Lieutenant general Charles Kayonga (born 1962) is the Chief of Defence Staff in Rwanda's Ministry of Defence.
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General Courtney Hicks Hodges (January 5, 1887 – January 16, 1966) was an American military officer, most prominent for his role in World War II, in which he commanded the First United States Army in Northwest Europe.
Don Forrester Pratt (July 12, 1892 - June 6, 1944) was a United States Army general in World War II.
In 1988, under the orders of Commandant General Alfred M. Gray, Jr., the references to Harry Fisher were redacted and Franklin J. Phillips replaced "Harry Fisher" in all official records.
Major General Jacques Nziza, also known as Jack Nziza is a military adviser to president Paul Kagame.
John Ernest Dahlquist (March 12, 1896 — July 30, 1975) was a United States Army general and World War II division commander.
General Kenneth McLennan (May 31, 1925 – September 20, 2005) was the Assistant Commandant of the United States Marine Corps from 1979 to 1981.
A morganatic descendant of Catherine the Great, he was orphaned at the time of the Russian Civil War after his father, General, also named Paul Roudakoff, was wounded in battle, and his mother died of typhus five days later.
Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Paul Wesley Airey (December 13, 1923 – March 11, 2009) was adviser to Secretary of the Air Force Richard Campbell and Air Force Chief of Staff General John P. McConnell.
He also served as commander, Multi-National Corps—Iraq under General George W. Casey, Jr..
That night, June 5, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, ordered the landings to begin on the morning of June 6.
When Dunham was presented with the Medal of Honor, General Alexander Patch said as he placed the award around Dunham's neck that his actions in single-handedly destroying the machine gun nests saved the lives of 120 U.S. soldiers who had been pinned down.
This unit was also known as the Second Division and was eventually subsumed into general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as a reserve in Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill's Division.
The Supreme Commander is a four-star general or flag officer that is the agency head of the Swedish Armed Forces, and is the highest ranking professional officer on active duty.
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In early April 1916, Major Frank Tompkins, who fought in the Battle of Columbus, persuaded the expedition commander, General John J. Pershing, to allow him to lead about 100 men of the 13th Cavalry on a raid deep into Mexican territory.
Several Battlefield streets, parks, and other landmarks are named for events and people related to the battle - such as Nathaniel Lyon Street, one of the town's main thoroughfares, named for Union General Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union general to die in the civil war.
Cyriaque Cyprien Victor Gillain (1857–1931) was Belgian general and one of the Commanding Officers of the Allied Armies in World War I.
During his last years in the military, he served some time under General George Meade as Inspector General of the Department of Georgia, which had been created by the military in 1865 as part of the Third Military District during the post-war Reconstruction period.
Gabriel de Mendizábal Iraeta "Primer Conde de Cuadro de Alba de Tormes" (14 May 1765, Vergara, Guipúzcoa) - 1 September 1838, Madrid) was a Spanish general officer who fought in the Peninsular War.
George Bibb Crittenden (March 20, 1812 – November 27, 1880) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Black Hawk War, the Army of the Republic of Texas, and the Mexican-American War, and was a general in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War.
Halleck was severely wounded by U.S. troops at a skirmish at Fort King (in present day Ocala) in April 1840 against Capt. Gabriel J. Rains (a future Civil War Confederate General).
Janusz Bojarski (born June 24, 1956) – General Officer of Polish Armed Forces, commander of Military Information Services since November 5, 2004 to December 6, 2004 and from December 14, 2005 to January 1, 2006.
general Joseph W. Brown was the brother of major general Jacob Brown, the founder of Brownville, New York.
During his command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, which he commanded from its inception to September 1862, he led his fleet off North Carolina, where in cooperation with troops under General Ambrose Burnside, he captured Roanoke Island and destroyed a small Confederate fleet.
Louis Marie Turreau (4 July 1756, Évreux, Eure – 10 December 1816, Conches), also known as Turreau de Garambouville or Turreau de Linières, was a French general officer of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Manuel Alberto Freire de Andrade y Armijo (4 November 1767 – 7 March 1835) was a Spanish cavalry officer and general officer during the Peninsular War, and later Defense Minister.
Nathan Bedford Forrest III (April 7, 1905 – June 13, 1943) was a brigadier general of the United States Army Air Forces, and a great-grandson of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest.
In the American Civil War, a General officer of the day was a general officer assigned the duties of responding to reports by the picket line, such as a flag of truce.
Paul-Jean-Baptiste Poret de Morvan (14 April 1777 – 17 February 1834), baron of the Empire, was a French officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, who rose to the rank of general.
In 1849, the village was part of the Kingdom of Hungary and it was a venue for the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas, including the Surrender at Világos: on 13 August 1849 the Hungarian army led by Artúr Görgey surrendered to the Russian general Rüdiger on the field below Șiria Castle, which brought an end to the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
Vladimir Boyarsky (1901–1945) was one of the generals leading the Russian Liberation Army.