subaltern

What better hap could a cavalry subaltern desire than such a fight under such conditions?

The subaltern flew up the narrow stairway that led to the room of the prisoner, and demanded the meaning of the outcry.

Where before he had been a subaltern not always even a wage-earner—now all in a moment he had been transformed into a high chief.

And hastily taking a paper from the hands of a subaltern, he returned to his place within the screen.

At his return to Dresden he carried a Musket, and afterwards pass'd through all the subaltern Degrees.