On the eve of troop increase, Casval incites Garma to lead other students in the Academy to storm the Federation base and subdue the stationed troops.

Their return trip was delayed by many weeks, and some of the students had to return to the mainland by troop transport ships.

In addition, the NCM offers educational field trips, tours, talks, and interactive programs for students ages 9 and up, as well as programs for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of all ages to satisfy various pins, requirements, and electives ; interested educators, scoutmasters, and troop leaders are encouraged to contact the museum for more details.

Later, he commanded a troop manned by students, set up by him under the Württemberg " Highway Watch ".

After having sat the Cambridge Senior Certificate Examination in 1917 he returned to his home town Matale and joined as the tutorial staff of Buddhist English School, Matale ( now Vijaya College ) and was also instrumental in setting up a library and a scout troop for the benefit of the students there.

The leek arises from an occasion when a troop of Welsh were able to distinguish each other from a troop of English enemy dressed in similar fashion by wearing leeks.

In Þiðranda þáttr ok Þórhalls, the youth Þiðrandi is killed by dísir dressed in black, riding black horses, while a troop of dísir dressed in white and riding white horses are unable to save him.

The gold is ostensibly being delivered to a troop of American soldiers in exchange for weapons, but following the Mexican troops out of town, the Stranger witnesses them being massacred by members of the Rojo gang, dressed in American uniforms and led by Ramon Rojo.

" Dual Destiny ", a memorial statue of a young soldier dressed half as a Union troop and half as Confederate, is frequently photographed.

Not only was Petersburg the only major thoroughfare thru Southside Central Virginia that would facilitate troop movement, it was also the primary access road for Chesterfield Courthouse, a primary supply depot and one of three training grounds for the Continental Line in Virginia.

Philadelphia celebrated the first anniversary in a manner a modern American would find quite familiar: an official dinner for the Continental Congress, toasts, 13-gun salutes, speeches, prayers, music, parades, troop reviews, and fireworks.

On the high seas, British supply ships and troop ships often fell to American privateers operating under letters of marque and reprisal from the Continental Congress.

Sergeant Early let the new CO know just how lucky he was to be in the best troop in the best regiment in the United States Army.

The troop received a new leader, Lieutenant Robert M. Carroll, fresh out of ROTC and bucking for Regular Army status.

During the American charge up San Juan and Kettle Hills, the three guns fired a total of 18, 000. 30 Army rounds in eight and one-half minutes ( an average of over 700 rpm per gun ) against Spanish troop positions along the crest of both hills, wreaking terrible carnage.

* April 25 – Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese Army forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

Patton was one of the first American commanders in World War II to make full use of light Army observation aircraft to visit friendly troop forces as well as independently reconnoiter enemy positions.

Flying with an Army pilot in a Taylorcraft L-2 or a Stinson L-5, Patton was able to inspect many more troop positions and headquarters in a day than could be accomplished by using a motor vehicle.

* is a reserved name in the U. S. Army, and was used as the name of a troop ship,, between October 31, 1947 and the 1970s.

In April 1970, Fred Gardner, Fonda, and Donald Sutherland formed the FTA tour (" Free The Army ", a play on the troop expression " Fuck The Army "), an anti-war road show designed as an answer to Bob Hope's USO tour.

At the National Defense Academy in Vienna, which has a curriculum comparable to those of the National Defense University and the Army War College in the United States, operational and troop commanders of fieldgrade rank study for three years in preparation for general staff and command positions.

The shortage of army vehicles after Dunkirk was so severe that the Royal Army Service Corps ( RASC ) was reduced to retrieving and refurbishing numbers of obsolete bus and coach models from British scrapyards to press them into use as troop transports.

However, as time went on, the strengthening of communist combat forces in the South led to regular requests for increases in US troop strength, from 16, 000 when he arrived to its peak of 535, 000 in 1968 when he was promoted to Army Chief of Staff.

In this conflict, the insurgents — with logistical support from the Soviet Union — ultimately defeated the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, which sought to maintain South Vietnamese independence with the support of the U. S. military, whose troop strength peaked at 540, 000 during the communist-led Tet Offensive in 1968.

The Army enlarged the project by purchasing 2, 637 additional acres and leasing 782 more south of the depot for troop training.

In the British Army the definition of a troop varies by corps.

In the Canadian Army, a troop is the equivalent of a platoon within the Armoured, Artillery, Engineer, and Signals branches.

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 ).

In the Russian Imperial Army ( cavalry ) troop was equivalent to eskadron ( Russian squadron ) or sotnia ( Cossack formations ).

Eighth Army also devised a deception scheme involving false troop movements and ammunition dumps to give the impression that the main attack would be through the British XIII Corps front.

Jäger is also the entrance rank for all of these three infantry branches ( the German Army has a number of different entrance ranks by troop type, like Grenadier for mechanized infantrymen, Kanonier for artillerymen, and so forth ).

