List of colonel generals

The following list of colonel generals denotes those who have held the rank of colonel general in the respective military forces of their countries.

Mongolia

Sonomyn Luvsangombo, colonel-general of the Mongolian Armed Forces Minister of Social Security of Mongolia (1982–1984)

England

Sir Arthur Aston, colonel-general of the Yorkshire Trained Bands (1640)
Sir Thomas Baskerville, colonel-general of land forces accompanying Sir Francis Drake's expedition to the West Indies (1595–1596); colonel-general of English forces in Picardy (1596–1597)
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, Royalist colonel-general of Devon and Cornwall (1645–1646)
Richard Bonython, colonel-general of the Saco Militia (1645–?)
Sir Nicholas Byron, Royalist colonel-general of Cheshire (1643–1644)
Charles Cavendish, Royalist colonel-general of Lincolnshire (1642–1643)
Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, colonel-general of the London Foot (1601)
Sir John Corbet, Parliamentarian colonel-general of Shropshire (1642)
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, colonel-general of the English Horse in the Netherlands^[1] (1586–1587)
John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville of Staveley, Royalist Colonel-General of Derbyshire (1644–1645)
Sir Thomas Glemham, Royalist colonel-general of Northumberland (1643–1646)
Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough, Royalist colonel-general of the East Midlands (1643)
Bussy Mansell, Royalist colonel-general of Wales (1645)
Sir Charles Morgan, colonel-general of His Majesty's Forces in the service of the King of Denmark^[2]
Sir John Norris, colonel-general of the Dutch Army in Friesland (1580–1583); colonel-general of the English Army in the Netherlands (1585–1586); colonel-general of the English Foot in the Netherlands (1586–1587)
Sydenham Poyntz, Parliamentarian colonel-general^[3] of the Northern Association (1645–1647)
Robert Radcliffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, colonel-general of Foot (1599)
Colonel-General Ruthin, Parliamentarian Governor of Plymouth
Sir Thomas Scott, colonel-general of Kent, Spanish Armada campaign (1588)
Sir William Vavasour, Royalist colonel-general of the Welsh Marches (1643–1644)
Sir Francis Vere, colonel-general of English Foot in the Netherlands (?–1604)
Sir Richard Willys, Royalist colonel-general of Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Rutland (1645)

Austria-Hungary

Germany

References

^ Smuts, R.M. (2016). The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare. Oxford handbooks of literature. Oxford University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-19-966084-1. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
^ Manning, R.B. (2006). An Apprenticeship in Arms: The Origins of the British Army 1585-1702. OUP Oxford. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-19-153212-2. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
^ Lipscombe, N. (2020). The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1639–51. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 351. ISBN 978-1-4728-4716-4. Retrieved 11 February 2024.

[Smuts_2016_p._94-1] Smuts, R.M. (2016). The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare. Oxford handbooks of literature. Oxford University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-19-966084-1. Retrieved 11 February 2024.

[Manning_2006_p._58-2] Manning, R.B. (2006). An Apprenticeship in Arms: The Origins of the British Army 1585-1702. OUP Oxford. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-19-153212-2. Retrieved 11 February 2024.

[Lipscombe_2020_p._351-3] Lipscombe, N. (2020). The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1639–51. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 351. ISBN 978-1-4728-4716-4. Retrieved 11 February 2024.

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