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Understanding the Rank of Brigadier General

This quiz tests knowledge of the rank of Brigadier General and its significance in military hierarchy, along with relevant historical and geographical contexts.

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1 A brigadier-general is the lowest rank of ________, the Army and Air Force equivalent of a Naval flag officer.

2 This is due to the use of the rank of ________ and its derivatives to designate all general officers in the Air Force: brigadier (lowest general officer) brigadier-major (middle) and brigadier-general (highest).

3 ________: général de brigade aérienne

4 The ________ uses the rank of général de brigade (French) and brigadegeneraal (Dutch).

5 Charles de Gaulle held the rank of ________.

6 ________ (Continental Army, New Hampshire Militia)

7 In the ________, the 2 star, 3 star and 4 star are known as Brigadeiro (Brigadier), Major-Brigadeiro (Major-Brigadier) and Tenente-Brigadeiro-do-Ar (Lieutenant-Air-Brigadier) respectively.

8 ________: Général de brigade / Brigadegeneraal

9 The cap insignia for a general officer is a modified version of the Canadian Forces insignia; the collar insignia (Army generals only) is two crossed ________.

10 ________ (Brevet US Army)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the artist commissioned by the Royal Marines in 1920 to paint Brigadier General F.W. Lumsden VC (pictured), was Helen Donald-Smith, whose views of Venice were described as "pretty pictures".
  • the invention and military use of modern land mines are attributed to Brigadier General Gabriel J. Rains of the Confederate States Army.
  • when Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law, Confederate Brig Gen. Benjamin Hardin Helm was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga, Lincoln's White House went into mourning.
  • a portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko in the uniform of a Brigadier General of the American Revolutionary Army is featured at the Polish American Museum in Port Washington, New York.
  • a riot at Paducah, Kentucky's Woolfolk Home led to Ulysses S. Grant's promotion above his superior officer, Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith.
  • the Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force's Demonstration Squadron, selected Brigadier General Ricardo Aponte (pictured) as their Spanish language narrator for the Latin America Tour of 1992.
  • John F. Kelly's 2003 promotion to brigadier general while in Iraq was the first promotion of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel in a combat zone since Chesty Puller's 1951 Korean War promotion.
  • Brigadier General Mihiel Gilormini, founder of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the UK's Royal Air Force, and the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
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