As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

The truth is, however, that when Mel Chandler first reported to the regiment the only steed he had ever ridden was a swivel chair and the only weapon he had ever wielded was a pencil.

* 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

Kropp and Bäumer part ways when Bäumer is recalled to his regiment after recovering.

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.

Today, a marine is actually an infantry regiment that sometimes fights solely on land and is no longer tied to the navy.

" An aluminum identification tag, the size of a silver half dollar and of suitable thickness, stamped with the name, rank, company, regiment, or corps of the wearer, will be worn by each officer and enlisted man of the Army whenever the field kit is worn, the tag to be suspended from the neck, underneath the clothing, by a cord or thong passed through a small hole in the tab.

The Brazilian president's honor guard is provided ( amongst other units ) by a regiment of dragoons: the 1st Guards Cavalry Regiment.

This regiment is known as the " Dragões da Independência " ( Dragoons of Independence ).

This is commemorated by the custom under which the horse having this number is used only by the commander of the modern regiment.

The Royal Canadian Dragoons is the senior Armoured regiment in the Canadian Forces.

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.

The regiment is currently equipped with the Stryker family of wheeled fighting vehicles.

However, in English it is often used to refer to a Zulu regiment, which is called an ibutho in Zulu.

* Simcoe's regiment is still called the Queen's York Rangers, now an armoured reconnaissance regiment of the Canadian Forces reserves.

The scene is drawn from a footnote to the Letter to M. D ' Alembert on Spectacles | Letter to d ' Alembert where Rousseau recalls witnessing the popular celebrations following the exercises of the St Gervais regiment.

The 1st Grenadiers of Sardinia regiment ( Reggimento Granatieri di Sardegna ) is currently part of the Mechanized Infantry brigade with the same name in the Italian Army.

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.

Four currently active battalions of the Regular Army ( 1-5 FA, 1-6 FA, 1-1 Inf and 2-1 Inf ) and one Mississippi Army National Guard regiment ( 155th Inf ) are derived from American units that fought at the Battle of New Orleans.

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.

The ' Regimiento Húsares de Pueyrredón ' ( Pueyrredon Hussars Regiment ) currently serves as an armoured regiment ( the ' RCT No 10 Húsares de Pueyrredón ') in the 10th Tank Cavalry Regiment of the Argentine Army using its Revolutionary era uniforms in full regalia during formal parades.

The 15th Infantry Regiment is currently a parent regiment in the United States Army.

The regiment is one of five Type 58 armoured regiments in the Royal Armoured Corps, currently organised into three armoured Sabre Squadrons, each equipped with 14 Challenger 2 MBTs, as well as other support vehicles including a dedicated Samaritan ambulance with a medic and a fitter section consisting of various recovery and repair vehicles.

One cannot merc if one is currently in a regiment.

The Brigade Headquarters is now co-located with HQ ARRC at Gloucester, with one signal regiment at Stafford and 16 SR in Germany currently scheduled to move to Stafford in 2015.

The regiment is currently composed of a regimental headquarters and four primary squadrons: A, B, Reconnaissance (' Recce ') and Headquarters.

The regiment currently operates the 105mm C3 Howitzer along with the 81mm Mortar.

This can cause some confusion, with the regiment currently being composed of two regiments.

The regiment currently consists of seven battalions:

The regiment currently has three roles:

The regiment is currently based in Sennelager, Germany, where it is the armoured regiment for 20th Armoured Brigade, part of British Forces Germany.

The regiment currently serves in the mechanized infantry role as 44 Armoured Infantry Battalion ( 44Painfbat ) as part of 43 Gemechaniseerde ( Mechanized ) Brigade.

It currently serves in the armoured Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, Reconnaissance ( ISTAR ) role ; the regiment provides two armoured reconnaissance squadrons assigned to each of the army's two mechanized brigades, while an STA artillery unit, an electronic warfare unit, Human Intelligence ( HUMINT ) unit and imagery intelligence unit all formed into a single battalion attached to the Combat Support Brigade.

The regiment is currently the only line infantry or rifles unit to represent a single geographical county in the new infantry structure, serving as the county regiment of Yorkshire.

The regiment is currently serving on its second tour of Afghanistan Operation Herrick, its fifth tour to the Middle East in 7 years.

* The British Columbia Dragoons, a Canadian Forces armoured regiment based in Kelowna and Vernon, British Columbia

After the troops based in different parts of British East and Central Africa territories were placed under a central command, the regiment born thereof was officially designated “ King's African Rifles ” on 1 January 1902.

By the following month the regiment found itself based in German territory.

With the July 2012 announcements of further cut backs in the regiments resulting in the disbandment of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh, that left the 1st Battalion the Royal Welsh ( The Royal Welch Fusiliers ) as once more the only non-Guards based infantry regiment drawn from Wales.

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 ).

The regiment was based at Kassel in Hesse-Kassel, which he came to regard as his home town and where he maintained a home until 1945.

In June 1902, Michael transferred to the Blue Cuirassier Regiment, and moved to Gatchina, where the regiment was based.

The HAC Regiment is a unit of the Territorial Army based just north of the City of London providing the British Army with its only dedicated Surveillance and Target Acquisition patrol regiment — operating small covert reconnaissance patrols gathering intelligence and target information.

* In Dark Crusade, the 1st Kronus regiment, a. k. a. " The Liberators ", represents the faction, led by Governor-Militant Lukas Alexander with their home territory based out of " Victory Bay.

Although in later years the name was said to derive from logging, the team based its colours on Teddy Roosevelt's regiment in the Spanish-American War, which, with the date of the renaming, suggests that the name also comes from the war.

In January 1935, he received a commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Scot Greys ( 2nd Dragoons ), his father's regiment, based in Egypt from 1936.

The regiment was based on the 20th Maine, with the main character and commander of the regiment, Andrew Lawrence Keane, also being a college professor.

The 48th Highlanders of Canada is a Canadian Forces Primary Reserve ( i. e., part-time militia ) infantry regiment based in Toronto, parading out of Moss Park Armoury.

These are the 48th Highlanders Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps, which is based in the same armoury as the regiment itself, and 142 St. Andrew's College Highland Cadet Corps, based in Aurora as one of the mandatory activities for students of St. Andrew's College.

Estimates based on the tunnel's size, suggest it would have allowed approximately 2, 000 KPA soldiers ( one regiment ) to pass through it per hour.

This regiment exists today as The Lincoln and Welland Regiment, a primary reserve regiment of the Canadian Forces based out of St. Catharines, Ontario.

In 2003 the Welsh Guards experienced a unique moment in the their history when they moved from Aldershot to RAF St Athan, Wales the first time the regiment has actually been based on home soil in Wales.

In February 1946 while at Eton he joined the Territorial training regiment of the Household Cavalry based at Windsor, but was discharged in August when he had left Eton.

In 1979, Starr was appointed Honorary Colonel of The Ontario Regiment ( RCAC ), a reserve armoured regiment based in Oshawa, Ontario.

By July, the regiment was based in West Berlin.