colonelcy
colonelship old-fashioned

In the following year, he was promoted to a colonelcy.

If Kate ever found out he had turned down an offered colonelcy, she would probably kill him.

By the end of the 18th century an individual could hold only one colonelcy.

He was promoted to major, then to the regiment's colonelcy in 1862.

He said with a twisted smile, "How much is a colonelcy?"

From the look on the man's face, he knew that he had his colonelcy.

Peter Jefferson was appointed to the colonelcy of the county, an important position at the time.

By 1750 Cornwallis had taken over the colonelcy of the regiment.

Three months later on 30 September 1793 he purchased the lieutenant colonelcy of his regiment.

He felt he deserved a colonelcy for the work he'd done, but this thought, too, was not in his mind at the moment.

He won his colonelcy at the siege of Azov (1696).

On 25 August 1693 he had been appointed to the colonelcy, which he held up to his death.

Perhaps when he got his colonelcy, she hoped.

He received a brevet colonelcy on 1 January 1916.

On his return he was gazetted to the colonelcy of the 5th Dragoons.

Giving bin) a colonelcy was a simple way of doing it. '

Promoted to Colonelcy and command of the regiment, June 10, 1863.

He resigned his colonelcy on February 17, 1864.

Horatio Nelson was given such a colonelcy in 1795, two years before he reached flag rank.

He held the ceremonial colonelcy of the Welch Regiment from 1920 to 1941.

He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel four years later and obtained colonelcy of the regiment in 1803.

He resigned his colonelcy early in 1778.

In 1719 Bowles was transferred to the colonelcy of the 8th dragoons.

Lee's colonelcy was signed by the new President, Abraham Lincoln.

Generals were mostly on half-pay and a colonelcy was a method of providing him with extra income.

He was put on the reserve list in August and was granted an honorary colonelship.

I have heard speak of your Colonelship, and of your doings in the German wars.

His legacy continues with his family as today some hold an Honorary Kentucky Colonelship.

Washington had already appointed a skilled Polish engineer, Kosciusko, to a colonelship in that "learned" branch of the service.

Beauchamp was promoted to major-general in 1837 and received colonelship of the 10th Royal Hussars in 1843.

Two years thereafter he was admitted to the Irish general staff and in 1781 obtained colonelship of the 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot.

In 1853, he received colonelship of the 4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot, a command he held until his death in 1876.

He obtained the colonelship of the 49th Regiment of Foot in April 1846 and became lieutenant-general in November.

He maintained his links with the army retaining the honorary Colonelship of The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) until 1964.

He is promoted to Major, the equivalent of a today's Lieutenant colonelship with the 19e Régiment de Chasseurs à Cheval in 1803.

He was granted an honorary colonelship of the Devon Royal Garrison Artillery Militia in 1906 and of the Devon Royal Field Reserve Artillery in June 1908.

Its first Colonel, Count Duke of Olivares, Don Gaspar de Guzmán, whose post was the recently created "King's Guard Colonelship," was in command of very distinguished soldiers of great renown.

On 28 August 1632, on the initiative of Philip IV, a special Corps of troops was ordered to be formed with veteran soldiers, reenlistments and Knights of noble ancestry - men so skilled that they only took arms when the Monarch assumed command in person, designating it "King's Guard Colonelship."