Meanings of few generals in English

But they had paid Stonewall Jackson a tribute that few generals ever received.

Behind him rode Berthier, Caulaincourt, and a few generals; a mounted escort followed them.

Sherman was one of the very few generals who gave Lincoln little or no worry.

It was a strategy that few generals have dared to practice, fewer still to acknowledge.

He was now in a perilous position, one from which but few generals could have extricated themselves.

Very few generals and admirals trusted him.

Tenacity and stubbornness are prized values in any battle but few generals would continue fighting at such cost.

But the archdukes are fools, and they will not listen to the few generals of competence they have.

One of the very few generals who had tried to stir up a coup in the recent past, Roberto Viaux, was a candidate.

But very few generals during the rebellion were able to successfully handle on the battle-field as large an army as was under Buell.

There are few generals in an army, for instance; and they're 'man-made'; but that's no reason the generals ain't entitled to our admiration.

With power and patronage traditionally in the hands of a few generals only, the new structure could give rise to opportunists within the military.

Few Generals in this situation would have believed these simple strategic means to be practicable.

Few generals as great as Lee have ever had as great a lieutenant as Jackson.

Few generals have occupied a position so commanding as did Jackson on the morning of August 27.

Few generals venture upon them.