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

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 was soon promoted brigadier-general, and at the battle of Gaines’s Mill, where he was wounded, won the brevet of major-general for his gallant conduct.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 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

He was breveted first lieutenant at Molinos del Rey, and captain at Chapultepec, for gallantry in the field.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

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

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

He was breveted major-general of volunteers on the 29th of March 1865, and led the Federal advance in the final operations against General R.E.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" 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

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

The young captain was wounded yet again at Sharpsburgh, and was afterwards brevetted as Lieutenant-Colonel.

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by E. E. Brown

When the war was over the old veteran retired from the service with full military rank, and was brevetted an American citizen besides.

From Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 by Henrietta Christian Wright