Meanings of military chieftain in English

Swartz, the Flemish general, a blunt military chieftain, was at his side.

Is not the soldier hero, the military chieftain, the idol of all mankind?

General Jackson entered upon his civil career in the spirit of a military chieftain.

Robert E. Lee he made military chieftain of the Government with headquarters in Richmond.

He was essentially a man of action, a military chieftain.

He might have been a military chieftain, a novelist, a poet, a philosopher, ah!

In fact, his position was that of a military chieftain on the eve of a battle.

I was greatly relieved on my cousin's account when I heard the voice of our military chieftain here.

When Melnotte had returned as military chieftain and was happily united, the curtain fell and the audience slowly dispersed.

The treaty was made, and from that time forth the antagonism between the eminent statesman and the great military chieftain became inevitable.

He was a man of pre-eminent ability, of wonderful address in diplomacy, and possessed rare genius as an organizer and military chieftain.

If we reject his services, any petty military chieftain, by offering him freedom, can have them for the purpose of robbery and plunder.

My court was composed of officers from General Sherman's command, and was carefully watched by that distinguished military chieftain, throughout its whole sitting.

As he had formerly been military chieftain, he was now legislator of the school; thus displaying in boyhood a type of the future man.

It is in repose, when passion is sleeping and reason is clear-eyed, that the military chieftain marks out his campaign and arranges his forces.

The peasant was bound to serve under the banner of a military chieftain only for a short time: then he returned to his farm.