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Definition of Commanders
1. commander [n] - See also: commander
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commanders
Literary usage of Commanders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"Brigade, regimental, and company commanders will pass frequently from front to
rear of their respective commands, to see that the column is at all times ..."
2. The Armed Neutralities of 1780 and 1800: A Collection of Official Documents by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of International Law, James Brown Scott (1918)
"Whereas, notwithstanding our former strict instructions to the several commanders
aforesaid, that nothing be in any ways attempted against the ships, ..."
3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"But being forced to retreat upon the approach of the Athenian fleet, they begged
a parley with the commanders, from a view, if it were possible upon easy ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"The attempt of the English army to relieve Stirling Castle led, in 1314, to the
battle of Bannockburn, at which Edward Bruce was one of the chief commanders ..."
5. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"We, His Britannic Majesty's commanders-in-chief by land and by sea in these colonies,
... To their Excellencies the Commanders- in-Chief of His Britannic ..."
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