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.

Each German regiment was by design responsible for staffing approximately of front including its depth of defence back to the rear area.

In the regimental system, each regiment is responsible for recruiting, training, and administration ; each regiment is permanently maintained and therefore the regiment will develop its unique esprit de corps because of its unitary history, traditions, recruitment, and function.

Usually, the regiment is responsible for recruiting and administrating all of a soldier's military career.

" Officers in any military regiment were required to provide their own mounts and uniforms and be responsible for mess bills, but the 10th in particular had elaborate and almost unending variations of costume.

In 1889, as a captain, he was made the adjutant of the regiment, responsible for the turnout, discipline and routine of the unit and soon gained a reputation for strictness.

* Norrbottens regemente ( I 19 ) ( While designated as infantry, the regiment is responsible for the training of most army branches in the Northern Sweden ) Boden

In addition, the regiment is the ceremonial unit of the Finnish Defence Forces, responsible for the Guard of Honour of the President of Finland.

As the largest unit located in the Garrison of Helsinki, the regiment is responsible for almost all the supplies of the troops and headquarters located in the capital region.

The regiment achieved many of its objectives ; its members were acclaimed trackers, and the unit was responsible for 68 % of all guerrilla deaths within the borders of Rhodesia.

He passed selection into the Special Air Service in 1988 and went on to serve two operational tours with the regiment as a troop commander and as operations officer and one tour at HQ Special Forces in Duke of York Barracks, London where he was responsible for the detention of Persons Indicted for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia ( PIFWICs ), Offensive Information Operations ( OIO ) in Kosovo and the Operations in Sierra Leone culminating in Operation Barras.

A detachment of the regiment on guard at Buckingham Palace and St James's Palace is also responsible for providing the guard at the Tower of London.

However, Daniel Wells, age 19, and Henry McComas, age 18, of Captain Aisquith's rifle company of the 5th Maryland Militia regiment have been attributed by Baltimore legend to have been responsible for his death, which was immediately followed by their own.

In the British Army, the Quartermaster ( QM ) is the officer in a battalion or regiment responsible for supply.

The QM, RQMS and storemen are drawn from the regiment or corps in which they work, not from the Royal Logistic Corps, which is responsible for issuing and transporting supplies to them.

While he did not serve in the war, he was responsible for raising the regiment, which saw service throughout much of North America, and was captured at Yorktown.

From 1961 to 1972 the regiment was responsible for two armoured battalions, one recon battalion and three infantry battalions.

From 1972 – 2000 the regiment was responsible for one armoured, one mechanised infantry, one reconnaissance and two infantry battalions.

From 2000 – 2004 the regiment was responsible for two armoured, two mechanised infantry, one reconnaissance and two infantry battalions.

The Khopyor regiment was responsible for the western flank of the line.

The regiment is responsible for curbing human trafficking and other illegal movements across the Mekong into Thailand from northwestern Laos.

The regiment has a number of roles-primarily it is responsible for maintaining the internal security of Antigua and Barbuda, which is linked to providing assistance to the police in maintaining law and order.

In the British Army and land forces of the Commonwealth, a Provost Sergeant ( sometimes abbreviated to Provo Sgt ) is the non-commissioned officer in charge of the regimental police and is responsible to the Regimental Sergeant Major for the maintenance of good order and military discipline in a regiment or battalion.

But what made the load lighter was the realization that every officer, non-com and trooper was ready and willing to help him carry it, for the good of the troop and the regiment.

It happened at the St. Patrick's Day party, a big affair for a regiment which had gone into battle for over three-quarters of a century to the strains of an Irish march.

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

After graduation and a brief sojourn at the Military School of Paris Napoleon applied for second-lieutenancy in the artillery regiment of La Fère at Valence and after a time was given the position.

It retreated according to plan for two days while Thessaloniki was cleared of the remaining Bulgarian regiment.

Incidents included the killing of three members of a pop band, the Miami Showband, by a gang including members of the UVF who were also members of the local army regiment, the UDR, and in uniform at the time, and the killing by the Provisionals of eighteen members of the Parachute Regiment in the Warrenpoint Ambush-seen by some as revenge for Bloody Sunday.

The French Army used existing mounted squadrons of Spahis to a limited extent for patrol work during the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 ) and the Swiss Army maintained a mounted dragoon regiment for combat purposes until 1973.

While primarily utilised for ceremonial purposes, the regiment can be deployed for internal security or police roles if required.

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.

The King acquired a reputation for his fondness for military display, leading to his special efforts to hire the tallest men he could find in all of Europe for a special regiment nicknamed the Potsdam Giants.

On that day, weather conditions were ideal and the fleet was ready, but the Yenihan regiment earmarked for the operation failed to arrive on time.

The British Ministry of Defence and Clarence House made a joint announcement on 22 February 2007 that Prince Harry would be deployed with his regiment to the front line in Iraq, to serve as part of the 1st Mechanised Brigade of the 3rd Mechanised Divisiona move supported by Harry, who had stated that he would leave the army if he was told to remain in safety while his regiment went to war ; he said: " There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

Shields were the property of the king ; they were stored in specialised structures, raised off the ground for protection from vermin, when not issued to the relevant regiment.

Later ranked as the 60th Regiment of Foot, the regiment served for more than 200 years throughout the British Empire.

After Braddock's defeat in 1755, royal approval for a new regiment, as well as funds, were granted by Parliament just before Christmas 1755 – hence the regiment's traditional birthday of Christmas Day.

According to a regimental history compiled in 1879 by a captain in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, in November 1755 Parliament voted the sum of £ 81, 000 for the purpose of raising a regiment of four battalions, each one thousand strong for service in British North America.

According to a modern history of the regiment, the idea for creating this unique force was proposed by Jacques Prevost, a Swiss soldier and adventurer who was a friend of The Duke of Cumberland ( William, who was the King's second son and was Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.