Lieutenant Colonel Definition

Lieutenant Colonel Sentence Examples

• He had just been admitted to the bar, but on the outbreak of war he at once offered his services to the governor, and became lieutenant-colonel and then colonel of the 42nd Ohio Volunteers, recruited largely from among his former students.

• In 1644 he had remonstrated at the removal by Crawford of an anabaptist lieutenant-colonel."

• In that year he was made an adjutant-general, lieutenant-colonel of the Preobrazhensky Guards, a member of the council of state, and, in the words of a foreign contemporary diplomatist, "the most influential personage in Russia."

• He returned from India in 1823, was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1826, and died in London on the 17th of November 1835.

• But the War of Independence was practically at an end, and in 1783 he finally quitted active service, with the rank and half-pay of a lieutenant-colonel.