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Light and Canadian
In the Canadian Army, a number of regular and reserve units have cavalry roots, including The Royal Canadian Hussars ( Montreal ), the Governor General's Horse Guards, Lord Strathcona's Horse, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and the South Alberta Light Horse.
* South Alberta Light Horse ( Canadian Army )
The Canadian singer-songwriter, Bruce Cockburn, has a track entitled " Kit Carson " on his 1991 album Nothing But a Burning Light that does not present Carson in a positive light.
In Canada, maple syrup is classified by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ( CFIA ) as one of three grades, each with several colour classes: Canada No. 1, including Extra Light, Light, and Medium ; No. 2 Amber ; and finally No. 3 Dark or any other ungraded category.
The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.
* Canadian Light Rail Vehicle
The operation was composed of elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, TF Rakkasan, B Co. 159th Avn Rgt, 75th Ranger Regiment, the US Special Operation Forces groups to include elements of forces from USSOCOM, JSOC and CIA's Special Activities Division, TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, Canada's 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, the Turkish Maroon Berets, the Norwegian FSK and Marinejegerkommandoen, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, the New Zealand Special Air Service and Danish special forces from Jægerkorpset and the Danish Frogman Corps.
The record for the longest combat kill by a sniper was temporarily set during Operation Anaconda by Canadian sniper Cpl Rob Furlong, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry ( PPCLI ).
Notable among these systems are the Docklands Light Railway deployed in London, while the French Véhicule Automatique Léger and the Canadian Bombardier ART have both won developments around the world.
Captain Frederick W. Light of the Manola reported that both the Canadian and the American weather stations had storm flag signals flying from their weather towers.
* Kay was nominated for the Canadian Sunburst Award nomination in 2005 for The Last Light of the Sun.
* Northern Light ( whiskey ), a blended Canadian whisky
Light therapy is recommended as a first-line treatment for SAD in Canadian, American, and international clinical guidelines.
The three airborne commandos took shape around the three regimental affiliations: 1 Commando with the Royal 22 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment, 2 Commando with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and 3 Commando with The Royal Canadian Regiment.
Units in 1 CMBG include Lord Strathcona's Horse ( Royal Canadians ), 1 Combat Engineer Regiment, two of the three regular force battalions of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and various headquarters, service, and support elements.
Edmonton also has a large army reserve element from 41 Canadian Brigade Group ( 41 CBG ), including The Loyal Edmonton Regiment ( 4th Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry ); 41 Combat Engineer Regiment ; HQ Battery, 20th Field Artillery Regiment ; and B Squadron of The South Alberta Light Horse, one of Alberta's oldest army reserve units.

Light and British
* 1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
Light armored cars, such as the British Ferret are armed with just a machine gun.
Later the British also developed a version of the Mk. VI light tank armed with 4 machine guns that was known as Light Tank AA Mk. I.
The British and French armies dismounted many of their cavalry regiments and used them in infantry and other roles: the Life Guards for example spent the last months of the War as a machine gun corps ; and the Australian Light Horse served as light infantry during the Gallipoli campaign.
Their mounted charge succeeded after a coordinated attack by the British Infantry and Yeomanry cavalry and the Australian and New Zealand Light Horse and Mounted Rifles brigades.
Both the Australian and New Zealand armies follow the British practice of maintaining traditional titles ( Light Horse or Mounted Rifles ) for modern mechanised units.
In several stages between 1816 and 1861, the 21 existing Light Dragoon regiments in the British Army were disbanded or converted to lancers or hussars.
Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001.
* Electric Light Orchestra, a British rock music group
* Faster Than Light ( software publisher ), a British video games company
* L118 Light Gun British 105mm towed gun-howitzer of the late 20th century ; a variant serves in the US military as the M119 A1 Howitzer
Nuada is cognate with the British god Nodens ; Lug is a reflex of the pan-Celtic deity Lugus, the name of whom may indicate " Light "; Tuireann may be related to the Gaulish Taranis ; Ogma to Ogmios ; the Badb to Catubodua.
* 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
** Kelly Groucutt, British Bassist ( Electric Light Orchestra ) ( d. 2009 )
* May 10 – Indian rebellion of 1857: The 3rd Light Cavalry of the British East India Company's army rebels against its British officers, thus beginning the rebellion.
* October – William Light, British Army colonel and the first Surveyor-General of South Australia ( b. 1786 )
* October 21 – Francis Light, founder of the British colony of Penang ( b. 1740 )
* August 11 – Captain Francis Light, known as the founder of Penang, lands in Penang and renames it Prince of Wales Island in honour of the heir to the British throne.
* Francis Light acquires the island of Penang from the Sultan of Kedah on behalf of the British East India Company.
Light rail is similar to the British English term light railway, long used to distinguish railway operations carried out under a less rigorous set of regulation using lighter equipment at lower speeds from mainline railways.
The historic term light railway was used because it dated from the British Light Railways Act 1896, although the technology used in the DLR system was at the high end of what Americans considered to be light rail.

