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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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... 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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...a born general. With her star above, with certain advantages secured, with battalions of lies disci- plined and zealous, and with one clear prize in v...

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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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... 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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...had already given up the idea of breaking through the square formed by the battalion, in the centre of which stood Prince Humbert of Savoy, when they ... ...s he galloped to the front and placed himself at about twenty paces from a battalion of Austrian sharp-shooters which were ascending the hill. In less... ...n entire Aus- trian brigade, supported by uhlans, sharp-shooters (almost a battalion) and twelve pieces of artillery. These positions were 32 Miscell... ...ers in the person of Major Castellini, a Milanese, commander of the second battalion of Lombardian bersaglieri. Although these and Major Caldesi’s bat... ... and may only find a fit companion in that of an officer of the eighteenth battalion of bersaglieri, who, dashing at an Austrian flag-bearer, wrenches... ...agliere— a T uscan, by name Orlandi Matteo, belonging to that heroic fifth battalion which fought against entire brigades, regi- ments, and battalions... ... by the bright serpent-like flashes of the lightning, we fell in with some battalion or squadron, which advanced carefully, as it was impossible for t...

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...rds, when sufficiently numerous and arrayed in their might, could represent battalions, squadrons, tremendous cannonades and glorious charges of cavalr...

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...mbassy—announced that the attack had been carried out by a “company” of a “battalion” of this “Islamic Army.” 91 On the morning of August 7, the bomb-... ... divisions. Each divi- sion was further divided into between four to seven battalions. Each battalion contained typically between three and four engin... ...klyn-Battery T unnel to await pos- sible dispatch orders. 51 Operations. A battalion chief and two ladder and two engine companies arrived at the Nort... ...ir was clear of smoke. 52 As the highest-ranking officer on the scene, the battalion chief initially was the FDNY incident commander. Minutes later, t... ...tical channel 1, which would be monitored by the chiefs in the lobby.Those battalion chiefs who would climb would operate on a separate command channe... ...ntact, lit, and clear of smoke. Unbeknownst to the lobby command post, one battalion chief in the North T ower found a working elevator, which he took... ...otel Operations. Immediately after the repeater test, a senior chief and a battalion chief commenced operations in the South Tower lobby. Almost at on... ...North T ower lobby at 9:03 were not reallocated to the South T ower. 119 A battalion chief and a ladder company found a working elevator to the 40th f... ...D HORR OR 299 Final 8-9.5pp 7/17/04 1:24 PM Page 299 and the ascending battalion chief kept their radios on repeater channel 7. For the first 15 m...

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...the province, of preparing an insurrection in favor of Ferdinand VII., the battalion commanded by Vic- tor Marchand was quartered in the little town o... ...ner with his staff. “I bring you my head!” cried the commander of the lost battalion as he entered, pale and overcome. He sat down and related the hor...

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... out that Providence made you to live in the midst of cannon, bullets, and battalions, and they will make a general of you.” “Ye-es, if Napoleon was b... ...sual right up to the sluts of cannon that were belching smoke and vomiting battalions of balls, and never a man would so much as say, ‘Look out!’ It w... ...ragoons, and the whole boiling. Whenever Napoleon grew tired of seeing his battalions gain no ground towards the end of a victory, he would say to Mur...

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... Nothing came amiss to it, everything was fuel; fibs, evasions, the serene battalions of white lies parallel on the march with dainty rogue falsehoods... ...ugh corpulency was pretty generally insisted on, and there were formidable battalions 255 George Meredith of bust among the females. All of them had ... ...uppositions to be against her. And unhappily all the Delicacies (a doughty battalion for the defence of ladies until they enter into difficulties and ...

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...ath surveyed, To fainting squadrons lent the timely aid; Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage”— Mr. Jo... ... by his art would instantly restore it. When, for instance, Tom’s repulsed battalions of rhetoric fled from his mamma’s fire, a 136 Catherine: A Stor...

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...!” Napoleon interrupted him. “I know everything. I know the number of your battalions as exactly as I know my own. Y ou have not two hundred thousand ... ...ir at Ostrovna he was brought into notice, re- ceived command of an hussar battalion, and when a brave officer was needed he was chosen. CHAPTER XVI O... ...trees on the boulevard, the sounds of the band and the white trousers of a battalion marching to parade, the rattling of wheels on the cobblestones, a...

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...ay, “se faisait desirer.” It was arranged that Cambaceres’ division of six battalions and nine-and-twenty squadrons should execute a ricochet movement... ... friends, is as follows:— Major Goliah O’Grady Gahagan, Heics., Commanding Battalion of Irregular Horse, Ahmendnuggar. Seeing, I say, this simple visi... ...est Teu- tonic, “Lieber Herr Major, haben sie den Ahmednuggarischen- jager-battalion gelassen?” “Warum denn?” said I, quite aston- ished at her R—l H—... ...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... ...e will the perfidy of Albion end?” “The King reviewed the third and fourth battalions of Police. The usual heart-rending cheers accompanied the monarc... ... different legions: there was the Fleur-d’Orange regiment; the Eau-de-Rose battalion; the Violet-Pomatum volunteers; the Eau-de-Cologne cavalry—accord... ...- guered capital. It is said even that he selected the most gor- mandizing battalions of the civic force to send forth against the enemy: viz, the gro... ...make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry int...