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He recruits an army, mainly killers, mercenaries, and cutthroats motivated by money, rather than the Arab cause.
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Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.
Pompey by now had a massive international army ; however, his troops were mostly untested raw recruits, while Caesar's troops were hardened veterans.
When he had reached Bodmin on 28 July, he found that there was no chance of supplies or recruits, and he also learned that the Royalist army was at Launceston, close to his rear.
The policy had the triple benefit, from the Roman point of view, of weakening the hostile tribe, repopulating the plague-ravaged frontier provinces ( bringing their abandoned fields back into cultivation ) and providing a pool of first-rate recruits for the army.
There was no shortage of recruits, many of them unemployed First World War army veterans, and by November 1921 about 9, 500 men had joined.
This sudden influx of men led to a shortage of RIC uniforms, and the new recruits were issued with khaki army uniforms ( usually only trousers ) and dark green RIC or blue British police surplus tunics, caps and belts.
When the army issued revised mobilization regulations in 1942, it distinguished " homosexual " recruits from " normal " recruits for the first time.
By November 1944 Himmler had merged the army officer recruitment department with that of the Waffen-SS and had successfully lobbied for an increase in the quotas for recruits to the SS.
In 1992 the army was expanded to 6, 150 under President Joseph Saidu Momoh in a ' poorly designed strategy that eradicated the few remaining elements of cohesion in the military ... recruits were mainly drifters, rural and urban unemployed, a fair number of hooligans, drug addicts, and thieves.
He appealed to the people of France, bringing thousands of new recruits into his army.
* Hannibal's victory over the Romans brings both the Gauls and the Ligurians to Hannibal's side, so his army is considerably augmented by Celtic recruits.
Members of municipal senates ( curiales or decuriones ) are charged with the responsibility of collecting taxes and paying arrears ; smaller landowners are held responsible for providing recruits for the Roman army and with keeping wastelands under cultivation.
Extreme pressure was used to obtain recruits for the new army.
In Pliny's time, 49 independent communities still existed in Umbria, and the abundance of inscriptions and the high proportion of recruits in the imperial army attest to its population.
Apart from the lavishly uniformed Royal Guard, the army of the Kingdom of Holland would always be short of recruits, leading to units being disbanded or amalgamated.
On March 11, Houston joined what constituted his army at Gonzales: 374 poorly equipped, trained, and supplied recruits.
The Somme was the first real test of this newly raised " citizen army " created following Lord Kitchener's call for recruits at the start of the war.
Reducing the mobilization strength of the army to 120, 000 under the New Army Structure plan is to be accomplished in part by limiting initial training of recruits to six months, followed by reducing the period allotted for refresher training from twenty years to ten years.
William's forces defeated James ' army of mostly raw recruits.
Prince Rupert had gathered an army which marched through the northwest of England to relieve the city, gathering fresh recruits on the way.
In return for supplying fresh recruits to the Roman army, the Quadi were to be allowed to leave in peace.
Unlike the other trades in the army, which have separate units for basic training and specialised training, new recruits into the infantry undergo a single course at the Infantry Training Centre Catterick.
The RAAF had more recruits than it could equip and train and Bradman spent four months in Adelaide before the Governor-General of Australia, Lord Gowrie, persuaded Bradman to transfer to the army, a move that was criticised as a safer option for him.
recruits and mainly
Today Opole, along with the surrounding region, is known as a centre of the German minority in Poland that recruits mainly from the descendants of the positively verified autochthons.
The divisions were formally established with effect from 1 July 1948, but with the exception of 11 Brigade they were disbanded on 1 November 1949, mainly as a result of difficulties in obtaining volunteer recruits to man the CF Brigades.
He had mainly administrative duties, including instructing recruits, for whom he made life hard.
He possessed no regular British infantry and his four battalions were all inexperienced Indian units, consisting mainly of young recruits.
With these new recruits, they released their second album, Nexus Polaris, which was hugely successful ( mainly thanks to Nuclear Blast's promotions ) and is largely considered their best album to date by fans.
NCWU mainly recruits full-time undergraduate and graduate students together with a small number of three-year diploma students.
Many college football teams, particularly larger organizations, play a public intramural exhibition game in the spring mainly to promote the team and give new recruits an early chance at public game action.
While in the 70 ’ s many recruits came from universities and parts of the Breton elite, today most if not all are mainly drawn from either urban and unemployed youth, those living on welfare and those on limited and short term employment.
The bomber, who later turned out to be a U. S. educated Jordanian lawyer from al Qaeda targeted a large crowd of mainly teachers and police recruits outside a health clinic.
Mostly a voluntary force, it recruits mainly from farmers and artisans and its main objective is to aid the Regular Armed Forces and Police Force in War, insurgency or anti-crime drives.
The Army mainly recruits within the United Kingdom, and normally has a recruitment target of around 25, 000 soldiers per year.
The division personnel was formed from Hungarians, mainly army men, youngsters of Levente Institution and recruits.
Its recruits were from diverse backgrounds, mainly white-collar workers and professional women, but with a significant proportion also from the working class.
recruits and mercenaries
* July 1: Louis recruits more troops, among them many foreign mercenaries
According to tradition, young Giacomo was plowing a field when a platoon of mercenaries led by Boldrino da Panicale passed nearby in search of recruits.
The recruits were ill-armed ( many with only slings and scythes ) but full of enthusiasm, and they flocked to the standard of Hunyadi, the core of which consisted of a small band of seasoned mercenaries and a few banderia of noble horsemen.
She quickly recruits Cayman to their cause when he learns that they are looking for mercenaries to fight Sador.
In March 1543 Gustav Vasa ordered his army of Swedish recruits and German landsknecht mercenaries to attack Småland.
For much of the 18th century, the army was recruited in a wide variety of places, and many of its recruits were mercenaries from continental Europe, including Danes, Hessians and Hanoverians.
Spy Smasher is eventually revealed to be alive and well when she recruits Bane and his new team of mercenaries ( consisting of himself, Jeannette, Lady Vic, King Shark, Dwarfstar and Giganta ) to invade and claim Skartaris in the name of the U. S.
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