Sergeant Mike Donaldson, Congressional Medal of Honor soldier, was one of them.

To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.

It was probably at this period that Littlepage got his first good look at the ordinary Russian soldier.

Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was not a `` great soldier ''.

What I mean is, he was a Pole and the greatest soldier in the Ulanys.

In the corner was the soldier with the white flag.

Charles Thiot, a splendid Georgia soldier, differed from most of his comrades in the ranks in that he was the owner of a large plantation, well-educated, and nearly fifty years of age.

the most common type of letter was that of soldier husbands to their wives.

An Alabama soldier whose feminine associations were of the more admirable type wrote boastfully of his achievements among the Virginia belles: `` they thout I was a saint.

Alfonso was a fierce, violent man, a soldier and nothing else, whose piety was wholly militant.

" Although a Greek, he may have been a soldier of the Persian army when Clazomenae was suppressed during the Ionian Revolt.

He was " a former soldier and a Greek " ( miles quondam et graecus ), he tells us, and his enrollment among the elite protectores domestici ( household guards ) shows that he was of noble birth.

* Donald Malarkey, World War II U. S. Army soldier of the 101st Airborne Division was portrayed in the TV series Band of Brothers.

In Sparta, Ares was viewed as a masculine soldier in which his resilience, physical strength and military intelligence was unrivaled.

Paul comments that saying farewell was " very hard, but it is something a soldier learns to deal with.

*" Davy " Crockett ( August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836 ) was a 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician.

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

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.

To the soldiers who did the fighting, the distinction was usually academic ; a soldier fighting at Beaumont Hamel on November 13, 1916 was probably unaware he was taking part in what the committee would call the " Battle of the Ancre ".

He was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War and political movements such as McCarthyism, and he helped pay for the successful defense of a soldier accused of " fragging " ( murdering ) another soldier during the war.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

To relieve the itch and sweat galls, the men got into the water whenever they could and since each sizable stream was generally the dividing line between the armies the pickets declared a private truce while the men went swimming.

Where Cuddleback Brook purled into the Neversink was a magnificent swimming hole.

There was swimming over at the Riverside Hotel, but his skin was so white he looked like the bottom of a frog.

Or, what was worse, she prayed for him out loud at bedtime: `` Please, Lord Gord, please give my brother the strength to go swimming like he promised ''.

Next morning he tied a bunch of sea daisies with string and threw them across the V-shaped inlet to the rock where she was swimming around.

Once when she asked why he never went swimming and he answered, `` Don't feel like it '', he was tempted to tell her about being scared.

I was slowly swimming down to the bottom of the sea.

* 1965 – The largest swimming pool in Europe was opened in Fürstenfeld, Austria.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

The single was accompanied by a promotional video directed by Bernard Rose, showing Somerville eagerly trying to make friends at a swimming pool, then being attacked by an anti-homosexual gang, being returned to his family by the police and having to leave home.

According to the witness statements, U-27s commander was shot while swimming towards Baralong.

Whether or not this incident is true, Adomnan's text specifically states that the monster was swimming in the River Ness-the river flowing from the loch-rather than in Loch Ness itself.

It filed twice for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and was successfully reorganized into a new swimming pool industry association.

While swimming, the head was held up but the neck was drawn in.

The play is a series of scenes and songs, and was first staged at public swimming pool in Brooklyn.

His term as Prime Minister was brought to an early and dramatic end in December 1967 when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria, and was presumed drowned.

Holt decided to go swimming, although the surf was heavy and Cheviot Beach was notorious for its strong currents and dangerous rip tides.

Although there is little surviving evidence of Irish culture, some elderly islanders can remember when the term " cilig " ( or killick ) was used to describe a common method of fishing for sea turtles by tricking them into swimming into prearranged nets ( this was dome by splashing a stone on a line-the cilig-into the water on the turtle's opposite side ).

The kayak was first made and used by the native Ainu, Aleut and Eskimo hunters in sub-Arctic regions of northeastern Asia, North America and Greenland.

It is considered a kayak although it was originally paddled with single-bladed paddles, and typically had more than one paddler.

A special skin jacket, Tuilik, was then laced to the kayak, creating a waterproof seal.

This measurement system confounded early European explorers who tried to duplicate the kayak, because each kayak was a little different.

His later attempt to paddle a kayak to the North Pole in late 2008, following the erroneous prediction of clear water to the Pole, was stymied when his expedition found itself stuck in thick ice after only three days.

Cayucos is the Chumash word for " kayak ," or " canoe ," which was used by the Chumash people to fish in the bay, particularly in the rich kelp beds just north of the current Cayucos pier.

He was unsuccessful in his initial attempts to convince Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes and later Admiral Theodore Hallett, commander of the Combined Training Centre, that his idea of a folding kayak brigade would be effective.

Tito Kayak then rowed himself under a bridge whose clearance was too low for the police powerboats and switched out of the kayak, so when the kayak was apprehended he was no longer on board.

IDBF's membership application had been previously blocked by the GAISF member representing canoe and kayak racing, an international sporting association that originated early in the 20th century following the development of canoe sport in the late 19th century and which claimed to automatically control the boat races which have existed for over two thousand years prior, despite not having organised any competitions or promoted the activity until only very recently and some 30 years after the international modern sport was already being organised and promoted by dragon boat specialists with the assistance of the rowing fraternity.

The first workable folding kayak was built by Alfred Heurich in 1905, a German architectural student.

The folding kayak was made commercially successful by Johannes Klepper, whose factory was at Rosenheim, Germany.

After its closure to passenger traffic, the northwest portion of the airport was redeveloped, with runways being converted into a sports park that housed the venues for canoe / kayak slalom, field hockey, baseball, and softball during the 2004 Summer Olympics.

The hard shell kayak was easily hauled to rivers and remote put-ins that were not accessible before.

An annual canoe / kayak regatta is held on Sydenham Lake next to The Point, a popular local public beach, which was purchased by a local women's group in the mid-late 19th century and given back to the community so that there was always a public gathering point.

* Róbert Erban, world champion in the kayak K4 was born in Piešťany in 1972

The beach is accessible only by boat or kayak, as its land access was blocked off by a private landowner.

, an annual canoe and kayak race was being held on the river in Milton.