Major general Army, a major general commands a corps of 30,000–40,000 soldiers and is capable of fully independent field operation. Major general Major general (abbreviated MG, Maj. Gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparently confusing phenomenon whereby a lieutenant general outranks a major general while a major outranks a lieutenant. In the Commonwealth and the United States, it is a division commander's rank subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of
Major General Richard Stewart Dobbs Major General Richard Stewart Dobbs Major General Richard Stewart Dobbs (10 May, 1808 – 26 September, 1888), son of Rev. Richard Stewart Dobbs and Harriet Macauley, was a British civil servant. He served as the first Superintendent of Chittledroog (Chitradurga) Division, in the princely state of Mysuru (Mysore), British India, from 1834 to 1861. Tumakuru was the then headquarters of this division. He subsequently rose to the rank of Major-General in the 9th Regiment of the Madras Native Infantry One of the major successes during his administration, as he has recorded in his reminiscences, was that he was completely successful