noun
definition
A commanding officer, usually of a specific force or division.
Examples of commandants in a Sentence
In 1833 the reserves were instituted, and three years later reserve commandants were appointed in six principal provinces.
In Austria, a census was taken in 1754 by the parish clergy, concurrently with the civil authorities and the military commandants.
After the occupation of Pretoria in June 1900 by Lord Roberts the Boer forces had been reduced to guerilla warfare, and Lord Kitchener, learning that the Transvaal commandants were despondent, invited General Botha to enter into negotiations, on the basis of the recognition of British sovereignty.
The captaingeneral and second commandant of the archipelago reside in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and there is a brigadier-governor of Grand Canary, residing in Las Palmas, besides eight inferior military commandants.
Ruffo indignantly declared that once the treaty was signed, not only by himself but by the Russian and Turkish commandants and by the British captain Foote, it must be respected, and on Nelson's refusal he said that he would not help him to capture the castles.
For some time they held the extreme south-east point of the island at Fort Dauphin; but several of their commandants were so incapable and tyrannical that they were frequently involved in war with the people, and more than once their stations were destroyed and the French were massacred.
Of the 40 accused, 9 had at one time been camp commandants or deputy camp commandants.