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When thousands of regiments are grouped up into large fighting forces, they are issued far larger assets such as theatre-or even planetary-scale artillery, thousands of super-heavy tanks regiments, and even hundred strong groups of Cohorts of Praetorian-class landships that dwarf the Leviathan command vehicles from thousands of Munitorium armory, fortress, and staging worlds.
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When and thousands
When East Germans fled to the West by the thousands, paeans of joy rose from the throats of Western publicists.
When talking about those who have made " shipwreck " of their faith ( 1 Tim 1: 19 ), Wesley claims that " not one, or a hundred only, but I am persuaded, several thousands ... innumerable are the instances ... of those who had fallen but now stand upright.
When baby boomers entered the workforce, the economy did not generate jobs fast enough and hundreds of thousands emigrated to the more industrialized Sweden, migration peaking in 1969 and 1970 ( today 4. 7 percent of Swedes speak Finnish ).
When it was finally printed, thousands of Poles in Warsaw lined up for as long as eight hours to purchase copies of the work autographed by Kosiński.
When they did so, a failed attack was made on the South American port of Cartagena which left thousands of British troops dead, over half from disease, and cost many ships.
When Mr Gladstone appeared on the Tyne he heard cheer no other English minister ever heard ... the people were grateful to him, and rough pitmen who never approached a public man before, pressed round his carriage by thousands ... and thousands of arms were stretched out at once, to shake hands with Mr Gladstone as one of themselves.
When the San Francisco Chronicle canceled Zippy briefly in 2002, the newspaper received thousands of letters of protest, including one from Robert Crumb, who called Zippy " by far the very best daily comic strip that exists in America.
When police raided Burke's bungalow, they found a large trunk containing a bullet-proof vest, almost $ 320, 000 in bonds recently stolen from a Wisconsin bank, two Thompson submachine guns, pistols, two shotguns, and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
When asked about anti-war demonstrators, Daley kept repeating to reporters that “ No thousands will come to our city and take over our streets, or city, our convention .” In the end, 10, 000 demonstrators gathered in Chicago for the convention where they were met by 23, 000 police and National Guardsmen.
When the French Revolutionary Army of the Rhine was victorious, tens of thousands fled east before it.
When Karmal introduced a new emblem in 1980, he said " it is from the pulpit that thousands of the faithful are led to the right path.
When Germans began a forced labor draft ( Service du travail obligatoire, STO ) in France in the beginning of 1943, thousands of young men fled and joined the Maquis.
When he left the Hawthorne Inn, he was very drunk, extremely tired, and had earned thousands of dollars in cash from Capone and other party-goers as tips.
When the soaring inflation and energy costs threatened the survival of thousands of private apartment buildings in the 1970s, FHA ’ s emergency financing kept cash-strapped properties afloat.
When Patel returned to Delhi, thousands of Congressmen gave him a resounding welcome.
When the gates were opened, thousands of fans entered a narrow tunnel leading to the rear of the terrace into two overcrowded central pens, creating pressure at the front.
When Minorca became a British possession in 1713, the British willingly proffered an asylum to thousands of Jews from African cities.
When the Republic of China was founded in 1912, Sun Yat-sen was elected as the first " provisional president " ( 臨時大總統 ) by the provisional Senate, ending thousands of years of imperial rule in China.
When it failed, causing thousands of investors and depositors to lose their money, the government was blamed by investors and the media.
When the Ming army finally captured Yunnan from Mongols in 1382, thousands of prisoners were killed and, according to the custom in times of war, their young sons – including Zheng He – were castrated.
When the soldiers returned from the legions, they had nowhere to go, so they went to Rome to join the mob of thousands of unemployed who roamed the city.
When Bettman and league officials visited Nashville to tour the arena, thousands gathered on the Arena plaza to greet them.
* When Hurricane Frances hit South Florida on Labor Day weekend ( over 100 miles north of Miami-Dade County ), 9, 800 Miami-Dade applicants were approved by FEMA for $ 21 million in storm claims for new furniture ; clothes ; thousands of new televisions, microwaves and refrigerators ; cars ; dental bills ; and a funeral even though the Medical Examiner recorded no deaths from Frances.
According to R. J. Rummel, " Just consider the Grand Custom in Dahomey: When a ruler died, hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of prisoners would be slain.
When and regiments
When this was completed in 1788, the heavy cavalry regiments had become either Dragoon Guards or Heavy Dragoons ( depending on their precedence ).
When Charles's illegitimate son Monmouth assembled an invasion force at Amsterdam, and sailed for Britain, William informed James of Monmouth's departure, and ordered English regiments in the Low Countries to return to Britain.
When the Civil War began in 1861, Grant trained Union volunteer regiments in Illinois.
When the French left Vietnam in 1954, all airborne battalions were upgraded to regiments over the next two years.
" When President Abraham Lincoln requested that Ohio raise ten regiments at the outbreak of the Civil War, the state responded by raising a total of 23 volunteer infantry regiments for three months of service.
When the airborne divisions were conceived early in World War II, the Army's senior commanders decided that the glider regiments would have only two battalions each.
When by 1944 it became evident that these two-battalion regiments were not suited to combat operations, certain glider regiments were broken up and their battalions attached to others.
When the war ended, veterans of Mississippi regiments found Greenville in a state of ruin.
When the Tuileries was stormed again, in the July Revolution ( July 29, 1830 ), the Swiss regiments, fearful of another massacre, were withdrawn or melted into the crowd.
When the regiment became the 11th ( Prince Albert's Own ) Hussars in 1840, their new uniform by coincidence included " cherry " ( i. e. crimson ) coloured trousers, unique among British regiments and worn since in all orders of uniform except battledress.
When parading with the other four regiments, is always on the extreme left of the line, with the Grenadier Guards on the extreme right.
When the troops at last advanced in three strong columns, every inch of ground was disputed, and the government troops were frequently repulsed, requiring reinforcement by fresh regiments, until he forced his way to the Place de la Bastille and crushed the insurrection at its headquarters.
When Sullivan sent several regiments to scale the ravine, they fell back to a breastwork.
When the Battle of Lexington caused the assembly to call for three regiments of militia, Poor became the colonel of the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment.
When World War I and also when World War II erupted young French-speaking Québécois flocked in great numbers to volunteer for service to the Crown within Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal ( and a few other " bilingual " regiments like it ), because they expected that in this unit they would not be mocked or otherwise hindered because of their language or their religion.
When a group of recuperating wounded soldiers of the 51st returned from their North African hospital to rejoin the division in Italy, they were split up instead and ordered to various units and formations totally unrelated to the 51st Division or its component regiments.
When the IX Corps was reorganized, he was given command of a new 3rd Division, consisting of newly raised Pennsylvania regiments.
When two Indian infantry regiments also fired on them the onslaught became even more devastating.
When Washington called for ten more regiments, enough men volunteered to form thirty.
When all five regiments parade together, they are in the order of Grenadier Guards on the right flank, then Scots Guards, Welsh Guards, Irish Guards and Coldstream Guards on the left flank.
When on campaign, the timariots were organized into regiments called alays that were commanded by alay beys ( or beg ).
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