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... the city . Zahra : ( jokingly ) and what about you, are you going to join? Ali : ( proudly , but sarcastically ) I'll be an officer in the cavalry battalion , with the gun "pistol" of three inches. I will occupy this neighborhood in the first day.. and every evening I would hold all guards.., from midnight till morning. (They laugh) Zahra: See, the light of dawn began...

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...There were no times for personal manners when it came to sustaining a life in which everything was rationed out like an army battalion heading to the battlefield. It was a battleground where survival fought hunger toothpick versus bayonet. At any rate, postulation that the reds’ autoclavic realm wouldn't embrace a certain future; wasn't a grueling ...

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...resides. But the King wished to return the world into chaos until several battalions and several camps of angels came down to comfort her, but she t...

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... bunker room very deep below the surface of planet DN-DU-144/5, passed massive doors and moved over to the communications room. ‘Nothing yet from the battalion command?’ he asked. ‘Sir, no, sir!’ answered the communications specialist, straightening up. First Lieutenant Blacksmith was content with a simple ‘no, sir’ and in combat situations even the most basis ‘no’; if the...

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... bunker room very deep below the surface of planet DN-DU-144/5, passed massive doors and moved over to the communications room. ‘Nothing yet from the battalion command?’ he asked. ‘Sir, no, sir!’ answered the communications specialist, straightening up. First Lieutenant Blacksmith was content with a simple ‘no, sir’ and in combat situations even the most basis ‘no’; if the...

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...o return to Delhi after having spent her almost entire summer vacation here in the company of her husband Major Nishchal, posted as commandant of his Battalion, since the first of May, this year. Now that she is to be off from here in an hour to take the flight from Chandigarh to Delhi around 3-00pm, Nirupama is busy in packing her baggage, whereas her husband is sitting a...

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...o return to Delhi after having spent her almost entire summer vacation here in the company of her husband Major Nishchal, posted as commandant of his Battalion, since the first of May, this year. Now that she is to be off from here in an hour to take the flight from Chandigarh to Delhi around 3-00pm, Nirupama is busy in packing her baggage, whereas her husband is sitting a...

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...d forces, Defense of the Revolution Force, National Police Force operational battalions, Ministry for State Security (WAD), People's Militia Military ... ...ei Armed Forces, including air wing, navy, and ground forces; British Gurkha Battalion; Royal Brunei Police; Gurkha Reserve Unit Military manpower: ma... ...atellite stations Defense Forces Branches: National Army (including Infantry Battalion, Military Police Brigade, Navy, Air Force) Military manpower: m...

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...ite House November 3rd, 1864 “We have seen our courthouse in chains, two battalions of dragoons, eight companies of artillery, twelve companies of ...

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...and cut in peecesbefore his face, began then to charge his enemies in the battalion of their infanterie when he perceived them forsaken of their hors... ... foure charges they gave had missed to breake and run through his enemies battalion, at last resolved thus, that they should all unbridle their horse... ... and with such a furie that by opening, shouldering, and overthrowing the battalion, they made way for his infanterie, which there committed a most ... ...ike figure, every way square: and so forme a solide close and well-ranged battalion, encompassed round about of six equall sides. Thus orderly marsh...

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... will," was the answering shout. Morgan divided his available force into three battalions, and deployed four companies, about two hundred men, to act ...

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...s dress. These young men either preceded or lagged behind their respective battalions, according to their power of en- during the fatigues of a long m... ...e Norman official, in a sarcastic tone. “I am nine miles in advance of the battalion.” “Some strong feeling must be bringing you to Carentan, citizen ... ...orribly silent. There was one dreadful mo- ment for the countess, when the battalion of recruits passed through the town, and went to their several bi...

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...asticity and extension—so that in time of need it may fill up its skeleton battalions and empty saddle troops. This is real wisdom, be-cause the Ameri... ...fantry at four battal- 56 American Notes ions, four companies each; third battalion, skeleton; fourth on paper. Eight regiments cavalry at four batta... ...paper. Eight regiments cavalry at four battalions, four troops each; third battalion, skeleton; fourth on paper. Five regiments artillery at four batt... ... Five regiments artillery at four battalions, four compa- nies each; third battalion, skeleton; fourth on paper. Observe the beauty of this business. ... ... skeleton; fourth on paper. Observe the beauty of this business. The third battalion will have its officers, but no men; the fourth will probably have... ...e authorities at Washington could begin to fill up even the third skeleton battalions, much less hunt about for material for the fourth; (c) civil war...

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... his courage rather than his intellect, had attained to the com mand of a battalion, when a painful infirmity—the con traction of the muscles of one... ...officers crossing the Place du Palais—Morandot, who com manded one of the battalions of the regiment, and Captain Doucet. Thereupon he excitedly wave... ... he had begun as a drummer he had won his epau lets as the commander of a battalion by the sanguine bravery of a man who is quite unconscious of dang...

