The military appointment caused surprise: everyone expected Postumus to be chosen.
"But it is one of the principal military appointments in the king's household."
Originally this would often have been a military appointment, but is now more likely to be a civilian post.
It seems surprising, therefore, that Volusianus should have been given this job as his first recorded military appointment.
You have taken up military appointments and have defended the state well in times of peril.
He ranked Peter, but it was a police, not a military appointment.
Those details about military appointments were included as context at the bottom of the article.
In August of that year he requested a military appointment.
Two military appointments, one for a Federal post, the other academic, were milestones.
After the Cape he held several important military appointments in Britain.
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