Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rocky butte, deadly as shrapnel, splintering among the Moorish tribesmen. The whole mountain, which is topped by the stronghold village of Bribane, was enveloped by the smoke of burning crops and villages and the fumes of exploding shells. Armored cars and cavalry advanced up the easier slopes, while battalion after battalion of infantry stormed the steep western salient like a rising tide, preceded by a deadly, frothing foam of shrapnel...
...splinters that had propelled crippled children-left behind as testaments of those who, kneeling in the basilica, had been healed by the Holy Ghost. The fire roared through the church like a dragon. Priests turned firemen, saved the statue of Ste. Anne; but, by the time that a special battalion of the Fire Department had arrived, by special train, from Quebec, the cathedral, sacristy, monastery and college were black heaps of smoldering rubble...
...Publication of the Army estimates showed that they had been cut by Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill from ?4,450,000 to ?3,950,000. The establishment of the regular Army was reduced from 161,600 men to 160,600, decrease of 1,000, or a battalion; the Territorial Army stood at 186,010 men and the Army Reserve at 99,000- total...
...Assistant Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis, President Coolidge plunged into the temporary offices where the War Department is carrying on the work of preparing to pay the soldiers' bonus. In and out through corridors of files, with a dozen typewriters clicking in his ears at every turn, a battalion of adding machines belching forth figures from every cranny and 2,700 acolytes, spread over eleven acres of floor space, putting 20,000 requests through the ritual every day, the President wandered, and emerged with a smile?and Secretary Davis...
...Atbara, an Egyptian railway battalion mutinied, attacked British troops with bricks and other implements. The British fired upon their assailants, causing 19 casualties. The mutiny was allegedly accompanied by pro-Egyptian demonstrations...