Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.

Early travelers in Asia sometimes describe a kind of military amok, in which soldiers facing apparently inevitable defeat suddenly burst into a frenzy of violence which so startled their enemies that it either delivered victory or at least ensured what the soldier in that culture considered an honourable death.

* Service number ( E. g., 11111 / 00 / 00B, where the first five digits are the ID, the second two are the year the soldier turned 18 years old, the last two digits are the year the soldier enlisted, and the letter is the enlistment group, either A or B )

A Macedonian soldier found Darius either dead or dying in the wagon shortly thereafter — a disappointment to Alexander, who wanted to capture Darius alive.

The modern city takes its name from Alban, either a citizen of Verulamium or a Roman soldier, who was condemned to death in the 3rd century for sheltering a Christian.

A Kentucky soldier killed a fellow Kentuckian, Clark, either accidentally or in a grudge fight.

The Tempest portrays a soldier and a breast-feeding woman on either side of a stream, amid a city's rubble and an incoming storm.

" He quotes George B. McClellan, the Union general, as saying: " Perhaps there is no doubt that he was the best infantry soldier developed on either side during the Civil War.

Despite the promise of safe passage, and Constantine's assumption of clerical offices, Constantius imprisoned the former soldier and had him beheaded on his way to Ravenna in either August or September 411.

The most common motive for choosing a fragmentation grenade or similar device is a perpetrator's desire to avoid identification and the associated consequences at either the individual level ( e. g., punishment by one's superiors ) or the collective level ( e. g., dishonor brought to one's unit ): where a grenade is thrown in the heat of battle, soldiers can claim that the grenade landed too close to the person they " accidentally " killed, that another member of the unit threw the grenade, or that an enemy soldier threw it back.

When a German soldier would wake up to see that the man on either side of him was dead, he would panic and immediately go for his boots ; only to find that the laces were cut.

Johnson is best known for his work on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, an American television series ( 1967 – 1973 ), on which he played various characters including " Wolfgang ", a smoking World War II German soldier scouting the show from behind a bush ( still fighting the war ) invariably commenting on the preceding sketch with the catchphrase " Very interesting ..." followed by either a comic observation or misinterpretation, or simply " but stupid!

The offensive model, with a mobile soldier, used a drum magazine that could hold either 50 or 75 rounds of ammunition.

The event was to commemorate the Greek soldier Pheidippides who, according to several legends, ran from the Battle of Marathon to either Athens or Sparta.

Within this theory, it is possible that the soldier awaiting death may have been writing either to a friend who was allowed to live and return home, or to a lover back in Scotland.

During the final exam, he notes that all royal characters in the play are either killed or commit suicide, and the only two characters who live on are " Fornbrazz and Horatio ... a soldier, and a student ... ain't that something?

The phrase " to be a soldier in the army of the Lord " is not found in any extant copies of " Say, Brothers "-- either those published before or after 1860.

The TV series Dollhouse ( 2009 ) features technology that can " mindwipe " people ( transforming them into " actives ", or " dolls ") and replace their inherent personalities with another one, either " real " ( from another actual person's mind ), fabricated ( for example, a soldier trained in many styles of combat and weaponry, or unable to feel pain ), or a mixture of both.

During the afternoon the 1st New Hampshire Regiment of Poor's brigade was fired on, either from ambush or possibly by fire from other troops, inflicting another soldier killed and five wounded.

But Beaumont, the most experienced soldier on either side, reacted to this dangerous situation with coolness and precision.

Of the remaining cohorts, almost all the centurions were either wounded or killed ; Baculus, the legion ’ s primipilus, a fine soldier, had received so many minor and serious wounds that he could barely stand.

Hitch described the alternative-reality reimagining as one where, " You have to approach it as though nothing has happened before and tell the story fresh from the start .... We had to get to the core of who these people were and build outwards, so Cap America was a soldier, Thor is either a nut case or a messiah ...

All rifles, carbines, submachine guns and machine gunes issued to consripts as well as regular personnel are equipped with either a C79 optical sight or an Aimpoint CompM4 to allow the soldier to attach his night vision goggles to optic sight.

later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.

* 1948 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.

The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a soldier who — urged on by his school teacher — joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. Bäumer arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates ( Tjaden, Müller, Kropp and a number of other characters ).

* 1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.

File: Army. mil-2007-02-07-103140. jpg | An American soldier who was wounded by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq

Regarded as a capable soldier by the emperor, Albert ( in 1475 ) took a prominent part in the campaign against Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and in 1487 led an expedition against Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, which failed owing to lack of support on the part of the emperor.

Annual spending per soldier amounts to 30, 000 leva (~ 15, 000 euro ) and is scheduled to increase to 43, 600 leva by 2014.

His importance is proven once more by the grand funeral given to him by his people: his funeral at sea with many weapons and treasures shows he was a great soldier and an even greater leader to his people.

The black beret had been offered to him by a soldier upon climbing into a tank to get a closer look at the front lines.

On 10 August Bombardier Paul Challenor became the first soldier to be killed by the Provisional IRA in Derry, when he was shot by a sniper on the Creggan estate.

No British soldier was wounded by gunfire or reported any injuries, nor were any bullets or nail bombs recovered to back up their claims.

" He acknowledged that all those who died were unarmed when they were killed by British soldiers and that a British soldier had fired the first shot at civilians.

A soldier in the cavalry is known by a number of designations such as cavalryman, horseman or trooper.

They were unable to reach Caligula's uncle, Claudius, who was spirited out of the city, after being found by a soldier, to a nearby Praetorian camp.

It was inspired by an article Trumbo read several years earlier, concerning the Prince of Wales hospital visit to a Canadian soldier who had lost all his limbs in World War I.

When a soldier is killed in action, the round piece is removed by cutting the short loop with a bayonet, while the oval piece remains with the body.

For the next two years Eugene continued to perform with distinction on campaign, and establish himself as a dedicated, professional soldier ; by the end of 1685, still only 22 years old, he was made a Major-General.

He was a highly decorated soldier and was briefly taken prisoner by the Italians as a prisoner of war in 1918.

Muzzleloaders have to be manually reloaded after each shot ; a skilled archer could fire multiple arrows faster than most early muskets could be reloaded and fired, although by the mid-18th century, when muzzleloaders became the standard small armament of the military, a well-drilled soldier could fire six rounds in a minute using prepared cartridges in his musket.

Handguns were historically issued to riflemen as a secondary weapon, however the reliability and firepower of the modern assault rifle ( and the increasing amount and cost of equipment carried by a soldier ) has made this practice less common as of the end of the 20th century.

Carbines were and are typically used by members of the military in roles that are expected to engage in combat, but where a full-size rifle would be an impediment to the primary duties of that soldier ( vehicle drivers, field commanders and support staff, airbornes, engineers, etc .).

The killing of a school teacher by a Guatemalan Army soldier culminated the civil unrest that precipitated the coup d ’ état ; the moral outrage of the Guatemalan national populace was manifested with a general strike that halted the national economy and stilled the country.