Field marshal is a military rank. Traditionally, it is the highest military rank in an army. As such a senior rank it is rarely held and many countries do not routinely promote any officers to the rank.
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Famous quotes containing the word field:
“And they wonder, as waiting the long years through
In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue,
Since he kissed them and put them there.”
—Eugene Field (1850–1895)