General of the Armies in chief of the Army of the [United States]". but only wore the three-star insignia of an Army lieutenant general. As of 1782, when Washington was listed as a lieutenant general on the rolls of the United States Army, his rank was informally called "three-star general". The United States at this point had no four-star general rank and would not until 1866. At that time, the European rank of captain general was shortened to simply "general"; there would also be no lieutenant generals in the American army until Winfield Scott was "brevetted" to the rank of lieutenant general in 1855.
Major general general is the army rank of "generale di divisione". In the army, the "generale di divisione" is the commander of a division. Because no brigadier-general rank is used in Japan, major-general is the rank of brigade commander. For this reason, the French are represented in the manner as and some countries, such as Brazil and Chile, follow it also words of some countries of the Italian and Spanish, and the like. In the past, "rikugun-shōshō"(陸軍少将) in the Imperial Japanese Army was equivalent to major-general, in the current,"rikushōho"(陸将補) in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and "kūshōho"(空将補) in the Japan Air Self-Defense