brigadier
noun
a rank between colonel and major general.
brigadiership
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a word derived from
brigadier.
Example Sentences
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He won his brigadiership and the distinction of being the youngest general in Spain at the age of 34.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Governor elect—commonly called “Extra-Billy Smith”—has resigned his brigadiership.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
Clark to a brigadiership, and then my nephew will succeed to the colonelcy; which will be a sufficient rebuke to Gen. H., and a cataplasm for my nephew’s wounded honor.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
Congress first censured him for insubordination, and then voted him thanks, and promotion to a brigadiership for his victory over Baum.
From Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777 With an outline sketch of the American Invasion of Canada, 1775-76. by Samuel Adams Drake
He had attempted to betray his country; he received in exchange six thousand pounds sterling, together with a brigadiership in the British Army.
From The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution by James Francis Barrett