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... he rode along the lines to battle or galloped up in the nick of time to a battalion reeling from before the enemy’s charge or shot, the fainting men ... ...r. When he came to the lines describing the angel, that “Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage,” he rea... ...reating before them. ’Twas a service of more glory than danger, the French battalions never waiting to exchange push of pike or bayonet with ours; and... ...han that of billiards, and pushed forward his squadrons, and drove his red battalions hither and thither as calmly as he would combine a stroke or mak... ...e same time M. de la Mothe quitted Bruges, having with him five-and-thirty battalions, and upwards of sixty squadrons and forty guns, in pursuit of th... ... of the convoy. Major-General Webb had meanwhile made up a force of twenty battalions and three squadrons of dragoons at Turout, whence he moved to co... ...le force, Monsieur de la Mothe might have won victory: but only two of our battalions were shaken in the least; and these speedily ral- lied: nor coul...

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...n- dard, and music. The Commandant of Paris and his Staff. 35 Thackeray A battalion of Infantry of the Line, with their flag, sappers, drums, music, ... ...the Etat-Major; and the Professors and Staff of each. Go on imagining more battalions of Infan- try, of Artillery, companies of Engineers, squadrons o...

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...ends, is as follows:— MAJOR GOLIAH O’GRADY GAHAGAN, H.E.I.C.S., Commanding Battalion of Irregular Horse, AHMEDNUGGAR. Seeing, I say, this simple visit... ...t- est Teutonic, “Lieber Herr Major, haben sie den Ahmednuggarischen-jager-battalion gelassen?” “Warum denn?” said I, quite astonished at her R-l H-ss... ...nges and the Jumna; it consisted of eleven regiments of cavalry and twelve battalions of infantry, and was commanded by General Lake in person. Well, ... ...e affrighted kitmatgars. He, mean- while, now plunging into the midst of a battalion of consomahs, now cleaving to the chine a screaming and ferocious...

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...r, he made me feel his contempt and dislike from the first day I joined my battalion in garrison at the fort. It was only a fortnight before! I would ... ...’Hubert and Feraud carried the musket in the ranks of the so-called sacred battalion —a battalion recruited from officers of all arms who had no longe... ...f all arms who had no longer any troops to lead. 176 A Set of Six In that battalion promoted colonels did duty as sergeants; the generals captained t... ... of the bonds of discipline and duty holding together the compa- nies, the battalions, the regiments, the brigades, and divisions of an armed host, th... ...ossacks could restore to their eyes a semblance of martial resolution. The battalion faced about and deployed, or formed square under the endless flut... ...men would disappear, as if carried off yelling in the gale, and the sacred battalion standing still, alone in the blizzard, heard only the howling of ... ...n a casual word or two, except one day, when skirmish- ing in front of the battalion against a worrying attack of cavalry, they found themselves cut o... ...s and galloped away out of range. The two officers managed to rejoin their battalion halted for the night. During that afternoon they had leaned upon ... ... an old wooden barn burned with a clear and an im- mense flame. The sacred battalion of skeletons, muffled in rags, crowded greedily the windward side...

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...Santerre, indeed, Commander! But the sonorous Brewer commands only our own Battalion: of such secrets he can explain nothing, knows nothing, perhaps s... ...onals, horse and foot, hurrying eastward: Santerre, with the Saint-Antoine Battalion, is already there,—ap- parently indisposed to act. Heavy-laden He... ...ational Guards know not how to act. Centre Grenadiers, of the Observatoire Battalion, are there; not on duty; alas, in quasi-mutiny; speaking rude dis... ...m, ever since that dissolution of the so-called Constitutional Guard. Some Battalions are altogether ‘petris, kneaded full’ of Feuillantism, mere Aris... ...ded full’ of Feuillantism, mere Aris- tocrats at bottom: for instance, the Battalion of the Filles- Saint-Thomas, made up of your Bankers, Stockbroker... ...y old Friend Weber, Queen’s Foster-brother Weber, carries a musket in that Battalion,—one may judge with what degree of Patri- otic intention. Heedles... ...ut of him, and looking too into the dread throat of can- non, for National Battalions stand ranked within: how tri- color Municipals ran assiduous, an... ...what sort of grace-before-meat this was to frugal Patriotism. Also how the Battalion of the Filles-Saint-Thomas ‘drew out in arms, ’ luckily without f... ...n; cloudy Atlas of the whole. Likewise he manages to have that blackbrowed Battalion of Marseillese shifted to new Barracks, in his own region of the ...

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...1 Balzac “Gerard! Merle!” added Hulot, “call in your men, form them into a battalion, take the rear, fire upon those dogs, and let’s make an end of th... ...ing to the news, “Fouche’s police will be more dangerous for us than their battalions of recruits and counter-Chouans.” “Yes, true enough, father,” re... ...stomed. The greater part of them had be- longed, like Hulot, to the famous battalions which capitu- lated at Mayenne under a promise not to serve agai... ...h- borhood of Fougeres, Hulot secretly and with forced marches brought two battalions of his brigade into the town. The nation’s danger, his hatred of... ... as Corentin made off rapidly, “he’s the king of spies.” Hulot ordered the battalion to start. The republican sol- diers marched without drums and sil... ...isinherit him.” The division over, the men of Fougeres rejoined the little battalion of the Blues on their way to the town. * * * T owards mid... ...e now, you will only warn her. Neither you, nor I, nor your Blues and your battalions are strong enough to get the better of that girl if she takes it...