they were no more on parade than was their driver ; ;

Late in the era, elaborate barding was used in parade armour.

The first IFV was the Soviet BMP-1, which surprised western intelligence analysts when it appeared in a military parade in 1967.

* 1994: The military parade was opened by Eurocorps, a newly created European army unit including German soldiers.

* 2007: To commemorate the centenary of the Treaty of Rome, the military parade was led by troops from the 26 other EU member states, all marching at the French time.

While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the V-J Day parade on August 14 and August 15, 1945 – marking the end of World War II – was covered with 5, 438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the New York City Department of Sanitation.

The most recent parade in the Canyon of Heroes was on February 7, 2012 for the New York Giants in honor of their Super Bowl XLVI championship.

The last horsed regiment of the Indian Army ( other than the Viceregal Bodyguard and some Indian States Forces regiments ) was the 19th King George's Own Lancers which had its last mounted parade at Rawalpindi on 28 October 1939.

He was unable to attend the annual parade celebrating the victory of the October Revolution.

President Eisenhower pledged his continued support, and a parade was held in Diem's honor in New York City.

Lindsay Park, in The Village of East Davenport, was used as parade grounds for Civil War soldiers from Camp McClellan.

In 1791 David was appointed to head the organizing committee for the ceremony, a parade through the streets of Paris to the Panthéon.

An annual commemoration, in the form of a military parade, was held each year on Easter Sunday, culminating in a huge national celebration on the 50th anniversary in 1966. began to write of it in terms of a " blood sacrifice ".

The 90th anniversary was celebrated with military parade in Dublin on Easter Sunday, 2006, attended by the President of Ireland, the Taoiseach and the Lord Mayor of Dublin.

*" terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants – 240 men, women and children – and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem.

What did surprise some observers was the forcible conversion of three sons of Jahangir's brother, Prince Daniyal, to Christianity, followed by a parade to celebrate their conversions.

* He was Grand Marshal of the Krewe of Endymion Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans on February 21, 2009 and was accompanied by The Chee-Weez, a local area cover band.

Nevertheless, by October 5, 1939, Riefenstahl was back in occupied Poland filming Hitler ’ s victory parade in Warsaw.

The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to December 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union's strike for a 58-hour work-week.

In the United States, the New York parade became an annual event that year, and in 1894 was adopted by American president Grover Cleveland to compete with International Workers ' Day ( May Day ).

On October 28, 1890, the 50th anniversary of the eight-hour day was commemorated with a parade.

The Love Parade () was a popular electronic dance music festival and parade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany.

The parade was held on the Berlin Kurfürstendamm ( avenue ) until 1996.

Ruth himself, still owning his farm in Massachusetts and an interest in the Massachusetts cigar business that printed his round boyish face on the wrappers, had led the parade down from Fenway Park, followed by pitchers Carl Mays, Leslie `` Joe '' Bush, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Sam Jones, catcher Wally Schang, third baseman Joe Dugan ( who completed the `` playboy trio '' of Ruth, Dugan, and Hoyt ), and shortstop Everett Scott.

In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

* 2004: To commemorate the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, the British led the military parade with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

* From 1930 to 1950, the parade of nations was led by a single flagbearer carrying the Union Flag.

John Philip Sousa led the Marine Corps band at the inaugural parade and ball.

The incessant media coverage led the Diggers to declare the " death " of the hippie with a parade.

Two officers led the funeral parade, carrying a large portrait of him followed by numerous red floral wreaths.

In protest of his jailing, Charles Ruthenberg led a parade of unionists, socialists, anarchists and communists to march on May 1 ( May Day ) 1919, in Cleveland, Ohio.

A multicultural festival in Pakington St, Geelong West, called Pako Festa, which attracts 100, 000 attendees annually, has a street parade led by a local singer and dancer dressed as Carmen Miranda.

These led to cuts of approximately ten minutes, mainly in the last portion of the film: the carnival sequence and the gondola parade which had been filmed to show off the huge set were heavily cut.

This led to the interruption of the parade, which did not take place the next year.

Shortly after the American Civil War, General John A. Logan led a parade of veterans from Murphysboro to Carbondale, Illinois.

An Aboriginal man dressed as Captain Cook and Aboriginal float led the parade in 1988, 200 years after Cook's landing and claim on the land.

On the Fourth of July, a parade runs through town led by the fire engines and ambulances of the town's modern fire department.

A parade, led by the Llangollen Silver Band, is usually held on the Tuesday of the Eisteddfod week, in which both the locals and visitors, take part dancing, singing, and playing musical instruments, whilst marching the streets of Llangollen.

The daily parade has for several years been led by New Orleans-musician Lionel Batiste.

The parade began at noon, led by a police motorcycle escort, then came the band from Jefferson Barracks, marching veterans, a truck packed with photographers, O ' Hare's Phaeton ( with a six-man Marine honor guard alongside ) and other open cars.

A dirty dust cloud announces the visit of the federale during a parade led by the local gerarca.

The band follows the direction of the pipe major ; when on parade the band may be led by a drum major, who directs the band with a mace.

George led the parade driving the Northumbrian, Robert drove the Phoenix and Joseph Locke drove the Rocket.

Four mounted policemen, and the heads of Black Star Line and Negro Factories Corporation, led the parade, followed by cars carrying Garvey and Mayor of Monrovia, capital of Liberia, and other UNIA officials, then the Black Star Line Choir, on foot, and contingents from throughout US and Caribbean, Canada, Nigeria, carrying banners, and including 12 bands, with about 500 cars bringing up the rear.

She led the parade wearing a crown and a long white cape while riding atop a large white horse named " Gray Dawn.