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Lieutenant-General


1994 Lieutenant-General Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti

1992 Garrison H Davidson, U.S. Lieutenant-general commandant (West Point), dies

1985 Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English Lieutenant-General (A Full Life), dies at 89

1970 Argentine military junta under Lieutenant-general Lanusse drives out President Ongania

1963 Bikram Singh, Indies Lieutenant-General (Kashmir), dies

1963 Daulet Singh, Indies Lieutenant-General, dies

1962 S C Grant, British Lieutenant-General

1945 Mitsuri Ushijima, Japanese Lieutenant-General/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri

1945 Simon B Buckner, U.S. Lieutenant-General/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action

1944 Lieutenant-general Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"

1944 Lieutenant-general Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma

1944 Lesley J McNair, U.S. Lieutenant-General, killed by U.S. bomb at St-Lo

1943 Lieutenant-general Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London

1943 Lieutenant-general Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick

1943 Lieutenant-general Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers Sicily

1943 Gustav Schmidt, German Lieutenant-General, dies in battle

1943 HA Seyffardt, Dutch Lieutenant-General/NSB "minister", dies at 71

1942 Lieutenant-General Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java

1942 Lieutenant-general Montgomery arrives in Cairo

1942 Lieutenant-general Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar

1941 Lieutenant-general Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli

1939 Peter Duffell, Brits Lieutenant-General/minister of Defense

1936 Anthony Mullens, British Lieutenant-General, Deputy chief of defense

1926 David Young, Lieutenant-General/CEO, Cairn Tech

1921 James Wilson, British Lieutenant-General

1904 German Lieutenant-general Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa

1899 Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat Lieutenant-General Whites army

1899 Fritz Bayerlein, German Lieutenant-General, WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo

1879 British Zulu War begins: Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand

1851 Johannes B van Heutsz, Lieutenant-General and / Dutch East Indies

1817 Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish Lieutenant-General/freedom fighter, dies

1794 Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland

1740 Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, Lieutenant-general (12 children), dies

1729 Joseph de Montesquiou earl d'Artagnan, French Lieutenant-General, dies at 77

1708 Willem of Nassau, mister of Zuylenstein/Lieutenant-General/baron Enfield, dies

1599 Robert Devereux becomes Lieutenant-General of Ireland


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