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

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

He served throughout the Crimean campaign as aide-de-camp to Sir Richard Dacres, commanding the artillery, taking part in all the operations with distinction, and becoming successively major and lieutenant-colonel by brevet.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 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

In 1864 he was ordered to the district of Northern Missouri as chief commissary, remained two years and was breveted major.

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

A drummer-boy at fourteen in the War of the Rebellion, a private at sixteen and eighteen, he had subsequently been breveted for conspicuous military service.

From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser

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

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

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

Was brevetted lieutenant-colonel U.S.A. for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Fredericksburg.

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

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 Marian Gouverneur