lieutenant general
a commissioned officer ranking next below a general and next above a major general.
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Rick Wiles, an extremist antisemitic Florida pastor who runs a conspiracy theory outlet called TruNews, seized on Flynn’s prayer in a nearly hour-long TruNews broadcast last month blasting the retired lieutenant general.
Michael Flynn to QAnon Believers: I’m Not a Satanist! | Will Sommer | October 8, 2021 | The Daily BeastBy the time he disbanded his troops outside Selma in 1865, he had become the most promoted soldier, north or south, having risen from the rank of private to lieutenant general.
The Fight Over Monuments of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest Holds a Lesson About Whiteness in America | Connor Towne O’Neill | July 13, 2020 | Time“Stick to your knitting,” in the words of lieutenant general Leslie Groves, head of the Project.
lieutenant general Heinrich Kittel recounted these events to a fellow prisoner of war, Felbert, on Dec. 28, 1944.
‘Soldaten: Secret WWII Transcripts of German POWs’ by Soenke Neitzel & Harald Welzer | Sönke Neitzel, Harald Welzer | September 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTPetraeus was dating Holly Knowlton, the daughter of the West Point superintendent, lieutenant general William Knowlton.
Insurgencies, as lieutenant general Sir John Kiszely told me in 2007, are like staircases.
He rapidly rose through the various grades, until he finally held the chief command of the army as lieutenant-general.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. PikeIn 1800 Massna took his trusty subordinate with him to Italy as lieutenant-general of the centre of the army.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonWashington appointed lieutenant general of the armies of the United States.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellLieutenant-General Alison is the youngest by considerable; I think she is about nine and a half or three-quarters.
A Horse's Tale | Mark Twain"The lieutenant-general must have been fully aware of the plans of the Reformers, to have acted as he did," he said in conclusion.
Catherine de' Medici | Honore de Balzac
British Dictionary definitions for lieutenant general
an officer holding commissioned rank in certain armies, air forces, and marine corps immediately junior to a general
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