Word: breveted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held rank as brevet major for four months and two days during the summer...
...TIME, June 9, footnote p. 28: ... At the time of the capture of John Brown at Harper's Ferry in 1859, Robert E. Lee had been addressed by the Army as "Colonel Lee" for over eleven years, having received that rank by brevet for his services at the storming of Chapultepec...
...sake to an island in midstream rather than the shore, for Crazy Horse and his Sioux were known to be somewhere around. The 7th U.S. Cavalry drew fresh supplies from the hold of the Far West, galloped off under command of a dashing, handsome 37-year-old brevet major general who wore a flowing red tie and had distinguished himself at Gettysburg...
...When Brevet Major Thayer was named Superintendent of West Point in 1817, the 15 -year-old Academy was rotten with nepotism, sycophancy, bad teaching, worse discipline. When Thayer arrived, all the faculty was under arrest, and shambling, dictatorial Captain Alden ("Old Pewter") Partridge was holding the post singlehanded...