• winner, Comedy King, the first British bred horse to win the race. In winning the 1919 Melbourne Cup, Artilleryman set a new race record time of 3 minutes...
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    travelled at the speed of a marching soldier, the solution was to make every artilleryman a part-time horseman. Through relentless drill and discipline Frederick...
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    Horses were widely used during the Napoleonic Wars for combat, patrol and reconnaissance, and for logistical support. Vast numbers were used throughout...
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    of World War II, recruits were instructed that "the role of the Royal Artilleryman is, as it has ever been, to fight his gun, forgetful of self, to the...
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    Artillery (redirect from Artilleryman)
    through most of the modern era, artillery pieces on land were moved by horse-drawn gun carriages. In the contemporary era, artillery pieces and their...
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    The Horse Artillery of the Imperial Guard is a mounted artillery unit integrated into Napoleon I's Imperial Guard. Although it was not formed as a regiment...
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    attributed to Mary Ludwig Hays, who was married to William Hays, an artilleryman in the Continental Army. She joined him at the Army's winter camp at...
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    Racing Information Archived 20 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine "Artilleryman Wins Melbourne Cup: Eighty Thousand People See the Colt Win Australia's...
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  • had great success as a sire, producing the 1919 Melbourne Cup winner Artilleryman and the 1922 Cup winner, King Ingoda. He was also crowned Australian...
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    the horse artillery took part with four batteries in the attack of the Imperial Guard on the Mont-Saint-Jean plateau. Trained as an artilleryman, Napoleon...
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    Caulfield Guineas (category Flat horse races for three-year-olds)
    - King Carnival 1922 - Soorak 1921 - Demetrius 1920 - Midilli 1919 - Artilleryman 1918 - Eusebius 1917 - Thrice 1916 - Ettefred 1915 - Patrobas 1914 -...
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    Queen Elizabeth Stakes (VRC) (category Horse races in Australia)
    Rivoli 1922 - Violoncello 1921 - Tangalooma 1920 - Eurythmic 1919 - Artilleryman 1918 - Kennaquhair 1917 - Wallace Isinglass 1916 - Lavendo 1915 - Carlita...
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    on the ballista, the ballista is empty, and no artilleryman is manoeuvring the machine. An artilleryman is pulling the cart near the wheel and this suggests...
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    His paternal grandfather took part in the Great Patriotic War as an artilleryman, and his maternal grandfather fought in the civil war in Turkestan, in...
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    forces". A wounded artilleryman asked Holmes if he could ride, as all the drivers were dead and someone had to guide the six horses to take the 18-pounder...
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  • protection of the Emperor and his immediate family. Scorpionarius – An artilleryman operating a scorpio artillery piece. Sesquiplicarii – A soldier issued...
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    of Napoleon's logistics as follows: The military machine Napoleon the artilleryman had created was perfectly suited to fight short, violent campaigns, but...
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    Monument) Caspar Buberl, sculptor Maurice J. Power 1888 MN 128-F The bronze artilleryman statue was toppled by vandals in February 2006, and its head stolen....
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    historian. William N. Pendleton, Confederate general, longtime chief artilleryman for Robert E. Lee. John Thomas Lewis Preston, founder of Virginia Military...
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    several men, including Almaron Dickinson, also a former US Army field artilleryman, together to form the first artillery company of Texians. A local Methodist...
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  • their veteran status. brise-muraille (wall-breaker, or fort-breaker) artilleryman le brutal (the brutal one) Artillery. un bulletin (bulletin/report) a...
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    the knot was used when assisting horses on difficult terrain. Similarly, the name artillery loop or artilleryman's hitch derives from the fact that it...
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    Model 1875 .44 revolver. In Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds, the Artilleryman from The War of the Worlds is said to be Moran's son. In Martin Powell's...
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    success in feature races on the Australian turf with notables being Artilleryman, Cetigne, David, Beauford, Rebus, Kennaquhair, The Fortune Hunter, Richmond...
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  • reasons. See also field hat, hat, & smokey bear/brown. Cannon Cocker – artilleryman. See also gun bunny and red leg. Cannon Fodder – Marines regarded merely...
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    Retrieved July 29, 2012. Gilwee, William J. (2000). "Capt. Harry Truman, Artilleryman and Future President". Doughboy Center: The Story of the American Expeditionary...
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    Pretoria Occupation Soldier, farmer and politician Profession Gunner, artilleryman Civilian awards Military service Allegiance South Africa Branch/service...
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    temperatures and insects plagued the Allies. Soldiers became dehydrated and horses died. Chinese villagers killed Allied troops who searched for wells. The...
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    commander, the mulatto General Alexandre Pétion, proved to be an excellent artilleryman, who used the guns of his fort to sink two of the three ships-of-the-line...
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