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
In his own absence from Washington, Johnson has increasingly relied on the Defense Secretary to act as unofficial brevet deputy President.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was assigned to the Fourth United States Infantry as brevet lieutenant, and found my company with seven others of the regiment at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, in the autumn of 1842.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
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 was subsequently breveted Brigadier General for meritorious services.
From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Maurice Joblin
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
Strangely enough, though death has been busy with the officers of the last war, all who were breveted for their services on that occasion, with one or two exceptions, are now alive.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
He re-entered the army as a captain of mounted rifles in the Mexican War, served with distinction, and was breveted major for bravery at Contreras and Churubusco.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
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
Captain Truman Seymour, twice brevetted for gallantry at Cerro Gordo and Chernbusco, was an excellent artillery officer, full of invention and resource, a lover of poetry, and an adept at music and painting.
From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Abner Doubleday
He was brevetted Major for distinguishedvii services; but in after life never permitted the title to be used in addressing him.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce
He was prominent in all the operations thence to Cerro Gordo, where, in April, 1847, he was brevetted major.
From America First Patriotic Readings by Jasper Leonidas McBrien
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