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

the next a headless horror on a horse that bolted through the redcoat ranks, and during the next second or two, we all of us fired into the suddenly disorganized column of soldiers.

Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground, while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate's asking for Christ's body, Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes, and the others had gone home to mourn.

Union soldiers at times used it for sleeping quarters to escape from the rain or other inclement weather, and some of them left momentoes of their stay by carving their names and small tokens on its walls and beams.

Unmarried soldiers carried on correspondence with sweethearts at home.

The war had begun with a Mexican slaughter of American soldiers in territory disputed by Mexico and the US ; Polk insisted that Mexican soldiers had " invaded our territory and shed the blood of our fellow-citizens on our own soil ".

Not only had Burnside been defeated on the battlefield, but his soldiers were disgruntled and undisciplined.

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

Sikh soldiers brought Bhai Kanhaiya before Guru Gobind Singh Ji, and complained of his action that they considered counterproductive to their struggle on the battlefield.

Based on Defense Ministry statistics that had not been released to the public, the Group of Monitoring Compliance with Human Rights in the Army ( GMCHRA ) has recorded the deaths of 76 soldiers to date in non-combat incidents for 2011, and the injury of 91 others.

Bean, as he sends his soldiers on a suicide mission to destroy the Buggers, says to them, " O my son Absalom.

Subsequently, around 30, 000 Gothic soldiers defected to Alaric, and joined his march on Rome to avenge their murdered families.

His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.

In ancient times, an ambush often might involve thousands of soldiers on a large scale, such as over a mountain pass.

In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to conduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills, in which he explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I. Antiseptics worked well on the surface, but deep wounds tended to shelter anaerobic bacteria from the antiseptic agent, and antiseptics seemed to remove beneficial agents produced that protected the patients in these cases at least as well as they removed bacteria, and did nothing to remove the bacteria that were out of reach.

In any case the vests were abandoned by many soldiers due to their weight on long marches as well as the stigma they got for being cowards from their fellow troops.

" The book does not focus on heroic stories of bravery, but rather gives a view of the conditions in which the soldiers find themselves.

He also reports that an army of ten million soldiers crossed the ocean to conquer Hyperborea, but abandoned this proposal when they realized that the Hyperboreans were the luckiest people on earth.

Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

An account of small cash sums received over a few days at the fort of Vindolanda circa 110 AD shows that the fort could compute revenues in cash on a daily basis, perhaps from sales of surplus supplies or goods manufactured in the camp, items dispensed to slaves such as cervesa ( beer ) and clavi caligares ( nails for boots ), as well as commodities bought by individual soldiers.

Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.

Similarly desperate losses were suffered elsewhere on the front, in a disastrous day for the British Army ( approximately 19, 000 British soldiers were killed in a single day ).

He wasn't troubled with the ordinary, rank-and-file fear that overcomes and paralyzes and sends individual soldiers and whole companies under fire running in panic.

Meritocracy was practiced in the whole state, with peasants, soldiers and officers receiving due rewards according to their contributions, regardless of their backgrounds.

However, the whole of Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union on 3 August 1940 following a June ultimatum from the Soviets demanding, among other things, that unspecified numbers of Red Army soldiers be allowed to enter the country for the purpose of helping to form a more pro-Soviet government.

First the Ottomans attacked the newly built fort of St. Elmo and after a whole month of fighting the fort was in rubble and the soldiers kept fighting until the Turks ended their lives.

The whole German raiding party, made up of only 19 officers and 79 soldiers, promptly overwhelmed the small French maintenance garrison ( 68 men ) and forced its surrender.

American Minister Edwin H. Conger cabled Washington, “ the whole country is swarming with hungry, discontented, hopeless idlers .” On 30 May the diplomats, led by British Minister Claude Maxwell MacDonald, requested that foreign soldiers come to Beijing to defend the legations.

On the whole, the Chronicle is virulently anti-Scottish and famously contains nine ' songs ', in both Anglo-Norman and Middle English, supposedly capturing the taunts between English and Scottish soldiers during the Anglo-Scottish conflicts of the late-13th and early-14th centuries.

The Canonical Gospels, except Luke, record that Jesus is then taken by the soldiers to the Praetorium where, according to Matthew and Mark, the whole contingent of soldiers has been called together.

The village was the centre of the fighting for the whole day, with French soldiers of Ferey's and Marchand's divisions clashing with the British redcoats of the 1st and 3rd Divisions.

Throughout the day the bombardment mowed down the massed Russian soldiers along the whole line.

Dark soldiers begin to pop up from the rubble and eventually cover the whole screen with darkness symbolizing the Dark Ages.

Participants are dressed as Napoleonic soldiers, and walk about 40 km around the whole municipality.

Weil's whole life was marked by an exceptional compassion for the suffering of others ; at the age of six, for instance, she refused to eat sugar after she heard that soldiers fighting in the First World War had to go without.

An hour later the Indians are forced away by soldiers armed with rifles and bayonets ; by the next day a whole city has been built on the site.

An apparent indifference has serious consequences for the morale of our soldiers and it is damaging to the esteem of our Army and our whole nation.

In 1566, from August 5 to September 7, his small force ( 2, 300 soldiers ) heroically defended the little fortress of Szigetvár against the whole Ottoman host ( 102, 000 soldiers ), led by Suleiman the Magnificent in person.

Eventually, the whole population of the Military Frontier became professional soldiers that served an Empire on several fronts and through many European wars, even after the disappearance of Ottoman threat.

Returning home, the whole happy party stop for a picnic at Grabowa ( Grabovo ) castle, which has been burnt, and Skrzetuski and his loved one are happily cheered by the soldiers.

The capital of Havaru Thinadhoo was burnt down by soldiers sent by then Prime Minister Ibrahim Nasir from Malé during the secession in 1962, after which it was left uninhabited for four whole years and the atoll served its capital at Gaddhoo more than ten ( 10 ) years.

Seeing Warwick's livery amongst the enemy, Pembroke's men presumed his whole force of expert soldiers was upon them.

The balaclava, a tight knitted garment covering the whole head and neck with holes for the eyes and mouth, also takes its name from this settlement, where soldiers first wore them.

On 18 May 1944 the Crimean Tatar population of the city along with the whole Crimean Tatar nation of Crimea ( except the families of the Red Army soldiers ) was forcibly deported to Central Asia in a form of collective punishment.