She was commissioned as a brevet colonel and received a military burial. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
In order to advance to lycée or high school, students are required to take a week-long exam called the brevet at the end of Grade 9. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Nomad] Reference
He laughed to himself as he mused: "You know, my dear, I had to let 'brevet' and 'fret' and. From Wordnik.com. [A Certain Rich Man] Reference
It would suffice for them to nonconfirm the brevet of general. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Morgan, have the brevet commission of major; and that Baron de. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
His favorite pig is (by brevet) "Lord Suffolk" -- of the slough. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Vol. IV] Reference
After the conclusion of the campaign, which saw him a brevet-major. From Wordnik.com. [John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub] Reference
Abyssinian Expedition were published, my name appeared for a brevet. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
President to confer the brevet rank of Lieutenant-General on General. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
I prize it more than any commission or brevet commission that I have. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
Colonel, and ended the war in command of a brigade, with the brevet of. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
River expedition and for his services then received the brevet rank of. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
Johnston, colonel and brigadier-general by brevet, and on duty as such. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
It appears to have been, as it were, brevet-rank only; it was not hereditary. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
Napoleon conferred a brevet rank, which the recipient accepted of his free will. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This, however, was probably a brevet rank conferred by the pressman on Cornet Heald. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
He had served in the Civil War, having retired at its close with the brevet of Major. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
Phillips is not a real general -- only so by brevet, for gallant service during the war. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
A few hours after, a General who had seen him in the battle, sent him the brevet of Major. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
He was assigned to duty, however, by the President, with the rank which his brevet gave him. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Subsequently, a brigadier by brevet, he commanded the expedition against the Mormons in Utah. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Raymond Godefroy obtient en 1938 son brevet d'ajusteur mécanicien à l'Ecole pratique de Cherbourg. From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
He remained a captain, although his long standing in the army had brought him in for the last brevet. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
A brevet captaincy to the other two, as it will have no operation in regimental rank, may not be amiss. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
"In the stable, dead lame, general," said Jeff, with face of woe, but with diplomatic use of the brevet. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
General Taylor was himself only a colonel, in real rank, at that time, and a brigadier-general by brevet. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Fabius was an apothecary, and received brevet rank -- I suppose from being the only medical practitioner about. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
His Majesty, moreover, displayed exceptional favour, and conferred upon Mr. Cheng the brevet rank of second class. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
In 1896 he was appointed second in command of his regiment, and received a brevet lieutenant-colonelcy in May 1898. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Great embarrassment has resulted from the effect upon rank in the Army heretofore given to brevet and staff commissions. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
They seem to take brevet rank, from the first, as men and women, and are quite inaccessible to nursery humbug of any kind. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
I have telegraphed to John Sherman to oppose the nomination which the papers announce has been made of me for brevet general. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
That the brevet of captain be given to Mr. Archer, the bearer of the general's letter, and volunteer aid to Brigadier-General. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
General Saxton to a brevet major-general, with enlarged powers; and, report says, put General Howard in place of General Foster. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
That successful charge of the brave old soldier raised him to the brevet rank of Major General, and sealed the fate of the city. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
A captain's brevet, or commission in the army at large, will be equal to his wishes; and he deserves encouragement on every account. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
War, and received the young explorer with all honor and friendship, and obtained for him the brevet of captain from President Tyler. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
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