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Assistant commissioners will replace major-generals, and lieutenant-generals will become divisonal or provincial commissioners.
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The integration process has resulted in the appointments of two lieutenant-generals, a major-general, eight temporary major-generals, 17 brigadiers, four temporary brigadiers, 49 colonels, three temporary colonels, 121 lieutenant-colonels and one temporary lieutenant-colonel.
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The FBI say there are no high-ranking officers in the Pentagon -- by which I take it they mean admirals and Air Force generals or, at the outside, vice-admirals and lieutenant-generals -- with those initials. '
Santorini MacLean, Alistair 1986
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Marshal Davout was among the French wounded and no less than 14 lieutenant-generals and 33 major-generals were dead or wounded.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Marshal Davout was among the French wounded and no less than 14 lieutenant-generals and 33 major-generals were dead or wounded.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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His twelve assistants shall be called lieutenant-generals.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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General John Burgoyne, one of Howe's lieutenant-generals, arrived from
George Washington Calista McCabe Courtenay
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It is not thus that I conquer; before me three legions fell, and three lieutenant-generals.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Pardon them, then, O lieutenant-generals of the slavery forces, if they still think well of the spade that has dug their highway to power.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Palatine's court shall for that time or service appoint, shall be the immediate great officers under him, and the lieutenant-generals next to them.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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