In 1785 he was commissioned as a sublieutenant in the army.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
He became sublieutenant in the Thirty-fifth Regiment of infantry, and afterward, as lieutenant in the same corps, he signalized himself in Italy by a courage which was proof against everything.
"Renée Mauperin"
Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
A sublieutenant sabers a student who had inadvertently jogged his elbow.
"Comrade Kropotkin"
Victor Robinson