Word: road
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Sunday morning the men were divided into three groups, and several hours were spent in topographical sketching, including the making of road maps as well as place and position sketches. A portion of the time was devoted to signalling. Bad weather necessitated a return early Sunday afternoon...
Topography to commence May 21: Including Map Reading, Orientation, Road, Position, and Output Sketching; two companies...
...such timid heart that the remoteness of the call to service may cheer them. If they are, if those ten million men will regard the twentieth part chosen as unfortunate, and the twentieth part will lament the injustice of a fate that calls them to the road of courage, then five hundred thousand drafted men were worth less than the English first army, volunteers for which almost fought for the opportunity to fight...
...should not blame Russia for an indifference to that war upon which she was the first to enter. She is going the road of political freedom in a few months, which other peoples have only passed after long centuries of struggle. It could not be otherwise than that immediate liberty should swallow up the desire for a more remote national liberty...
...similar to those actually used by the French Army on the western front; and also gallery and target practice, bayonet fencing, field exercises, practice marches and manoeuvres. A large corps of topographical instructors have been added to the military department, and each cadet will be taught how to make road, position and outpost sketches...