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1 Standartenführer was a separate SS rank in ________ and was not used in the Wehrmacht

2 Since the 16th century, the rank of regimental commander was adopted by several Central and Eastern European armies, most notably the forces of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ________ and then Muscovy.

3 The ________, a successful team in the American Basketball Association

4 Vatican City State (now consisting of a single branch, the ________)

5 A colonel is typically in charge of a ________ in the army.

6 By the late 19th century, colonel was a professional military rank though still held typically by an officer in command of a ________ or equivalent unit.

7 As a rank the term arose in the late sixteenth century ________ where it referred to the officer in charge of a column (Italian colonna, plural colonne) or field force.

8 Today, a colonel is usually a military title rated as the highest, or the second-highest field rank below the ________, or "flag" grades.

9 Pukovnik (________, Croatia, Serbia)

10 (The head of a single ________ or demi brigade would be called a mestre de camp or, after the Revolution, a chef de brigade.)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski, a colonel of the Polish Army, was one of the many prisoners murdered by Nazi Germany in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp?
  • following her service in the Mexican–American War, laundress and madam Sarah Bowman was breveted an honorary colonel and buried with military honors?
  • the Banat Bulgarian Stefan Dunjov participated in both the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian unification, and was the first Bulgarian to be promoted to the rank of Colonel?
  • the Russian Association of Scouts was founded by Colonel Oleg Pantyukhov (pictured)?
  • Hartvig Andreas Munthe, an aide-de-camp of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway, was made Colonel in the turbulent year of 1905, only to die three months later?
  • Colonel Denning State Park, which opened in Pennsylvania in 1936, is named for an American Revolutionary War hero, Colonel William Denning, who was a sergeant not a colonel?
  • Cuban Colonel Ramón Barquín, who unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Fulgencio Batista in 1956, later founded Atlantic College and several other educational institutions while in exile in Puerto Rico?
  • GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov won second place in by-elections to the State Duma, while imprisoned due to his suspected attempted murder of Russian politician Anatoly Chubais?
  • Winston Churchill was an Honorary Colonel in the "Queer Objects On Horseback"—better known as the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars?
  • Colonel J. Thomas Scharf, who served in both the Confederate Army and Navy, later became New York's Chinese Inspector?
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