brevet
Example Sentences
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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
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 received the rank of brevet Brigadier-General in 1822.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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