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He served briefly in the Northern Rebellion ( 1569 – 1570 ), and in 1585 he joined the Earl of Essex in Flanders during the Anglo-Spanish War and commanded a cavalry company, but he quit the field before seeing action.
A company led by Captain Jean Danjou, numbering 62 soldiers and 3 officers, was escorting a convoy to the besieged city of Puebla when it was attacked and besieged by two thousand revolutionaries, organised in three battalions of infantry and cavalry, numbering 1, 200 and 800 respectively.
) Langdon originally raised his company in 1776, but it did not become a cavalry unit until 1778.
The Swedish military rank of fänrik ( and the corresponding cavalry rank of kornet ) was originally intended for the holder of the company flag.
The young king was killed while leading personally his own royal Polish heavy cavalry, 500-strong, company ( banner ), his charge losing impetus and coming to a standstill amongst the unyielding Janissaries, amongst whom sultan Murad II was seeking safety.
Tactics that were once the province of a company of cavalry would be applied to a panzer army.
Rhea had the only female cavalry company on either side during the Civil War.
For a time, Custer's men appear to have been deployed by company, in standard cavalry fighting formation — the skirmish line, with every fourth man holding the horses, though this arrangement would have robbed Custer of a quarter of his firepower.
Hyder Ali then surprised company authorities by taking a picked force of 6, 000 cavalry and a small number of infantry, and made in three days a forced march of to the gates of Madras.
In 1410 the town mustered a cavalry company ( banner ) that participated in the victorious for the Polish-Lithuanian union battle of Grunwald.
In the United States Army, in the cavalry branch, a troop is the equivalent unit to the infantry company, commanded by a captain and consisting of three or four platoons, and subordinate to a squadron ( battalion ).
He served in a cavalry company during the final months of the Mexican-American War, but fought in no major battles.
" Arnold won when he located a company of cavalry from the air and returned safely, despite high turbulence.
They were attached to every cavalry HMG squadron and HMG company of infantry.
At 18: 00 Marshal Ney, heavily supported by artillery and some cavalry, took personal command of an infantry regiment ( 13th Legere ) and a company of engineers and captured La Haye Sainte with a furious assault.
The Romsdal farmers defied the Swedish taxes and military conscription, and the Swedish governor was forced to send a full company of soldiers, and 50 cavalry besides, to collect taxes.
Although Sweden also invaded Romsdal in Western Norway, the local farmers defied the Swedish taxes and military conscription vigorously, and the Swedish governor was forced to send a full company of soldiers, and 50 cavalry besides, to collect taxes.
During the retreat, which lasted until the 14th, 50 members of the 34th Indiana's rear guard company, 30 stragglers, and 20 of the dismounted cavalry were surrounded in a bend of the Rio Grande and captured.
In 1656, he was apprenticed to his uncle, Sir Robert Stone, captain of a cavalry company.
He shoots two people and attempts to desert to the Lizards, intending to betray the US atomic bomb project to them, but is stopped by a cavalry company and is killed.
They were created in 1622 when Louis XIII furnished a company of light cavalry ( the " carabiniers ", created by Louis ' father Henry IV ) with muskets.
Mackensen's high-profile public visibility in his distinctive black Life Hussars uniform was recognized by the Hausser-Elastolin company which produced a 7-cm figure for its line of Elastolin composition soldiers Mackensen's fame and familiar uniform gave rise to two separate Third Reich formations adopting black dress with Totenkopf badges: the Panzerwaffe, which claimed the tradition of the Imperial cavalry ; and Hitler's " Life Guards ," the SS.
Upon the announcement of his betrothal to Princess Victoria Louise in February 1913, Prince Ernest Augustus took an oath of loyalty to the German Emperor and accepted a commission as a cavalry captain and company commander in the Zieten – Hussars, a Prussian Army regiment in which his grandfather ( George V ) and great-grandfather ( Ernst August I ) had been colonels.
* 1911, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: A company of cavalry went from Fort Wingate to quell a possible uprising by Navajo.

company and couldn't
But jolly old Uncle Donald would tell her no more than that Bobbie had certainly been considered for the job, but there were factors in a large company which outsiders and even some insiders couldn't understand.
He stated in an early 1960s interview with the Mainichi Newspaper, " But my movie company has produced a very interesting script that combined King Kong and Godzilla, so I couldn't help working on this instead of my other fantasy films.
Jobs remarked, " It is hard to think that a $ 2 billion company with 4, 300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.
Director Ida Lupino was a noted actress who began directing when Elmer Clifton got sick and couldn't finish the film he was directing for Filmways, the company started by Lupino and her husband Collier Young to make low-budget issue-oriented movies.
" Hill apparently spent a lot of money to take his company on location for these scenes, and I guess when he got back to Hollywood he couldn't bear to edit them out of the final version.
In fact, most ground rules and restrictions on what Letterman could or couldn't do didn't come from the network, but from Carson's production company.
The Belgian company DAI was originally contracted to design their machines, but when they couldn't deliver, CompuData delivered several thousand Sorcerers instead.
For the company to survive, it couldn't own all of these studios and so many were sold off.
" The band members figured that if a record company were going to cheat them, they would be able to do so with or without a contract because the band couldn't afford to defend themselves.
Released amid Bad Boy Records ' transition from distributor Arista Records to Universal, Evans felt Faithfully received minimum assistance by the company, and during 2004, she finally decided to end her business with Bad Boy as she was convinced Combs couldn't improve her career any more due to his other commitments.
3D Entertainment couldn't make the brands successful, and the company went into administration in February 2010, with some of the Chicago Rock Cafe brands being taken over by Atmosphere Bars & Clubs, and other sites being bought by JD Wetherspoons.
The company couldn't afford to maintain the building and sold it after the 1989-1990 season to a Texas developer.
Although the album is regarded as having a more commercial sound, there was one song that couldn't be watered down by the producer and the record company: the title track Crusader – which today is still a fan favorite.
The company was profitable, but by the 1950s the large mass-producers of ice cream started a price war that Mattus couldn't fight, leading to his decision to make a heavy kind of high price ice cream, and in 1959, he decided to form a new ice cream company with a foreign sounding name, known in the marketing industry as foreign branding.
Due to restrictions placed on the company by their main creditor ( the Restructuring Finance Corporation, they couldn't sell these watches directly, so they were sold through an independent company ; the Hallmark Watch Company.
The finances of the company were dangerous, and Norris decided that he couldn't take the risk ; Cray would have to continue with the current design.
Hudson and Reckard cited interviews and court statements by 32 former Ameriquest employees who said the company had abused its customers and broken the law, “ deceiving borrowers about the terms of their loans, forging documents, falsifying appraisals and fabricating borrowers ' income to qualify them for loans they couldn't afford .” Ameriquest later agreed to pay a $ 325 million predatory lending settlement with state authorities across the nation.
Allen and the band amicably parted company when they " discovered they couldn't stand the European way of life " during a tour of France.
On 21 July 2009, Ho Ching will remain chief executive of Singapore government investment company Temasek after her replacement mining industry executive Goodyear couldn't resolve differences with the board, state media reported.
There are those that still somehow believe the Kay guitar company used DeArmonds on their guitars, this couldn't be further from the truth.
The big budget that the series once had was trimmed to the extent that, in the final season, the higher paid cast members were asked to appear in only 15 of the season's 19 episodes as the production company couldn't afford to pay them.
Lavenham Square, site of the witch-burning scene, was the real Lavenham Market Square ; the crew lowered TV antennas and telephone wires and Waddilove hired a cherry picker from a local utility company for £ 10, because the unit couldn't afford a camera crane.

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