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A war commissary or armed forces commissary (German: Kriegskommissar, French:commissaire des armées) is a military official responsible for supplying military arms and provisions, and sometimes in charge of the military budget and conscription. The rank is used, or has been used, in the Danish Army, Norwegian Army, Prussian Army, Swedish Army, French Army and Soviet army.

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War commissary

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A war commissary or armed forces commissary (German: Kriegskommissar, French:commissaire des armées) is a military official responsible for supplying...

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Commissary

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A commissary is a government official charged with oversight or an ecclesiastical official who exercises in special circumstances the jurisdiction of a...

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Commissary notes

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Commissary notes were financial certificates issued by the departments of the quartermaster and commissary-general on behalf of the Continental Army during...

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Defense Commissary Agency

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The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), headquartered at Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia, is an agency of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) that operates...

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Foods of the American Civil War

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It was headed by the Commissary General of Subsistence, who answered directly to the Secretary of War. At the start of the war this was George Gibson...

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Elias Boudinot

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New Jersey. During the Revolutionary War, Boudinot was an intelligence officer and prisoner-of-war commissary under general George Washington, working...

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Prussian Army

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Frederick William I's reign, the army had doubled in size. The General War Commissary, responsible for the army and revenue, was removed from interference...

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Commissariat

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department or organization commanded by a commissary or by a corps of commissaries. In many countries, commissary is a police rank. In those countries, a...

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English Civil War

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cavalry, with a right wing led by the lieutenant-general and left by the commissary general. Its main aim was to rout the opponents' cavalry, then turn and...

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United States Secretary of War

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wore no special insignia. The inspector general, quartermaster general, commissary general, and adjutant general served on the secretary's staff. However...

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Lithuanian Provisional Governing Commission

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(Lithuania in 1812), Warsaw, 1912. Marian Kukiel, Wojna 1812 roku (The 1812 War), Kraków, 1937. A. Rembowski, "Konfederacja Generalna i pospolite ruszenie...

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Royal Army Service Corps

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Commissariat and Transport Establishments Division under the supervision of a Commissary General). In 1887, however, the Department of the Surveyor General of...

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Tioga Commissary

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Tioga Commissary is located in Tioga, Louisiana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1986. Located north of Alexandria...

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Magnus Stenbock

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newly established General War Commissariat, and became responsible for the main army's food supply. With the help of war commissary Jöran Adlersteen, Stenbock...

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Commissar

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(from German: Krieg 'war') were officials in charge of supply for the armed forces (see Rus. Генерал-кригскомиссар). Commissaries were used during the...

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James Langley Dalton

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as Acting Assistant Commissary with the British Force. Dalton was approximately 46 years old, and an acting assistant commissary in the Commissariat and...

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Union Army

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(Chief of Ordnance), and Joseph P. Taylor (Commissary General). Reporting directly to the Secretary of War were the bureau chiefs or heads of staff departments...

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War Office

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the Commissary General of Muster, the Paymaster General of the forces, and (particularly with regard to the Militia) the Home Office. The term War Department...

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Continental Army

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the Commissary General of Purchase and the Commissary General of Issue were put under the direction of the Board. The Office of the Secretary at War was...

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Skyline Commissary

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community. The co-op operated until the end of World War II, when it was sold to private owners. The commissary continued to operate as a general store for the...

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War Crimes Act of 1996

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provisions that require providing captured Al Qaeda and Taliban combatants "commissary privileges, scrip, athletic uniforms, and scientific instruments". He...

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