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...d in tropical diseases. Her next test was a young blonde woman, the wife of one of the Highland soldiers. She had already been examined by Dr. Gran... ...ages for the women and bullock carts for the luggage, all escorted by the Highland platoon and a brigade of Sikh troops and their British officer, w... ...m their dandy,’ said John MacGregor, when Helen requested a horse. One of the tall, bearded Sikh soldiers brought her a sturdy, little, hill pony a... ...il they were out of sight. Then Helen and Rosita, escorted by John MacGregor and a few Highland soldiers, made their way to the gates of the city o... ... but more Mongolian, like the hill people of Nepal. Perhaps she was the wife of one of the Ghurka brigade stationed at the fort. Of the sunyassi ther... ...nearly reached the gates of the Residency, when one of the British guards shouted and pointed his rifle at an urchin who was being urged by a man to... ...r the hunting lodge and the delight it would give her to shower in its cool spray. Collecting her rifle, a towel and a change of underwear, she crep... ...tching her, its tail flicking like a cat’s and Helen with racing heart, reached carefully for her rifle, hoping that a shot fired into the air would... ... a naughty prank. Helen laughed at his expression and looked over Gavin’s shoulder at the little brigade of Gurkhas, their wide, flat, Mongol faces ...

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Excerpt: Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipling.

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...te By Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipl... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipl... ...................................................................... 230 4 Soldiers Three Soldiers Three The Story of the Gadsbys In Black and Whi... ... begins cursin’ ould Dhrumshticks, being so full he clean disremimbers the Brigade-Major an’ the Judge Advokit Gen’ral. ‘“Do you know me, Peg?” sez I,... ... Malone. THERE HAD BEEN A ROYAL dog-fight in the ravine at the back of the rifle-butts, between Learoyd’s Jock and Ortheris’s Blue Rot—both mongrel Ra... ...Ortheris misunderstood the move- ment, and the next instant the Irishman’s rifle was dashed aside, while Ortheris stood before him, his eyes blazing w... ... an- swer to your voice.’ Almost before Ortheris had deftly thrown all the rifles of the Guard on Mulvaney’s bedstead, the Irishman’s voice was uplift...

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... was all heart-achingly naive and it lasted 10 bloody days. Crushed by 2000 trained soldiers and horse bound artillery, the outnumbered 1200 rebels ... ...n was not documented. In Northwestern Macedonia, an adolescent girl was raped by 50 soldiers and murdered afterwards. In another village, they cut a... ...seated on a boulder ... in the middle of the road, smoking his cigarette, with his rifle across his knees, and calmly levying tribute from all the ... ...ecile because her mother buried her in a hole under the floor to save her from the soldiers ... children who flee in terror at the sight of a stran... ...verweight suburbanites from North America, Albanian volunteers within an "Atlantic Brigade". It also absorbed Albanians with rich military experien... ...-fired anti-tank rocket launchers (like the German "Armburst"), mortars, recoilless rifles, anti-aircraft machine-guns and automatic assault rifles.... ...cilities as well as tuition for a variety of "freedom fighters" - the PLO, IRA, Red Brigades and many others. To a greater extent, the Soviets were ...

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...devoid of any furniture; its whitewashed walls covered with inscriptions in Marquesan and rude drawings: one of the pier, not badly done; one of a mur... ... and for six weeks Mr. Stewart and three other whites slept in the cotton-house at night in a rampart of bales, and (what was their best defence) oste... ...elled gun, a pair of enlarged coloured photographs, a 118 In The South Seas pair of coloured prints after Wilkie and Mulready, and a French lithograp... ... of wakeful people, some twenty souls in all, the court and guardsmen of Butaritari. The court ladies were busy making mats; the guardsmen yawned and ... ... upon examina- tion, to be a privy on the European model. In front of this, upon some mats, lolled Tebureimoa, the king; behind him, on the panels of ... ...ence; a man, if he were strong, might easily pluck down the palisade; he need not be specially active to leap from the beach upon the terrace. There i...

