Ironically, the great anti-imperialist rebel was now identified with the head of the British Empire, and her statue stood guard over the city she razed to the ground.

Fearing that the arsenal, which contained large stocks of arms and ammunition, would fall intact into rebel hands, the nine British Ordnance officers there had opened fire on the sepoys, including the men of their own guard.

Further, it was reported to him that one of them, Mangal Pandey, was pacing in front of the regiment's guard room by the parade ground, armed with a loaded musket, calling upon the men to rebel and threatening to shoot the first European he set his eyes on.

However, it is likely that fewer fought in the actual battle on the Italian side: Harold Marcus notes that " several thousand " soldiers were needed in support roles and to guard the lines of communication to the rear.

Colonial soldiers standing guard next to the statue of King Willem III of the Netherlands, representing Dutch empire | Dutch dominance on Banda.

The combined force comprises about 1, 200 soldiers, marines and coast guard personnel.

The confrontations between the soldiers and the presidential guard resulted in 9 dead and 40 wounded.

When he strengthened his presidential guard ( creating the FORSIDIR, see below ), he Libya sent him 300 additional soldiers for his own personal safety.

The IRA later claimed that their target was a colour guard of British soldiers.

" Nevertheless while the members of the cabinet and the international community condemned the attempted coup and talked about the PM's release, reports still indicated that " renegade soldiers " had the PM " under guard.

" The gates of Rome were blockaded by the new revolutionary soldiers and more were sent to guard Collatia.

On 12 September 1942,, carrying some 80 civilians, 268 British Army soldiers, about 1, 800 Italian prisoners of war, and 160 Polish soldiers ( on guard ), was struck and sunk by a torpedo from Kriegsmarine submarine off the coast of west Africa.

* Immunes: Immunes were legionary soldiers who possessed specialized skills, qualifying them for better pay and excusing them from labour and guard work.

Corporal Gborie quickly went to the SLBS FM 99. 9 headquarters in Freetown to announce the coup to a shock nation and to alert all soldiers across the country to report for guard duty.

Despite a good fight by the praetorian guard, his soldiers were defeated.

By now 200, 000 soldiers guard the borders, and a reserve force of 50, 000 is available for deployment.

And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

The scene soon descended into chaos ; the soldiers forming the honour guard opened fire and rode through the crowd with drawn sabres.

This strength was based on Spanish guard boats, and was defended by only four guns and about thirty soldiers under Captain of Infantry Don Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Cevallos.

To these the governor assigned a guard of five or six soldiers under the command of a corporal, who generally acted as steward of the mission's temporal affairs, subject to the fathers ' direction.

Nearly all the men who volunteered as soldiers stayed in the West to guard facilities, suppress secessionists or fight the Indians.

A small garrison of " invalides " was appointed in 1749 to guard the interior and exterior of the fortress ; these were retired soldiers and were regarded locally, as Simon Schama describes, as " amiable layabouts " rather than professional soldiers.

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When soldiers of the city guard came to look for them, she hid them under bundles of flax on the roof.

However, there is still the question about " home guard " actions ( similar to portrayed in movie / book " Cold Mountain ") actions to capture Confederate deserters-when it fact it was an attempt to force re-conscription of Confederate soldiers pardoned by Grant after the surrender of Vicksburg.

It is the final resting place of the Confederate governor of Florida, Governor John Milton, and the scene of a minor Civil War battle between a small home guard of about 150 boys, old men, and wounded soldiers, and a contingent of approximately 900 Federal troops.

After several minor incidents in what would later come to be designated as the Colorado War, in November 1864 a force of 800 troops of the Colorado home guard, after heavy drinking, attacked an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek, murdering between 150 and 200 Indians, mostly elderly men, women and children.

On May 12, 1864, Smith sent almost the entire Corps of Cadets of VMI, leaving behind only 27 cadets to guard the Institute, to help hold off the advance of the Union Army under Major General Franz Sigel from the northern end of the valley.

On January 8, 1864, General Orme instituted a program of armed guard patrols.

Between January and March 1864, when Colonel Strong had only 550 men available for guard duty, thirty-two escapes were made from the camp.

On April 10, 1864, guards made some prisoners stand on barrels for purchasing whiskey from a guard.

In August 1864, there were approximately 85 guard posts on the island that required about 255 men on each shift.

On 22 June 1864, with less than 150 men left, the 4th Infantry reported to City Point, Virginia, to become Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ’ s headquarters guard.

Prior to their formal organization into this new battalion structure, these independent companies from Grey and Simcoe counties had deployed from 1864 – 66 to guard strategic points along the Canada-USA border in response to the Fenian Raids.

They grew the plants under strict guard in the central courtyards of their houses, and any Hungarians who considered growing pepper for their own use were threatened with decapitation.

Offering a broad view of the surrounding area, the round Martello tower on the island was built to guard against a threatened Napoleonic invasion that never materialized.

Whalley argued that gender was irrelevant to the issue, and in response to Sandilands ' threat of violence asked Jackie if she was aware that her security guard had threatened a band technician with violence.

Later that year, however, the House of Lords, in order to guard the position of its members, which had been threatened by the power to order surrenders of peerages, resolved, "( i ) That no person that hath any Honour of him and a Peer of this Realm, may alien or transfer the Honour to any other Person, ( ii ) That no Peer of this Realm can drown or extinguish his Honour, but that it descends to his descendants, neither by Surrender, Grant, Fine, nor any other conveyance to the King.

The cliffs have great symbolic value for Britain because they face towards Continental Europe across the narrowest part of the English Channel, where invasions have historically threatened and against which the cliffs form a symbolic guard.

If the guard had thrown it down knowingly and willfully, he would not have threatened the plaintiff's safety, so far as appearances could warn him.

:" the best of Your property " and guard their threatened foreskins.

Gleeson came out to bat and talked with both umpires at length before taking guard ; he later claimed to teammates that he had threatened to hit the umpires in the head if they gave him out.

In 2008, when Sethi's newspapers ran a series of editorials opposing religious fundamentalism, the Taliban threatened him with death, causing him to live under constant guard.

They knew their house was being watched and that they were in grave danger because their Iraqi house guard told them he was quitting because he had been threatened by militias that knew he was protecting Americans and British workers, but Bigley and the two Americans decided it was worth it to live with the danger.

A local Bahamian who had followed the Americans shouted a warning to the officer of the guard aboard the Creole, who threatened to fire into their approaching boat, which withdrew.

He re-signed All Star guard Randy Smith, who had threatened to leave as a free agent, then traded the club's first-round draft pick to the Milwaukee Bucks for center Swen Nater.

The Roosevelt administration, faced with a strike that threatened to interfere with war production and exasperated by the seeming indifference of the company and local government, sent in troops to guard and, if necessary, operate the system and threatened to draft the strikers.

Assailed by other sepoys, who threw stones and shoes at his back, he called on the guard to help him hold Pandey, but they threatened to shoot him if he did not let go of Pandey.

The Chanak Crisis, also called Chanak Affair in September 1922 was the threatened attack by Turkish troops on British and French troops stationed near Çanakkale ( Chanak ) to guard the Dardanelles neutral zone.

In the early morning of April 3, at a ford on Namozine Creek, regiments from the 2d brigade, under the command of Colonel William Wells, of Custer's 3rd cavalry division, which had taken over the advance pursuit, threatened the rear guard of Rooney Lee's column.