Richard Hannay returns to the front lines and participates in desperate fighting following the Germans' massive, last-ditch effort to win the war. Soon after the end of the war, Hannay marries Mary Lamington, and the following year they have a son, Peter John Hannay. The boy is named after Hannay's two great friends John Scantlebury Blenkiron (an American businessman and spy who had often helped him) and Peter Pienaar ("Mr Standfast"), an old Boer scout who seems to have been a kind of father-figure to him. The family settles in Mary's old home in the Cotswolds, Fosse Manor, Oxfordshire and Hannay (now
Major general name, as are all general officers; thereafter by subordinates as "sir" or "ma'am" as applicable in English or "mon général" in French. Major-generals are normally entitled to staff cars. In the Estonian military, the major general rank is called "kindralmajor". The Finnish military equivalent is "kenraalimajuri" in Finnish, and "generalmajor" in Swedish and Danish. The French equivalent to the rank of major general is "général de division". In the French military, "major général" is not a rank but an appointment conferred on some generals, usually of "général de corps d'armée" rank, acting as head of staff of one of the