Word Finder - marshals

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A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general.

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A military officer of the highest rank in several countries, including France and the former Soviet Union; equivalent to a general of the army in the United States. See also field marshal.

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A person in charge of the ceremonial arrangement and management of a gathering.

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A federal lawman.

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To arrange (troops, etc.) in line for inspection or a parade.

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(by extension) To arrange (facts, etc.) in some methodical order.

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To ceremoniously guide, conduct or usher.

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To gather data for transmission.

The marshals were jealous of each other, and Napoleons plans were not approved by his brother.

Meanwhile an agitated consultation was being carried on in whispers among his generals and marshals at the rear of his suite.

It was the scene of the defeat of the French and Bavarians under Marshals Tallard and Marsin, on the 13th of August 1704, by the English and the Austrians under the duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene.

Four generals - Kellermann, .Lefebvre, Perignon, Serrurier - received the titles of honorary marshals.

But the ground which this thin line was to hold against three columns of the enemy was marshy and densely intersected by obstacles, and the corps was the best in the Grande Armee, while its leader was perhaps the ablest of all Napoleon's marshals.

The two marshals added to their reputation in the "Reunion War" of 1680-84.

Marshal Soult was appointed chief of the staff, a post for which he possessed very few qualifications; and, when the campaign began, command of the left and right wings had perforce to be given to the only two marshals available, Ney and Grouchy, who did not possess the ability or strategic skill necessary for such positions.

Remembering the surprises that the battles in Spain had provided for the marshals opposed to the duke, he massed nearly the whole of Reille's corps before he advanced.

The attorney-general is the legal adviser of the president, public prosecutor and standing counsel for the United States, and also has general oversight of the Federal judicial administration, especially of the prosecuting officers called district attorneys and of the executive court officers called marshals.

Castelar was compromised in the first rising of June 1866, which was concerted by Marshal Prim, and crushed, after much bloodshed, in the streets by Marshals O'Donnell and Serrano.

She went into exile at the end of September 1868, after her Moderado generals had made a slight show of resistance that was crushed at the battle of Alcolea by Marshals Serrano and Prim.

Though he was one of those generals who had served under Moreau, and who therefore, as a rule, disliked and despised Napoleon, Soult had the wisdom to show his devotion to the ruling power; in consequence he was in August 1803 appointed to the 'command-in-chief of the camp of Boulogne, and in May 1804 he was made one of the first marshals of France.

Herschel marshals the evidence which can be collected on this point.

Next came the marshals, namely, Berthier, Murat, Massena, Augereau, Lannes, Jourdan, Ney, Soult, Brune, Davout, Bessieres, Moncey, Mortier and Bernadotte.

The severe actions of Diirrenstein (near Krems) ors the iith, and of Hollabriinn on the 26th of November, in which Napoleon's marshals learned the tenacity of their new opponents, and the surprise of the Vienna bridge (November 14) by the French, were the chief incidents of this period in the campaign.

Their manoeuvre was carried out with complete success, kind of stupor and allowed his marshals to fight by themselves.

Yet it would seem that this invention of Napoleon's was intuitive rather than reasoned; he never communicated it in its entirety to his marshals, and seems to have been only capable of exercising it either when in full possession of his health or under the excitement of action.

Louis himself, with his marshals and Vauban, conducted the campaign in the north.

The extravagant powers of the grand hetmans and the grand marshals were reduced.

The only foreign recipients up to 1910 were Field Marshals Yamagata and Oyama and Admiral Togo.

In 1812, however, he was obliged, after Wellington's great victory of Salamanca, to evacuate Andalusia, and was soon after recalled from Spain at the request of Joseph Bonaparte, with whom, as with the other marshals, he had always disagreed.

The time standard is enforced by our Golf Course marshals who will operate a warning - yellow card - red card system.

Sometimes you will be held on the line by marshals or with a wheel chock.

As they rose to eat harried breakfasts and tackle the morning commute, U.S. Air Marshals circled the sky in a noisy helicopter.

Ensure that trained fire marshals are appointed for each of their offices.

They're all on their way to a new maximum security prison, being transported by air by a bunch of federal marshals.

Ensure that trained Fire marshals are appointed for each of their offices.

They provided effectively all the marshals apart from one important junctions where I wanted to put an experienced race marshal.

A pilot scheme run by Bristol council was so popular that the council now employs taxi marshals permanently.

Have you picked the Federal Pen the sky marshals are to be housed in yet?

They should then move up toward the start only under Marshals ' instructions, which must be strictly obeyed.

As the wisps of smoke turned into a white pall, Johnny exited his car and the marshals turned their extinguishers on the SF-3.

They have been using sky marshals for many years to counter terrorist threats.

Meanwhile, evil wizard Saruman marshals his fearsome army of Uruk Hai, in preparation for an attack on the kingdom of Rohan.

Napoleon, in the blue cloak which he had worn on his Italian campaign, sat on his small gray Arab horse a little in front of his marshals.

The marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his attention.

When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were aglow with dazzling light--as if he had only awaited this to begin the action--he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin.

The marshals, accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and a few minutes later the chief forces of the French army moved rapidly toward those Pratzen Heights which were being more and more denuded by Russian troops moving down the valley to their left.

In historical works on the year 1812 French writers are very fond of saying that Napoleon felt the danger of extending his line, that he sought a battle and that his marshals advised him to stop at Smolensk, and of making similar statements to show that the danger of the campaign was even then understood.

It was one of the marshals.

The source of this contradiction lies in the fact that the historians studying the events from the letters of the sovereigns and the generals, from memoirs, reports, projects, and so forth, have attributed to this last period of the war of 1812 an aim that never existed, namely that of cutting off and capturing Napoleon with his marshals and his army.

We have helped spread best practice on the use of sky marshals.

The potential legal implications of the appearance of sky marshals on civil flights are analyzed.

Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman, his colleague Tim Chapman (no relation) and his son Leland were takien into custody by Federal Marshals this morning in Hawaii.

In an interview with MSNBC, Chapman's wife, Beth, said heavily armed marshals busted into the house and arrested Chapman, just as she was getting their young children ready for school.

The week is dedicated to teaching the public about fire safety and prevention, just as the Fire Marshals Association of North America decided in 1911.

At that time the fire marshals had stated that the horrific events of 1871 should be remembered, but not with festivities.

The Executive Branch offers jobs in the U.S. Marshals Service, Department of Justice, the Secret Service and Veterans Health.

The protest drew national attention until federal marshals removed the "squatters" in 1971.

But now the marshals and generals joined the civilians.