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Provost marshal

noun

The supervisor of the military police.

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"Provost marshal" Quotes from Famous Books

... of James River. There, too, negroes came in, who were employed as servants to the officers. One of them, when we left the fort, more fortunate than his comrades, and aided by a benevolent captain, eluded the vigilance of the Provost Marshal, and is now the curiosity of a village in the neighborhood ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 49, November, 1861 • Various

... of the various departments just mentioned. One member of the Chicago Order, as appeared in evidence before the military commission, traveled over the North wherever he desired, on the pass of a Provost Marshal in Indiana, his business being to aid in the organization of Temples in the different sections of the West. So rapidly did they increase in numbers, that Judge Morris estimated the number in Illinois alone ...

— The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details • I. Windslow Ayer

Words linked to "Provost marshal" : MP, military machine, military, war machine, armed forces, military policeman, armed services