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BRIGADIER

Volume 4 · 65 words · 1810 Edition

is the general officer who has the command of a brigade. The eldest colonels are generally advanced to this post. He that is upon duty is brigadier of the day. They march at the head of their own brigades, and are allowed a sergeant and ten men of their own brigade for their guard.—But the rank of brigadier-general in the British service is now abolished.