Colonel general is a senior rank of general. North Korea and Russia are two countries which have used the rank extensively throughout their histories. A rank sometimes erroneously translated as "colonel general" is also closely associated with Germany, where Generaloberst has been a rank above the full General and a rank below Generalfeldmarschall.
Read more about Colonel General: Austria, China (PRC), Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, North Korea, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam
Famous quotes containing the words colonel and/or general:
“Swan/Mary Rutledge: Oh no, no. I’m not running away. I came here to get something, and I’m going to get it.
Col. Cobb: Yes, but San Francisco is no place for a woman.
Swan: Why not? I’m not afraid. I like the fog. I like this new world. I like the noise of something happening.... I’m tired of dreaming, Colonel Cobb. I’m staying. I’m staying and holding out my hands for gold—bright, yellow gold.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man’s general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)