Adjutant Sentence Examples

There you will find the adjutant on duty, said the official.

The words passed along the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer.

Hitler's army adjutant, Major Gerhard Engel, returned with a vivid description of the mountain terrain.

We can get a view from there and in our battery it is still bearable, said the adjutant.

Between 1919 and 1929 he served as a company commander, battalion adjutant and instructor at military schools.

Generalmajor Graf Nugent and his brigade adjutant accompanied this column.

Spent 5 years as squadron adjutant, taking over the squadron in Nov 1983, when the CO retired.

But, though his duties were primarily financial, the quaestor was after all the chief assistant or adjutant of his superior in command, and as such he was invested with a certain degree of military power; under the republic his military rank was superior to that of the legates, though under the empire this relation was reversed.

And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky steps down the line.

Nearest of all to the commander-in-chief walked a handsome adjutant.

On returning from the review, Kutuzov took the Austrian general into his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of the advanced army.

The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by Zherkov.

The adjutant on duty, meeting Prince Andrew, asked him to wait, and went in to the Minister of War.

The adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger.

His fertile mind instantly suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise the adjutant and the minister.

Recalling his recent impressions, the first thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented to the Emperor Francis; he remembered the Minister of War, the polite Austrian adjutant, Bilibin, and last night's conversation.

But after it was over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed Bolkonski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience.

Yesterday's adjutant reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him his own house.

Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvitski and another adjutant having something to eat.

And God only knows where your man Peter is, said the other adjutant.

He looked straight at his adjutant's face without recognizing him.

Bagration replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutuzov to report the offer he had received.

On receiving the news he immediately dispatched Adjutant General Wintzingerode, who was in attendance on him, to the enemy camp.

Bonaparte's adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to Murat.

Bonaparte's adjutant had not yet reached Murat's detachment and the battle had not yet begun.

A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant as he rode by.

Behind Prince Bagration rode an officer of the suite, the prince's personal adjutant, Zherkov, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian--an accountant who had asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity.

He rode off at a walk to the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the French.

Turning to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed.

A moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same order.

I only sent you the note yesterday by Bolkonski--an adjutant of Kutuzov's, who's a friend of mine.

I want nothing, and I won't be anyone's adjutant.

So far everything's all right, but I confess I should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.

Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried him all the way.

The day after the review, Boris, in his best uniform and with his comrade Berg's best wishes for success, rode to Olmutz to see Bolkonski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself the best post he could--preferably that of adjutant to some important personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive.

One adjutant, nearest the door, was sitting at the table in a Persian dressing gown, writing.

Well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant?

Nominally he is only an adjutant on Kutuzov's staff, but he does everything alone.

Seeing him, Kutuzov's malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what was being done was not his adjutant's fault, and still not answering the Austrian adjutant, he addressed Bolkonski.

Prince Andrew, who was a little behind looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass.

The two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying to snatch it from one another.

The French, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots.

But at noon the adjutant of the regiment came into Rostov's and Denisov's dugout with a grave and serious face and regretfully showed them a paper addressed to Major Denisov from the regimental commander in which inquiries were made about yesterday's occurrence.

Boris lodged with another adjutant, the Polish Count Zhilinski.

During his service, chiefly as an adjutant, Prince Andrew had seen the anterooms of many important men, and the different types of such rooms were well known to him.

Prince Andrew for the second time asked the adjutant on duty to take in his name, but received an ironical look and was told that his turn would come in due course.

He was now in an adjutant's uniform with one epaulet and a shoulder knot.

His father announced to him that he would now pay half his debts for the last time, but only on condition that he went to Moscow as adjutant to the commander-in-chief--a post his father had procured for him--and would at last try to make a good match there.

As the mazurka began, Boris saw that Adjutant General Balashev, one of those in closest attendance on the Emperor, went up to him and contrary to court etiquette stood near him while he was talking to a Polish lady.

But instead of that, at the next village the sentinels of Davout's infantry corps detained him as the pickets of the vanguard had done, and an adjutant of the corps commander, who was fetched, conducted him into the village to Marshal Davout.

A minute later the marshal's adjutant, de Castres, came in and conducted Balashev to the quarters assigned him.

This adjutant was also there and sat dozing on the rolled-up bedding, evidently exhausted by work or by feasting.

