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  • a brevet promotion in 1856, to the rank of lieutenant general, becoming ... appointed major general (then the highest rank in the United States Army ...
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  • Benedict. The duke would later be raised to the rank of cardinal and procure Jommelli an appointment at the Vatican. During the 1740s Jommelli wrote operas ...
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  • example, by the use of caps to distinguish rank. Suiko, together with Soga ... the adoption of the Twelve Level Cap and Rank System of court etiquette ...
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  • awards were to be awarded without distinction to rank. The ribbon for ... 2nd Class were awarded without regard to rank. One had to already possess ...
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  • after New Orleans by creating for him the rank of rear admiral on July 16 ... * 1841, attained the rank of commander. * Mexican War, commanded the ...
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  • e. one of the nine concubines of the fifth rank. Emperor Taizong gave her ... of the nine concubines of the second rank. Wu Zetian soon had the concubine ...
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  • and on November 6, 1959 he received the rank of Senior Lieutenant. ... While in orbit Gagarin was promoted "in the field" from ...
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  • to Canada the following year with the rank of colonel, but with few supplies ... and, on reentering the army, was given the rank of maréchal de camp. ...
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  • to be a great tactician, and soon rose from the rank of sergeant-major to that of brevet brigadier general of volunteers. The rank was awarded to him ...
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  • of Deacon. The bishop occupies the highest rank and is said to have the & ... them the apostolic authority and priority of rank. As the highest in ...
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  • style reforms and formalized the golpum or bone rank system. In 527, Silla formally adopted Buddhism as a state religion. The establishment of Hwarang ...
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  • |rank= Lieutenant General |unit= |commands= |battles= American Civil ... the American Civil War he achieved the rank of Lt. General, something ...
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  • sixth generation were to be deprived of the rank of prince and instead be given ... with Kiyomori's attainment of the rank of Daijō-daijin and with ...
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  • his class of 46 in 1854, and attained the rank of cavalry sergeant, the highest ... He was promoted to the rank of captain on April 22, 1861, but resigned ...
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  • |rank= Lieutenant General |commands= |unit= |battles= Mexican-American ... Hill was affectionate with the rank-and-file soldiers and one officer ...
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  • . He became chief of staff, and took on the rank of Major-General. 1943, he was once again promoted to the rank of Major-General. Soon afterwards ...
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  • Day on November 2, and is a festival of the first rank with a vigil and an octave. The Eastern Orthodox Church's All Saints is the first Sunday ...
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  • densities. In marine sediments, they rank third in abundance and in freshwater ecosystems (as part of periphyton, benthos, and plankton), they ...
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  • too much skill, because those of higher rank, in a degrading and humiliating ... skill. This was because those of higher rank, in a degrading and humiliating ...
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  • in Chief in 1951, and was the youngest full-rank general and self-appointed ... Major (the senior most non-commissioned rank) in Hodson's Horse, a ...
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