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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Literally ‘fighting general’; in the Boer army, an officer formerly nominated in time of war, by the government or Council of War, who as lieutenant of the generalissimo had charge of two or more commandos, and whose tenure of office began and ended with the hostilities.
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