Prince Andrew's eyes were still following Pfuel out of the room when Count Bennigsen entered hurriedly, and nodding to Bolkonski, but not pausing, went into the study, giving instructions to his adjutant as he went.

An adjutant came out and announced that everything was in readiness within.

Kutuzov's adjutant whispered to Prince Andrew that this was the wife of the priest whose home it was, and that she intended to offer his Serene Highness bread and salt.

She's very pretty, added the adjutant with a smile.

The adjutant came out to the porch and asked Prince Andrew to lunch with him.

You see... but Boris did not finish, for at that moment Kaysarov, Kutuzov's adjutant, came up to Pierre.

Then, evidently remembering what he wanted, he beckoned to Andrew Kaysarov, his adjutant's brother.

The red-nosed Captain Timokhin, formerly Dolokhov's squadron commander, but now from lack of officers a battalion commander, shyly entered the shed followed by an adjutant and the regimental paymaster.

Prince Andrew went out of the shed with them, giving final orders to the adjutant.

The adjutant in attendance came into the tent.

An adjutant accompanied by a Cossack passed by at a sharp trot.

The adjutant looked angrily at him, evidently also intending to shout at him, but on recognizing him he nodded.

Pierre, feeling out of place there, having nothing to do, and afraid of getting in someone's way again, galloped after the adjutant.

But the adjutant turned his horse about and rode on.

Pierre was about to ask, but seeing the stern expression of the adjutant who was also looking that way, he checked himself.

Pierre did not find his groom and rode along the hollow with the adjutant to Raevski's Redoubt.

His horse lagged behind the adjutant's and jolted him at every step.

Pierre and the adjutant dismounted and walked up the hill on foot.

The adjutant looked at Pierre as if puzzled what to do with him now.

Pierre went to the battery and the adjutant rode on.

The adjutant asked whether Napoleon wished the troops to cross it?

In the middle of the day Murat sent his adjutant to Napoleon to demand reinforcements.

The handsome boy adjutant with the long hair sighed deeply without removing his hand from his hat and galloped back to where men were being slaughtered.

The adjutant bent his head affirmatively and began to report, but the Emperor turned from him, took a couple of steps, stopped, came back, and called Berthier.

The adjutant galloped to Claparede's division and a few minutes later the Young Guards stationed behind the knoll moved forward.

Soon after the duke's departure--before he could possibly have reached Semenovsk--his adjutant came back from him and told Kutuzov that the duke asked for more troops.

But he sent an adjutant to take the news round the army.

Adjutant General Wolzogen, the man who when riding past Prince Andrew had said, "the war should be extended widely," and whom Bagration so detested, rode up while Kutuzov was at dinner.

Kutuzov called to his adjutant.

The adjutant, having obeyed this instruction, approached Prince Andrew.

For instance, on the twenty-eighth it is suggested to him to cross to the Kaluga road, but just then an adjutant gallops up from Miloradovich asking whether he is to engage the French or retire.

Close to the gates of the city he was met by Count Rostopchin's adjutant.

The superintendent of police, whom the crowd had stopped, went in to see him at the same time as an adjutant who informed the count that the horses were harnessed.

He is waiting at the porch, said the adjutant.

In a neighboring hut lay Raevski's adjutant with a fractured wrist.

She was listening to the ceaseless moaning of the adjutant, three houses off.

Through the open window the moans of the adjutant could be heard more distinctly.

But in the yard there was a light from the fire at Little Mytishchi a mile and a half away, and through the night came the noise of people shouting at a tavern Mamonov's Cossacks had set up across the street, and the adjutant's unceasing moans could still be heard.

The shouting in the tavern had died down; only the moaning of the adjutant was heard.

Prince Kutuzov's adjutant has brought me a letter in which he demands police officers to guide the army to the Ryazan road.

He was conducted through a glass gallery, an anteroom, and a hall, which were familiar to him, into a long low study at the door of which stood an adjutant.

But at that moment an adjutant entered and reported something to Davout.

Davout brightened up at the news the adjutant brought, and began buttoning up his uniform.

When the adjutant reminded him of the prisoner, he jerked his head in Pierre's direction with a frown and ordered him to be led away.

He turned his head and saw that the adjutant was putting another question to Davout.

In another moment Davout would have realized that he was doing wrong, but just then the adjutant had come in and interrupted him.