Both " Marshal of a troop arm " and " Chief Marshal of a troop arm " are considered equivalent to the single rank General of the Army, which was used in the Infantry and the Marines.

In July, when the German Army advanced in what became known as the Second Battle of the Marne, they found the American and French defenders had created a deep defensive system which the depleted and exhausted shock troop units failed to break.

However, First Army restricted him to sending a small combined-arms group comprising a company of infantry, a squadron of 11 tanks, an artillery battery and an anti-tank troop (" Gore Force ").

Thus, on the highroad, a troop of soldiers `` marched in their own dust and sang '', while on the footpath one man walks alone.

In January, 1997, however, the Bangui Agreements were signed and the French EFAO troop was replaced by the 1, 350 soldiers of the Mission interafricaine de surveillance des Accords de Bangui ( MISAB ).

The larger ships would have been tasked for strategic troop transport and amphibious operations, and were to displace 27. 000 to 30. 000 tons for 800 soldiers.

These included troop movements, the influx of soldiers from foreign countries, and the shifting locations of battle fronts.

) The government canceled scheduled troop withdrawals, surrounded Chechen refugee camps with soldiers, and increased the frequency of assaults on separatist positions.

Eight weeks before the Armistice was to be signed, 25 Berrien men were among the 200 recently enlisted soldiers who perished at sea off the coast of Scotland when the troop ship Otranto collided with the merchant ship Kashmir in rough weather.

From the beginning of the war until 1783, British soldiers and German mercenaries occupied local homes, confiscated livestock and cleared the woods for troop firewood.

As a result, 1, 200 of the Sassanian soldiers were killed, but the Byzantine-Lazic coalition was soon forced to retreat when a relief army of 30, 000 pro-Sassanian troop arrived.

He led a substantial force of eighteen warships, nine storeships, and fifteen troop transports bearing 3, 400 soldiers.

To stop the excesses, the highly respected D. Alonso Fernandez de Aguilar, whose wife was a member of the converso family of Pacheco, together with his brother D. Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (" El Gran Capitán "), and a troop of soldiers, hastened to protect the New Christians.

A related sense of the term troop refers to soldiers collectively, as in the troops ; see Troop ( disambiguation ).

Following the Iraq War, in 2003, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet approved a plan to send about 1, 000 soldiers of the Japan Self-Defense Forces to help in Iraq's reconstruction, the biggest overseas troop deployment since World War II without the sanction of the UN.

He then declared " you are no Parliament " and called in a troop of soldiers, under the command of Major-General Thomas Harrison, ordering them to clear the chamber.

In June 1921, Aiken organised his most successful attack on the British military, when his men detonated a mine under a British troop train headed from Belfast to Dublin, killing the train guard, three cavalry soldiers and 63 of their horses.

" Billings remained quiet but on July 10, soldiers reached Lockwood, Montana, a small rail center, where the troop train was surrounded by hundreds of angry strikers.

He was present at the Battle of Edgehill in October 1642, after which, while hurrying to Oxford to prepare for the king's visit to Christ Church, he was captured by a troop of Lord Say's soldiers from Broughton House, and soon afterwards set free on the surrender of the place to the king's forces.

* slows down troop movement as soldiers are forced to sweep areas to see if there are more booby traps.

The battle was notable in that it established that the fortified Pā could withstand bombardment from cannon fire and that frontal assaults by soldiers would result in serious troop losses.

During World War II, troopships sometimes employed hammocks for both naval ratings and private soldiers in order to increase available space and troop carrying capacity.

WP was widely credited by many Allied soldiers for breaking up numerous German infantry attacks and creating havoc among enemy troop concentrations during the latter part of WWII.

In September, the Wehrmacht high command's reinforcement of the Siegfried Line brought total troop strength up to an estimated 230, 000 soldiers, including 100, 000 fresh personnel.

The Sacred Band of Thebes ( Ancient Greek:, Hieròs Lókhos ) was a troop of picked soldiers, consisting of 150 pairs of male lovers which formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC.

On 8 April 1942 an Imperial Japanese force consisting of the light cruiser Tatsuta, destroyer Mutsuki and a troop transport ship Mishima Maru entered Lorengau harbour, and several hundreds of Japanese soldiers of the 8th Special Base Force, swarmed ashore onto Australia's mandated responsibility.

At the same time, a team from Sondergruppe R comprising Schleicher, Eugen Ott, Fedor von Bock and Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord formed the liaison with Major Bruno Ernst Buchrucker, who led the so-called Arbeits-Kommandos ( Work Commandos ), which officially was a labor group intended to assist with civilian projects, but in reality were thinly disguised soldiers that allowed Germany to exceed the limits on troop strength set by Versailles.