Thus, on the highroad, a troop of soldiers `` marched in their own dust and sang '', while on the footpath one man walks alone.

The captain raised his glass and sang out the battle cry that had inspired Cuba's victorious soldiers in the War of Independence.

It is said that during World War I, Italian soldiers sang this aria to maintain their spirits.

During that time, he sang Lieder in POW camps to homesick German soldiers.

) to Cannes where she played piano and sang for soldiers at receptions given in support of the French troops and at the famous Hotel Carlton that had been transformed into a hospital, and where her mother worked as a volunteer nurse orderly.

During World War II, soldiers sang a bawdy song based on " A Knave Is a Knave ," entitled " A Gob Is a Slob.

He declared that the deaths of so many brave soldiers would not be in vain, that slavery would end as a result of the losses, and the future of democracy would be assured, that " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

No Union soldiers were observed to have ever gotten behind Johnston during the fatal charge, while it is known that many Confederates were firing at the Union lines while Johnston charged well in advance of his soldiers.

Hasan Ali Shah decided to escape to Afghanistan, accompanied by his brothers and many soldiers and servants.

But a storm battered his ships into pieces and many of his soldiers drowned.

Following World War I, Fleming actively searched for anti-bacterial agents, having witnessed the death of many soldiers from sepsis resulting from infected wounds.

In any case the vests were abandoned by many soldiers due to their weight on long marches as well as the stigma they got for being cowards from their fellow troops.

Each plate is rated to stop a range of ammunition including 3 hits from a 7. 62 × 51 NATO AP round at a range of, though accounts in Iraq and Afghanistan tell of soldiers shot as many as seven times in the chest without penetration.

The book describes the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

Elwes had been closely identified with English wartime morale, having given six benefit performances of The Dream of Gerontius on consecutive nights in 1916, and many concerts in France in 1917 for British soldiers.

In addition, hundreds of French soldiers were fugitives, many of whom would never remuster to the colours.

Bronze was still used during the Iron Age ; for example, officers in the Roman army had bronze swords while foot soldiers had iron ; but, for many purposes, the weaker wrought iron was found to be sufficiently strong.

It seems impossible that the shattered Roman legions proclaimed emperor a traitor who was responsible for the loss of so many soldiers from their ranks.

The Poles lost 300 soldiers, including many officers.

* The center under the command of Otto and of Thiebaud, Duke of Lorraine, and Henry, Duke of Brabant and Count Philip Courtenay-Namur: there are also many of the Saxon soldiers, knights and infantry of Brabant and Germany.

The death toll amounted to about 170 knights of the defeated party, and many thousands of foot soldiers on either side.

Current Chadian president Idriss Déby, revolted and fled to the Sudan, taking with him many Zaghawa and Hadjerai soldiers in 1989.

In 2004, the government discovered that many of the soldiers it was paying did not exist and that there were only about 19, 000 soldiers in the army, as opposed to the 24, 000 that had been previously believed.

This tower could hold many soldiers who could be at the same level as the walls of the city, making it easier for them to break into Constantinople.

The Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, led by prosecutor William Webb ( the future Judge-in-Chief ), collected numerous written reports and testimonies that documented Japanese soldiers ' acts of cannibalism among their own troops, on enemy dead, and on Allied prisoners of war in many parts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

In 1250 slave soldiers, known as the Mamluks, seized control of Egypt and like many of their predecessors established Cairo as the capital of their new dynasty.

Meanwhile, many armies are experiencing a backlash against carbines and lighter rifles in general, and are equipping selected soldiers, usually called Designated Marksmen, or DM, with higher power rifles.

However, mail was still widely used by many soldiers as well as brigandines and padded jacks.

On the whole, the Chronicle is virulently anti-Scottish and famously contains nine ' songs ', in both Anglo-Norman and Middle English, supposedly capturing the taunts between English and Scottish soldiers during the Anglo-Scottish conflicts of the late-13th and early-14th centuries.

Dietrich, the only performer who was made aware that her recordings would be for OSS use, recorded a number of songs in German for the project, including Lili Marleen, a favourite of soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

According to Kimball, these sayings became by-words among the soldiers and, in a communal effort — similar in many ways to the spontaneous composition of camp meeting songs described above — were gradually put to the tune of " Say, Brothers ":

According to Wilfrid Sheed, quoted in Time Magazine, " By silent consensus, the king of this army of unknown soldiers, the Hollywood incognitos, was Harry Warren, who had more songs on the Hit Parade than Berlin himself and who would win the contest hands down if enough people have heard of him.

The trumpet was used as a military instrument to wake and gather soldiers and announce battles, the trumpet took on the role of entertainment during downtime, as soldiers used it to transpose popular folk songs.

Through the week leading up to Christmas, parties of German and British soldiers began to exchange seasonal greetings and songs between their trenches ; on occasion, the tension was reduced to the point that individuals would walk across to talk to their opposite numbers bearing gifts.

Her songs, which cause confusion amongst alien Zentradi soldiers, play a critical role in Space War I against Boddole Zer's Zentradi fleet.

Enlisted African-American soldiers incorporated this character into cadence songs during the Second World War.

His debut single, " You've Got to Stand for Something " became a popular anthem for American soldiers fighting in the Gulf War and helped to establish him as a neotraditionalist country act with songs that catered primarily to the American working class.

* Musician David Kincaid arranged and performed two albums of Civil War era songs about Irish soldiers in the Civil War.

The second album The Irish American's Song features a variety of songs about Irish soldiers on both the Union and Confederate sides.

Often soldiers flock to the bridge to remember and sing songs from their days as alpine soldiers.

This was the era of such songs as " Morocco coeurs brulées " and the films of Jean Gabin featuring soldiers in North Africa.

Over 184 songs from artists such as Na Hoon-A, Jang Yoon Jeong and Park Hyun-bin, were broadcasted through FM radio programs targeting North Korean soldiers.

The monologue describes life at the front, pay and rations, and includes a sample of one of the songs sung by soldiers at the time.

Other important songs include " Draft Dodger Rag " ( assailing those " red blooded Americans " who were in favor of US participation in the Vietnam War but did not fight because they were just summertime soldiers and sunshine patriots ), " That Was The President " ( a tribute to John Kennedy written soon after his assassination ), " Talking Birmingham Jam " ( which used the traditional talking blues form to assail the racist leaders of Birmingham ) and " Links on the Chain " ( attacking labor unions for excluding African-Americans and failing to support civil rights ).

Many of these soldiers could speak little English beyond " I'm going to fight mit Sigel ", which was their proud slogan and which became one of the favorite songs of the war.

This practice continued into the First World War, with many of the soldiers ' songs being based on hymn tunes ( for instance " When this lousy war is over ", to the tune of " What a Friend We Have in Jesus " and " We are Fred Karno's Army ", to the tune of " The Church's One Foundation ").

Mostly all the songs of the album became hits: L ' Aziza in honor of his Jewish Moroccan wife and mother of his son, Corine ; the main title song of the album, Sauver l ' amour an hymn to love ; Tous les Cris, les SOS, a song about about despair, Petit Homme mort au Combat which main theme is Child soldiers, Aimer est plus fort que d ' être aimé which was the last single released before Balavoine's tragic death.

Lisa's thoughts are then interrupted when she hears Minmay's songs on a portable radio being carried by two soldiers nearby.

The song is one of the most famous songs of the Second World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight and their families and sweethearts.

The event, held at Moscow's Russian Army Theatre, included the soldiers walking down the catwalk in uniform and singing songs while accompanied by guitarists ( a memorable lyric included the phrases, " Since we're soldiers, our first concern is automatic weapons ; boys come second ").