brevet

I hereby grant you the rank of brevet colonel in the army of the level-headed, Pacific Command.

From Fox News ● Nov. 27, 2019

Rolling in after 407km, we got our brevet cards stamped and tucked into warming bowls of homemade daal.

From The Guardian ● May 31, 2018

The use of brevet jurists was proposed last year by the American Board of Trial Advocates, an association of Western lawyers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead of settling down to the law after he left Harvard, 26-year-old Charles went dashing off to the Civil War, rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally," said Taddeo, "I saw the disgraceful brevet you received from the police.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

By the time the Big Parade was over, Hero York had been lionized, publicized, feted, decorated and breveted "the one-man army."

From Time Magazine Archive

He was wounded at Niagara, and again dangerously at Erie; was breveted a major-general, July 25, 1814; resigned in 1820, and settled in Louisiana, which he represented in Congress, 1835-1839.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

Congress gave him a vote of thanks and a gold medal for Chippewa and Niagara, and he was breveted a major-general, September 14, 1814.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

He was breveted first lieutenant for gallantry at Molino del Rey and captain for gallantry at Chapultepec.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, Eleventh Ohio Volunteers, and was breveted major for meritorious services.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom

A dog hunting through a wood is always said to be "breveting."

From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs

After the war’s end, Otis was brevetted with the rank of lieutenant colonel by his commander Rutherford B. Hayes, who commended Otis for his “gallantry and meritorious services.”

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2016

Into the breach sped an army of energetic amateurs who were soon brevetted with official status.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been twice brevetted for gallantry—once for services against the Seminole Indians in Florida, and once for the battle of Molino del Rey in Mexico, where he was badly wounded.

From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Abner Doubleday

He also held an important and responsible command in the Richmond campaign, and was brevetted brigadier-general U.S.A. for gallant and meritorious services at Spotsylvania.

From The Battle of the Big Hole A History of General Gibbon's Engagement with Nez Percés Indians in the Big Hole Valley, Montana, August 9th, 1877. by G. O. Shields

He lived to see a grandson brevetted with the same title for gallantry in the field.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various