Awkwardly and laboriously, in stiff, unemotional phrases, the soldiers continue to bridge the distance between themselves and those they love ; ;

" The book does not focus on heroic stories of bravery, but rather gives a view of the conditions in which the soldiers find themselves.

All eyewitnesses ( apart from the soldiers ), including marchers, local residents, and British and Irish journalists present, maintain that soldiers fired into an unarmed crowd, or were aiming at fleeing people and those tending the wounded, whereas the soldiers themselves were not fired upon.

It has been argued that firearms residue on some deceased may have come from contact with the soldiers who themselves moved some of the bodies, or that the presence of lead on the hands of one ( James Wray ) was easily explained by the fact that his occupation involved the use of lead-based solder.

Portuguese soldiers sometimes stated it took more than one dragoon to capture a quilombo warrior, since they would defend themselves with a strangely moving fighting technique.

Mail was commonly also used as horse armour for cataphracts and heavy cavalry as well as armour for the soldiers themselves.

Moreover, the Polish cavalry brigade order of battle of 1939 included, apart from the mounted soldiers themselves, light and heavy machine guns ( wheeled ), Anti-tank rifle, model 35, anti-aircraft weapon, artillery like Bofors 37 mm anti tank gun or light and scout tanks, etc.

Many soldiers state they were issued blank tags and told to punch the information in themselves.

The arming of merchant ships with guns and soldiers to defend themselves against Spanish ships was of great importance.

Louis Delgrès and a group of revolutionary soldiers killed themselves on the slopes of the Matouba volcano when it became obvious that the invading troops would take control of the island.

The soldiers were so moved and impressed that some even threw themselves on the funeral pyre to die with their Emperor.

Christians called themselves mīlitēs, " enrolled soldiers " of Christ, members of his militant church, and applied to non-Christians the term applied by soldiers to all who were " not enrolled in the army ".

The soldiers were nicknamed Marius ' Mules because of the amount of gear they had to carry themselves.

Governor Joshua Johnson ( 1690 – 1693 ) also prevented soldiers smuggling themselves aboard ships by ordering all outgoing ships to leave only during daylight hours.

After independence, the military-particularly the educated officer corps-lost much of its former apolitical attitude ; soldiers associated themselves with parties and movements across the political spectrum.

It had been presumed that this title was by this time purely nominal, with auxiliary troops being recruited locally, but an inscription found in a recent season of excavations suggests that native Gauls were still to be found in the regiment and that they liked to distinguish themselves from British soldiers.

He also says that the Roman soldiers would amuse themselves by crucifying criminals in different positions.

Taking precautions against further resistance, Darius sent soldiers to seize Intaphernes, along with his son, family members, relatives and any friends who were capable of arming themselves.

The defeat of the French Army during the Hundred Years ' War forced the cities of Provence to build walls and towers to defend themselves against armies of former soldiers who ravaged the countryside.

But a large contingent of Wallachian soldiers was waiting for the Hungarians at Posada, and as they were winding their way through a narrow valley, the Hungarians found themselves trapped.

During the first world war the Sardinian soldiers of the Brigata Sassari distinguished themselves, with several being decorated with gold medals and other honours.

Engineered by American linguistic scientists, it is by design such a catchy song that the soldiers cannot stop singing it, and eventually they can think of nothing else.

It is hoped that these facts will demonstrate to the Northern people that negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners.

I assure you it will fret me to death ere long to see my soldiers in this case and cannot help them ", Leicester wrote home.

Some are dismissive, like: Cerimonia (" Ceremony ", all proper manners and rigid, slavish devotion to pointless details ), Coccodrillo ( Italian: " Crocodile ", because he preys on others ), Fanfarone (" Trumpeter " or " Loudmouth "), Giangurgulo (" John the Glutton "), Grillo (" Grasshopper ", because he is small and ' hops ' sides ), Malagamba (" Lame Leg "), Squaquara (" Little Shit "), Papirotonda (" Round Letter ", a complaint signed by mutinous soldiers or sailors in a circle around the main text so the ringleaders or originators cannot be discerned ), Tagliacantoni (" Small-Sized "), and Zerbino ( Italian: " Doormat ").

It can also result from long term ( chronic ) exposure to a severe stressor, for example soldiers who endure individual battles but cannot cope with continuous combat.

Furthermore, soldiers under the age of 18 cannot be deployed overseas or used in direct combat unless in exceptional circumstances.

As mercenary soldiers may not qualify as PoWs, they cannot expect repatriation at war's end.

Their drive to insist on " friendly governments " as the war drew to a close did not happen in an ideological vacuum: the Soviets did indeed impose these pro-Soviet regimes in Central Europe by what effectively wound up being unilateral decree – but the role of the partisans on all fronts of the war, as well as the estimated 20, 000, 000 Soviet soldiers who died to defeat fascism, cannot be dismissed, as it lent a certain amount of the appearance of ' licence ' on the part of the Soviet administration to control Central Europe that they would not otherwise have had.

A guard of rebel soldiers in 1864 threatened to burn my house, and the rebel soldiers so often threatened to take my life that I cannot particularize.

Malarone would be the treatment of choice for these soldiers who cannot take doxycycline or mefloquine.

Difficult terrain and bad weather cannot be controlled, but soldiers must be trained to operate effectively in these conditions, as well as trained to fight at night.

At such a high rate the human ear cannot easily discern the sound of individual bullets being fired, and in use the gun makes a sound described as like " ripping cloth " and giving rise to the nickname " Hitler's buzzsaw ", or, more coarsely, " Hitler's zipper " ( Soviet soldiers called it the " linoleum ripper ").

Later in August, after Australian soldiers took FRETILIN flags during protests and allegedly desecrated them, Alkatiri accused the Australians of working against FRETILIN and intimidating it, and said that " it would be better for Australian troops to just return home if they cannot be neutral ".

Major Sebastien Morley resigned after four soldiers under his command were killed whilst serving in the Army's Snatch Land Rovers which are lightly armoured and cannot withstand roadside bombs ; the Snatches have been described as ' mobile coffins ' by the soldiers.

This also handles the tracking of any dead and missing soldiers, as they cannot be present at rollcall.

Catch-22 cannot be beaten though, as the grounding orders are short-lived as they are rescinded by higher authorities and the soldiers are put back on duty.

Though his goal is to document events and interview Palestinians he is affected by the reality of the occupied territories and cannot help but participate in, and comment on, demonstrations, funerals, roadblocks and encounters with soldiers.

Also, unlike Beamte, soldiers cannot be ordered to do anything unrelated to the defense against foreign enemies ( with the exception of peacefully providing aid in specific emergency situations ), to preserve the civilian nature of the German government.

Only soldiers whose corps or regiment cannot be established should be added directly to this category.

Fearing this move would completely discredit the fundamental justification of slavery that blacks were inferior people, he said, " You cannot make soldiers of slaves, or slaves of soldiers.

Whereas it appears from official reports that Dr. Mary E. Walker, a graduate of medicine, " has rendered valuable service to the Government, and her efforts have been earnest and untiring in a variety of ways ," and that she was assigned to duty and served as an assistant surgeon in charge of female prisoners at Louisville, Ky., upon the recommendation of Major-Generals Sherman and Thomas, and faithfully served as contract surgeon in the service of the United States, and has devoted herself with much patriotic zeal to the sick and wounded soldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own health, and has also endured hardships as a prisoner of war four months in a Southern prison while acting as contract surgeon ; and Whereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary rank cannot, under existing laws, be conferred upon her ; and Whereas in the opinion of the President an honorable recognition of her services and sufferings should be made.