Meanings of unfortunate general in English

He fired, and I saw the unfortunate general fall from his horse.

Shaken and demoralised, that unfortunate general is now only for retreat.

On the instant, Mrs. McKaye hated the unfortunate general manager.

The enemy found the unfortunate general lying in the redout among the dead and dying.

Under the command of this unfortunate general he remained until after the battle of Camden.

At that quotation of the well-known greeting of Augustus to his unfortunate general, the scholar recoiled.

An anecdote is related of Pichegru, which does honour to the memory of that unfortunate general.

He received the unfortunate general kindly.

Not allowed to control the operations of his own men, the unfortunate general resigned his command on the 28th.

Again that unfortunate general was roughly handled-anotherof his divisions was annihilated southeast of Lemberg in a rear-guard action.

And then-withthat fatality that seemed ever to follow the fortunes of the unfortunate general in command-thearmy fell back!

But the unfortunate general's courage was sustained by a firm faith in God, and a high sense of duty to the state.

This might have been, from the sequel, taken as a prediction; for the unfortunate general died at last in a fit of mental aberration.

Prince Charles of Lorraine, brother-in-law to Maria Theresa, a bold and active, though unfortunate general, gave battle to the Prussians at Chotusitz, and was defeated.

Miranda, moreover, although able, had proved himself an unfortunate General.

The troops in the valley had been commanded by no less than four unfortunate generals.