• Pro aris et focis ("for hearth and home") and Pro Deo et patria ("for God and country") are two Latin phrases used as the motto of many families, military...
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  • hastas et hostes (Latin for "between spears and enemies") Royal Australian Regiment: Duty first Royal Queensland Regiment: Pro aris et focis (Latin for...
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    lawyers Jan Frans Vonck and Verlooy formed a secret society called Pro Aris et Focis in April or May 1789 in order to plan for an armed uprising against...
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  • form is Ó Maolmhichíl or Ó Maoilmhichil. The motto of the clan is "Pro Aris et Focis", which translates as "For Hearth and Home". Daráine Mulvihill/Ní...
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    revive life's ashen embers For love is life since love remembers PRO ARIS ET FOCIS This monument is a legacy of Gabriel James Boney Born Wallace, NC...
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    the Southern Netherlands. The group emerged from the secret society Pro aris et focis in the 1780s, and by 1789 had become a distinct faction. The Vonckists...
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  • Mulvihill, Mulville, or Melville, and other variations. A family motto Pro aris et focis originates from the Irish family name "Mulvihill". County Sligo List...
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  • assegai (a traditional Zulu weapon), over the Latin scroll bearing Pro Aris et Focis (For Hearth and Home). The college colours of red, black and white...
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    inspired by the French Revolution, aimed by a secret society called Pro aris et focis which sought for the formation of a patriotic army. Maria Christina...
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    resistance to defend the Catholic Church, and the secret society Pro aris et focis of Jan Frans Vonck and Jan-Baptist Verlooy began recruiting troops...
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    Cambridgeshire in England Former administration building during 2009. Pro aris Et Focis (Latin for 'For Health and Home') RAF Upwood Location in Cambridgeshire...
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    as part of the wider Irish Volunteer movement. Features the motto "Pro aris et focis" ("For God and country") 1770s–1780s The flag of the Parsonstown Volunteers;...
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  • the Regiment is Her Excellency the Governor of Tasmania. Motto: "Pro Aris Et Focis" – "For God and Our Country" or literally "For Altars and Hearths"...
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  • and "platoons", the traditional infantry designation. Its motto was pro aris et focis (for our altars and for our homes). In the list below, battle honours...
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    Austrian Netherlands thinly protected. In May 1789, the secret society Pro aris et focis was founded in Brussels with the aim of gathering resistance against...
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    a shield emblazoned with the Wills family crest and their motto "Pro Aris et Focis". This Latin phrase literally means "for our altars and our hearths"...
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  • by a circlet. On officers' pouches the circlet carried the motto 'PRO ARIS ET FOCIS' (For hearth and home); on later tunic buttons and belt clasps shared...
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  • Regiment Garrison/HQ Bedford (Kempston Barracks from 1876) Motto(s) Pro aris et focis ('For heath and home') Commanders Notable commanders Francis Russell...
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    States of America Type Infantry Part of Continental Army Motto(s) Pro aris et focis Engagements Battle of Quebec, Battle of Trois-Rivières, Battle of...
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    English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases,...
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    Continental Army Nickname(s) Congress's Own, Hazen's Regiment Motto(s) Pro aris et focis Colors Brown and Yellow stripes Engagements Battle of Staten Island...
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  • Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2009. Dennis et al 2008, p. 132. Festberg 1972, pp. 85 & 107. "25th Battalion (Darling Downs...
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    regimental motto is "Pro aris et pro focis," which can be translated "For our homes and our families" but see 'Pro aris et focis'. The regimental march...
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    of 1789, Verlooy founded with Jan Frans Vonck the secret society "Pro Aris et Focis" (for Altar and Hearth), in order to prepare a rebellion against the...
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  • beneath a branch of an oak tree, surrounded by a garter inscribed Pro aris et focis ('For hearth and home'). This badge and motto also appeared on the...
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    consulted with Hendrik Van der Noot. Both abbots financially supported Pro Aris et Focis. He died in 1790, in his monastery's Refugium [nl] in Brussels. He...
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  • "annus horribilis". Webster's Dictionary. Retrieved 17 March 2018. "apologia pro vita sua". Merriam-Webster. The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern...
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  • pattern) and pistol. On its formation the regiment adopted the motto Pro aris et focis ('For hearth and home') and the Staffordshire knot as its badge. The...
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    exterior hand his staff and on the sinister side a gunner of the Royal Navy resting the exterior hand on a shell all Proper. Motto Pro Aris Et Focis...
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    was disbanded in favor of a new "Patriotic people's militia" called Pro Aris et Focis. The local artist Wybrand Hendriks commemorated the event with an...
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