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How to use brevet in a sentence

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Promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier general, his division was prominent in the last stages of the war.
He rose from second lieutenant in 1861 to brevet major general in only four years during action-packed combat service.
When promoted to brevet major general, he was the youngest American to ever hold that rank.
He rose from second lieutenant to brevet major general in only four years.
Meritorious service in three battles won him promotions to brevet major.
As brevetting was a temporary battlefield promotion granted for bravery and leadership in combat conditions, when the war ended so did the brevet commissions.
One handful of twilight was left, but Brevet General Thurman Dynamics fit skeet shooting into his day.
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These were the usual experiences which every American pilot has had while on his brevet flights.
For Grant's honorable mention he received the brevet rank of captain, to date from the day of the battle of Chapultepec.
At the close of the war he received a commission as brigadier general by brevet.
On his left breast he wore the double brevet of a fully-fledged pilot.
He hoped that the Marshal had brought his brevet as brigadier general.
At present he is a brevet lieutenant-colonel in the regular army.
There is your brevet to the 'Legion,' signed by the Emperor.
I prize it more than any commission or brevet commission that I have.
If they wuz givin' commissions away you wouldn't be a brevet Corporal.
By the time the final whistle went they had hit the net 13 times apiece, Christke claiming 10 and Brevet seven.
Sharpe, who would become a Brevet Brigadier General by the end of the war, was perhaps the most effective intelligence officer of the American Civil War.
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