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3 unusual facts about General of the Army


Military attachés and observers in the Russo-Japanese War

Also amongst the Western attachés observing the conflict were the future Lord Nicholson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; John J. Pershing, later General of the Armies and head of the American Expeditionary Force in the First World War; Douglas MacArthur, later a United States General of the Army; and Enrico Caviglia, later Marshal of Italy.

Sardar

The later Maratha Empire under Peshwa administration (1749-1818) used the title Sardar to denote a Field Marshal or General of the Army.

As a military rank, a Sardar typically marked the Commander-in-Chief or the highest-ranking military officer in an Army, akin to the modern Field Marshal, General of the Army or Chief of Army.


2013 Moscow Victory Day Parade

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, delivered his second holiday address, and it was the first parade for both the Minister of Defense General of the Army Sergey Shoigu (parade inspector) and Russian Ground Forces commander Col. Gen. Vladimir Chirkin (parade commander), replacing Valery Gerasimov who has been promoted to Chief of the General Staff.

Dragoljub Ojdanić

In February 2000 after the death of defence minister Pavle Bulatović, he was made Defence minister of Yugoslavia and promoted to General of the Army.

Earl T. Ricks

At the end of the Pacific campaign, Ricks piloted the Japanese delegation from Ie Shima to Manila to receive surrender terms from General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.

Gerardo Clemente Vega

Gerardo Clemente R. Vega García (b. March 28, 1940 in Puebla, Puebla) is a Mexican General who served from 2000 to 2006 as Minister of Defense.

Tybee Island, Georgia

Fort Screven is most notable for one of its former commanding officers, General of the Army George C. Marshall, later the architect of the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Western Europe after World War II.

Ulysses S. Grant IV

Ulysses S. Grant IV (May 23, 1893 – March 11, 1977), was the son of Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. and the grandson of General of the Army and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant.


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Battle of Torroella

The viceroy of Catalonia, don Juan Manuel Lopez Pacheco Acuña Giron y Portocarrero, marquis of Villena duke of Escalona, who was also the Captain General of the army, had deployed along the banks of the river Ter practically all the marching troops he could muster to oppose the strong French expeditionary corps, led by the French Marshal duke of Noailles, who wanted to capture Gerona.

FX-05 Xiuhcoatl

The FX-05 "Xiuhcoatl" (FX-05 "Fire Snake", literally "Turquoise-Serpent" in Classical Nahuatl) is a Mexican assault rifle, designed and built by the Dirección General de Industria Militar del Ejército (Directorate General of the Army Military Industry).

Gareev

Makhmut Gareev, Russian General of the Army, a historian, and a military scientist

Hooks Independent School District

Dave Richard Palmer- General of the Army, OFFICER…EDUCATOR…AUTHOR Lieutenant General Dave Palmer (RET), Hooks High School graduate of 1952, has been selected as the first Hooks Distinguished Alumnus.

Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star

After receiving documents and blueprints comprising years of British jet aircraft research, the commanding General of the Army Air Forces, Henry H. Arnold, believed an airframe could be developed to accept the British-made jet engine, and the Materiel Command's Wright Field research and development division tasked Lockheed to design the aircraft.

Martinet

This sense of the word reputedly comes from the name of Jean Martinet, Inspector General of the army of Louis XIV and thus would be etymologically only by accident related to the earlier sense.

Maslennikov

Ivan Maslennikov (1900–1954), General of the Army, Soviet military and NKVD commander during World War II

Oleg Syromolotov

Syromolotov was Colonel-General of the Army until early 2007, when he was promoted to General alongside future FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov.

Raghuji Karande

Raghuji Karande ( Marathi : रघुजी कारंडे ) was the general of the army of the Nagpur kingdom of Bhosale's i.e. of Raghoji I Bhonsle and Janoji Bhonsle.

Wiesbaden High School

In 1949–50, the school was named General H.H. Arnold High School after Henry H. Arnold General of the Army and General of the Air Force during and immediately after World War II.

Winchester Model 1897

The Judge Advocate General of the Army, Secretary of State Robert Lansing carefully considered and reviewed the applicable law and promptly rejected the German protest.