Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.

The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.

In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.

The truth is, however, that when Mel Chandler first reported to the regiment the only steed he had ever ridden was a swivel chair and the only weapon he had ever wielded was a pencil.

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.

But what made the load lighter was the realization that every officer, non-com and trooper was ready and willing to help him carry it, for the good of the troop and the regiment.

It was no coincidence that Goulding was one of the most beloved platoon leaders in the regiment.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

The regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.

For an instant his men hesitated, unable to believe that their lieutenant, the most popular officer in the regiment, was dead.

So filled was Mel Chandler with the spirit of Garryowen that after Korea was over, he took on the job of writing the complete history of the regiment.

Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.

In 1703, Alexei was ordered to follow the army to the field as a private in a bombardier regiment.

After graduation and a brief sojourn at the Military School of Paris Napoleon applied for second-lieutenancy in the artillery regiment of La Fère at Valence and after a time was given the position.

The regiment was in Auxonne when the revolution broke out in the summer of 1789.

After a brief return to his regiment Napoleon was promoted to First Lieutenant and came home again on leave in 1791.

After acquiring an initial fleet of utility and transport aircraft, the squadron was attached to an interarmy support regiment.

De la Colonie, with his Grenadiers Rouge regiment, together with the Cologne Guards who were brigaded with them, was now ordered forward from his post south of Ramillies to support the faltering counter-attack on the village.

Borthwick was killed, as was Charles O ’ Brien, the Irish Viscount Clare in French service, fighting at the head of his regiment.

The story concerns two rival " aesthetic " poets, who attract the attention of the young ladies of the village, who had been engaged to the members of a cavalry regiment.

In 1755 the Hannoverian Guards regiment, in whose band Wilhelm and his brother Jakob were engaged as oboists, was ordered to England.

Under these circumstances, a column may be unable to meet the particular wants of troops engaged in the vicinity ; for instance, a cavalry regiment would send in vain to a heavy artillery ammunition section for pom-pom cartridges.

The Ninety-ninth infantry regiment of Illinois was in several skirmishes, and a detachment of the regiment, Captain A. C. Mathews commanding, was engaged in the Battle of Grand Coteau.

The front and rear ranks of the 28th were simultaneously engaged, whereby the soldiers received the order " Front rank stay as you are, rear rank about turn " and the conduct of the regiment won for it the distinction of wearing badges both at the front and at the back of their head-dress.

Despite British troops having been engaged on the European Continent since 1742, it was not until 1747 that Carleton and his regiment were despatched to Flanders.

While Howard's wing was delayed near Ball's Bluff, the 1st Alabama Cavalry ( a Federal regiment ) engaged Confederate pickets.

In the war against the Soviet Union, von Choltitz ' regiment was engaged in the siege of the city of Sevastopol in June 1942.

The regiment landed in the midst of a number of German artillery batteries that were engaging Allied ground forces crossing the Rhine, and as such many of the gliders were engaged by German artillery pieces which had their barrels lowered for direct-fire.

The US Army's 7th Infantry Division, which had landed later at Inchon, engaged the enemy on the outskirts of Seoul, destroying an armored regiment.

The regiment soon became engaged in battle near the village of Herlegem, fighting through the hedges until darkness.

However, during the Warsaw Uprising, where one mixed regiment of the brigade was engaged, German commanders decided that the brigade was too undisciplined and unreliable.

In 1745 Saxony, engaged in a personal union with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, created a Polish Uhlan regiment called " Saxon Volunteers ".

After a brief imprisonment in Oxford, he was exchanged soon afterwards, and engaged as major of Arthur Hesilrige's regiment of horse.

By the end of the war, O ' Ferrall was a colonel in command of all cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley, and his regiment engaged in the last fight of the war on Virginia soil.

The regiment landed in the midst of a number of German artillery batteries that were engaging Allied ground forces crossing the Rhine, and as such many of the gliders were engaged by German artillery pieces that had their barrels lowered for direct-fire.

Brewer's regiment first engaged with the British Army in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

He brought Braunschweig into close alliance with the king of Prussia, for whom he had fought in the Seven Years ' War ; he was a Prussian field marshal, and was at pains to make the regiment of which he was colonel a model one, and he was frequently engaged in diplomatic and other state affairs.

The regiment was heavily engaged in the subsequent battles, including defending Saint-Lô.

The Australians had begun the contact believing they were the numerically superior force and would attack the Viet Cong, yet far from encountering a small force which would attempt to withdraw before being decisively engaged, 11 Platoon had in fact run into the forward troops of a main force regiment.

The regiment went south when James Longstreet took his corps to Georgia and Tennessee in the fall of 1863, where it was engaged at the Siege of Knoxville.

Later, in 1780, the regiment provided a detachment for operations in the southern colonies as part of Tarleton's Legion, a mixture of infantry and cavalry, and was engaged in a number of battles.

However, after 17 volleys, the British numbers began to overwhelm the Americans and Glover ordered a withdrawal to another stone wall on the crest of a hill while the next regiment in line, the 26th Continentals, engaged the British.