Captain general

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Captain general stands for:

  • Captain General (Spain) , military rank in the Spanish military and former post in the Spanish military administration
  • General the lowest rank of various armies around the Gen. accordingly, even General Hauptmann called

Historically, the captain general was referred to as:

  • In the former Republic of Venice, the commander-in-chief , appointed only in the event of a war , especially of the fleet ( Capitan General da Mar )
  • In pre-revolutionary France, the captain général was not a military rank, but a military-political position
  • in Prussia the commander of the castle and bodyguards
  • in Bavaria the commander of the Hartschiere
  • in older sources the commander-in-chief of an army (also general captain ), see field captain
  • in the Dutch Republic of the commander of the Territorial Army as a captain general, was Kapitein-generaal referred


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