Examples of using "Generaal" in a sentence and their english translations:
General of Division.
The general inspected the troops.
It was his artillery commander, General Marmont,
He reached the rank of general.
General Nivelle is sacked as French commander-in-chief, and replaced by General Pétain, hero of Verdun,
After a spell on the staff of General Hoche, he joined General Lefebvre’s crack vanguard
never quite made it into General Bonaparte’s inner circle.
closed the trap on General Mack’s forces at Ulm.
with the exalted rank of ‘Marshal General of France’.
Without his pants, the general looks less impressive.
He asked the general to recall his order.
that because Wellington defeated you he must be a great general.
a 27-year-old general, was among nearly 100,000 men
himself by helping to capture the British commander, General O’Hara.
Friedland, with command of First Corps passing to General Victor.
Promoted to general, Augereau served in the Eastern Pyrenees, where his flair
Napoleon heaped rewards on General Suchet – money, titles, but still no Marshal’s
helping to defeat the Russians, and winning promotion to the rank of general of division.
Two years later, Marmont was made inspector-general of artillery,
In 1799, following glowing reports from General Bernadotte, he finally accepted the rank of
General Custer didn't kill any Native American. It was his bullets that did it.
Their first battle together, against General Blake’s Spanish army, ended in a humiliating
When war broke out, Ney was made an officer, and became aide-de-camp to General Lamarche:
He also began a bitter, long-lasting feud with another rising star, General Michel Ney.
to general of division in a single year. Not even Napoleon rose through the ranks as quickly.
the current king was old and childless, and Bernadotte was a proven general and administrator,
to rival General Brune, while others were irritated by his loud and boastful manner.
He went on to serve as a highly effective chief-of-staff to General Brune, then to Masséna
He was then put in charge of three divisions to pursue General Suvarov through the Alps,
command and rapid promotion: in just two years he rose from captain to general,
In 1799, Mortier fought under General Masséna’s command at the Second Battle of Zurich,
Suchet was promoted to General of Division, and in 1800 he was given command of the Army
But when Napoleon, in exile on Saint-Helena, was asked to name his best general, he replied,
In 1800, Ney and his division played a major role in General Moreau’s great victory over
I tell you that he is a bad general, that the English are bad troops, and this will
His rewards included an honorary rank as Colonel-General in the Consular Guard, plus command of troops