Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.

He'd shoot at anything if it was the rear end of a horse or his own sentry.

However, although it was lightly guarded, Volunteer and Citizen Army forces under Seán Connolly failed to take Dublin Castle, the centre of British rule in Ireland, shooting dead a police sentry and overpowering the soldiers in the guardroom, but failing to press home the attack.

Within a couple of years all the structures had been removed, with the exception of the two sentry posts at the entrance, the cemetery monument, and the former Manzanar High School auditorium, which was purchased by the County of Inyo.

I tried to get out, but was roughly pushed back into the carriage by the sentry.

I tried to get out, but was roughly pushed back into the carriage by the sentry.

Crossing between command posts at 11: 30 that night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren gun by a nervous Canadian sentry: four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger.

Amid ongoing tense relations between the population and the soldiers, a mob formed around a British sentry, who was subjected to verbal abuse and harassment.

A shot rang out, believed to have been fired by a sentry on guard to warn the gamblers of what was taking place.

On July 27, 1942, shortly after the Lordsburg Internment Camp was opened, Private First Class Clarence Burleson, a sentry at the facility, allegedly shot two Japanese American internees under questionable circumstances.

After dusk on March 5, 1770, a crowd of colonists confronted a sentry who had struck a boy for complaining that an officer was late in paying a barber bill.

The French began to hack at the abatis and a Hessian sentry came out and asked who was there.

When there was no response, the sentry opened fire as did other Hessians on the parapet.

Several days after the German surrender, U-boat ace Wolfgang Luth was shot and killed by a sentry while walking after dark at the German naval base at Flensburg-Marwik.

* 10 June 1948: Mickey Marcus, Israel ’ s first general, was shot and killed by a sentry while returning at night to his headquarters.

Hitler liked to be left alone during this walk, leaving him unprotected near some woods, where he was out of sight of sentry posts.

The sentry at Boulcott ’ s Farm was alerted to movement nearby and fired on the attackers, but was overtaken and tomahawked.

One sentry fired a flare-gun, whilst a second was killed when he opened fire at the airborne troops and a third retreated.

He was stationed in Korea as a military police sentry dog handler and to the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, assuming military police duties and teaching hand-to-hand combat to Special Operations and Special Forces personnel at the John F. Kennedy Unconventional Warfare Center.

The first type of British naval swimming fin had a short blade which was even shorter at the big toe side: this made walking on land easier for such purposes as creeping up on a sentry from behind on land, but reduced swimming speed.

As he approached the German position, he was challenged by a sentry who fired a shot which passed through his trousers.

An SS sentry post and a small circular location ( Rondell ) were placed next to the guardhouse, as was a no longer extant SS staff building ( SS-Stabsgebäude ).

When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Prewitt, still weak from his unhealed wound, finds out about the attack, and attempts to return to camp under cover of darkness, but is shot dead by a sentry.

Later at the camp, a patrol discovers a dead sentry whom Rambo eliminated with a throwing knife.

The Gurkhas would stalk pairs of German sentries at night and routinely dispatch the one awake, leaving the sleeping sentry to find his dead comrade.

Their sentry followed.

In fact, all persons were permitted to cross the Rhine into Kehl, there being no sentry posted on the west side of the river.

* Marcel: Marcel, Louis's brother, is also a sentry who is part of the escape plan for Rambert.

Cultural practices, like the roda de capoeira, were conducted in far or hidden places and often practitioners would leave someone as sentry, to warn if the police were approaching the area.

The F-S dagger proved very popular with the commandos, who used it primarily for sentry elimination.

In the early dawn, the small force marched on the fort, surprising the lone sentry.

* 1908 5 August – The British Ambassador in Madrid informed the Spanish Minister of State ' as an act of courtesy ', of the British Government's intention to build a fence along the line of British sentries on the isthmus to prevent smuggling and reduce sentry duty.

An independent character, he hated European influences and the church, turning church courtyards into artillery parks and confession boxes into border sentry posts, to keep foreigners at bay.

On April 25, 2012, the Ecuadorian Space Agency announced that due a technological change in the video camera of its first satellite it will be adding a 3rd mission, which is to help organizations and individuals around the world monitor for small, most dangerous near-earth objects directly from orbit in real time and help fine tune the catalog of orbital debris by injecting the live video signal of the satellite into the Internet, thus turning the NEE-01 Pegasus in the first online, real-time video orbital sentry.

For ceremonial duties the Guard of the Rock carry Beretta BM 59 rifles, with the sentry on duty having a fixed bayonet.

" These are most often given by a sentry to a low-ranking superior who does not rate the full " present arms " salute.

The sentry brings his flattened left hand across his body and touches the rifle near its muzzle.

In January 1816, a sentry on guard outside the Jewel House claimed to have witnessed an apparition of a bear advancing towards him, and reportedly died of fright a few days later.

Pointing to Private Willis of the First Grenadier Guards, who is the sentry on duty, the Queen claims that she is able to subdue her response to the effects of manly beauty.

There were sentry posts at the main entrance.

The Manzanar Committee's efforts resulted in the State of California naming Manzanar as California Historical Landmark # 850 in 1972, with an historical marker being placed at the sentry post on April 14, 1973.

The site, which has seen 766, 999 people visit from 2000 through 2010, features restored sentry posts at the camp entrance, a replica of a camp guard tower built in 2005, a self-guided tour road, and informational markers.

Upon exiting the elevator, the music changes to reflect the fact that several guards and sentry turrets must immediately be gunned down.

Today, various sentry posts and lookout towers still exist across the city bastions.