The Army day or St. George's Day ( 6 May ) is an official holiday in the country.

This marked the official end of dragoons in the U. S. Army, although certain modern units trace their origins back to the historic dragoon regiments.

On 14 December 2005, Fiji's Military Commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama began an official visit to China, at the invitation of the People's Liberation Army.

They supposedly called them " French ," as it was the official language of the Belgian Army at that time.

On May 2, 1783, the Commander in Chief submitted his Sentiments on a Peace Establishment to the Committee, essentially providing an official Continental Army position.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

He supplied weapons to the Uyghur Ili army and Red Army support against Chinese forces, and helped them establish the Second East Turkestan Republic of which Islam was the official state religion.

Yet at one point during trial, a U. S. Army interpreter asked Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker how Hitler could have made him a high official.

The official Ministry of State for Defence lists the following Army formations and services:

* US Army Korea Media Center official Korean War online image archive

In late summer 1943, the SIS provided the GRU with an official report of the activities of German agents in Bulgaria and Romania, soon to be invaded by the Red Army.

The Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF ) ( Arabic: القوات المسلحة اللبنانية | Al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Lubnāniyya ) or Forces Armées Libanaises in French, also known as the Lebanese Army according to its official Website ( Arabic: الجيش اللبناني or " Armée libanaise " in French, is the military of the Republic of Lebanon.

She was christened the U. S. Navy's official " Little Sister "; the Army named two cannons after her and made her an honorary colonel.

* 1911 – The M1911. 45 ACP pistol becomes the official U. S. Army side arm.

* 1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis ' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

As of 2008, English-language official Chinese state media no longer uses the term " People's Liberation Army Navy ", instead the term " Chinese Navy " along with the usage of the prefix " CNS " for " Chinese Navy Ship " is now employed.

Unofficial Red Army flag, since the Soviet ground forces never had an official flag.

With the Salvation Army, when becoming a soldier, at a christening or other official event, underneath the flag, a salute is often used.

The People's Navy was dissolved, like all other branches of the former National People's Army, on 2 October 1990 – the day before the official reunification of Germany.

* The official " final and corrected " casualty figures for British Army, including the Territorial Force ( not including allied British Empire forces ) were issued on 10 March 1921.

The official German Army medical war history listed German losses.

Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War The authors estimates were made based data from official Ottoman sources.

Japan War dead figure of 415 is from a 1991 history of the Japanese Army However, Michael Clodfelter reported the official toll was put at 300 KIA and noted that " A more reliable count of total Japanese military deaths from all causes lists 1, 344 fatalities.

The official " final and corrected " casualty figures for British Army, including the Territorial Force were issued on 10 March 1921.

With the Militia Act of 1903, part of the militia was federalized and renamed the National Guard and organized as a Reserve force for the Army ; this is the official founding of the National Guard.

A veteran diplomat with an extraordinary knowledge of Russian language, history and literature, Kennan recalls how, at the time of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he penned a private note to a State Department official, expressing the hope that `` never would we associate ourselves with Russian purposes in the areas of eastern Europe beyond her own boundaries ''.

Among these languages, only Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon have a long-established recorded history, and only Vietnamese and Khmer have official status ( in Vietnam and Cambodia, respectively ).

It was in use during the entire history of Hungary, albeit not as an official writing system.

This official " air-brushing from history " may imply punitive internal exile to a remote location, similar to that inflicted on the contemporary poet, Ovid, who in AD 8, for an unknown offence, was ordered by Augustus to spend the rest of his life in Tomis ( Constanţa ) on the Black Sea.

Jerome Holtzman, Major League Baseball's official historian from 1999 until his death in 2008, believed Selig to be the best commissioner in baseball history.

* Bovril: A short official history

The Chinese recorded the first official account of the practice in 2300 BC, but it is generally believed that gambling in some form or another has been seen in almost every society in history.

The leading hypothesis is that Anyang, ruled by the same Shang in the official history, coexisted and traded with numerous other culturally diverse settlements in the area that is now referred to as China proper.

* Canon of Dutch History, official list of several key moments in Dutch history

At an official age of 42, Paige became the oldest rookie in Major League baseball history, and the first black pitcher.

The official historical view within the People's Republic of China associates each of these stages with a particular era in Chinese history as well as making some subdivisions.

The Chinese tradition since the Jin Dynasty ( 3rd century AD ) that emperors of one dynasty would sponsor the writing of the official history of the immediately preceding dynasty has been cited in favor of an ethnically inclusive interpretation of history.

The traditionalist school of scholarship resorts to official imperial records and colloquial history works and analyzes the different dynasties ' rises and falls using a Confucian philosophy, albeit modified by an institutional administration perspective.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933 they made the legend an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the " November criminals " who used the stab in the back to seize power while betraying the nation.

The first official history of MI5, The Defence of the Realm published in 2009, tacitly confirmed that there was a plot against Wilson and that MI5 did have a file on him.

He was the first chancellor ( top official ) of the FRG, 1949 – 63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history.

Hamburg's official name, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg ), reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.

* Three Wise Men Day, or Epiphany, in Latin America, Spain, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, and is, although not celebrated as widely or in the same way as in countries with a Spanish history, an official holiday in many European countries, for example Austria, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Liechtenstein, Slovakia and Croatia, as well as in parts of Germany and Switzerland.

In 1985, under the management of Giovanni Trapattoni, who led the Torinese team to thirteen official trophies in ten years until 1986, including six league titles and five international titles ; Juventus became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major competitions organised by the Union of European Football Associations: the European Champions ' Cup, the ( now-defunct ) Cup Winners ' Cup and the UEFA Cup ( the first Italian and Southern European side to win the tournament ).

By the 14th century, when this " official history " begins, the speakers of early Lao-related languages had probably developed a reasonable base of population among the prior inhabitants of ( what is now ) Laos over the prior century or two.

In the history of bilateral relations, the first Russian president to come on an official visit to Luxembourg was Vladimir Putin on 24 May 2007.

* The official works of Albert Phelps and Grace King and the publications of the Louisiana Historical Society and several works on the history of New Orleans ( q. v.

Rereadings into abstract art by art historians such as Linda Nochlin, Griselda Pollock and Catherine de Zegher critically show, however, that pioneering women artists who produced major innovations in modern art had been ignored by official accounts of its history.

For example, Switzerland is constitutionally a confederation of cantons, and has four official languages, but it has also a ' Swiss ' national identity, a national history and a classic national hero, Wilhelm Tell.