"The Chinese are operating on a maritime strategy of extending their reach out into the Pacific Ocean," said Peter Abigail, a retired major-general in the Australian army and former commander-in-chief of all of its operational land forces. ❋ Rachel Pannett (2011)
So unfortunately we cannot absolutely assert that the civilian title of governor-general is entirely unrelated to that of major-general, and in this sense the last Governor-General, His Excellency Major-General Michael Jeffery, A.C., ❋ Unknown (2009)
Since one of them was a deaf peer, and t'other a Welsh major-general, I didn't put much stock in this. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"The specific objective is to make the Afghan government a more viable option for people to turn to," says Mr. Ruggiero, whose rank is equal to an army major-general. ❋ Yaroslav Trofimov (2010)
Powell stepped back, and the door swung soundlessly open they'd taken good care of the hinges, no question of that to reveal that the soldier had been joined by an officer, by his uniform a major-general in the South African Air Force. ❋ Johnny Pez (2010)
It was at this time that I received my appointment as a major-general of Volunteers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The major-general commanding thinks that you had better draw in your cavalry, so as to secure the protection of the trains. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A Tuesday World News article incorrectly referred to him as a major-general. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Lieutenant George Crook -- now major-general -- was the quartermaster and commissary of subsistence of the expedition. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He may endeavor to form a junction with this army; you will communicate with him if practicable, and have delivered to him verbally the contents of the following copy of a communication from Lieutenant-General Grant to the major-general commanding this army. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"The specific objective is to make the Afghan government a more viable option for people to turn to," says Mr. Ruggiero, who holds a rank equal to an army major-general. ❋ Yaroslav Trofimov (2010)
By the end of the war, Friedrich had been promoted from colonel to the rank of major-general, while Bauer became a lieutenant-colonel. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Yair Naveh, an Israeli major-general in the reserves, said on Thursday at a briefing for diplomats and journalists in Jerusalem that while the bombing of the weapons convoy in Sudan would not be so complicated from a military perspective, it would be diplomatically complicated. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Among the survivors, Roza Papo became the first female major-general in the Yugoslav Army after the war; several other Jewish women Partisans also continued to serve as army physicians as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The commissioner of prison services, retired major-general Paradzai ❋ Unknown (2008)
Gorbachev recently demoted a KGB major-general who complained in public about politics. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"John is such a [douche bag]."
"I totally agree, last weekend he passed out on my couch after [pissing] himself."
"Wow, he must be [the douche] bag major general to pull that shit." ❋ Junksniffer45 (2013)
A Modern Major General:
I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About [binomial] theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
[I'm very good] at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir [Caradoc's];
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted [Raphaels] from Gerard [Dows] and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of [Aristophanes]!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard [the music's] din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense [Pinafore].
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic [cuneiform],
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "[ravelin]",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery--
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy,
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and [adventury],
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General. ❋ A Modern MAjor General (2008)
