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    Field marshal was the highest rank in the military of Uganda, during the regime of Idi Amin. On 17 July 1975, Idi Amin, President of Uganda and the commander-in-chief...
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    Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is the second most senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks, but junior...
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    May 1928 – 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He ruled as a...
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  • Field marshal (South Africa) Field marshal (Sri Lanka) Field marshal (Thailand) - refer Chom Phon Field marshal (New Zealand) Field marshal (Uganda)...
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  • the officers who have held the army rank of field marshal or marshal. It does not include air force marshals. HM Nasrullah Khan (1875–1920) 2004 - Mohammed...
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    This is a list of the heads of state of Uganda, from the independence of Uganda in 1962 to the present day. From 1962 to 1963, the head of state under...
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    The Uganda–Tanzania War, known in Tanzania as the Kagera War (Kiswahili: Vita vya Kagera) and in Uganda as the 1979 Liberation War, was fought between...
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  • an adjective, with field officer ranks, although in some countries the highest general officers are titled field marshal, marshal, or captain general...
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  • 1986 Uganda Cup 1986 Uganda Super League 1987 Uganda Cup 1987 Uganda Super League 1988 Uganda Cup 1988 Uganda Super League 1989 Uganda Cup 1989 Uganda Super...
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  • before returning, destitute, to his native Uganda. He was officially removed from his post as Field Marshal on 11 March. The People's Liberation Army (PLA)...
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    Human rights in Uganda have trended for the past decades towards increasing harassment of the opposition, cracking down on NGOs which work on election...
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    76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3) (category World War II field artillery)
    Marshal Grigory Kulik, commander of Soviet artillery, had ordered a halt to the production of light 45 mm anti-tank guns and 76.2 mm divisional field...
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    M'marete, Musa Mwariama, General China and Muthoni Kirima, was one of the Field Marshals. Kenyan nationalists view him as the heroic figurehead of the Kenyan...
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  • official title while in office as President of Uganda was 'His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC,...
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  • rank structure (Commonwealth), major general is equivalent to air vice-marshal. In some countries including much of Eastern Europe, major general is the...
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  • Broadcasting Corporate S.C. Oct 24, 2023. "Ethiopia introduces its first Field Marshal rank amid changes to insignia". January 8, 2022. Archived from the original...
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    Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (category British field marshals)
    accorded the honorary rank of major-general on 11 June 1983, and of field marshal on 11 June 1993. At York Minster on 8 June 1961 the Duke of Kent married...
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    Minister of Serbia Field Marshal Radomir Putnik – Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Army (1914–1915) General/Field Marshal Živojin Mišić – Deputy...
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    scene, although he was allowed to retain his self-bestowed title of field marshal. However, Okello's revolutionaries soon began reprisals against the...
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    The Pakistan national field hockey team (Urdu: پاکستان قومى ہاكى ٹیم) represents Pakistan in international field hockey. Having played its first match...
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    military committee set up under the chairmanship of General (later Field Marshal) Sir Philip Chetwode. From a class of 40 male cadets in 1932, IMA now...
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  • 27 May 2021.[permanent dead link] "Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces Act" (PDF). The Uganda Gazette. CXII (46). Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation:...
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  • in air forces with a separate rank structure, it is equivalent to air marshal. In the United States, a lieutenant general has a three star insignia and...
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    UEA split into three independent universities: Makerere University in Uganda, the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and the University of Dar es Salaam...
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  • commander, was used in the French Army. The normal brigade command rank was field marshal (maréchal de camp) (which elsewhere is a more senior rank). During the...
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  • oversaw the embalming of Judy Garland in 1969, Jimi Hendrix in 1970, Field Marshal Lord Montgomery in 1976, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma...
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    Martial eagle (redirect from Marshal eagle)
    Somaliland and Ethiopia more or less continuously south through Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and in southern Africa from Angola, Zambia, Malawi and southern...
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    and Air Marshal Norman Walsh, who retired in 1982 and was replaced by Air Marshal Azim Daudpota who handed over command to Air Chief Marshal Josiah Tungamirai...
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    the Vistula River 29 September—31 October Russians defeat Germans under Marshal von Mackensen Battle of Rufiji Delta October 1914—11 July 1915 British...
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  • (1994-2000) Reserve Captain Idi Amin  Uganda President of Uganda (1971-1979) 1946-1979 Major-General Field Marshal (self-awarded) Jacobo Arbenz  Guatemala...
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