Marshal of the United Commonwealth

Marshal of the United Commonwealth;
Country	United Commonwealth
Service branch	Continental Army
Rank insignia
Formation	14 May 1922
Next higher rank	None
Next lower rank	General
Equivalent ranks	General of the Armies (Antilles)

Marshal of the United Commonwealth is the highest military rank of the Continental Army and is one of the highest ranks of any officer in the wider Continental Armed Forces of the United Commonwealth. The title is comparable to the General of the Armies, the highest rank in the armed forces of the Antilles in the Caribbean.

The rank was established on 14 May 1922 by decree of the Council of People's Commissars, less than a month after the signing of the Union Treaty, which formally established the United Commonwealth of Continental States. Its creation coincided with the creation of the equivalent naval rank, the Admiral of the Fleet. The rank was initially conferred upon three people who had been instrumental to command of the Continental armed forces during the Continental Revolutionary War: Zhou Xinyue, Achilles Taylor, and Aloysius Jadwin. The insignia of the Marshal of the United Commonwealth is the symbol of the Continental Army – a globe with the hammer and sycle over it to symbolize Landonism's openness to all nations – above five stars in a pentagonal shape.

History of the rank

List of marshals of the United Commonwealth

List of Marshals of the United Commonwealth
#	Name (lifetime)	Dates of rank	Political office	Presidium member?	Secretariat member?	Commissariat member?
1	Zhou Xinyue (1886–1922)	14 May 1922 – 19 November 1922 (Assassinated)	People's Commissar for Defense, 1917–1922 Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars, 1921–1922 Deputy Member, Central Executive Committee, 1922 People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the PSAUC, 1918–1919 Commander-in-Chief, Southeast, 1920–1922 Representative of the American Constituent Assembly, 1917–1918 Chairman of the Chicago Assembly, 1917	Yes	Yes	Yes
2	Achilles Taylor (1864–1930)	14 May 1922 – 30 November 1922 (Forced Retirement)	Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, 1921–1922 Member of the American Central Executive Committee, 1921 Inspector of Cavalry, Continental Army, 1922	No	No	Yes
3	Aloysius Jadwin (1875–1961)	14 May 1922 – 9 October 1930 (Forced Retirement)	Deputy People's Commissar of Defense/Chief of the General Staff, 1921–1922 Secretary of the Central Committee of the Continentalist Party, 1923–1929 Technology and Armament Chief, Continental Army, 1929–1930 Commander-in-Chief, Southern, 1920–1922	No	Yes	Yes
4	Robert D. Huron (1871–1929)	5 December 1922 – 6 May 1929 (Executed)	People's Commissar for Defense, 1922–1929 Secretary of the Central Committee of the Continentalist Party, 1923–1929 Military Governor, Continental Military Administration in Acadiana, 1922	No	Yes	Yes
5	Alexander Minoa (1882–1956)	6 August 1927 – 6 May 1951 (Retired)	Deputy People's Commissar of Defense/Chief of the General Staff, 1927–1949 Supreme Allied Commander, Brazoria, 1937–1938 Chairman of the Chattanooga Military Committee, 1940–1949 Commander, Southern Command, 1932–1937 Deputy Minister of Defense for Military Science, 1949–1951	No	No	Yes
6	Omar Radford (1879–1963)	5 January 1928 – 11 June 1946 (Retired)	People's Commissar for Defense, 1929–1946 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1934–1944 Deputy Member of the Presidium, 1929–1939 Commander, Northwest Command, 1931–1937 Military Governor, Continental Military Administration in Michigan, 1936–1938	Yes	No	Yes
7	Smedley Butler (1881–1940)	8 January 1933 – 21 June 1940 (Death)	Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, 1933–1940 Commander, Southeast Command, 1931–1937	No	No	Yes
8	Seamus Callahan (1885–1947)	2 March 1935 – 1 June 1947 (Death)	General Secretary, Central Committee of the Continentalist Party, 1922–1947 Chairman, Council of People's Commissars, 1928–1938, 1941–1946 President of the United Commonwealth, 1925–1947 Speaker of the National Congress, 1928–1946 People's Commissar for Defense, 1946–1947 Supreme Commander, Continental Armed Forces, 1932–1938 Chairman, State Defense Committee, 1932–1938	Yes	Yes	Yes
9	Thiago Mitchell (1890–1973)	16 May 1936 – 8 October 1950 (Retired)	Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, 1936–1950 Commander, Northern Command, 1934–1938 Military Governor, Continental Military Administration in Ontario, 1938–1940	No	No	Yes
10	Hoyt Vandenberg (1889–1954)	19 April 1937 – 1 December 1950 (Retired)	Chairman of the Presidium of the United Commonwealth, 1947–1948 People's Commissar for Defense, 1947–1948 Director of Central Intelligence, 1946–1950 People's Commissar for Internal Affairs, 1937–1946 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1944–1950 Commander, Western Command, 1931–1937	Yes	Yes	Yes
13	William J. Donovan (1883–1959)	4 September 1951 – 15 August 1954 (Retired)	People's Commissar for Defense, 1952–1954 Director of Central Intelligence, 1950–1954 Director of the Office of Strategic Services, 1933–1938	No	No	Yes