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took command
vb. (en-simple past of: take command)
Usage examples of "took command".
This time he took command of the display, tapping on vectors and assigning threat levels.
Sergeant Grim repeated the orders in military manner as the Commandant took command of his troops.
The colonel had told him that if O'Neal made it back he would be taking over operations while Givens took command.
Thus he took command of those and of the half dozen factory workers who had volunteered to run them.
Then having ordered that Michael, carefully bound and guarded, should be carried on to Tomsk with the other prisoners, he took command of the troops at Zabediero, and, amid the deafening noise of drums and trumpets, he marched towards the town where the Emir awaited him.