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COLONEL. An officer in the army, next below a brigadier general, bears this title.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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George I rewarded him with the colonelcy of the 9th Foot.

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Edward Cooper Hodge, commanding officer of the 4th Dragoon Guards in the Crimea, reflected that he had been given a colonelcy in that regiment worth 840 [pounds sterling].

Money and prices in the late eighteenth century

This dismay had led to his determination to resign his Regular Army commission in order to accept the colonelcy of one of the regiments of Michigan volunteers, a post which had been offered to him by Governor Austin Blair.

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He backed the right Democratic candidate for governor and his reward was a place on the gentleman's staff as aide and a Kentucky colonelcy, a title he kept for life.

Manitoba's own Kentucky Colonel

He continues to hold that colonelcy but is outranked by the Queen, who is colonel-in-chief of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.