commissary-general

So I did, and some first-rate military intelligence we overheard, too - about the appointment of a commissary-general for the Omsk region, and whether the fellow who commanded Orianburg oughtn't to be retired.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Antonio de Ciudad Real, traveling during the years 1584 – 9 through Mexico with Fray Alonso Ponce, a Franciscan commissary-general, notes how one community was reduced to ruin by the epidemic:

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Unluckily, the widow of the commissary-general to the armies of the

Father Goriot 2003

Mme. Vauquer herself occupying the least important, while the rest were let to a Mme. Couture, the widow of a commissary-general in the service of the Republic.

Father Goriot 2003

One is a vellum scroll, of forty-three feet, in ornate calligraphy, detailing some of the cost of the American Revolution to the British, "The Original Accounts of Daniel Chamier," commissary-general to the British Army in North America, and kept between 1774 and 1778.

Come to the Fair Lane, Joseph 1973

Minister of War to the commissary-general, authorising him to draw as much money as he might require for his journey.

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General Strong had been a merchant, and he told me that he never professed to be a soldier, but had been urged on the Secretary of War for the commission of a brigadier-general, with the expectation of be coming quartermaster or commissary-general.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

There is also in some states a _commissary-general_, who has the care of the arsenals and magazines, and the articles deposited in them.

The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. Andrew W. Young

MY LORD: -- The Counsellor of State and intendant of the Imperial civil list, Daru, paid for the place of a commissary-general of our army in

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

It has also been stated that Sucy, the commissary-general, was seriously wounded while bravely defending

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various