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War Slang: American Fighting Words & Phrases Since the Civil War. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486797168. Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509514-6. Jacobson, Gary (August 14, 1994). "Humor best way to remove last of 'Bohicans' resistance". The Dallas Morning News. p. 7H
"The Fighting G" – HMS Gloucester "The Fighting J" – HMS Jamaica "The Fighting I" – USS Intrepid "The Fighting Lady" – USS Yorktown "The Fighting Sausage" – HMS Cumberland; from Cumberland sausage "Fighting Mary" – USS Maryland (BB-46) "Firestal" – USS Forrestal "The Five Mile Sniper" – HMAS Brisbane
Chevaux de frise: sword blades chained together to incapacitate people trying to charge into a breach in the walls. Investment: surrounding an enemy fort (or town) with armed forces to prevent entry or escape. Military mining, undermining of defence positions either fortifications or enemy front line trenches (see also camouflet). Parallel trenches
History Dead Informal Usually interpreted as "to be history." (Get) Hit by a bus To die suddenly and prematurely Informal Hop on the last rattler [5] To die Euphemistic "Rattler" is a slang expression for a freight train. Hop the twig [2] To die Informal Also 'to hop the stick'. Pagan belief that to jump a stick on the ground leads to the ...
"The Fighting Quaker" – Smedley Butler, U.S. general "Flagellum Dei" (Latin for Scourge of God,) – Attila the Hun, Turkic [2] ruler of the Huns who is renowned for many successful campaigns against Rome [3] "The Fool of Owari" – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese daimyō "Foul Weather Jack" – Vice-Admiral John Byron RN, British 18th century admiral
The History Cool Kids Instagram account has amassed an impressive 1.5 million followers since its creation in 2016. But the page’s success will come as no surprise if you take the time to scroll ...
"Bruh" originated from the word "brother" and was used by Black men to address each other as far back as the late 1800s. Around 1890, it was recorded as a title that came before someone's name ...
The fighting words doctrine, in United States constitutional law, is a limitation to freedom of speech as protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1942, the U.S. Supreme Court established the doctrine by a 9–0 decision in Chaplinsky v.