An army general is the highest ranking officer in the british army. His role is to manage and command the entire army. His work is purely "paper" based and does not take part in any front line combat.
His role also involves advising his boss ( the prime minister ) in times of war or conflict.
Generals fall into different types.
1 Star
2 Star
3 Star
4 Star
As you said army general im guessing you were refering to the highest ranking general which is a 4 star.
The President acts as the Head of the Military who gets the final say. However in terms of the military itself, the Chief of Staff is the leader and it is currently General Raymond T. Odierno.
That would be the Chief of Staff of the Army, who is at a minimum of a four-star General. The position is currently held by GEN George W. Casey, Jr. In certain wartime scenarios, this position will be a 5-star post; however, this has not occurred since the end of WW2.
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The U.S. genral who was in charge of the war.
Major General George Meade was named commander of the Army of the Potomac only three days prior to the battle at Gettysburg. Major General Henry Halleck was General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army at that time. And of course, Abraham Lincoln was commander in chief.
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A brigadier general is a one-star general. There are several brigadier generals in the U.S. Army.
General George W. Casey, Jr. is the Chief of Staff of the Army. John M. McHugh is the current Secretary of the Army.
General Washington was a general because the Continental Congress gave him that rank when it placed him in charge of the army.
General Montgomery
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The Continental Congress appointed him Commanding General of the Continental Army
The general in charge of the Continental Army was General George Washington. He was the leader of this army during the Revolutionary War.
Pickett himself was a General. But the army commander was Robert E. Lee.
ANSWER Major General George Gordon Meade was the Commander of the Union Army at Gettysburg.
The U.S. genral who was in charge of the war.
The Confederate general in charge of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee, surrendered to the Union general in charge of the Army of the Potomac, Ulysses S. Grant, at Appomattox Court House, in Virginia.
Appointed General-in-Chief March 1864
In the US a 2 Star or Major General is usually in charge of a Department of the Army in peacetime.