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On the regiment's first battlefield on Blackshard, Hlaine Larkin coins the nickname " Gaunt's Ghosts ".
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On and regiment's
On September 9 he was made the regiment's major, and on October 8 he became its lieutenant colonel.
On battlefields, a regiment's colours, or flags, were used as rallying points.
On 1 June 1948, the two battalions amalgamated in the presence of the regiment's colonel-in-chief, Queen Elizabeth.
On the regiment's 50th anniversary in 1950, King George VI made the presentation in person.
On the regiment's disbandment in 1749 he transferred to the 48th Foot.
On 20 October 1871, the first regular Canadian army units were created, in the form of two batteries of garrison artillery ; thus, that date is considered the regiment's birthday.
On the base would be the regiment's number or, in the case of the Guard, Garde Impériale.
On the morning of the move, Middleton had breakfast with General Pershing's aide, Colonel George C. Marshall, who had come to Adenau the day before to inform Middleton of his regiment's new orders.
On 10 April 1918 at El Kefr in Egypt, Karanbahadur Rana of the 2nd Battalion became the regiment's second VC recipient after distinguishuing himself in an encounter with Ottoman forces, and was the last VC recipient of the regiment.
On Monday 30 August 2010, Corporal Brian Pinksen died of his wounds eight days after being injured by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, making him the regiment's first combat fatality since the First World War.
On 24 April of the same year, their services were accepted-since then, this date has always been celebrated as the regiment's official birthday.
On 4 February 1784, a contingent of seven officers received the freedom of the borough while the regiment's colours were laid up at Liverpool Town Hall.
On the base would be the regiment's number or, in the case of the Guard, Garde Impériale.
On 16 October 1943, the regiment's title was changed to SS-Grenadier-Regiment 1 Landstorm Nederland.
On and first
On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.
On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.
On July 20, the first drawing of numbers occurred in the Senate Office Building before a distinguished group of congressmen and high Army officers.
On his first trip to the finished structure he boasted that he had built a temple grander than Solomon's in Jerusalem.
On this first venture the central storage is 20,000 gallons, in two tanks, or an average of 400 gallons for each of the 50 homes.
On chemical grounds it seems most likely that iodide is first converted to Af and then to Af as the active iodinating species.
On the economic front, the first priority of these countries is to mobilize a vastly increased volume of resources.
On the positivist theory, everything I sought to express by calling it evil in the first case is still present in the second.
On this giddy and oscillating platform over fifty feet from the floor, after a first dusting, we began to wash.
On her first visit the orthodontist will take x-rays, photographs, tooth measurements, and `` tooth prints '' -- an impression of the mouth that permits him to study her teeth and jaws.
On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.
On a quarter-to-quarter comparison, the first quarter of 1961 total of 9,273 cars was 21 per cent behind the previous year's 3-month total of 11,744.
On the final round at Pensacola, the luck of the draw paired Palmer and Player in the same threesome and, although it was far from obvious at the time, the gallery was treated to the first chapter of what promises to be one of the most exciting duels in sport for a long time to come.
On Thursday, the first day of the Masters, the contest between Palmer and Player developed instantly.
On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.
On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the " Apollinare ".
* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
On July 23, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen.
On September 11, 2008, a United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III successfully completed the first landing in Antarctica using night-vision goggles at Pegasus Field.
Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.
On May 25, 1961, twenty days after the first US manned spaceflight Freedom 7, Kennedy proposed the Apollo program to Congress in a special address to a joint session:
In 1989 the first part of his On Aristotle Metaphysics was published as part of the Ancient commentators project.
On December 30, 1943, during the Japanese occupation, Subhas Chandra Bose, who was controversially allied with the Japanese, first raised the flag of Indian independence.
On 8 November 1273 Andronikos II married as his first wife Anna of Hungary, daughter of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman, with whom he had two sons:
On and battlefield
On their decisive battlefield Lincoln did not distinguish between them when he paid tribute to the `` brave men, living and dead, who fought here ''.
On the battlefield, it is probably fair to say, Charles was comparable in skill and style to Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington-quite conservative and yet exceedingly competent.
On March 8, 1916, on the battlefield of Verdun, Wolfgang Husserl was killed in action.
On the battlefield the Jägers provided strong leadership that made disciplined action by the common White soldiers possible.
* 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle.
On the battlefield English archers stored their arrows stabbed upright into the ground at their feet, reducing the time it took to notch, draw and loose, as drawing from a quiver or arrow bag is slower.
On the battlefield, the Ottomans gradually fell behind the Europeans in military technology as the innovation that fed the Empire's forceful expansion became stifled by growing religious and intellectual conservatism.
On this occasion, however, William Martel, Stephen's steward, made a fierce rear guard effort, allowing Stephen to escape from the battlefield.
On November 8, Lincoln won by over 400, 000 popular votes on the strength of the soldier vote and following battlefield successes at Atlanta.
On August 28 and August 29, the start of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Pope pounded Jackson as Longstreet and the remainder of the army marched north to reach the battlefield.
On their return to the battlefield, Oxford's men were erroneously shot at by his allies commanded by John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu.
) On 22 April, after a two-day bombardment, the Germans released 168 tons of chlorine gas onto the battlefield.
On that same day, the wing of Lee's army commanded by Maj. Gen. James Longstreet broke through light Union resistance in the Battle of Thoroughfare Gap and approached the battlefield.
On the battlefield remained the Emperor Baldwin, who swore to never flee, and Count Louis.
On the battlefield, he favoured pragmatism over chivalry in the massed use of infantry strongholds, dismounted men at arms, longbowmen, and flank attacks ( a revolutionary practice in a chivalric age ).
On August 16, the army came upon the corpse-strewn battlefield of Yanghe.
On this occasion, however, William Martel, Stephen's steward, made a fierce rear guard effort, allowing Stephen to escape from the battlefield.
On 9 September 1805, Kutuzov arrived at the battlefield to gather information.
On the contrary, his response to the Navarino disaster was to raise the stakes dramatically, in effect challenging Russia to decide the whole issue on the battlefield.
On flintlocks, the bayonet played a much more significant role, often accounting for a third or more of all battlefield casualties.
On Christmas Day, General Edward Pakenham arrived on the battlefield and ordered a reconnaissance-in-force on December 28 against the American earthworks protecting the advance to New Orleans.
On September 8, the Russian army moved away from the battlefield in twin columns to Semolino, allowing Napoleon to occupy Moscow and await for 5 weeks a Russian surrender that would never come.
On 12 August 1918 Monash was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on the battlefield by King George V, the first time a British monarch had honoured a commander in such a way in 200 years.
On their part of the battlefield the French left wing under Championnet succeeded in driving the Austrians out of Altenkirchen and Kerathh.
On the northern side of the battlefield the Sardinians, 4 divisions strong, encountered the Austrians around 7 am.
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