brevet
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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
In his own absence from Washington, Johnson has increasingly relied on the Defense Secretary to act as unofficial brevet deputy President.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cavalry drew fresh supplies from the hold of the Far West, galloped off under command of a dashing, handsome 37-year-old brevet major general who wore a flowing red tie and had distinguished himself at Gettysburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was thus the first officer who ever received brevet rank for services performed in the field at the head of a regiment.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 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 subsequently breveted Brigadier General for meritorious services.
From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Joblin, Maurice
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 Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand
A drummer-boy at fourteen in the War of the Rebellion, a private at sixteen and eighteen, he had subsequently been breveted for conspicuous military service.
From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore
He was breveted major-general of volunteers on the 29th of March 1865, and led the Federal advance in the final operations against General R.E.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
A dog hunting through a wood is always said to be "breveting."
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
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
Yes; he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for his gallantry, and some twenty years later Congress voted him a gold medal in acknowledgment of it.
From Elsie on the Hudson by Finley, Martha
He was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1814, for "gallant conduct in the defense of Fort Erie."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
In 1865 he was brevetted major-general of volunteers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
