The next week, forty soldiers were sent to get the miscreants.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.

They were aware that soldiers went to town, in more ways than one, because of the monotony of camp life, to find the only release available in the absence of movies, reading rooms, and playing fields with adequate athletic equipment.

Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.

The soldiers who comprised the rank and file of the Civil War armies were an earthy people.

Sometimes soldiers wrote letters while bullets were whizzing about their heads.

Some of the choicest remarks made by soldiers in their letters were in disparagement of unpopular officers.

He asked the government for two hundred soldiers, who were to be specifically assigned to arrest English traders and disloyal Indians.

Ultimately the U.N. army in the Congo reached a top strength of 19,000, including about 5,000 from India and a few soldiers from Eire and Sweden, who were the only whites.

Not only had Burnside been defeated on the battlefield, but his soldiers were disgruntled and undisciplined.

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.

* In 1990 12 soldiers were sent to Trinidad after a failed coup attempt by radical Black Muslims against the constitutionally elected government headed by Prime Minister A. N. R.

In a report released in 2012-01-19, Armenian military official site said that 36 Armenian soldiers died in 2011, and that only 10 of them were shot by Azerbaijani forces.

There were also some troubles in Dacia Inferior which required the granting of additional powers to the procurator governor and the dispatchment of additional soldiers to the province.

After a warm welcome by Caesar's soldiers at Brundisium, Octavian demanded a portion of the funds that were allotted by Caesar for the intended war against Parthia in the Middle East.

As proof of devotion to his family, Caligula arranged the most distinguished soldiers available to carry the urns of his mother and two brothers in two biers at noon in Rome, when the streets were at their busiest, to the Mausoleum of Augustus.

Ealdred's expedition was betrayed by some Welsh soldiers who were serving with the English, and Ealdred was defeated.

Also during his reign taxes were lightened ; literature, art and science were encouraged ; the lot of the soldiers was improved ; and, for the convenience of the people, loan offices were instituted for lending money at a moderate rate of interest.

Alexios was able to secure much of the coastal regions by sending peasant soldiers to raid the Seljuq camps, but these victories were unable to stop the Turks altogether.

His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.

This tape, colored in army-standard matte olive drab, was nicknamed " duck tape " by the soldiers.

Sri Lankan soldiers nicknamed one unit the Baby Battalion, due to the number of children in it.

* During the De la Gardie Campaign, the Finnish soldiers nicknamed their commander Laiska-Jaakko (" Lazy Jacob ").

and nicknamed the " Sho-Sho " by the troops ) to equip the U. S. infantry and if handled properly served the soldiers well.

He introduced reforms for the benefit of soldiers ( such as allowing soldiers to grow beards ) and appealed to the French desire for revenge against Imperial Germany-in doing so, came to be regarded as the man destined to serve that revenge ( nicknamed Général Revanche ).

As a leader who lectured his soldiers about the honor of dying for the German Fatherland, he was nicknamed " Der Sterber " ( literally, " The Dying One ").

He was nicknamed ' Woodbine Willie ' during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers.

Also, in 1846 Sarah Borginnis resupplied American soldiers with food while they were under fire, and was therefore nicknamed " the heroine of Fort Brown "; then-General Zachary Taylor rewarded her with the rank of brevet colonel.

Alexander was assigned to the 9th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Robinson, Nebraska which was an all-black regiment commanded by white officers and nicknamed Buffalo soldiers.

American soldiers nicknamed the bay Buckner Bay, after General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.

He was nicknamed the " Carolina Gamecock " for his attack on British soldiers after they burned down his house during the American Revolutionary War and his fierce fighting style.

This is a re-working of a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem " Tommy " in which he describes British soldiers ( nicknamed " Tommy Atkins ") as the " thin red line ", from the color of their uniforms and their formation.

The title refers to My Khe beach in the city of Đà Nẵng, Vietnam, which was nicknamed " China Beach " in English by American and Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War.

Set in a Vietnam locale nicknamed " Bac My An Beach " at the 510th Evacuation Hospital and R & R ( the " Five-and-Dime " Rest & Recreation ) facility, the cast of characters includes US Army doctors and nurses, officers, soldiers, Red Cross volunteers, and civilian personnel ( American, French, and Vietnamese ).

Such was the regularity of attacks on British patrols, that the Camden-Aungier streets area ( running from the military barracks at Portobello to Dublin Castle ) was nicknamed the " Dardanelles " ( site of the Gallipoli campaign ) by British soldiers.

This is a reference to Ian Fleming's World War II days, where his soldiers were nicknamed ' Fleming's Indians '.

The soldiers were nicknamed Marius ' Mules ( muli mariani in Latin ) due to the amount of gear they had to carry themselves.

MFO soldiers nicknamed OP 3-11 " The Rock " after the US prison movie due to its supposedly similar qualities.

Because of the young age of most of his soldiers, his division was nicknamed " Hovey's Babies.

* Each of the " Invisible 9 " units of the manga and anime series Pumpkin Scissors is nicknamed using " Jäger "; the soldiers of the most prominent unit, 901 are known as Gespenst Jäger

Members of the HKCTU were later frequently nicknamed locally as sui lei pao bing水雷炮兵 ( water mine or coastal artillery soldiers ) or sui ngau ( 水牛 Buffalo ) in memory of their predecessors.

It was nicknamed " woodpecker " by Western Allied soldiers because of the characteristic sound it made when fired, and the " chicken neck " by Chinese soldiers due to its appearance.