Light and artillery
Early on 27 June, resuming its advance, the 90th Light was checked by 50th Division's artillery.
In 1964 he was commissioned in an anti aircraft artillery regiment ( 36 LAA Regiment Artillery, later 36 Light Air Defence Regiment ).
Light aircraft such as the Piper L-4 Cub served as artillery spotters and provided airborne reconnaissance.
They consist of three infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, a tank battalion, a Light Armored Reconnaissance battalion, an Amphibious Assault Vehicle battalion, a reconnaissance battalion, a combat engineer battalion, and a headquarters battalion.
On the threatened British-Portuguese right flank, the elite Light Division, well supported by cavalry and artillery, made a textbook fighting withdrawal.
One occurred when a British 14th Light Dragoon squadron pressed home a frontal attack on a French artillery battery and was mauled.
As the 10th Light was coming up towards the village, they were at first greeted with intense artillery fire and then Buresch's brigade released some heavy musketry upon them.
As they approached Oosterbeek they were met by Lieutenant Colonel Sheriff Thompson, of the 1st Airlanding Light Artillery Regiment, who formed most of the men into a defensive screen under Major Robert Cain forward of his artillery positions.
While stationed at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, he recruited an artillery company that became Battery " F " of the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery with Powell as captain.
After several defeats and near misses, the Mexican Army of the North, about 2, 638 men ( 1st, 4th and 10th Line, two companies of the 6th and 2d Light Regiments, Mexico and Morelia Activos, 7th, 8th and Light Cavalry Regiments, and 13 pieces of artillery ) attempted to retreat south and refit before engaging United States forces under General Zachary Taylor.
Joining Ampudia at this engagement were reinforcements from Mexico City totaling 3, 140 men: 1, 080 men of the Garcia-Conde Brigade ( Aguascalientes and Querétaro Battalions, two squadrons 3d Line Cavalry, three guns ), a thousand men of the Azpeitia Brigade ( 3d Line, two squadrons Jalisco lancers, two squadrons Guanajuato Cavalry Regiment, six guns and an Ambulance ), 1, 060 men of the Simeon Ramirez Brigade ( 3d and 4th Light, three guns & 3 howitzers 7 ") and an artillery unit, the largely Irish-American volunteers for Mexico called San Patricios ( or the Saint Patrick's Battalion ), in their first major engagement against U. S. forces.
The German, Austrian and Ottoman attack on Mount Royston was checked to the north by the 3rd and 6th Light Horse Regiments ( 1st and 2nd Light Horse Brigades ), and under constant bombardment from the horse artillery and the infantry's heavy artillery of the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division.
The 10th Light Division was unique in that it was the only division in the Army with three field artillery battalions instead of four.
This operation was an artillery ambush from Ba Kelalan in the 5th Division of Sarawak by 1 / 7 Gurkhas and 38 Light Battery on a track leading to the Long Bawang airfield.
At Katia and again at Bir el Abd, Chauvel attempted to sweep around the Turkish flank but wound up making frontal attacks on the Turkish rearguard and was beaten off by determined counterattacks and artillery fire against the 3rd Light Horse Brigade.
The second column consisting of Anzac Mounted Division's divisional headquarters, Signal Squadron, Field Artillery and 2nd Light Horse Brigade ( divisional reserve ) arrived south west of Deir el Belah, when the 2nd Light Horse Brigade and the artillery were ordered to water and bivouac at Deir el Belah.
Five minutes after the 159th ( Cheshire ) Brigade, of the 53rd ( Welsh ) Division captured the redoubt near Ali Muntar, at 16: 15 the attack on Gaza from the north by the 2nd Light Horse Brigade, supported by the Somerset artillery battery began to develop.
* Charge of the 4th Light Horse in the Battle of Beersheba ( October 31, 1917 ): two regiments of Australian Light Horse charge an unknown number of entrenched Turkish infantry and Austrian artillery.

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