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For nearly a century the cry has never failed to rally the fighting men of the regiment.
Throughout the years the structure of the guards has evolved, going from convoy to squadron, to regiment and, subsequent to 1942, to division.
* Heckler & Koch HK416 used by the 5th Special Forces Regiment In 2009 Regiment has been rearmed and HK416 and HK417 are standard assault rifles of the regiment.
The regiment has two primary roles ; Maintaining the internal security of Trinidad and Tobago and the assistance of local law enforcement.
As with the Royal Regiment of Wales, the regiment has traditionally had a goat, never called a mascot.
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.
* The Athenian general, Iphicrates, with a force composed almost entirely of light troops and peltasts ( javelin throwers ), wins a decisive victory against the Spartan regiment that has been stationed at Lechaeum in the Battle of Lechaeum.
Vandegrift retained del Valle as head of the 11th Marines, the only time that the regiment has ever had a general as their commanding officer.
Scotland, Ireland and Wales each have a single regiment of line infantry from which they recruit ( though the battalions of the Royal Regiment of Scotland recruit from the areas they recruited from when they were separate regiments ), while England has seven line infantry and rifles regiments.
* The Scottish Division has the remaining infantry regiment from Scotland.
* The Queen's Division has the regiments from the east of England and the remaining regiment of Fusiliers.
Lt-Colonel John Lilburne has a regiment in his honour in The Sealed Knot ( reenactment ) society.
Today the regiment has elements serving with the New Mexico Army National Guard.
The regiment usually has a traditional " home station ", which is often a historic garrison that houses the regimental museum and regimental headquarters.
In Commonwealth countries such as India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand and Canada the large administrative regiment has been the normal practice for many years.
The only administrative armoured regiment of the British Army that consists of more than one tactical regiment is the Royal Tank Regiment, which currently has two ( 1 and 2 RTR ), and once had many more.
When a regiment has only one battalion, the battalion may have exactly the same name as the regiment.
In Britain, every infantry battalion bears a number, even if it is the only remaining battalion in the regiment ( in that case it is the 1st Battalion, with the exception of The Irish Regiment of Canada, which has a 2nd Battalion only ).
Lambert who dealt with the riikas extensively has the following list of regiment sets from Gichũgũ and Ndia.
Lieutenant Thomas more than sustained the reputation he has long enjoyed in his regiment as an accurate and scientific artillerist.
The regiment has the rare distinction of having fought on the side of both Parliament and the Royalists during the English Civil War 1642 to 1649.
The regiment was located at Mardan on the Peshawar border, and has become one of the most famous in.
However, the Coldstream Guards is an older regiment, and because of this, has the motto Nulli Secundus ( Second to None ).

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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.
This would only have been possible by the use of some kind of buoyancy device: Ammianus Marcellinus mentions that the Cornuti regiment swam across a river floating on their shields " as on a canoe " ( 357 ).
After deliberation, Congress directed General Philip Schuyler, who had been appointed to lead the Army's Northern Department, to work with New York's provincial government to establish ( and pay for ) a regiment consisting of the Boys, and that they be paid Army rates for their service at Ticonderoga.
When the regimental companies in the Grants had been raised, they held a vote in Dorset to determine who would command the regiment.
The story concerns two rival " aesthetic " poets, who attract the attention of the young ladies of the village, who had been engaged to the members of a cavalry regiment.
The independent armoured brigade had been replaced by an independent tank regiment.
In April, 300 infantrymen of Colonel John Hewson's regiment, who declared that they would not serve in Ireland until the Levellers ' programme had been realised, were cashiered without arrears of pay.
The field commander of the Gordon regiment during the campaign, Lieutenant Colonel, John Cameron of Fassiefern, had been killed at the battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June.
The acting commander of the regiment during the battle appears to have been Major Donald MacDonald of Dalchosnie.
Alternatively the fee may have been waived by the commanding officer of the regiment, Lord Cobham, who was related to the Pitt brothers by marriage.
It had been presumed that this title was by this time purely nominal, with auxiliary troops being recruited locally, but an inscription found in a recent season of excavations suggests that native Gauls were still to be found in the regiment and that they liked to distinguish themselves from British soldiers.
Half of the 7th Cavalry's companies had just returned from 18 months of constabulary duty in the Deep South, having been recalled to Fort Abraham Lincoln to reassemble the regiment for the campaign.
While the 916th regiment, defending the center of the 352nd zone, was reporting that the landings had been frustrated, it was also requesting reinforcement.
The reserve regiment, the 915th of the 352nd division, which had earlier been ordered against the American airborne landings to the west of Omaha, was diverted to the Gold Beach zone east of Omaha, the defenses there having crumbled.
Some details of the film's account have, however, been criticized as historically inaccurate ( for example, in the movie the regiment is called the South Wales Borderers but the unit was not in fact called that until 2 years after the battle, even though the regiment had been based at Brecon in South Wales since 1873 ).
He was in every battle of his regiment ; was on the picket line at Kennesaw when a Federal force tried to surprise them, but he was on his guard while the others were unsuspecting, and would have been captured and the command surprised and endangered, had he not fired his gun.
Vance, a Virginian, had been a member of the regiment commanded by George Washington at the Braddock expedition during the French and Indian War.
Apart from fewer than a hundred Swiss who escaped from the Tuileries, some hidden by sympathetic Parisians, the only survivors of the regiment were a three-hundred-strong detachment which had been sent to Normandy to escort grain convoys a few days before August 10th.
The regimental standards had been secretly buried by the adjutant shortly before the regiment was summoned to the Tuileries on the night of 8 / 9 August, indicating that the likely end was foreseen.

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