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Recognition, as Adams warned, risked all-out war with the United States. War would involve an invasion of Canada, a full-scale American attack on British shipping interests worldwide, an end to American grain shipments that were providing a large part of the British food supply, and an end to British sales of machinery and supplies to the US. [38]
Lieutenant-General Martin Bricknell (1963— ), Surgeon General of the British Armed Forces; Brigadier John William Bridge CBE, Royal Engineers; Brigadier the Honourable Geoffrey Bridgeman (1898–1974), Royal Army Medical Corps; Major-General Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman (1896–1982), deputy adjutant-general to the War Office
List of major generals in the United States Regular Army before 1 July 1920; List of active duty United States Space Force general officers; List of United States Space Force lieutenant generals; List of United States Space Force four-star generals; List of U.S. general officers and flag officers killed in World War II
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 list of Union brevet generals, a list of Confederate Army generals and a list of prominent acting Confederate States Army generals, which includes officers appointed to duty by E. Kirby Smith, officers whose appointments were never confirmed or ...
Sifakis, Stewart, Who Was Who in the Civil War. Facts On File, New York, 1988. ISBN 0-8160-1055-2. United States War Department, The Military Secretary's Office, Memorandum Relative to the General Officers in the Armies of the United States During the Civil War, 1861–1865, (Compiled from Official Records.) 1906.
Fremantle was born into a distinguished military family; his father, Lieutenant-General John Fremantle, had commanded a battalion of the Coldstream Guards, and had served during the Peninsular War and Waterloo Campaign, as well as acting as aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General John Whitelocke during the abortive British invasion of Buenos Aires in 1807.
In the four years and four months of the Civil War, the Pay Department disbursed $1,029,239,000 of which $541,000 was lost due to embezzlements and other causes, at an expense of $6,429,600. [126] Leadership. When the Civil War began, Colonel Benjamin F. Larned served as Paymaster General but was in poor health. He was temporarily relieved of ...
[5] During the Civil War, the Confederate States of America appointed eight full generals and an admiral. [6] The highest ranking Union officers were a lieutenant general and a vice admiral, Ulysses S. Grant and David G. Farragut, who became the first four-star officers in the United States military, but not until after the war. [7]