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field marshal

noun as in highest-ranking army officer

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They include signed photographs of Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery, as well as paintings and a red leather despatch box.

Rather than serving with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, he had fought against him with the British army.

Suffice it to say she went off and married a soldier who later rose to the rank of field marshal.

But General (later Field Marshal) Ayub Khan took power in 1958 without major violence in the streets preceding the coup.

“A couple of months ago people would never have expected that Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi would be deposed,” he said.

He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.

A field-marshal has his uniform, a bishop his silk apron, a counsellor his silk gown, a beadle his cocked hat.

This proof of confidence—the object of much secret envy—is, to women, a field-marshal's baton.

Impossible to be so disrespectful to the Field Marshal or so inconsiderate to their department as to reject the soft impeachment.

The Field Marshal was, I believe, sitting on a low hill having breakfast with his staff when the keys were delivered up to him.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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