The exoticism of Saracen invaders is stressed in this detail from The Saracen Army outside Paris, by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painted 1822-27, which actually depicts a fictional incident from Ariosto ( Cassino Massimo, Rome )

The South African Army used the British Alvis Saracen APC before the acquisition of spare parts become problematic due to the international arms embargo of apartheid South Africa.

However ' A ' Squadron was deployed to Cyprus to serve as the resident Armoured Car Squadron, one of the last units in the British Army to use the Ferret Scout Car, and the Saladin and Saracen armoured cars.

As tensions in the Middle East grew during the Crusades, the Assassins were also known for taking contracts from outside sources on either side of the war, whether it was from the invading Crusaders or the Saracen forces, so long as the assassination fit in to the Grandmaster's plan.

" The sense-development in ancient times was ( with the Greeks ) ‘ foreign, non-Hellenic ,’ later ‘ outlandish, rude, brutal ’; ( with the Romans ) ‘ not Latin nor Greek ,’ then ‘ pertaining to those outside the Roman empire ’; hence ‘ uncivilized, uncultured ,’ and later ‘ non-Christian ,’ whence ‘ Saracen, heathen ’; and generally ‘ savage, rude, savagely cruel, inhuman .’"

As it lay outside the Aurelian Walls, the basilica was damaged in the 9th century during the Saracen invasions.

During the 2009 G-20 demonstrations in London, members of the Space Hijackers protest group drove their Saracen into the City of London and parked it outside the Royal Bank of Scotland in Bishopsgate.

He returns to earth and gains Senapo's aid in the defense of Paris from the Saracen invaders.

Though this disaster was reduced by the capture and successful defence of Edessa by George Maniakes in 1032 and by the sound defeat of a Saracen fleet in the Adriatic, Romanos never recovered his early popularity.

It flourished in the Roman period and then after a series of debilitating Saracen attacks, was finally destroyed by the Normans and then abandoned in the early Middle Ages.

Mediterranean countries, and Italy in particular, saw the construction of numerous coastal watchtowers since the early Middle Ages, connected to the menace of Saracen attacks from the various Muslim states existing at the time ( such as the Balearic Islands, Ifriqiya or Sicily ).

Fourteen years later, Libanius said that Julian was killed by a Saracen ( Lakhmid ) and this may have been confirmed by Julian's doctor Oribasius who, having examined the wound, said that it was from a spear used by a group of Lakhmid auxiliaries in Persian service.

The ideal of chivalry as the ethos of the Christian warrior, and the transmutation of the term knight from the meaning " servant, soldier ", and of chevalier " mounted soldier ", to refer to a member of this ideal class, is significantly influenced by the Crusades, on one hand inspired by the military orders of monastic warriors, as seen retrospectively from the point of view of the beginning Late Middle Ages, and on the other hand influenced by Islamic ( Saracen ) ideals of furusiyya.

Another important point of transfer of the lute from Arabian to European culture might have been in Sicily, where it was brought either by Byzantine or later by Saracen musicians.

A major, underlying theme is an impending invasion of Europe by Muslim forces from further east and south headed by the expected Antichrist, directly reflecting the then-current Ottoman invasions and the earlier Saracen equivalents, as well as the prior expectations of the Mirabilis Liber.

In 905 Sergius provided funds to the Church of Silva Candida, which had been devastated by a Saracen raid.

However, Manfred had not lost his nerve and organized a resistance supported by his faithful Saracen troops, setting riots against the new authority.

In 1017 Sardinian Giudicati were militarily supported by Pisa, in alliance with Genoa, to defeat the Saracen King Mugahid who had settled a logistic base in the north of Sardinia the year before.

The new naval base is funded by the Puntland administration in conjunction with Saracen International, a UK-based security company.

A defensive wall, commissioned by Pope Leo IV, is built around what came to be called the Leonine City as a defensive response to the Saracen desecration of Rome in 846.

From 800 on, a Saracen presence was intermittent, but Apulia remained under the Byzantine authority, despite the region being mainly inhabited by lombards until the 11th century, when the Normans conquered it with relative ease.

Among the thesis, according to folk tradition the first village was founded around the 9th-10th century AD by the inhabitants of the ancient Roman port of Turris Lybisonis ( current Porto Torres ), who sought refuge in the mainland to escape the Saracen attacks from the sea.

The old town in the hilly inland was probably founded in the 10th century AD by some people from Locri, who had fled to the area to defend themselves from Saracen incursions ; in the following century it became a hamlet of the county of Grotteria and was home to various feudal lords.

Paul the Deacon reported correctly in his Historia Langobardorum ( written around the year 785 ) that the Liber pontificalis mentioned these casualty figures in relation to Odo's victory at Toulouse ( though he claimed that Charles Martel fought in the battle alongside Odo ), but later writers, probably " influenced by the Continuations of Fredegar, attributed the Saracen casualties solely to Charles Martel, and the battle in which they fell became unequivocally that of Poitiers.

