Commander-in-chief

Dorgon returned to take charge of the capital, where his brother died on April 29th, 1649.

Before taking the field again, Dorgon recalled his older brother, Ajiga, to take charge of the capital with the title of Supreme Commander of the Left.

Nikan, Bolo, and Mandahai, the grandsons of Nrhachi serving on the northern front, were then promoted to imperial princes.

Later, they would serve as a triumvirate for the management of routine administrative affairs.

He had to convene the deliberative council to resist a bid by Ajiga to assume Dodo's title of Assistant Regent in his absence.

The council agreed with Dorgon that Ajiga's demand so soon after his brother's death was highly improper, if not suspect, and recommended that Ajiga be demoted from imperial prince.

Dorgon then spared Ajiga that humiliation in return for his acceptance of the lesser title of Supreme Commander of the Left.

Yet Dorgon was determined to leave the capital.

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mean we've actually debated I can't forget but yeah so we'll just talk about the supreme commanders of the war for their respective nations So yeah, technically a Ferdinand Forge Pétain would also be in consideration here, but we are advocating for the worst.

The guys who did a piss poor job.

Oh, it was Erich von Falkenheim.

Yet, who really was the man at the center of it all? Who was the president who steered the nation through one of its most iconic decades? Born in modest circumstances in North Texas, Eisenhower grew up fascinated with the military.

Joining the army as a young man, he rose through the ranks, eventually becoming Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during D-Day.

Swept to the presidency on the back of his wartime popularity, he promised an era of optimism.

His successes and failures would define an entire generation.

In response, Ike merely smiled and said, Milton, I haven't worried about the weather since June 6, 1944.

That's because June 6 was the day Eisenhower had overseen the greatest seaborne invasion in history, D-Day.

Promoted to Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force on Christmas Eve 1943, Eisenhower had spent the previous six months liaising in London with Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle to make sure that things went right.

There were a lot of ways they could have gone wrong.

But by the spring of 1945, their relationship had deteriorated, and Himmler sought to negotiate a peace settlement, knowing that the end of the Third Reich was just around the corner.

Though he'd sworn his loyalty to Hitler on the Führer's birthday, he'd made plans to leave Berlin shortly afterwards, and asked the Swedish diplomat, Count Volker Bernadotte, to inform General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, that Germany wished to surrender to the Western Allies, rather than the Soviets.

Hitler was furious that Himmler was acting of his own volition, and considered Himmler as having gravely betrayed him, subsequently ordering his arrest.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower painted over three hundred oil paintings during and after his presidency, which is impressive until you realize he didn’t start painting until age fifty-eight.

The Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War II, the man who planned D-Day, decided in retirement that his new calling was landscapes and portraits, and he pursued it with military precision.

Eisenhower’s paintings were actually good.

Not great, not masterpieces, but competent and occasionally moving.

On this calm Sunday morning of April 9th, 1865, the moment which eight million men, women, and children of the Confederacy have been expecting and dreading has come.

General Robert E. Lee, Supreme Commander of the Southern Forces, has left his headquarters here for a meeting with the commander of the Northern Army, General Ulysses S.

Grant.

That meeting was arranged at Lee's request, and it can mean only one thing.

A- and I say union only because they have a pretty good act of either aligning or fighting against politicians.

But I'll tell you, as a guy who wore a uniform, you know, what we do truly depends on the integrity of the person in charge or the commander-in-chief.

commander-in-chief.Um, that's true.

Um, and once those guys are elected, you have the obligation to serve under them, and sometimes, you know, people in the military don't particularly like it, but that's what you signed up for.

That is, that is a fact, and something people really need to consider before they take that oath of office.

Admiral Chester Nimitz, the commander-in-chief of the US fleet, will seize key strategic Japanese bases in the Central Pacific.

along the Gilbert, Marshall, and Mariana Islands.

General Douglas MacArthur, the supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific, would take New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to the south of Japan's empire.

Fortunately for MacArthur, allies stationed on New Guinea have prevented Japan from seizing the entire island.

The Japanese invaded New Guinea in March 1942, but came up against Australia's forces stationed there.

It would put Japan's home islands within easy striking range of U.S. heavy bombers, King's plan would mean bypassing most of the remaining Japanese bases across the Pacific, leaving them undefeated but isolated.

General MacArthur has other ideas.

The US Supreme Commander in Southeast Asia tells President Roosevelt that America must continue with his island-hopping strategy.