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.

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.

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

Results were unsatisfactory, Wilkinson mail worn by the Khedive of Egypt's regiment of " Iron Men " was manufactured from split rings which proved to be too brittle, the rings would fragment when struck by bullets and further aggravate the damage.

The last mounted saber charge by Italian cavalry occurred on August 24, 1942 at Isbuscenski ( Russia ), when a squadron of the " Savoia Cavalry Regiment " regiment charged the " 812th Siberian Infantry Regiment ".

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.

He independently commanded a regiment in the Kabul campaign of 1581, when he was barely twelve.

The regiment was renumbered the 60th ( Royal American ) Regiment in February 1757 when the 50th ( Shirley's ) and 51st ( Pepperel's ) foot regiments were removed from the British Army roll after their surrender at Fort Oswego.

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.

Lee was apparently not with the regiment when it suffered disastrous defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela in 1755.

They were issued to part of an English dragoon regiment raised in 1672 and disbanded in 1674, and to the Royal Fusiliers when raised in 1685.

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.

The regiment arrived in France in November 1917, and Kilmer wrote to his wife that he had not written " anything in prose or verse since I got here — except statistics — but I've stored up a lot of memories to turn into copy when I get a chance.

In the British Army, when trooping the colour, the " British Grenadiers March " is played no matter which regiment is on the parade ground, as the colour party stands at the right-hand end of the line, and every regiment formerly had a company of grenadiers at the right of their formation.

The Grenadiers are a regiment of the Indian Army, formerly known as the 4th Bombay Grenadiers when part of the British Indian Army.

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.

It was named for John Stokes, an American Revolutionary War captain severely wounded when British Colonel Banastre Tarleton's cavalry practically destroyed Col. Abraham Buford's Virginia regiment in the Waxhaws region in 1780.

However, it can trace its origins back as far as 28 October 1664 when at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company " the Duke of York and Albanys maritime regiment of foot " was first formed.

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.

He purchased his majority on 27 June 1795, and rejoined his regiment in 1796, when the rest of his men returned from the West Indies.

Ernst Casimir was ordered to seize the Leffinghen bridge, he commanded the Edmonds regiment ( Scottish ) and the Van der Noot regiment ( Dutch ) together with four cornets of cavalry and 2 guns, but when he arrived he found that the enemy was already in possession of it.

The granaries of Col. James Sulivane ( commissary officer during the American Revolutionary War ) and a regiment of militia known as the " New Market Blues " were integral to the County's as well as the colony's / State's efforts in the revolution.

* The ranger service in the upper valley of the Connecticut, and the most northerly regiment of the New Hampshire militia in the period of the revolution: an address delivered before the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution at Concord, N. H., April 26, 1900

When the revolution of 1830 broke out he was stationed at Arras, and was the first officer of his regiment to declare for the new order of things.

After completing their preparatory studies, they both served in the Takada regiment of the Niigata army before returning to China to serve under Sun Yat-sen in the revolution which would overthrow the Qing monarchy in 1911.

As the revolution drew near, and the Ulster militia was expanded, he was named Colonel of the 2nd Ulster Militia regiment.

In 1789 he was a Sergeant in the Gardes Françaises, and like most of the regiment, he joined the revolution.

Malet volunteered the Revolutionary army when the revolution broke out, and he was assigned to the 50th infantry regiment of the Army of the Rhine as a captain.