Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.

The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.

In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.

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.

Sergeant Early let the new CO know just how lucky he was to be in the best troop in the best regiment in the United States Army.

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 was no coincidence that Goulding was one of the most beloved platoon leaders in the regiment.

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 regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.

For an instant his men hesitated, unable to believe that their lieutenant, the most popular officer in the regiment, was dead.

So filled was Mel Chandler with the spirit of Garryowen that after Korea was over, he took on the job of writing the complete history of the 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.

In 1703, Alexei was ordered to follow the army to the field as a private in a bombardier regiment.

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.

The regiment was in Auxonne when the revolution broke out in the summer of 1789.

After a brief return to his regiment Napoleon was promoted to First Lieutenant and came home again on leave in 1791.

After acquiring an initial fleet of utility and transport aircraft, the squadron was attached to an interarmy support regiment.

De la Colonie, with his Grenadiers Rouge regiment, together with the Cologne Guards who were brigaded with them, was now ordered forward from his post south of Ramillies to support the faltering counter-attack on the village.

Borthwick was killed, as was Charles O ’ Brien, the Irish Viscount Clare in French service, fighting at the head of his regiment.

In his 1870 memoir, Army Life in a Black Regiment, New England abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson ( later editor of Emily Dickinson ), described how he wrote down and preserved Negro spirituals or " shouts " while serving an a colonel in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized Union Army regiment recruited from freedmen during the Civl War ( memorialized in the 1989 film Glory ).

On April 24, the Massachusetts committee of safety named him a colonel and authorized him to organize a regiment the 4th Massachusetts Regiment.

Loyalist John Butler was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel for his role in the battle, and was authorized to raise a regiment that became known as Butler's Rangers.

Napoleon authorized the recruitment of a Swiss infantry regiment for French service in July 1805.

At the same time he authorized the formation of a Camisard regiment for service in Spain under his command.

" With Terry, who had also served as a volunteer aide on the battlefield, Lubbock was authorized to raise a regiment of cavalry to serve in the Confederate States Army.

During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized African-American regiment, from 1862-1864.

From November 1862 to October 1864, when he was retired because of a wound received in the preceding August, he was colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized regiment recruited from freedmen for the Federal service.

When Charles Jennison, one of the territorial-era jayhawkers, was authorized to raise a regiment of cavalry to serve in the Union army, he characterized the unit as the " Independent Kansas Jay-Hawkers " on a recruiting poster.

One portable surgical hospital was now allocated per infantry regiment, 3 per division, although additional hospitals were often authorized in larger operations.

In 1807 Napoleon authorized the raising of a guard regiment of Polish light horse.

The fourragère thereafter became part of the uniform of these units, and all members of the modern 5th and 6th Marine Regiments are authorized to wear the fourragère while serving with the regiment.

There were no separate insignias authorized for this regiment and the personnel wore the badges of distinction of their parent units, though there have been instances where unofficial badges were made and worn by some personnel.

He was immediately commissioned Colonel of Volunteers, and authorized to organize a regiment.

Until the nomenclature changed in the early 1880s, cavalry regiments were organized into companies ( later, " troops ") authorized at up to 100 men, ten companies made up a regiment ( increased to twelve post-war ).

This Reserve Force regiment was formed on 21 September 1866 in Melbourne, Quebec, when the Sherbrooke Battalion of Infantry was authorized to be formed.

The regiment was reduced to a minor unit, with only one authorized company for most of the Seventies, until finally in 1978, it was again elevated to major unit status.

Marksmanship has always been important in the regiment, and the Halton battalion quickly resolved to become a Rifle rather than an Infantry Battalion — the change was authorized in 1872.

The king reputedly liked the blue puttees better than the khaki ones worn by the rest of the brigade, and authorized the regiment to keep them.

The regiment traces its lineage to July 3, 1905, when an infantry regiment was authorized in the District of Assiniboia and the District of Saskatchewan, which later that year became the province of Saskatchewan.

He made his regiment wear the tricolor cockade and quickly led them to aid the uprising in Paris.

The Hussars of Junín wear a stylised Dress uniform of a red coat and blue breeches, that are supposed to have been worn in 1824 in the Battle of Junín, which are similar, but with differences, to the uniforms of the Argentine Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers " General San Martín ", which helped to raise and train the regiment.

In Commonwealth countries, normally only people affiliated with a regiment ( or university, school or organisation ) will wear a necktie affiliated with that regiment ( or university, college, school, or other organisation ).

It was an off-duty affectation of the Zouaves to wear their fezzes at different angles according to the regiment ; French officers of North African units during the 1930s often wore the same fez as their men, with rank insignia attached.

The regiment is permitted to wear the Prince of Wales's feathers as an arm badge on ceremonial dress ; this comes from the 3rd Carabiniers ( Prince of Wales's ), who wore this device as its cap badge.

As a royal regiment, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards is permitted to wear the Royal Stewart tartan, which was a privilege granted by HM King George VI, and is worn by the regiment's pipers.

The new force was initially to be called the North West Mounted Rifles, but this proposal was rejected as sounding too militaristic in nature, which Macdonald feared would antagonize both aboriginals and Americans ; however, the force was organized along the lines of a cavalry regiment in the British Army, and was to wear red uniforms.

They were recognized for their service and earned a battle honour for the regiment, even though they were not allowed to wear the QOR cap badge in South Africa.

Army Cadet Corps are usually affiliated to a Reserve or Regular Force army regiment and wear the accoutrements of their affiliated unit.

Initially, the only regiment authorised to wear a plume or hackle were the 5th Foot or Northumberland Fusiliers.

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.

It was also the only regiment in the British Army whose members were permitted to wear a cap badge on both the front and the rear of their headdress.

Other Ranks of the Royal Welsh, the regiment that was formed by the amalgamation of the Royal Welch Fusiliers and Royal Regiment of Wales, continue to wear the white hackle of the RWF.

Therefore, the regiment is now known as The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, abbreviated to 2 SCOTS ; in addition, it continues to maintain its Pipes, Drums and Bugles band and members of the battalion continue to wear the white fusilier hackle on the tam o ' shanter.

Unlike any other regiment in the British Army, each of the squadrons wear a different cap badge-that of their antecedent yeomanry regiments:

In barrack ( Number 13 ) dress the regiment wear a green fleck v-neck jumper.

This makes the Guard Hussars the oldest regiment of hussars in the world still operational, it is also the only hussars in mounted parade uniform to still wear the slung and braided pelisse which was formerly characteristic of this class of cavalry.

Jydske Dragonregiment () is the sole, purely armoured infantry regiment of the Royal Danish Army, and one of only three Danish combat regiments where soldiers are entitled to wear the black beret.

Leopold, the musician and standard bearer all wear full leopard skins while the rest of the regiment often have leopard-skin headresses.

In 1896 Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the 1st King ’ s Dragoon Guards and allowed the regiment to wear the Austrian imperial coat of arms, which is still used as the regiment's cap badge today.

The 4 / 7 DG first wore their flash in 1939 in Northern France in support of the British Expeditionary Force, one of the first armoured units to fight in the desperate but gallant withdrawal to Dunkirk and it is believed to be the first regiment to wear a Tactical Recognition Flash.

* Regimental tartan: The Gordon regimental tartan from the clan Gordon ; it is the only regiment in the world other than The Gordon Highlanders to wear this tartan.

The HLI was the only Highland regiment to wear trews, until 1947 when kilts were authorised.