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In 1855 President Franklin Pierce appointed him colonel of the new 2nd U. S. Cavalry ( the unit that preceded the modern 5th U. S .), a new regiment, which he organized.
This is commemorated by the custom under which the horse having this number is used only by the commander of the modern regiment.
The modern French Army retains three Dragoons regiments from the 32 it possessed at the beginning of World War I: the 2nd, which is a nuclear, bacteriologic and chemical protection regiment, the 4th, an armour regiment equipped with Leclerc tanks, and the 13th, which is a special-ops parachute regiment.
According to a modern history of the regiment, the idea for creating this unique force was proposed by Jacques Prevost, a Swiss soldier and adventurer who was a friend of The Duke of Cumberland ( William, who was the King's second son and was Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.
As a fusilier regiment, the RWF wore a hackle, which consisted of a plume of white feathers mounted behind the cap-badge of the modern beret.
The modern Dutch Army maintains a regiment of Guard Grenadiers who retain the bearskin headdress of the early 19th century.
The modern regiment has the Totenkopf as its insignia as well as on the regimental camp flag.
In modern times, the regiment received streamers with arrowheads ( denoting conflicts they spearheaded ) for Grenada and Panama.
The modern armoured regiment does not retain any of its historical distinctions but wears the light blue and red kepi of the French cavalry.
These help the human intending to overthrow the modern Heechee regiment and bring the Heechee back to the galaxy from their current hiding place.
The regiment became the 7th Regiment of Foot ( Royal Fusiliers ) in 1751, although a variety of spellings of the word " fusilier " persisted until the 1780s, when the modern spelling was formalised.
The modern French Army retains one regiment of Spahis as an armoured unit, with personnel now recruited in mainland France.
However, this practice did not hold for the cavalry regiments, which traditionally were only of limited size ; in the modern era, this meant that each regiment would only constitute one battalion.
In the modern British Army, there is a single regiment of fusiliers, plus a battalion of a large regiment.
The modern regiment has readopted this headdress for limited ceremonial purposes.
The regiment was formed in 1658, and placed on the English establishment three years later, with the official formation of the " modern " British Army.
In 1825-1826, the regiment began its first expansions, by pushing westwards territory, moving to the bend of the Kuban River and founding five new stanitsas ( the so-called new-Kuban line: Barsukovskaya, Nevinnomysskaya, Belomechetskaya, Batalpashinskaya ( modern Cherkessk ), Bekeshevskaya and Karantynnaya ( currently-Suvorovskaya ).
Its known garrison, the Ala Picentiana, was a regiment or cavalry ‘ wing ’ of some repute, one arguably traceable from its first being raised in Gaul ( modern France ) under Julius Caesar himself ; to its later serving in the Balkans ( under a man called Picens whom the regiment is believed to be named after ) before eventual posting to Britain.
The modern Garderegiment Grenadiers en Jagers regiment of the Netherlands and the Escorte Royale of Belgium retain features of uniform and other distinctions that can be traced back to Napoleonic influences.
In 1618 the first naval infantry regiment is founded ( Terço da Armada Real da Coroa de Portugal, in Portuguese ), origin of the modern Portuguese Marine Corps ( Corpo de Fuzileiros ).

modern and is
This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.
While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.
Neither is primary experience understood according to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense organs.
Shakespeare's Shylock, too, is of dubious value in the modern world.
But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.
A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
As Sandburg said at the time: `` It is as ancient as the medieval European ballads brought to the Appalachian Mountains, it is as modern as skyscrapers, the Volstead Act, and the latest oil well gusher ''.
Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.
The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.
Diplomatic is another area for which the dawn of the twentieth century marks the beginning of modern standards of scholarship.
This is certainly an irrational dogmatism, in which the modern mind attempts to understand the spirit of the sixteenth century on twentieth-century terms.
Rexroth is a longtime jazz buff, a name-dropper of jazz heroes, and a student of traditional as well as modern jazz.
In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.
This angry and exasperated stance which Patchen has maintained in his poetry for almost fifteen years has been successfully modulated into a kind of woe that is as effective as anger and still expresses his disapproval of the modern world.
But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the `` smaller, less-traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '', and is now prepared to teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings.
Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.
The possibility of recall into the Army is part of the price that a modern American has to pay for the enviable heritage of liberty which he enjoys.
Under modern conditions, this is especially true of the ready reserve.
However, its modern one-story layout is designed to increase our production capacity, permit more efficient manufacturing, and substantially reduce current repair and maintenance costs.

modern and one
At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.
He saw the age as one in which Britain `` settled her free constitution '' and attained her modern place in the world.
most modern adapters totally accept the world of a book, squeeze it dry of life, and add only one contribution of their own: stage technique.
The controversy of the last few years over whether architects or interior designers should plan the interiors of modern buildings has brought clearly into focus one important difference of opinion.
Unlimited game bags are possible and legal in more than 40 states, on shooting preserves ( one of the newer phases of modern game-management ) for five and six months each year.
Time and again in counseling and teaching, one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial mythologies of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern world are only too painfully obvious.
To say this, of course, is to take up a position on one side of a controversy going on now for some two hundred years, or, at any rate, since the beginning of the distinctively modern period in theological thought.
What makes this long and diverse tradition essentially one is that those who have belonged to it have been profoundly in earnest about being modern men in a distinctively modern world.
As a theologian in the group pointed out, a professional was, before the modern period of technical specialization, one who `` professed '' to be a bearer and critic of his culture in the use of his particular skills.
Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.
Franz Boas, one of the pioneers of modern anthropology, often called the " Father of American Anthropology "
Cyrillic is one of the most widely used modern alphabetic scripts, and is notable for its use in Slavic languages and also for other languages within the former Soviet Union.
It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.
Nowadays, most of the young people of Achill continue in school until they are 17 or 18, in one of the two post-primary schools and gain employment in modern high tech companies in Ireland and abroad.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the founders of modern architecture and the last director of the Bauhaus during its period in Dessau and Berlin was born in Aachen as well.
Based on analysis of one sample of 51 modern Ainus, their mtDNA lineages have been reported to consist mainly of haplogroup Y ( 11 / 51
They viewed society like a modern stock company: democracy is like a company where all shareholders have an equal say regardless of the scale of their holding ; one share or ten thousand, it makes no difference.
Andromeda has been the subject of numerous ancient and modern works of art, including, Andromeda Chained to the Rocks ( Rembrandt ), one of Titian's poesies ( Wallace Collection ), and compositions by Joachim Wtewael ( Louvre ), Veronese ( Rennes ), Rubens, Ingres, and Gustave Moreau.
The International Astronomical Union subsequently adopted it as one of the 88 modern constellations.
Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times, and there is a longstanding debate about his authorship of one of these plays, Prometheus Bound.

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