the Potomac," originally titled "The Picket Guard," is an 1861 poem by American writer Ethel Lynn Beers. The poem was first published as "The Picket Guard"...

ship) performing a similar function. A picket guarding a fixed position may be known as a sentry or guard. Picket (Fr. piquet, a pointed stake or peg, from...

Picket Guard Peak is a 12,302-foot-elevation (3,750 meter) mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Tulare County...

sometimes referred to as picket boats, using "picket" in the generic sense, even if much larger than actual picket boats. Picket boats were indeed at first...

Harindran Nair, an Indian soldier, is assigned to guard an isolated Indian border post called Picket 43 in Kashmir. Known to be a high-risk area, Harindran...

list of Picket Fences episodes, in the order that they originally aired on CBS. It had four seasons, the first consisting with 23 episodes, and the others...

A radar picket is a radar-equipped station, ship, submarine, aircraft, or vehicle used to increase the radar detection range around a nation or military...

to their name as Minutemen. The immediate predecessor to the organized Minuteman concept colony-wide was the Picket Guard, a concept of a rapid responder...

script The Picket Guard (1913) script The Criminals (1913) script Bloodhounds of the North (1913) script The Gratitude of Wanda (1913) The Mystery of...

"All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight", first appeared in Harper's Weekly on November 30, 1861, under the title "The Picket Guard". Her poems — including...

a picket or guard and anybody approaching his or her post. The term usually encompasses both the sign given by the approaching party as well as the sentry's...

by the National Institute of Honour Guards to the Royal Tombs, founded in 1878. They also organize picket guards at the tombs. The altar with the royal...

United States Coast Guard Cutter is the term used by the U.S. Coast Guard for its commissioned vessels. They are 65 feet (19.8 m) or greater in length...

The United States Coast Guard wooden-hulled 36-foot picket boats were built during Prohibition to help interdict alcohol smugglers ("rum runners"). After...

USS Picket (ACM–8) was a Chimo-class minelayer of the United States Navy during World War II. Picket was completed 15 April 1942 by Marietta Manufacturing...

officers. After the fuze to the mined bulkhead had been lit, this officer, learning that the picket guard had not been withdrawn, mounted the bulkhead and...

The Iraqi Republican Guard (Arabic: حرس العراق الجمهوري, romanized: Ḥaras al-ʿIrāq al-Jamhūrīy) was a branch of the Iraqi military from 1969 to 2003,...

enforcement Picket (military), a person on watch for enemy action Lookout, a sailor responsible for watchkeeping aboard ship Security guard, a person who...

the picket guard" (they were, however, subsequently pardoned to life by the king). At the outbreak of the war, the Drabants fought according to the Swedish...

men surprised the Union Army picket guarding the station and captured officers, soldiers and horses with no Confederate casualties. The railroad was an...

The USCG seagoing buoy tender is a type of United States Coast Guard Cutter used to service aids to navigation throughout the waters of the United States...

The Pakistan Coast Guards (abbreviation: PCG) (Urdu: پاسبانانِ ساحلی پاکستان) is a maritime law enforcement agency of the Civil Armed Forces of Pakistan...

The Rum Patrol was an operation of the United States Coast Guard to interdict liquor smuggling vessels, known as "rum runners" in order to enforce prohibition...

fields. The Romans, outnumbered and unarmed, fled the area. The picket guarding their camp was the Romans' only fortification, and although they lost...

schooners The Haitian Coast Guard was formed in the late 1930s, 20 years after the disbandment of the Haitian Navy, and was equipped with two small picket boats...

American Civil War. The siege took place from September 13 to 20, 1861 between the Union Army and the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard in Lexington, county...

searchlights. Alcatraz guard towers Auschwitz II guard towers Tower of London Yuma Territorial Prison 1876 guard tower. A guard tower at the C.A. Holliday Unit...

which included, among others, the "Picket Guard" (1862), "One more Shot" (1864), "Union Refugees” (1864), "Taking the Oath and drawing Rations" (1866),...

of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Tulare County, California. It is situated in Sequoia National Park, two miles northeast of Picket Guard...

The Mounted Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard (French: Chasseurs à cheval de la Garde impériale) constituted a light cavalry regiment in the Consular, then...