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...Whirter, or on potatoes, like old O’Dowd. Do you expect my wife to take in soldiers’ washing, or ride after the regiment in a baggage waggon?” “Well, ... ...of course invited; as became the friends of a General commanding a cavalry brigade. On the appointed night, George, having commanded new dresses and o... ...ed his cigar in silence as they hastened after the troops of the General’s brigade, which preceded them; and it was not until they were some miles on ... ...ion from Avesnes had been distributed everywhere plentifully in Brussels. “Soldiers!” it said, “this is the anniversary of Marengo and Friedland, by w... ... march once more to meet them. We and they, are we not still the same men? Soldiers! these same Prussians who are so arrogant to-day, were three to on... ...he young fellows never, never to touch a box; and when young Green, of the Rifles, lost a very considerable sum of money, Rebecca passed 372 V anity ... ...Among those were Major Loder (un- attached), and Captain Rook (late of the Rifles), who might be seen any day on the Dike, smoking and staring at the ...

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...hey had wallowed in such orgies as consume something more than money. Like soldiers who find no market for their cour- age, Lucien had just done what ... ...nounced cling to her by forgotten rivets, and was she feeling them, as old soldiers suffer still, the surgeons tell us, in the limbs they have lost? H... ...n agents, who have matricu- lated in the business, and are, as it were, as soldiers of the secret army, so indispensable to a government, in spite of ... ...e the head of the “safety” force—an abbreviation of the title “Head of the brigade of the guard- ians of public safety”—Bibi-Lupin, who had long since... ...iking—it makes one shiver! Rincer une cambriole is to “screw the shop,” to rifle a room. What a feeble expression is to go to bed in comparison with “...

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...ned with truce, truce necessitated by deception. Or was it confusion? The soldiers I met, after their drunken reunions, spoke of the war with bitter... ...nd. I know how beautiful it is...” There was a murmur of appreciation. “Soldiers have a way of talking out of turn,” he went on, reminding them of ... ...place, battering shutters, screaming and demanding justice. Pittakos sent soldiers to maintain order but the soldiers sided with the mob, forcing th... ...ve. Globe Theatre is on fire...bucket brigades, smoke around men with pails, smoke around boys with pails, ... ...f he can make it his interest, he has the right to enslave you. I hear rifle fire in the night. October 4, 1863 This rainy evening I take up m... ...nough oats for all these hosses. February 2, ’64 The howitzers and the rifles and the bayonets and the ammunition and the sandbags are gone from ... ...ng the Wilderness Campaign: May 6, 1864. Face-to-face fighting all day. Rifles. Pistols. No help from our cavalry or artillery. Pine woods surroun...

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...fense Organization and Territorial Troops, Frontier Guard, Popular Vigilance Brigades Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,933,000; 972,000 fit for milit... ...nse Forces Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force; para- military forces Bangladesh Rifles, Ban- gladesh Ansars, Armed Police Reserve, Coastal Police Militar... ...reviously acted as a police reserve; the BDF currently consists of full-time soldiers known as the Regulars and an essentially reserve group, which ha... ...ions or death squads Secret Anti-Communist Army (ESA); Maximiliano Hernandez Brigade; Organization for Liberation From Com- munism (OLC) Labor organiz... ...orces Branches: National Army (including Infantry Battalion, Military Police Brigade, Navy, Air Force) Military manpower: males 15-49, 100,278; 59,971... ...e; paramilitary forces include Border Patrol Police, Thahan Phran (irregular soldiers), Village Defense Forces Military manpower: males 15-49, 14,557,...

