Examples of using "General" in a sentence and their english translations:
division.
General of Division.
General Charles de Gaulle.
General Braddock was killed.
Sir, yes, sir!
of Silesia.
He was advanced to the rank of general.
The general inspected the troops.
The soldiers follow the leader.
aggressive leadership won praise from General Masséna, then, at Dego, from General Bonaparte
It was his artillery commander, General Marmont,
General is a higher rank than colonel.
A general is a high-ranking military officer.
The general gave the order to retreat.
People blamed General Grant.
are typing in BMW than General Motors,
General Montcalm attacked several British forts in 1757.
Victor served under General Bonaparte in Italy,
"Peace is evitable", said the old general.
General John Pope made a terrible mistake.
and handed over command to General Saint-Cyr.
a 27-year-old general, was among nearly 100,000 men
Without his pants, the general looks less impressive.
General Montcalm attacked several British forts in 1757.
He was a much better general than politician.
If Google wants to rank BMW and General Motors,
you can type in BMW and General Motors or GM,
In 1798, Desaix introduced Davout to his friend General Bonaparte.
poor general. He always waged war without maps.”
never quite made it into General Bonaparte’s inner circle.
and served as aide-de-camp to General Dumouriez, commanding the Army of the North.
bond with one of France’s most successful commanders of this period, General Moreau.
In 1804, Macdonald’s former commander General Moreau was arrested and charged with involvement
commander, General Schérer resigned, over lack of support from the government in Paris,
A young general, Napoleon Bonaparte, had been put in charge of the defence of the
A soldier who doesn't dream of becoming a general is a bad one.
My pain equals yours. I lost the most distinguished general in my army,
General Dumouriez, defecting to the Austrians – though he was not successful.
himself by helping to capture the British commander, General O’Hara.
He went on to serve as a highly effective chief-of-staff to General Brune, then to Masséna
closed the trap on General Mack’s forces at Ulm.
that because Wellington defeated you he must be a great general.
But Macdonald’s own conduct won approval from General Bonaparte, among others.
winning particular praise from General Desaix, who became a close friend.
and had to be exchanged for a captured Prussian officer… General von Blücher.
Friedland, with command of First Corps passing to General Victor.
A soldier who doesn't dream of becoming a general is a bad one.
was able to win a brilliant victory, thanks to crucial support from General Victor.
In 1799, following glowing reports from General Bernadotte, he finally accepted the rank of
for rapid promotion, from lieutenant to general in just two years.
was defeated at the Trebbia by a larger Coalition force, commanded by the great Russian general,
General Moreau, encouraged rumours that Saint-Cyr was impossible to work with.
In 1799 he was promoted to General of Division and sent to Switzerland,
Napoleon heaped rewards on General Suchet – money, titles, but still no Marshal’s
Transferred to Italy, his friendship with Murat got him noticed by the army commander
to brigadier… and after leading a successful attack at the Siege of Toulon, was made General
won him promotion from volunteer to general of division in two years – an
Serving with General Brune in Italy, he led a cavalry charge against an Austrian battery
In 1809 at Medellín, he inflicted a crushing defeat on General Cuesta’s Spanish army.
Promoted to general, Augereau served in the Eastern Pyrenees, where his flair
helping to defeat the Russians, and winning promotion to the rank of general of division.
I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general.
Ten years later he accompanied General Rochambeau to America, as part of French support to the
he now promoted him General of Division, and appointed him Inspector General of Cavalry.
Their first battle together, against General Blake’s Spanish army, ended in a humiliating
After a spell on the staff of General Hoche, he joined General Lefebvre’s crack vanguard
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.
In 1799, Mortier fought under General Masséna’s command at the Second Battle of Zurich,
Lannes was then transferred to Italy as part of General Augereau’s division, where his bold,
Soon after their return to France, General Desaix was killed at the Battle of Marengo,
He also began a bitter, long-lasting feud with another rising star, General Michel Ney.
Instead, the job went to the 26 year-old General Bonaparte – 11 years younger and much less
positions then got him noticed by General Custine, who gave him a job on his staff.
diversions proving crucial in the encirclement of General Mack’s Austrian army at Ulm.
to general of division in a single year. Not even Napoleon rose through the ranks as quickly.
command and rapid promotion: in just two years he rose from captain to general,
- At this point in his meditation, the general was interrupted by the sound of the door opening.
- At this point in his reverie, the general was interrupted by the sound of the door opening.
General Bessières helped expose his mismanagement of the budget… for which Lannes never forgave him.
with General Suchet’s division in the lead. For six hours, his troops were engaged in furious
But when Napoleon, in exile on Saint-Helena, was asked to name his best general, he replied,
When war broke out, Ney was made an officer, and became aide-de-camp to General Lamarche:
In 1800, Ney and his division played a major role in General Moreau’s great victory over
He was then put in charge of three divisions to pursue General Suvarov through the Alps,
to serve as General Masséna’s new chief of staff, a role he performed ‘to perfection.’
The next morning he marched on General Osten-Sacken’s force near Montmirail.
Around 4pm Lannes’ old friend General Pouzet was hit by a cannonball and killed in front of him.
Suchet was promoted to General of Division, and in 1800 he was given command of the Army
I tell you that he is a bad general, that the English are bad troops, and this will
When he arrived in Spain, General Foy observed, “He’s only 52 but he looks more than 60.
At the siege of Danzig in 1807, General Oudinot’s division had the unusual distinction of capturing
Near Vyazma a gap opened up, and Russian General Miloradovich pounced – First Corps was routed,
Sir, yes, sir!