Major general Army is equivalent to rear admiral in the Navy and air vice marshal in the Air Force. It is the lowest of the general officer ranks, ranking between brigadier and lieutenant general. The Pakistan Army has four female major generals. "Generał brygady" (, literally "general of a brigade", abbreviated gen. bryg.) is the lowest rank for generals in the Polish Army (both in the land forces and in the Polish air force). Depending on the context, it is equivalent to either the modern rank of major general, or the rank of brigadier general (mostly in historical context). The rank of
David Forbes (British Army officer) officer who returned out of forty-two, and bringing with him only thirty-six out of twelve hundred rank and file. He went on half-pay and settled at Aberdeen, where he lived without further employment for the rest of his life. On 10 January 1837 he was promoted colonel, in 1838 made a C.B., and in 1846 promoted major-general. He died in Aberdeen on 29 March 1849. David Forbes (British Army officer) Major-General David Forbes (13 January 1772 – 29 March 1849) was a Scottish military officer in the British Army. Forbes was the son of a Scottish minister in the county