant-general Servaas de Wet, following a weekend meeting in Natal attended by him, AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche and the

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

-- Upper California, on account of its small population, not being able to become a state of the great Mexican republic, takes the character of territory, the government of which is under the charge of a commandant-general, who exercises the charge of a superior political chief, whose attributes depend entirely upon the president of the republic and the general congress.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

The Assembly having, at the instance of the Commune of Paris, decreed that the royal family should be immured in the Temple, they were removed thither from the Feuillans on the 13th of August, 1792, in the charge of Potion, Mayor of Paris, and Santerre, the commandant-general.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Pedro de Nava, commandant-general of the north-eastern interior provinces, of which Texas formed a part, published a decree by which all the missions within his jurisdiction were secularized.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Don Pedro de Nava, commandant-general of Chihuahua, whose jurisdiction included part of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Two feluccas followed, in one of which was a marine guard of honor, with mourning banners and muffled drums; and in the other were the commandant-general, the principal minister of marine, and the military staff.

The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1892

On the following day, there was another grand convocation at the cathedral, when the vigils and masses for the dead were solemnly chanted by the archbishop, accompanied by the commandant-general of the armada, the Dominican and Franciscan friars, and the friars of the order of Mercy, together with the rest of the distinguished assemblage.

The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1892