Word: talionic
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...incident of the fighting reported from the French front: Major Chartrane, commanding a bat talion of colored troops, ordered an advance. Looking down his line, he saw an officer on horse back. Infuriated by such reckless bravado, he rushed down the line shouting to the officer to dismount. When he came close he discovered that the mounted man was Lieut. De Latour, who had often led his company into battle. A short time before he had been shot dead. Two black sergeants had placed his body on a horse and were holding it upright so that he might once more...
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