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

Instead of settling down to the law after he left Harvard, 26-year-old Charles went dashing off to the Civil War, rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general.

From Time Magazine Archive

Corps in the operations before Richmond in 1862, earning the brevet of brigadier-general in the U.S.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 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

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

We’ll be colonels, breveted colonels, every last one of us–Colonel Driscoll, Colonel Grinders, Colonel Brothers and Sisters, Colonel––” “That’s easy,” said Driscoll smiling.

From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

Like Major Young he was breveted by the President for distinguished service and later was promoted to the full rank of Major, coming home in command of the battalion.

From The Utah Batteries: A History A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls. by Charles R. Mabey

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

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

In 1865 he was brevetted major-general in the regular army, and in 1866 he was retired.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

He also held an important and responsible command in the Richmond campaign, and was brevetted brigadier-general U.S.A. for gallant and meritorious services at Spotsylvania.

From The Battle of the Big Hole A History of General Gibbon's Engagement with Nez Percés Indians in the Big Hole Valley, Montana, August 9th, 1877. by G. O. Shields