| 单词 | lieutenant-general of the ordnance |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslieutenant-general of the ordnance 2. One who acts as deputy to a general. In the British army, an officer in rank next below a general, and next above a major-general. †Also lieutenant-general of the ordnance.In the U.S. army the office has been held by only a few distinguished individuals beginning with Washington, and is now in abeyance. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > general > types of sergeant-general1579 lieutenant-general1589 sergeant-major1594 colonel-generalc1595 major-general1633 general officer1647 under-general1698 1589 Summarie Drakes W. Indian Voy. 5 We descried another tall ship..vpon whom Maister Carleill, the Lieutenant Generall, being in the Tiger, vndertooke the chase. [C. ‘commanded the land forces against the Spanish West Indies’ (Dict. National Biogr.).] 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. viii. 180 Scipio Africanus..seruing voluntary vnder him [his brother] there, as lieutenant generall. a1671 T. Fairfax Short Mem. (1699) 84 Lieutenant General Cromwell commanded the left wing of the horse. 1691–2 in Wood's Life 23 Jan. Commissions are under the seale to make the duke of Ormond and Sir John Lanier lieutenant generalls. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 91 The Earl of Essex was made Lievetenant-General of the Army. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3822/4 Her Majesty has been pleased to constitute..the Rt. Hon. John Granville Esq.; Lieutenant-General..of the Ordnance. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 37 The lieutenant-generals of the Roman armies, the military counts and dukes..were allowed the rank and title of Respectable. 1798 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 159 I..congratulate them and the public on this great event, the General's [sc. Washington] acceptance of his appointment as Lieutenant-General and Commander-in-chief of the army. 1808 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IV. 73 I shall be the junior of the Lieutenant Generals; however I am ready to serve the government wherever and as they please. 1855 W. Sargent Braddock's Exped. 290 On 26th February, 1755, he was made..a lieutenant-general. 1878 J. A. Garfield in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 452 The office of lieutenant-general was virtually stripped of all authority. < as lemmas |
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