• A war commissary or armed forces commissary (German: Kriegskommissar, French:commissaire des armées) is a military official responsible for supplying...
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  • A commissary is a government official charged with oversight or an ecclesiastical official who exercises in special circumstances the jurisdiction of a...
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    A commissary is a store for provisions which can include prepared foods for eating either on-premises or off-premises. It is usually run within an organization...
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    The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), headquartered at Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia, is an agency of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) that operates...
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  • Commissary notes were financial certificates issued by the departments of the quartermaster and commissary-general on behalf of the Continental Army during...
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    It was headed by the Commissary General of Subsistence, who answered directly to the Secretary of War. At the start of the war this was George Gibson...
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    New Jersey. During the Revolutionary War, Boudinot was an intelligence officer and prisoner-of-war commissary under general George Washington, working...
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  • department or organization commanded by a commissary or by a corps of commissaries. In many countries, commissary is a police rank. In those countries, a...
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    Frederick William I's reign, the army had doubled in size. The General War Commissary, responsible for the army and revenue, was removed from interference...
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    cavalry, with a right wing led by the lieutenant-general and left by the commissary general. Its main aim was to rout the opponents' cavalry, then turn and...
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    Trumbull of Connecticut, was the first commissary general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Trumbull was born in Lebanon, Connecticut...
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    Tioga Commissary is located in Tioga, Louisiana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1986. Located north of Alexandria...
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    (Lithuania in 1812), Warsaw, 1912. Marian Kukiel, Wojna 1812 roku (The 1812 War), Kraków, 1937. A. Rembowski, "Konfederacja Generalna i pospolite ruszenie...
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    wore no special insignia. The inspector general, quartermaster general, commissary general, and adjutant general served on the secretary's staff. However...
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  • caduceus was used. The army was reorganized for the Civil War. On July 29, 1861 the ranks of commissary sergeant, saddler sergeant, veterinary sergeant, hospital...
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  • staff consisting of an adjutant, quartermaster/commissary, sergeant major, quartermaster sergeant, commissary sergeant and Hospital Steward. Depending on...
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    community. The co-op operated until the end of World War II, when it was sold to private owners. The commissary continued to operate as a general store for the...
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    States Army's first Commissary General of Subsistence, holding the office from 1818 to 1861. He served as an infantry officer during the War of 1812, then briefly...
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    Magnus Stenbock (category Swedish military personnel of the Nine Years' War)
    newly established General War Commissariat, and became responsible for the main army's food supply. With the help of war commissary Jöran Adlersteen, Stenbock...
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    the Commissary General of Muster, the Paymaster General of the forces, and (particularly with regard to the Militia) the Home Office. The term War Department...
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    Protestants, however, ignored the command and seriously wounded an Imperial commissary sent to implement the Emperor's edict. Wolfgang's aforementioned absences...
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  • (from German: Krieg 'war') were officials in charge of supply for the armed forces (see Rus. Генерал-кригскомиссар). Commissaries were used during the...
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    as Acting Assistant Commissary with the British Force. Dalton was approximately 46 years old, and an acting assistant commissary in the Commissariat and...
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    (Chief of Ordnance), and Joseph P. Taylor (Commissary General). Reporting directly to the Secretary of War were the bureau chiefs or heads of staff departments...
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    the 17th century, as the Brunswick-Lüneburg district commissioner and war commissary Curt Hans Heinrich von Uslar married Maria von Uslar in 1627 and had...
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    Royal Army Service Corps (category Corps of the British Army in World War I)
    Commissariat and Transport Establishments Division under the supervision of a Commissary General). In 1887, however, the Department of the Surveyor General of...
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  • The list of American Civil War (Civil War) generals has been divided into five articles: an introduction on this page, a list of Union Army generals, a...
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    headquarters, as well as the buildings housing the quartermaster and commissary. Forrest also captured a total of 200 horses and mules before withdrawing...
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    1864, bearing the title of Royal Commissary. That was a deliberate insult to the government of Peru because a commissary is a colonial functionary, rather...
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  • the War Medal with two Clasps for Orthes and Toulouse, both battles being in 1814. On 22 October 1816, he was promoted to Deputy Asstistant Commissary General...
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