generalship

plural generalships

1. governmentThe position or office of a general.First known use 16th c.

   Synonyms: generalcy

2. The term of office of a military general.First known use 17th c.

   George Washington's generalship was marked by both amazing victories and stunning blunders, neither of which would have happened to someone with more formal officer training.

3. The skills or performance of a good general; military leadership, strategy.First known use 17th c.

   Virtually the whole of the region fell to Saxe's ingenious generalship.

   2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 136

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   General Polk stated, with all respect to General Bragg’s great abilities in the direction of organization and discipline, that he had been wanting in the higher elements of generalship in the conduct of the campaign; […]

   1893, William M[ecklenburg] Polk, “The Kentucky Campaign”, in Leonidas Polk, Bishop and General, volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. and New York: […], page 158

   At the same time, awed by the brilliant and daring generalship which had enabled the Russian to capture their city with so small a force, the elders gave him the honorific title of ‘Lion of Tashkent’.

   1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 277

4. By extension, leadership, good management.First known use 18th c.

   Under my generalship my fine troop of brats picked up every scrap of litter in that lot.