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
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
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
In 1800, when only twenty-eight, he was made a brevet colonel, and in 1801 he served with distinction in Sir Ralph Abercromby’s expedition to Egypt, and was wounded at the battle of Alexandria.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 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
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
His services in the Philippines were of such a distinguished character that he was breveted Major by the President and later promoted to the complete rank.
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 was breveted captain for his gallantry at Cherubusco, and at the end of the war received the rank of full captain, and was ordered with his regiment to California.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
He saw much active service, and was breveted a Major General July 26, 1865.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
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
At the close of the war he was brevetted a Major General of Volunteers.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
He was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant and distinguished service at Dinwiddie Court House, March 31, 1865.
From Civil War Experiences under Bayard, Gregg, Kilpatrick, Custer, Raulston, and Newberry, 1862, 1863, 1864 by Henry C. (Henry Coddington) Meyer
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
