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Charles Cornwallis
US General Grant forced the Shenandoah Valley campaign. Grant placed Major General Siegel in charge of the advance on the Shenandoah Valley campaign. Grant had no true confidence in Siegel and finally General Sheridan replaced Siegel and marched on the Valley.
Erwin Rommel .
He was the British general in charge of the Saratoga campaign during the American Revolutionary War.
Sir Claude Auchinleck, then Gen. Bernard Montgomery were in charge on the British side. After 1942 Gen. George Patton led US troops in Tunisia, in the west. The Famous German General , Erwin Rommel led a wily and fierce campaign, but was ultimately crushed between the Allies on each side.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee decided that he had to reorganize his army before undertaking the Gettysburg campaign. He placed General Richard Ewell to take charge of Stonewall Jackson's corps the ll Corps.
The build-up of the coastal defenses in France was the assignment of German General Irwin Rommel. He was in direct charge of the so-called Atlantic Wall. Rommel had under him Army Group B, which consisted of the 7th and 15th German armies and 88 Corps. General Marshal Von Rundstedt favored a more elastic and mobile defense, this idea however, was overrulded by Hitler.
The German word for "second-in-charge" is "stellvertretend".
Dwight D. Eisenhower was in charge of Operation Torch in the North American campaign. He was also put in charge of the Mediterranean area soon after.
The Supreme Allied commander during D-Day, and indeed the French campaign afterwards, was American General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The MEF military unit was in charge of the Gallipoli Campaign. Commanders included Ian Hamilton, Herbert Kitchener, John de Robeck, and William Birdwood.
General Omar Bradley was in charge of the US landings. General Bernard Montgomery was in charge of the British and Canadian landings.