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regiment and celebrated
The 3rd Arkansas would become Arkansas's most celebrated Civil War regiment and the only Arkansas regiment to be permanently assigned to General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Also that year the regiment celebrated at Holyrood Palace, the 350th Anniversary of the regiment's creation.
During this posting the regiment celebrated its Tercentenary and was presented with a new Guidon by HRH Prince Phillip.
The regiment celebrated two special days in each year.
The regiment celebrated their fiftieth anniversary on 31 July 2009 with a ceremony at Cardiff castle and a parade through the streets of Cardiff city both attended by their Colonel-in-Chief The Prince of Wales.
In 2006, the regiment celebrated its 25th birthday by being presented with its first stand of colours.

regiment and its
The Fourteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers lost one-third of its numbers within a few minutes, among them being several men whose time of service had expired but who had volunteered to advance with their regiment.
Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.
The Gendarmenmarkt, a neoclassical square in Berlin whose name dates back to the quarters of the famous Gens d ' armes regiment located here in the 18th century, is bordered by two similarly designed cathedrals, the Französischer Dom with its observation platform and the Deutscher Dom.
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 led his men in brutal campaigns against the Indians in the west ; in 10 months units of his regiment fought 20 battles, and lost a third of its men.
Shaka organised the various age grades into regiments, and quartered them in special military kraals, with each regiment having its own distinctive names and insignia.
Davis resigned his house seat in June and raised a volunteer regiment, the Mississippi Rifles, becoming its colonel.
Davis armed the regiment with the M1841 Mississippi Rifle and trained the regiment in its use, making it particularly effective in combat.
The new regiment at first lost several outlying garrisons but finally proved its mastery of forest warfare under Bouquet's leadership at the victory of Bushy Run.
After the Napoleonic Wars the regiment received a new title: first, in 1815, its name was changed to The Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps and then, in 1830, to the King's Royal Rifle Corps ( KRRC ).
After completing training on the more advanced Yakovlev Yak-9D fighter at Tula, the expanded regiment rejoined front line operations for its second campaign.
During this campaign Joseph Stalin ordered the regiment to style itself Normandie-Niemen in recognition of its participation in the battles to liberate the river of the same name.
The USSR expressed its gratitude to the regiment by offering 37 of the unit ’ s Yak-3 fighters as a gift to France.
In July 1943, when the invasion carried out with the ' Operation Husky was in full swing, the port of Milazzo was significantly strengthened in its defenses as an important maritime center, rail and military. On August 14, 1943 the troops of the 15th Tactical Group III of the regimental American Infantry Division occupied Milazzo following the disengagement of the 71 th regiment of German infantry belonging to the 29th Division Panzergrenadier.
The regiment took huge casualties in that battle-nearly one-third of its strength-including its commander Major Andrew J. Grover, the first infantry officer killed in the battle.
As Fusilier Robert Graves reported, " the regiment retorted by inquiring on what occasion since the retreat from Corunna, when the regiment was the last to leave Spain, with the keys of the town postern in the pocket of one of its officers, had any of His Majesty's enemies seen the back of a Royal Welch Fusilier ?," and the matter remained " in abeyance throughout the war.
Each German regiment was by design responsible for staffing approximately of front including its depth of defence back to the rear area.
This unit traces its history back to a Guards regiment raised in 1659 and is made up predominantly of one year volunteers.
The 1st Grenadiers of Sardinia regiment is currently ( 2010 ) the only infantry regiment of the Italian Army with two battalions ( 1st " Assietta " and 2nd " Cengio " Grenadiers battalions ), and it is likely that in the near future its 2nd battalion will be detached to re-activate the 2nd Sardinia Grenadiers Regiment.
This regiment has been amalgamated with the Jager Guards to form the " Garderegiment Grenadiers en Jagers " Two of its companies are Jagers ( Rifles ), the other two are grenadiers ; it wears the maroon beret and is an air assault and para trained unit.
It was this that gave rise to the concept of the " county regiment ", with the local infantry regiment becoming part of the fabric of its local area.

regiment and anniversary
When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.
The 74th Regiment of foot later became known as the Assaye regiment due to their stand at the battle and their modern-day successors, the Royal Highland Fusiliers ( 2 SCOTS ), still celebrate the anniversary of the battle each year.
In 1910, Sir Henry took the entire 600 man regiment ( including its horses ) to England for military training at his expense to mark the Regiment's 50th anniversary.
On the seventieth anniversary of his entering the army, Wrangel's regiment, the 3rd Cuirassiers, was given the title Graf Wrangel.
The regiment received its second guidon on December 3, 1974, the 100th anniversary of regimental status and its 135th year as a Canadian cavalry unit.
Many members of today's Canadian army regiment, The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, return to the Ridgeway battle site each year on the weekend closest to the June 2 anniversary for a bicycle tour of the battle sites.
:* Countess Maria Bolkonskaya celebrates her 50th anniversary, the whole local Hussar regiment is invited, and the Countess boasts about her presents.
The anniversary of Dieppe is recognized each year by the regiment.

regiment and inherited
The regiment inherited from its predecessors certain traditions, uniform distinctions, battle honours, and an association with the Royal Family, principally Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
The Queen's Colours and Regimental Colours are a very important symbol for a British Army regiment and for many regiments in the Commonwealth which have inherited the British Army's traditions.
The regiment was permitted to perpetuate the history of the 10th Battalion, CEF, and inherited that units battle honours ( granted in 1929 ) as well as inheriting the memory of two Victoria Cross holders, Acting Sergeant Arthur George Knight and Private Harry Brown, both of whom were awarded the VC posthumously in the last year and a half of the Great War.
The regiment evolved from the 10th Royal Grenadiers and thus inherited British traditions.
He became colonel of a Prussian regiment in 1693, and in the same year inherited his own principality ; for the remainder of his long life, he performed the duties of a sovereign prince and a Prussian officer simultaneously.
The regiment was unique in the British Army in that it was permitted to wear the United States Distinguished Unit Citation, which it inherited from the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment which was awarded for their defence of Gloster Hill during the Battle of the Imjin River in April 1951 during the Korean War.
Here he spent the summers with his regiment ; in spring and fall, he invariably invited his regimental officers to his Palace, Strelna, which he inherited on the death of his father in 1892.

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