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...s request, thinking it well to avoid a colli- sion between the mob and the soldiers. “We began cow- ardly, and now we’re going on cowardly, and darn’t... ... It seems to me foolish in an American to quarrel with England for sending soldiers to Canada; but I cannot say that I thought it was well done to sen... ...vinces against the filibustering energies of a mass of unemployed American soldiers, when those soldiers should come to be disbanded. When this war sh... ... officers; and the field officers the brigadier-generals and inspectors of brigade. The Governor, however, with the consent of the Senate, shall nomin... ...ufacture of arms. Colt’s pistols come from Hart- ford, as also do Sharpe’s rifles. Wherever arms can be pre- pared, or gunpowder; where clothes or bla... ...erefore in such places as Hart- ford trade was very brisk. I went over the rifle factory, and was shown everything, but I do not know that I brought a... ...ght away much with me that was worth any reader’s atten- tion. The best of rifles, I have no doubt, were being made with the greatest rapidity, and al...

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... a question of good taste. But politics to bed, Patrice. My chief is right—soldiers have nothing to do with them. What are you fiddling at in your coa... ...y, Phil, tell us, could you give us a hint for packing five or six hundred rifles and a couple of pieces of cannon?’ Philip stared; he bent a lowering... ... who solemnly calculated her chances and speculates on the transmission of rifled arms of the best manufacture and latest invention by his yacht and w... ... Forbery glows and couches his gun, the heaviest weight of the Irish light brigade. Gallant deeds! and now Mr. Marbury Dyke opens on Forbery’s flank t... ...t had always been: he deplored the fatality. Nevertheless, he esteemed our soldiers, our sailors too. A city man himself and a man of peace, he cordia... ...a good sword for the country. If in a world still barba- rous we must have soldiers, here was one whom it would be grievous to lose. He had fallen for...

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...of instances, during the rebellion, of individual, company, regimental and brigade deeds of heroism which deserve special mention and are not here all... ..., however, have been on furlough part of the time—as I believe most of the soldiers of that period were—for he married in Connecti- cut during the war... ...r some families than it would have been to render a like service for Union soldiers. The line between the Rebel and Union element in Georgetown was so... ...estion of the day. During these discussions the greater part of the single rifle regiment in the army—the 2d dragoons, which had been dismounted a yea... ...which had been dismounted a year or two before, and designated “Dismounted Rifles”—was stationed at Fort Jessup, Louisi- 22 Personal Memoirs ana, som... ...g about daylight I happened to be awake, and, hear- ing the discharge of a rifle not far off, I looked out to ascer- tain where the sound came from. I... ...nto the State. At all events they were living in small huts, about such as soldiers would hastily construct for temporary occupation. From Austin to C... ..., probably not more than twenty five hundred men, was di- vided into three brigades, with the cavalry independent. Colonel Twiggs, with seven companie... ...f light artillery, moved on the 8th. He was followed by the three infantry brigades, with a day’s interval between the commands. Thus the rear brigade...

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...“Buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has got splendid soldiers. Besides he began by at- tacking Germans. And only idlers have fai... ...and despite the fact that the inhabitants (who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not Russians, the regiment had just the appearance of any Ru... ... that it is always better to “bow too low than not bow low enough.” So the soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mend- ing and cleaning all n... ...duke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only over a fire brigade of Bonaparte’s, that will be another story and we’ll fire off some ... ...ll encounter difficulties, and there,” thought he, “I shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, standard in hand, I shall go forward and br... ...s sent... asking for informa- tion.... What are your orders about the Fire Brigade? From the governor of the prison... from the superinten- dent of th... ...ommand of a genius, in two—or three-line for- mation, with cudgels or with rifles that repeat thirty times a minute. Men who want to fight will always...

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... had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.The long, disjointed document condemned the Sa... ...lar struggles for independence after World War I.Western-educated lawyers, soldiers, and officials led most independence movements, and clerical influ... ...so to a newly forming Philip- pine group that called itself the Abu Sayyaf Brigade, after one of the major Afghan jihadist commanders. 38 Al Qaeda hel... ...l1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 97 disco in Berlin, killing two American soldiers. Intelligence clearly linked the bombing to Libya’s Colonel Muamma... ...s, though the Y emenis balked at letting Americans openly carry long guns (rifles, shotguns, automatic weapons). Meanwhile, Bodine and the leader of t...