command-in-chief

Later Muslim dynasties, whether Iranian or Turkish, used the title mostly in a military context, although not always associated with the command-in-chief of the army.

On the death of Nelson, Collingwood assumed the command-in-chief, transferring his flag to the frigate Euryalus.

Constitutionally, command-in-chief is vested in the Canadian sovereign, presently Queen Elizabeth II.

Throughout the development of the armed forces, the monarch has remained vested with command-in-chief, while the governor general's title altered to suit the changes in the militia's structure.

Section 68, says "command-in-chief of naval and military forces ... is vested in the Governor-General as the Queen's representative".

Members follow a military chain of command, with the Governor of Michigan serving as Command-in-Chief through the state Adjutant General.

The British North America Act declared that the Command-in-Chief of the Land and Naval Militia would continue to be vested in the Queen.

On 26 June Fairfax, who had been anxious and uneasy since the execution of King Charles I, resigned the command-in-chief of the army to Cromwell, his lieutenant-general.

In 1953, the U.S. Forces Azores Command was organized as subordinate Unified Command under the Command-in-Chief Atlantic.

Parliament can legislate to provide for the administration of the defence system and for making military appointments in the defence forces but it cannot vest the command-in-chief in any other person or body.

In March 1895, Nozu was promoted to full general and replaced General Yamagata Aritomo as command-in-chief of the Japanese First Army in Manchuria.

In November 1937, an Austrian delegation came to see the aircraft, led by Generaloberst Alexander Löhr, Command-in-Chief of the Luftstreitkräfte (Austrian Air Force).

While stationed in Germany, he also became the Chief of the CINC's Initiatives Group, Office of the Command-in-Chief, United States Army Europe.

He obtained, without first serving in a subordinate rank, the command-in-chief of the grenadiers of the Consular Guard; and from that time commenced the deadly hatred which Davoust bore towards me.

He soon had cause to repent having entrusted to the hands of Menou the command-in-chief, to which he became entitled only by seniority, after the assassination of Kleber by Soleiman Heleby.

The powers of command-in-chief over the Canadian Forces are vested in the Canadian monarch, and are delegated to the Governor General of Canada, who also uses the title Commander-in-Chief.

At the end of the campaign he rejoined his regiment, and was appointed to the command-in-chief of all the East India Company's forces in the territory of the Nawab Vizier of Oude.

The Command-in-Chief of the unified command (CENTCOM or SOCOM) would be the DAA, giving him/her the ability to override NSA recommendations.

All the President would have to do, and all the Governor-General does, is to finalise bills and make them laws, open Parliament and issue the writ for an election, and act as the command-in-chief of the armed forces.

On his return he became secretary to the Duke of Monmouth; he it was that erased the obnoxious adjective 'natural' from the patent conferring the command-in-chief upon the duke in 1674 but left his service in 1678.

Acting with Sir John Salmond he quietly but successfully lobbied for the removal of Newall as Chief of the Air Staff and Dowding as the Command-in-Chief of Fighter Command.

In 1904, however, a new Militia Act stated that "the Command-in-Chief of the Militia is declared to continue and be vested in the King, and shall be administered by His Majesty or by the Governor General as his representative."

In terms of Section 17 of the Act the command-in-chief of the naval and military forces within the Union was vested in the British Monarch or in the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa as his representative.

Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley's powers in that office were, however, limited by a new Order in Council, and after holding the appointment for over five years, he handed over the command-in-chief to his fellow field marshal, Earl Roberts, on 3 January 1901.