The adjutant, also, had evidently had no evil intent though he might have refrained from coming in.

And the adjutant galloped through the forest after Grekov.

And turning to his men he directed a party to go on to the halting place arranged near the watchman's hut in the forest, and told the officer on the Kirghiz horse (who performed the duties of an adjutant) to go and find out where Dolokhov was and whether he would come that evening.

I called it as (then Acting) Adjutant General of the Unorganized Militia of the United States.

A visit to the Russian capital in November still further established his influence, and in 1862 he was appointed adjutant to the grand-duke Constantine.

In 1779 he entered the French military service (Royal-Baviere), accompanied General Rochambeau to America as his adjutant, distinguished himself during the war with England, notably at the siege of Yorktown, 1781, and in 1785 was promoted to be colonel proprietaire of the regiment Royal-Suedois.

In the Mexican War he won two brevets for gallantry - that of captain for Molino del Rey and that of major for Chapultepec. He served at West Point as instructor and adjutant (1849-1855), and he took part in the Utah expedition.

At the age of fifteen he proceeded with the 12th Foot (now Suffolk Regiment) to the Rhine Campaign, and at Dettingen he distinguished himself so much as acting adjutant that he was made lieutenant.

Czartoryski was appointed adjutant to Alexander, now Cesarevich, and was permitted to revisit his Polish estates for three months.

He was military agent in New Orleans in 1809-1810, was deputy quartermaster-general in April - July 1812, and was in active service in the War of 1812 as adjutant and inspector-general in the campaign against York (now Toronto), Canada, and in the attack on York on the 27th of April 1813 was in immediate command of the troops in action and was killed by a piece of rock which fell on him when the British garrison in its retreat set fire to the magazine.

He was present at all the engagements fought during 1792-1794, especially distinguishing himself at the battle of Raclawice, when he was General Rymkiewicz's adjutant.

In 1847, through the influence of Sir Henry Lawrence, he was appointed adjutant of the corps of Guides, and in 1852 was promoted to the command of the Guides with the civil charge of Yusafzai.

In November 1549 he was appointed Greek professor at Lausanne, where he acted as Calvin's adjutant in various publications, including his defence of the burning of Servetus, De Haereticis a civili magistrate puniendis (1554).

In 1792 he enlisted in the Haut-Rhin volunteers, and was from his military knowledge at once elected adjutant and soon afterwards lieutenant-colonel.

The Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington, is governed by a board of visitors consisting of the adjutant general,-the superintendent of public instruction and nine other members appointed by the governor with the concurrence of the Senate.

He took part in RearAdmiral John Rodgers's expedition to Korea in 1871, and was adjutant of the American land forces in the attack on the Korean forts on Salee river on the 10th and 11th of June.

The persons on board the fleet included 564 male and 192 female convicts, and a detachment of marines, consisting of Major Ross, commandant, 16 officers, 24 non-commissioned officers, an adjutant and quartermaster, 160 privates and 40 women.

On the 29th of March, two days before its arrival, a sepoy named Manghal Pandi, from whom the mutineers afterwards came to be spoken of as "Pandies," drunk with bhang and enthusiasm, attempted to provoke a mutiny in the 34th Bengal infantry, and shot the adjutant, but Hearsey's personal courage suppressed the danger.

Other administrative officers of the state, each elected for two years, are a secretary of state, a comptroller-general, an attorneygeneral, a treasurer, an adjutant and inspector-general, and a superintendent of education.

He returned to England towards the end of 1858, and was then selected for the appointment of adjutant and field-works instructor at the Royal Engineers' establishment, /v and took up his new duties at Chatham after promotion to the rank of captain in April 1859.

I am in command of " D " Coy. again, having been acting adjutant for only a few hours.

I have to know a bit about it in case I became an adjutant.

In the same year he was appointed a personal adjutant to the Kaiser.

I am understudying the adjutant at present with another fellow, in case he gets pipped.

His naval adjutant had himself seen how mercilessly the Reds fought in the Baltic states in 1919.

At the end of January 1940, the F¸hrer had sent his chief military adjutant on a flying tour of the western front.

I am in temporary command of the Battalion, and am my own adjutant at the moment.

From April 1904 to April 1907, he was Ordnance Officer and in 1911 was appointed adjutant to the Special Reserve.