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1626 E. Cecyl Jrnl. Action Coast of Spain 17 I gaue a generall order to the Sergeant Major Generall, that when any Soldier should land they should bring victualls with them.]

1669 J. Locke Constitutions Carolina 12 §. 50 To Issue out their general Orders to the Constable's and Admiral's Courts, for the Raising, Disposing, or Disbanding the Forces by Land or by Sea.

1699 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1676–99 (ed. 2) 275 He [sc. the king] chose the Field, drew up his Army, gave out his general Orders where-ever he was in Person.

1756 R. Dinwiddie Let. 27 Dec. in G. Washington Papers (1984) IV. 71 Not knowing Your Numbers in those Out-Forts I gave general Orders to call them all in.

1804 Times 18 Feb. 2/5 The Dublin Papers, of the 11th instant, mention, that the Commander in Chief, Lord Cathcart, has issued General Orders to all the Yeomanry Corps of Ireland.

1906 Amer. Hist. Rev. 11 827 What would seem to be the most fundamental documentary series, a complete edition of the general orders of Washington as commander-in-chief, remains unexecuted.

1992 N. Maclean Young Men & Fire ii. xi. 221 The task force developed a practical set of recommendations, and at a meeting in Washington, D.C., it was decided these orders should be modeled on the military services' General Orders.