The Mughals then began to utilize Bamboo rocket ( mainly used for signalling ) and Sappers were special units that laid gunpowder under heavy stone fortifications.

Sappers were originally supporting adjuncts to regular formations prior to 1967, but in time, independent formations were created throughout the Vietnam arena.

By October 1845, 4000 troops, nearly half the U. S. Army, under orders of President Polk, were positioned on the north side of the Rio Grande. The Mexican garrison of Matamoros under Gen. F. Mejia consisted of the Zapadores ( Sappers ) Battalion, the 2d Light, 1st & 10th Line Infantry Regiments, the 7th Cavalry Regiment, Villas of the North Aux Cavalry, several Companies of Presidales and the Matamoros National Guards Battalion.

The native engineer corps were referred to as ' sappers and miners ', as for example, the Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners.

The two areas of town were connected over the Rideau Canal by the Sappers Bridge, constructed in 1827.

M5 Stuart light tanks of 7 Cavalry were moved in dismantled conditions through Srinagar and winched across bridges while two field companies of the Madras Sappers converted the mule track across Zoji La into a jeep track.

In 1827, the two towns were connected along Rideau Street by Sappers Bridge, which spanned the canal.

Post-mutiny, units with the epithet " Bengal " in their name, such as Bengal Sappers and Bengal Cavalry, were largely recruited from non-Bengali peoples from Bihar, Varanasi and Uttar Pradesh which were technically still part of Bengal Presidency at that time.

The Bengal Sappers of the Indian Army were the first to run a steam locomotive in India.

* Dec 1918 Popular Science World War 1 article about a French engineer using a ground stethoscope to listen for German sappers – Listening to Enemy Sappers, Popular Science monthly, January 1919, page 27, Scanned by Google Books

He also serves the Madras Engineering Group ( Madras Sappers corps of engineers ) Indian army as junior commissioned officer.

The fort of Battle of Ghazni | Ghazni which fell as a result of mining by a mixed contingent of the Bombay Engineer Group | Bombay and Bengal Engineer Group | Bengal Sappers during the First Afghan War on 23rd July 1839.

He was 25 years old, and a corporal in the Royal Sappers and Miners, British Army during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

Progress on the road was difficult because of the thickly laid minefields and it was during this period that 2nd Lieutenant Premindra Singh Bhagat of the Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners won the first Victoria Cross for the British Indian Army in World War II for a "... continuous feat of sheer cold courage " clearing 15 minefields and of roads in 48 hours of unbroken effort.

Smith was 43 years old, and a sergeant in the Bengal Sappers and Miners, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

He was 31 years old, and a captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army and with Bengal Sappers and Miners ( British Indian Army ) during the Second Anglo-Afghan War when the following deed took place on 17 March 1879 near Maidanah, Afghanistan for which he was awarded the VC.

Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

Here the retreating Ottoman and German rearguard had blown up the bridge's central arch which was repaired in five hours by Sappers attached to the Australian Mounted Division.

Ten years later the Gibraltar company, which had remained separate, was absorbed and in 1812 the name was changed to the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners.

In 1778, General Washington proposed the formation of a new military unit to be known as the " Corps of Sappers and Miners " and in the summer of the next year it was organized and on 8 June 1781, David Bushnell was appointed Captain and was at the Battle of Yorktown in the following Sept. and October, the only time the unit had had the opportunity to render special service.

Of the original units of 50 Parachute Brigade, only two exist as of date, namely 411 Parachute Field Company of the Bombay Sappers, the oldest parachute unit of the Indian Army and 50 Parachute Brigade Signal Company.

She was the second daughter of Sergeant Thomas Edwards of the Sappers and Miners, a former London cabinetmaker, and his Anglo-Indian wife, Mary Anne Glasscott, daughter of a lieutenant in the Bombay Army.

Sappers could operate in support of a larger regular infantry formation, or as the main spearhead themselves, with regulars as backup.

Juan Luna also designed the collar insignia for the uniforms, distinguishing between the services ; Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Sappers and Medics.

File: Lower Bytown, from the Barrack Hill, near the head of the Eighth Lock and Sappers ’ Bridge, 1845. jpg | 1845 painting of the canal and Lower Town by Thomas Burrowes

), Tampico Coast Grds Battalion ( Lt. Col. Ramon Tabera ), Zapadores ( Sappers ) Battalion ( Lt. Col. Mariano Reyes )

Soldiers of No 2 Field Company, Bombay Sappers and Miners on duty in China in 1900.

The term Sapper was introduced in 1856 when the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners was amalgamated with the officer Corps of Royal Engineers to form the Corps of Royal Engineers.

During the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I Australian Sappers repaired a bridge at the historic crossing of the Jordan River at Jisr Benat Yakub ( also known as Jacob's Ford.

While the light horse brigades forded the river, continuing Desert Mounted Corps ' advance to Damascus the Sappers worked through the night of 27 / 28 September 1918, to repair the bridge to enable the division's wheeled vehicles and guns to follow on 28 September.

The term ' Sappers ', in addition to the connotation of rank of engineer private, is used collectively to informally refer to the Engineer Corps as a whole and also forms part of the informal names of the three combat engineer groups, viz.

Madras Sappers, Bengal Sappers and the Bombay Sappers.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

Even in the very area where the shooting had been done, cattle were still disappearing.

His legs were narrow and very long.

More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.

The slaves never shared in their profits, while they did share, in a very real sense, in the profits of the slave-owners: they were fed, clothed, doctored, and so forth ; ;

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.

Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.

They would all lie around on the rug during the meal, a very pretty sight as Rob Roy, Prudence, and Calamity Jane were all snow-white.

Such were the incongruities of the situation that the very police assigned to check up on me were drafted into driving me to the Strasbourg Hospital while World Citizen Jean Babel waved adieu from the `` Line ''!!

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.

In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.

`` The Germans in the fourth century were a very simple race, who comprehended little of natural laws, and who therefore referred phenomena they did not understand to supernatural intervention.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

I must, in fairness, take issue with his premise, primarily because the so-called scandals in labor unions were very much connected with business scandals.

Further, it should be recalled that some very definite steps were taken by Congress to combat corruption in the labor movement by its passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act.

For something, clearly, has gone very, very seriously wrong in Soviet-Chinese relations, which were never easy, and have now deteriorated.

There were two liquor saloons not very far from the church, one white, that is conducted for white people with a side entrance for Negroes ; ;

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.