brevet
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I hereby grant you the rank of brevet colonel in the army of the level-headed, Pacific Command.
From Fox News ● Nov. 27, 2019
Rolling in after 407km, we got our brevet cards stamped and tucked into warming bowls of homemade daal.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2018
The use of brevet jurists was proposed last year by the American Board of Trial Advocates, an association of Western lawyers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cavalry drew fresh supplies from the hold of the Far West, galloped off under command of a dashing, handsome 37-year-old brevet major general who wore a flowing red tie and had distinguished himself at Gettysburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was thus the first officer who ever received brevet rank for services performed in the field at the head of a regiment.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
By the time the Big Parade was over, Hero York had been lionized, publicized, feted, decorated and breveted "the one-man army."
From Time Magazine Archive
He served in the Mexican War under Scott, and was breveted for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco and at Chapultepec.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
He was breveted first lieutenant at Molinos del Rey, and captain at Chapultepec, for gallantry in the field.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
He saw much active service, and was breveted a Major General July 26, 1865.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
Before that day had ended Roderick Hardinge was breveted a Major.
From The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 by John Lespérance
A dog hunting through a wood is always said to be "breveting."
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
After the war’s end, Otis was brevetted with the rank of lieutenant colonel by his commander Rutherford B. Hayes, who commended Otis for his “gallantry and meritorious services.”
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2016
Into the breach sped an army of energetic amateurs who were soon brevetted with official status.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the war was over the old veteran retired from the service with full military rank, and was brevetted an American citizen besides.
From Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 by Henrietta Christian Wright
The young captain was wounded yet again at Sharpsburgh, and was afterwards brevetted as Lieutenant-Colonel.
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by E. E. Brown
He took part in the Mexican War, and was brevetted Captain for gallant services.
From A History of the Republican Party by George Washington Platt
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