Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mixed Breed. Sir Winston Churchill's regiment, the Fourth Queen's Own Hussars, will be merged with the Eighth King's Royal Irish Hussars, the Royal Scots Fusiliers with the Highland Light Infantry. The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (which suffered the heaviest casualties at Waterloo) now becomes one with the Somerset Light Infantry (nicknamed "The Illustrious Garrison" after its defense of Jellalabad in 1842). Two of the best known of the Scottish regiments, the Seaforth Highlanders and the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders must form one unit, find new tartans for their...
...liberal professional classes. One of his daughters is an actress whose sole ambition is to play before the Czar; instead she sees his back in a railway station as he is about to make his exit from history. Another Arapov is a captain in a crack cavalry regiment, and one aspect of Russia's tragedy is seen in the inner conflict of this passionately loyal man who, amid mutiny and despair, does not know what his new loyalties ought to be. The doomed family has its socialist, too-idealistic Nicolas Arapov. When the soldiery, whom he pities, pitilessly murder...
...promise of jobs from the Nationalist government. But to the men who had been on the cruise of the Pak Tang, this prospect, while gratifying, was almost unnecessary. "I'm satisfied just being here," said ex-Colonel Yui Teh Hsiu, once the commander of a Nationalist regiment. "We agreed among ourselves that if we failed we would all jump overboard...
...fanatically anti-Western (and antiCommunist) Moslem Brotherhood, and his agents supplied black market weapons bought with Saudi money. Often the young King drove out for secret, late-night meetings with chosen leaders on lonely roads outside Amman. Hussein picked Zerka for his showdown because a crack Bedouin regiment was stationed there and the Moslem Brotherhood was strong in the town...
...demonstrations, a Syrian armored regiment crossed into Jordan. Fighting broke out among Jordanian army units at Zerka, a post northeast of Amman; three pro-Abu Nuwar officers were reported killed, ten wounded, ten captured. At this point, King Hussein moved to take over the government himself. He summoned his onetime friend, Abu Nuwar, to the palace. Then, as tanks and armored cars of the former Arab Legion rattled through the streets and ringed the palace, the young general was arrested and packed off by car for Syrian exile. Nabulsi and other leading leftist politicians were placed under house arrest...