Català > general: 8 sentits > nom 1, person | Sentit | A general officer of the highest rank. |
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| Categoria | exèrcit, forces armades | The military forces of a nation |
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| Espècimens | Alcibiades, Alcibíades | ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War (circa 450-404 BC) |
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| Andrew Jackson | 7th president of the US |
| Anthony Wayne, Wayne | American general during the American Revolution (1745-1796) |
| Antonius, Antony, Marc Antoni, Mark Anthony | Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars |
| Antígon | A general of Alexander the Great and king of Macedonia |
| Aníbal, Hannibal | general who commanded the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War |
| Arthur Wellesley | British general and statesman |
| Belisari, Belisarius | Byzantine general under Justinian I |
| Benedict Arnold | United States general and traitor in the American Revolution |
| Bernard Law Montgomery | English general during World War II |
| Bonaparte, Napoleó Bonaparte, Napoleó I, Napoleó, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon | French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) |
| Bradley, Omar Bradley | United States general who played an important role in the Allied victory in World War II (1893-1981) |
| Braxton Bragg | Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876) |
| Charles Cornwallis | commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Chinese military and political figure |
| Clay | United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978) |
| Colin Powell | United States general who was the first African American to serve as chief of staff |
| Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell | English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658) |
| Cèsar, Juli Cèsar, Julius Caesar | conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC) |
| Dayan, Moshe Dayan | Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981) |
| Demetri I, Demetri, Demetrius | son of Antigonus Cyclops and king of Macedonia |
| Douglas MacArthur, MacArthur | United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II |
| Dwight David Eisenhower, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower, Eisenhower, Ike | United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany |
| Eugene | Austrian general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the Spanish Succession (1663-1736) |
| Flavius Josephus, Josephus | Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100) |
| Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Francisco Franco, Franco, General Franco | Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975) |
| Gai Flamini | Roman statesman and general who built the Flaminian Way |
| General Custer, George Armstrong Custer | United States general who was killed along with all his command by the Sioux at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1839-1876) |
| George Gordon Meade | United States general in charge of the Union troops at the Battle of Gettysburg (1815-1872) |
| George Marshall | United States general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program (1880-1959) |
| George Washington, Washington | 1st President of the United States |
| Georgi Zhukov, Zhukov | Soviet general who during World Warr II directed the counteroffensive at Stalingrad and relieved Leningrad and captured Berlin (1896-1974) |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | Italian patriot whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the formation of the Italian state (1807-1882) |
| Gneu Juli Agrícola | Roman general who was governor of Britain and extended Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth (37-93) |
| Gneu Pompeu Magne | Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC) |
| Grant, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant | 18th President of the United States |
| Hindenburg, Paul von Hindenburg | German field marshal and statesman |
| Holofernes | (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith |
| Hugh Dowding | British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970) |
| Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Jackson | general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863) |
| Jimmy Doolittle | United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993) |
| John Burgoyne | British general in the American Revolution who captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost the battle of Saratoga in 1777 (1722-1792) |
| John Churchill | English general considered one of the greatest generals in history (1650-1722) |
| Johnston | Confederate general in the American Civil War |
| Joseph Hooker | United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879) |
| Lee, Robert Edward Lee, Robert Lee | American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870) |
| Lisandre | Spartan general who defeated the Athenians in the final / final battle of the Peloponnesian War (died in 395 BC) |
| Lisímac de Tràcia | Macedonian general under Alexander the Great |
| Luci Licini Lucul·le | Roman general famous for self-indulgence and giving lavish banquets (circa 110-57 BC) |
| Mark Wayne Clark | United States general who was Allied commander in Africa and Italy in World War II and was commander of the United Nations forces in Korea (1896-1984) |
| Michel Ney, Ney | French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815) |
| Milcíades el Jove, Miltiades | Athenian general who defeated the Persians at Marathon (540-489) |
| Publi Corneli Escipió Africà Major, Publi Corneli Escipió | Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC) |
| Robert Clive | British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774) |
| Sam Houston, Samuel Houston | United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863) |
| Santa Ana, Santa Anna | Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876) |
| Seleuc I Nicàtor, Seleuc | Macedonian general who accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia |
| William Mitchell | United States aviator and general who was an early advocate of military air power (1879-1936) |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West |
| Winfield Scott | United States general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and who defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War (1786-1866) |
| Xenofont | Greek general and historian |
| General | general, oficial general | officers in the Army or Air Force or Marines above the rank of colonel |
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| Anglès | general, full general |
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| Espanyol | general |
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| Noms | direcció, do de comandament | The leadership ability of a military general |
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