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Adjutant general   /ˈædʒətənt dʒˈɛnərəl/   Listen
Adjutant general

noun
1.
A general's adjutant; chief administrative officer.





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"Adjutant general" Quotes from Famous Books



... he was made a public surveyor. This position gave him steady occupation for three years, and a knowledge of woodcraft and men that stood him in good stead in time to come. When he was nineteen, his brother Lawrence procured him an appointment as an adjutant general of Virginia with the rank of major, a post he held in October, 1753, when Dinwiddie sent him, accompanied by a famous frontiersman, Christopher Gist, to ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... the Adjutant General, Terence—knowing that Mackenzie's brigade was some two miles in advance on the Alberche river, and that the enemy was not in sight—sent off one of the orderlies who accompanied him, with a message to Herrara ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty


Words linked to "Adjutant general" :   aide-de-camp, aide, adjutant


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