| The brigadier said it was a good opportunity for the kids to have a break from their normal everyday environment. |
| He was an imposing figure, a cross between Humpty Dumpty and a brigadier, who had rowed hard in his youth. |
| They were put up for brigadier generalcies and he was rewarded with governorship of Sonora. |
| Promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier general, his division was prominent in the last stages of the war. |
| In the process, he became a military strategist, rising through the ranks from major to brigadier general. |
| The brigadier sized up the situation and saw the enemy's field guns to be too well-entrenched. |
