That he was nothing more than a militia colonel before.

Here he built a church and a school, and was appointed justice of the peace, roads commissioner, and militia colonel.

In charge was a militia colonel with slick hair and plump hands called Lyudin.

After the Revolution, one of those new residents was Peter W. Yates, a successful local lawyer and militia colonel during the war.

He was also a militia colonel and a prominent man politically in the town of Lexington.

The paper named the house's occupants in the 1840's: a militia colonel, his wife and their six children.

The unit's first commanding officer was patriot leader and pastor Peter Muhlenberg, who became a militia colonel in 1775 at the request of Washington.

He removed his clerical robes to show that he was wearing his uniform as a militia colonel.

Lynch served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Convention from 1769 until 1778, when he became a militia colonel.

Dooly, now a militia colonel without a state, faced a particular problem in finding allies in South Carolina.