Offer her a cup of tea and she would say, `` Why, these cups look just like a set I gave to the Salvation Army last year ''.

For Marvin Goulding, like Giovanni Martini, the bugler boy who carried Custer's last message, or Margarito Lopez, the one-man Army on Leyte, was a Garryowen, through and through.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

This setback for Parliament in Cornwall, and the last major victory for the Royalists, was reversed by Sir Thomas Fairfax leading the New Model Army at or near Tresillian Bridge, close to Truro on 12 March 1645.

Sun Yat-sen was declared as President, but Sun was forced to turn power over to Yuan Shikai, who commanded the New Army and was Prime Minister under the Qing government, as part of the agreement to let the last Qing monarch abdicate ( a decision Sun would later regret ).

The last horsed regiment of the Indian Army ( other than the Viceregal Bodyguard and some Indian States Forces regiments ) was the 19th King George's Own Lancers which had its last mounted parade at Rawalpindi on 28 October 1939.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

" storm of the people " or " Folk-Storm "; " People's Army " or " National Militia ") was a German national militia of the last months of World War II.

Probably the last use of real dragoons ( infantry on horseback ) in combat was made by the Portuguese Army in the war in Angola during the 1960s and early 1970s.

After liberation from the fascist occupation on 29 November 1944, several Albanian partisan divisions crossed the border into German-occupied Yugoslavia, where they fought alongside Tito's partisans and the Soviet Red Army in a joint campaign which succeeded in driving out the last pockets of German resistance.

Bartov wrote that German film-makers liked to show the heroic last stand of the 6th Army at Stalingrad, but none has so far showed the 6th Army's massive co-operation with the Einsatzgruppen in murdering Soviet Jews in 1941.

* 2006 – The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital ( MASH ) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

Shuja Shah Durrani | Shah Shuja, the last Durrani Empire | Durrani King, sitting at his court inside the Bala Hissar before it was destroyed by the British Empire | British Army.

By April 1945, Nazi Germany faced its last days with 1. 9 million German soldiers in the East fighting 6. 4 million Red Army soldiers while 1 million German soldiers in the West battled 4 million Western Allied soldiers.

In Asia, the Red Army had overrun Manchuria in the last month of the war and then also occupied Korea above the 38th parallel north.

* 1932 – Great Depression: in Washington, D. C., troops disperse the last of the " Bonus Army " of World War I veterans.

Although Andrew Jackson served as a courier in a militia unit at age thirteen, Monroe is regarded as the last U. S. President who was a Revolutionary War veteran, since he served as an officer of the Continental Army and took part in combat.

Tony West, his lawyer, explained it as follows :" One of the first things he told Army interrogators when they questioned him on December 3 of last year was that after 9 / 11 happened, he wanted to leave the front lines but couldn't for fear of his life.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

* 1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.

The last border dispute culminated in 1956, when the People's Liberation Army invaded northern Burma, but were repulsed.

While his direction of an ensemble cast and parallel fiction was recognized as astonishing in He is in the Army now ( 2002 ), his last film Shattered Soul ( 2005 ) has taken its well-earned place in Turkish Cinema History as being the first psychological thriller ever, and was awarded with a " Bronze Gryphone " at 2006 in International St. Petersburg Film Festival.

Over the last few years the post has been held by people from outside the university, chosen from industry top levels, in order to strengthen the ties between the university and industrial partners.

After the last retreat of the ice sea level changes and the isostatic rise of land makes charting post glacial coastlines a complex task but the resultant clifflines behind raised beaches are a prominent feature of the entire coastline.

* Michigan State Capitol " Middle Village / Town ", where downtown Lansing now stands, was the last of the three villages to develop in 1848 with the completion of the Michigan Avenue bridge across the Grand River and the completion of the temporary capitol building which sat where Cooley Law School stands today on Capitol Avenue in between Allegan and Washtenaw Streets, and finally the relocation of the post office to the village in 1851.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.

* Prague pneumatic post, the world's last preserved pneumatic mail system

On June 30, 1974, the Cleveland and Cincinnati highway post office, the last HPO route, was discontinued.

The last railway post office operated between New York and Washington, D. C. on June 30, 1977.

But Dallas finished strong, winning their last six regular season games to post a 12 – 4 record.

It gained importance during the Middle Ages as a trading post, and hosted the last free Privy Council of Norway in 1533, a desperate attempt to save the country's independence and stave off the Protestant Reformation, led by Olav Engelbrektsson, archbishop of Nidaros ( today Trondheim ).

Soon thereafter the office of the Comintern Chairman was abolished and Zinoviev lost his last important post.

# The name originated from the last name Veluche belonging to the French or Belgian owner of the trading post in Volusia.

Caton orders the last man out of his command post with a written message, as McKluskey walks in, asking for a weapon.

Haig continued in this position until 1973, when he was appointed to be Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, a post he held until the last few months of President Nixon's tenure, during which he served as White House Chief of Staff.

In later years many administrative changes were made that increased the independence of the Director of Estates and Services, the Director of the Manchester Computing Centre, and eventually combined the offices of Registrar and Bursar as that of Registrar and Secretary, the last holder of this post being Eddie Newcomb ( 1995-2004 ).

Due to its height, from the late 17th century it became an important watchout post for the city for centuries until 1905 ; the last keeper of the tower was forced to leave in 1926.

Bath later became known as Berkeley Springs, primarily because the town's post office took that name ( combining Governor Norborne Berkeley's last name with the warm springs found there ) to avoid confusion with another post office, located in southeastern Virginia, which was already called Bath.

The post office closed in 1966 upon the death of the last postmistress, Ida Morris.

The last post and reveille are played, followed by a wreath-laying ceremony.

On 19 September 2004, after a four-day meeting of the 198-member Central Committee, Jiang resigned as chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, his last party post.

Six months later he resigned his last significant post, chairman of the State CMC.

In 1916, he took a post teaching at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and continued to work there until his death, in his last year as director of the institute.

The first name for the settlement was probably Pueblo Colorado, but when Don Lorenzo Hubbell ( Nov 27, 1853-November 12, 1930 ) purchased the post in 1876, he changed the name to Ganado in honor of Ganado Mucho, the last Navajo peace chief and the twelfth signer of the Navajo peace treaty of 1868.

The last remaining building of the Fort Bragg military post is located at 430 North Franklin Street.