brevet

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

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

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

The "major" came afterwards "by brevet," and Vinton had settled down into contentedly following the old life, though in a less exciting time and exalted capacity.

From Kitty's Conquest by Charles King

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

What with the pilots already breveted, and the élèves, or pupils in the training-schools, there were quite enough of our compatriots to man the dozen airplanes in one escadrille.

From Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun by James R. (James Rogers) McConnell

Ten years after the battle of Niagara, Major Worth was breveted a lieutenant colonel, and when in 1832 the ordnance corps was established, he became one of its majors.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

Gen. Marshall won for himself an enviable record as a soldier, and was breveted brigadier general for meritorious services.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom

I am not a sentimentalist; therefore it is not a great consolation to me to see all these people breveted as “Heroes” by the penny and halfpenny Press. 

From Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad

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

In 1848, he was brevetted as Major-General for "meritorious conduct, particularly in the performance of his duties in the prosecution of the war with Mexico."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

Winning promotion by his fine conduct, he became captain, July 25, 1864, and was brevetted major, on the recommendation of General Sheridan, for conspicuous bravery at Cedar Creek and Fisher's Hill.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris

In the Mexican War he was brevetted major for gallantry at Cerro Gordo and lieutenant colonel for Chapultepec, where he was severely wounded.

From Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper No. 47 [Smithsonian Institution] by Margaret Brown Klapthor