List of colonel generals

The following list of colonel generals denotes those who have held the rank of colonel general in the respective military forces of their countries.

Mongolia

• Sonomyn Luvsangombo, colonel-general of the Mongolian Armed Forces Minister of Social Security of Mongolia (1982–1984)

England

• Sir Arthur Aston, colonel-general of the Yorkshire Trained Bands (1640)
• Sir Thomas Baskerville, colonel-general of land forces accompanying Sir Francis Drake's expedition to the West Indies (1595–1596); colonel-general of English forces in Picardy (1596–1597)
• John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, Royalist colonel-general of Devon and Cornwall (1645–1646)
• Richard Bonython, colonel-general of the Saco Militia (1645–?)
• Sir Nicholas Byron, Royalist colonel-general of Cheshire (1643–1644)
• Charles Cavendish, Royalist colonel-general of Lincolnshire (1642–1643)
• Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, colonel-general of the London Foot (1601)
• Sir John Corbet, Parliamentarian colonel-general of Shropshire (1642)
• Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, colonel-general of the English Horse in the Netherlands^[1] (1586–1587)
• John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville of Staveley, Royalist Colonel-General of Derbyshire (1644–1645)
• Sir Thomas Glemham, Royalist colonel-general of Northumberland (1643–1646)
• Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough, Royalist colonel-general of the East Midlands (1643)
• Bussy Mansell, Royalist colonel-general of Wales (1645)
• Sir Charles Morgan, colonel-general of His Majesty's Forces in the service of the King of Denmark^[2]
• Sir John Norris, colonel-general of the Dutch Army in Friesland (1580–1583); colonel-general of the English Army in the Netherlands (1585–1586); colonel-general of the English Foot in the Netherlands (1586–1587)
• Sydenham Poyntz, Parliamentarian colonel-general^[3] of the Northern Association (1645–1647)
• Robert Radcliffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, colonel-general of Foot (1599)
• Colonel-General Ruthin, Parliamentarian Governor of Plymouth
• Sir Thomas Scott, colonel-general of Kent, Spanish Armada campaign (1588)
• Sir William Vavasour, Royalist colonel-general of the Welsh Marches (1643–1644)
• Sir Francis Vere, colonel-general of English Foot in the Netherlands (?–1604)
• Sir Richard Willys, Royalist colonel-general of Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Rutland (1645)

Austria-Hungary

Main article: List of Austro-Hungarian colonel generals

Germany

Main article: List of German colonel generals

References

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2. Manning, R.B. (2006). An Apprenticeship in Arms: The Origins of the British Army 1585-1702. OUP Oxford. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-19-153212-2. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
3. Lipscombe, N. (2020). The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1639–51. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 351. ISBN 978-1-4728-4716-4. Retrieved 11 February 2024.