Word: regimentals
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...love to see a regiment pass in review the first time I saw the Spanish cavalry at La Roque it was lovely after looking across the bay from Algeciras all the lights of the rock like fireflies or those sham battles on the 15 acres the Black Watch with their kilts in time at the march ast the 10th hussars the prince of Wales own or the lancers O the lancers they're grand...
...mused Molly Tweedy Bloom in her celebrated life-affirming soliloquy, which closes James Joyce's Ulysses. Probably the most famous citizen of Gibraltar, fictional or otherwise, Molly today would find the free and easy ways and the regimental glamour of her hot-blooded youth in the 1890s to be vastly changed. On the Spanish side, in the little border towns of La Roque and La Linea, the Spanish cavalry has given way to commonplace infantry and militiamen, while on Gibraltar itself the Black Watch and the Lancers are only a memory, currently being replaced by the Middlesex Regiment...
Ahead of the gun carriage marched platoons from all the arms and services, their arms reversed. Here, also, were Lord Mountbatten, Chief of the Defense Staff, and the other service chiefs, followed by eight officers of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars-Churchill's first regiment-bearing Sir Winston's medals. Behind the gun carriage strode the top-hatted men of the Churchill family, led by his son Randolph. In a carriage lent by the Queen were Lady Churchill and her two daughters Sarah and Mary. The march was accompanied by music of the Drum Horse...
...service, it is true, more in the irresponsible way of a war correspondent than on the plodding grind of a subaltern with his regiment; but then that is the only way--bar miracles--in which a man can see three campaigns in four years. Having to give the first years of his manhood to war-making, he characteristically gave them in the way that was likely to prove most fruitful of experience for use afterwards...
...arrived in Vienna, the Janissaries of the aggressive Ottoman Empire swept out of the East and laid siege to Vienna. His effort in the 60-day defense that was to save the city and end the Ottomans' long westward advance won him a colonelcy and his own regiment. He was a major general at 22, a field marshal before he was 30. In his 54 years of service, the Emperor's new recruit was to liberate Central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish rule, to establish Habsburg hegemony in Italy, and then to hold...