Generalships

It did so in the late 1790s and early 1800s under the generalships of the legendary Toussaint L'Ouverture and Jacques Dessalines and it has seemed that ever since that day the country has been made to do a penance for such an insolence — with that independence being twisted into a rough abandonment, save for the plundering by nearby powers, Haiti unfortunately still needed to get by from day to day. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A delicate development had arisen since Polk had decided to offer the Missourian one of the new major generalships created by Congress. ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)

Pillow harbored visions of military glory, followed perhaps by political glory, and Polk had nurtured these visions when he gave Pillow one of the new major generalships. ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)

And the governor-generalships of Fukien Province — and Formosa — in return for an attack on the shipping in Hong Kong harbor. ❋ Clavell, James (1966)

Button had but just got his promotion to regimental command, and friends at court were working hard for his further advancement to the grade of brigadier-general -- a fact that hurt him in an army so benighted as then was ours, in believing that generalships should be bestowed only upon the seniors and service-tried among the colonels. ❋ Charles King (1888)

He could support the prime minister and merit all manner of legal generalships without any self-unbinding. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

As to the major-generalships in the regular army, I think I shall not dispose of another, at least until the combined operations now in progress, under direction of General Grant, and within which yourself and command are included, shall be terminated. ❋ Abraham Lincoln (1837)

The Praetors helped the Consuls with administrative magistracy tasks around Rome but in times of emergency also took military generalships. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Corsica).] [Footnote 4252: De Ségur, I. 87.] [Footnote 4253: The assemblies of Berry and Haute-Guyenne began in 1778 and 1779; those of other generalships in 1787. ❋ Hippolyte Taine (1860)