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
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
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
He received the rank of brevet Brigadier-General in 1822.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 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
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 McConnell, James R. (James Rogers)
The permanent junior clerk was, as it were, breveted with the rank of the real clerks in the inner office; and so was hope dangled over the heads of eight of us.
From In Accordance with the Evidence by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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 Conrad, Joseph
He participated with distinction in several engagements, and for these services was breveted Brigadier General.
From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Joblin, Maurice
A dog hunting through a wood is always said to be "breveting."
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
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
Was severely wounded at the battle of Gettysburg while commanding the Second Corps, and brevetted colonel U.S.A. for gallant and meritorious service in that action.
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 Shields, G. O.
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 Shields, G. O.
He was a brave soldier and was twice brevetted for gallantry and meritorious conduct on the battlefields of the Mexican War.
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian
