Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That evening Churchill went off to attend a St. George's Day dinner with the Honorable Artillery Company, oldest serving British regiment. He told the gunners what would happen if St. George (about 300 A.D.) were alive today: "St. George would arrive in Cappadocia accompanied, not by a horse, but by a secretariat. He would be armed, not by a lance, but by several flexible formulas . . . He would propose a conference with the dragon. He would then lend the dragon a lot of money. The maiden's release would be referred to Geneva or New York, the dragon...
...Bade farewell to his old friend and wartime comrade, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, after telling Monty that his regiment, the Royal Warwickshire, had burned the White House...
...wrong. The British force which captured Washington included no Warwickshires. The Warwickshire Regiment was more than 500 miles away in Toronto (then York), had recently participated in the Peninsular War, leaving many wounded and sick troops in Bordeaux...
Three days after the fight for Baldy started, the Chinese attacked Bunker Hill, some five miles east of Panmunjom. again with a reinforced regiment. Bunker was held by units of the glory-laden U.S. 1st Marine Division. The leathernecks had small forces on two knobs called Vegas and Reno-perhaps a platoon on each-and these units were simply overrun and wiped out. One radio message came through from a caved-in and sealed bunker: "Only seven of us are left alive-the rest have suffocated...
...Korea, when a man gets 40 rotation points he can go home. Last week, when a balding, freckled infantry captain named John R. Fitzpatrick reluctantly said goodbye to his company and regiment, the astounded clerk who checked him out of the 7th Division's rotation center noted that Fitzpatrick's card listed 99 points. He actually had more points than that: the I.B.M. machine was preset for only two digits. Captain Fitzpatrick, 29, was headed home with the highest total of rotation points-129-ever amassed by any U.S. soldier in Korea...