• The Preston Rifles, later the 4th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, was a volunteer unit of the British Army from 1859 until the 1950s. It served...
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    Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857) was an American slaveowner, politician, and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from...
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    Francis Preston Blair Jr. (February 19, 1821 – July 8, 1875) was a United States Senator, a United States Congressman and a Union Army major general during...
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  • James Towers (category Military personnel from Preston, Lancashire)
    the Scottish Rifles and VC Association. There are several memorials to Towers; a road is named for him in the Lonsdale Estate in Preston and in Broughton...
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     16. Preston 2006, p. 94. Preston 1983, pp. 4–10. Preston 2006, pp. 94–95. Preston 2006, p. 95. Preston 2006, p. 96. Preston 2006, p. 97. Preston 2006...
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    Mauser Tankgewehr M1918 (category Anti-tank rifles of Germany)
    ammunition to counter this. Both Britain and Germany used high-powered rifles, such as elephant guns from their African colonies, for this purpose. The...
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    bayonets in their hands, their only weapon for mounted attack, as their rifles were slung across their backs. Part of the two regiments dismounted to attack...
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  • 2022 shooting of Kentucky police officers (category Mass shootings involving AR-15–style rifles)
    injuries he sustained from the shooting. The gunman, 49-year-old Lance Preston Storz (October 1972 – February 28, 2023), had been living in Allen for...
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    Emmet Rifles in Sonoma County suppressed a secessionist disturbance in Healdsburg, in 1862. Union commanders relied on the San Bernardino Mounted Rifles and...
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  • The Bolton Rifles, later the 5th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, was a volunteer unit of the British Army from 1859 until 1967. It served on...
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    Garhwal Rifles – Lt.Col L.H.Cockram/ Lt.Col G.E.R.S.Hartigan 5/11th Sikh Regiment – Lieut.Col John Parkin/ MacAdam 1/13th Frontier Force Rifles – Lieut...
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  • fly. Harry responds, "With this Luggage?" We then see a bunch of assault rifles in the back of the RV. Arlo the Alligator Boy Edmee, Arlo's mother, got...
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    Kungwo and next at William B. Preston. Sailors on the destroyer promptly broke out their Lewis guns and Springfield rifles to reply, but the situation suddenly...
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  • arrived to confront him after Barry had fired his last shot. Barry threw both rifles at Ray, saying, "I did it." Ray had Barry sit down and wait for the police...
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    Col Evander McNair 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted): Col Daniel H. Reynolds 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted): Col Harris Flanagin 4th Arkansas...
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    223-caliber semi-automatic rifles, two 9 mm caliber semi-automatic pistols, and an explosive device in the attack. The rifles used were variants of the...
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    West England. The force's headquarters are at Hutton, near the city of Preston. As of September 2020[update], the force has 3,088 police officers, 190...
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  • flees on a motorcycle into the woods. Teasle organizes a search party with rifles, dogs, and a helicopter. Galt blatantly disregards both Teasle’s orders...
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    Preston 2006, pp. 66–67. Preston 2006, pp. 67–68. Preston 2006, pp. 63–65. Thomas 1961, p. 62. Preston 2006, pp. 69–70. Preston 2006, p. 70. Preston 2006...
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    brigades comprising three Australian Light Horse and one New Zealand mounted rifles, supported by British horse artillery. In 1917, one of the Australian brigades...
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  • is on display at Preston Park Museum & Grounds in Stockton. Major Cooper was cremated at Teesside Crematorium. "The Kings Royal Rifles Association". Archived...
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    Rifles Brigade during this operation were 11 killed, 45 wounded, and three missing. From 25 November until 1 December the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade...
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  • series of field works, mutually supported by artillery, machine guns and rifles, extended from Gaza eastwards to within 4 miles (6.4 km) of Beersheba. Beginning...
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  • 4th Battalion, Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, in Preston (Infantry - Reserve) 6th Battalion, The Rifles, in Exeter (Infantry - Reserve) 6th Battalion, Royal...
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    (Leeds Rifles) Royal Tank Regiment, formed as a 2nd Line duplicate of 45th (Leeds Rifles) Royal Tank Regiment (previously the 7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion...
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    Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade War Diary 8 and 9 November 1917 AWM4-35-1-31 Hughes 2004, p. 80 Preston 1921, p. 59 Grainger 2006, p. 157 Preston 1921, pp. 59–60...
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    Preston 1995, p. 103. Preston 2010, p. 61. Balfour 2002, pp. 252–254. Sangster 2018, p. 87. Casanova 2010, p. 111. Hernández 2015, p. 125. Preston 2012...
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    coordination of this weapon. Some Zulus also had old muskets, antiquated rifles, and some captured Martini-Henrys as used by the defenders, though their...
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    heads of the Bangladesh Navy, the Bangladesh Air Force, the Bangladesh Rifles and the military secretary to the president entered Bangabhaban and forced...
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    Allied forces – including huge numbers of aircraft, ships, tanks, trucks, rifles, artillery shells, and bombs – American industry became what President Franklin...
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