In the 9th century, Sicily was conquered by the Arabs, and soon Saracen pirates began to raid across the Tyrrhenian Sea, with dramatic effects for Lipari.

There was news of another massive Saracen sea attack in 1015-16 from Balearics, led by Mujahid ( Latinized in Museto ), the saracen's attempt of invasion of the island was stopped by Sardinian Giudicati with the support of the Fleets of Maritime Republics of Pisa and Genoa.

Wolfram von Eschenbach tied the history of Prester John to the Holy Grail legend in his poem Parzival, in which the Prester is the son of the Grail maiden and the Saracen knight Feirefiz.

In response, Universal turned the film over to outside film editors who cut Army of Darkness to 81 minutes in length and another version running 87 minutes that was eventually released in theaters, ending up with an R rating as a result.

Affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution, it was long essentially a traveling exhibit until it found a permanent home in 2011 on a former Army communications base outside Washington.

A U. S. Army engineer removing the Fuse ( explosives ) | fuse from a Russian-made mine in order to clear a minefield outside of Fallujah, Iraq

* 1972 – The Troubles: a car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army.

While the Waffen-SS remained officially outside the armed forces ( Wehrmacht ) and under Himmler's authority, they were placed under the operational command of the Armed Forces High Command ( OKW ) or Army High Command ( OKH ), and were largely funded by the Wehrmacht.

The Homing Overlay Experiment ( HOE ) was the first hit-to-kill system tested by the US Army, and also the first successful hit-to-kill intercept of a mock ballistic missile warhead outside the Earth ’ s atmosphere.

The Poles did not surrender ; they established a Polish Underground State and an underground Home Army, and continued to fight with the Allies on all fronts outside Poland.

Mosfilm contributed more than £ 4 million of the costs, nearly 16, 000 soldiers of the Soviet Army, a full brigade of Soviet cavalry, and a host of engineers and labourers to prepare the battlefield in the rolling farmland outside Uzhhorod, Ukraine ( then part of the Soviet Union ).

* July 11 – United States Army forces assault the village of Piano Lupo, just outside of Gela, Sicily.

* July 30 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb kills former British politician and former Member of Parliament Ian Gow outside his home in England.

Urrea then led his troops toward Goliad, where Colonel James Fannin commanded 450 of the only Texian Army troops outside the Alamo.

General Patton's offensive, however, came to a screeching halt on August 31, 1944, as the Third Army literally ran out of fuel near the Moselle River, just outside of Metz, France.

Houston's reputation was sufficiently large that he was honored in numerous ways after his death, among them: the US's fourth largest city, a memorial museum, a U. S. Army base, a national forest, a historical park, a university and a prominent roadside statue outside of Huntsville.

In 1898, the Spanish Army in Cuba surrendered to the United States under a Ceiba, which was named the Tree of Peace ( Arbol de la Paz ), outside of Santiago de Cuba.

On 15 September 1945, during the Allied occupation of Austria, he was shot and killed by an American Army soldier following the arrest of his son-in-law for black market activities, when, despite the curfew about to go into effect in three-quarters of an hour, he stepped outside the house so as not to disturb his sleeping grandchildren by enjoying a few draws on a cigar given him that evening by his son-in-law.

About a third of the infantry regiments of the French Royal Army prior to the French Revolution were recruited from outside France.

The Mid-Ulster Brigade was also responsible for the Miami Showband ambush, in which three members of the popular Irish cabaret band The Miami Showband were shot dead at a bogus military vehicle checkpoint outside Newry by gunmen dressed in British Army uniforms.

These included the Miami Showband killings of 31 July 1975 – when three members of the popular showband from the Republic of Ireland were killed having been stopped at a fake British Army checkpoint outside of Newry in County Down.

Memorial to members of the Royal Norwegian Navy, Army and Merchant Marine in Halifax Regional Municipality | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the flag plaza outside the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. On June 7, 1940 13 ships, five aircraft and 500 men from the Royal Norwegian Navy followed the King to the United Kingdom and continued the fight from bases there until the war ended.

In many countries, The Salvation Army is most recognized during the Christmas season with its volunteers and employees who stand outside of businesses and play / sing Christmas carols, or ring bells to inspire passersby to place donations of cash and cheques inside red kettles.

Although some groups engaged in combat, such as militants or resistance movements, refer to themselves using military terminology, notably " Army " or " Front ", none have had the structure of a national military to justify the reference, and usually have had to rely on support of outside national militaries.

Enterprise is also right outside of Fort Rucker, an Army base which is the home of Army Aviation.