• Counter admiral is a military rank used for high-ranking officers in several navies around the world, though the rank is not used in the English-speaking...
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  • admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies. In most European navies, the equivalent rank is called counter admiral. Rear admiral is...
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  • An admiral of the fleet or shortened to fleet admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, usually equivalent to field marshal and marshal of the air force...
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  • Grand admiral is a historic naval rank, the highest rank in the several European navies that used it. It is best known for its use in Germany as Großadmiral...
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  • army or the air force. Admiral is ranked above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, or fleet admiral. The word admiral in Middle English comes...
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  • rank of flotilla admiral, counter admiral, or senior captain as an equivalent, although counter admiral may also correspond to rear admiral lower half abbreviated...
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  • Schout-bij-nacht (category Admirals)
    admirals (Danish: Vice-Admiral), and above Commander-captains (Commandeur-Capitainer til Søes). In 1771, the rank was replaced with Counter admiral....
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    age of 60 years old; 5) the persons at the rank of major general (counter admiral in naval service) or higher (supreme officers) and not reached the...
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  • Flotilla admiral is the lowest flag rank, a rank above captain, in the modern navies of Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden and Lithuania...
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  • Vice admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, usually equivalent to lieutenant general and air marshal. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear...
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  • Commodore admiral (COMO) was a short-lived military rank of the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard that existed for less than 11 months...
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  • while in the navy it is below Contraamiral de flotilă (lit. 'Flotilla counter admiral'). The rank was also used in the Royal Romanian Air Force and Navy...
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  • flag officer. This rank is usually a field marshal, general of the army, admiral of the fleet or marshal of the air force. In the United States Armed Forces...
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    which was protected by the French Atlantic Squadron, commanded by Counter-admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse. The two forces clashed in the Atlantic...
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  • on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2013. "A Dane giving the orders". Admiral Danish Fleet. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved...
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    General admiral or Admiral general was first a Dutch then Danish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish naval rank. Its historic origin is a...
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    damaged ships of the British fleet attacked the French rear, forcing Counter-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve to pull away for the mouth of the bay. Four...
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    the line commanded by Counter-admiral Corentin Urbain de Leissègues were captured or destroyed. The Royal Navy led by Vice-admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth...
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  • achieved. It is equivalent to the rank of general in the Army and counter admiral in the Navy. Each brigadier general is appointed by the Executive with...
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  • Rear admiral Admiral-superintendent Port admiral Counter admiral Divisional admiral Commodore Flotilla admiral Schout-bij-nacht Senior officers Captain...
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  • general or army corps general Vice admiral Air marshal Major general or divisional general Rear admiral or counter admiral Air vice-marshal Brigadier or brigadier...
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  • posthumously to George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant Generaladmiral ("general admiral") (German Navy) Air general and aviation general Wing general and group...
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  • general or army corps general Vice admiral Air marshal Major general or divisional general Rear admiral or counter admiral Air vice-marshal Brigadier or brigadier...
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  • Component. Divisional admiral (Italian: Ammiraglio di divisione) is a rank used by the Italian Navy. It ranks directly above a counter admiral and immediately...
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  • of France. General André Martin (1958–1959) Counter Admiral Yves Goupil (April 1984 – March 1988) Admiral Jacques Lanxade (March 1988 – April 1989) General...
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    Counter-Admiral Yves Joseph Marie de Kerguelen-Trémarec (13 February 1734 – 3 March 1797) was a French Navy officer. He discovered the Kerguelen Islands...
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    general or army corps general Vice admiral Air marshal Major general or divisional general Rear admiral or counter admiral Air vice-marshal Brigadier or brigadier...
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    British convoy, Commodore Nathaniel Dance's aggressive tactics persuaded Counter-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois to retire after only a brief exchange...
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  • general or army corps general Vice admiral Air marshal Major general or divisional general Rear admiral or counter admiral Air vice-marshal Brigadier or brigadier...
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