When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Colonial American military history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_American_military...

    In offensive operations, they were scouts and guides, locating villages and other targets for task forces drawn from the militia or other colonial troops. [1] The father of American ranging is Colonel Benjamin Church (c. 1639–1718). [2] He was the captain of the first Ranger force in America (1676). [3]

  3. Jessie Scouts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Scouts

    The Jessie Scouts were irregular soldiers during the American Civil War on the side of the Union who frequently operated in the territory of the Confederate States of America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The unit was created by John C. Frémont and named in honor of his wife, rather than of a Colonel Jessie, who was himself a myth. [ 3 ]

  4. Social history of soldiers and veterans in the United States

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_history_of_soldiers...

    Throughout the course of the war, black soldiers served in forty major battles and hundreds of more minor skirmishes; sixteen African Americans received the Medal of Honor.[2] For the Confederacy, both free and enslaved black Americans were used for manual labor, but the issue of whether to arm them, and under what terms, became a major source ...

  5. American Boy Scouts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Boy_Scouts

    A scout is a friend to all and a brother to every other scout no matter to what social class the other belongs. A scout must never be a snob. A scout is courteous. A scout is a friend to animals. A scout obeys orders of his parents, patrol leader, or scout master without question. A scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. A scout is ...

  6. American Civil War spies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_spies

    The distinction between spies and scouts was one that had life-or-death consequences: if a suspect was seized while in disguise and not in his army's uniform, he was often sentenced to be hanged. A spy named Will Talbot, a member of the 35th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry , was left behind in Gettysburg after his battalion had passed through the ...

  7. Long-range reconnaissance patrol - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_reconnaissance...

    LRRP members attached to Special forces of the Sri Lankan Army have been most successful in carrying out assassinations on high-ranking members of the LTTE. [11] The LRRP concept was developed by Major Sreepathi Gunasekara who formed a special recon unit named 'Delta Patrols' in 1986 which later evolved into a highly secretive SF LRRP battalion.

  8. Girls fight for right to join local Boy Scouts troop - AOL

    www.aol.com/article/2015/11/16/girls-fight-for...

    The girls were just like Cub Scouts and were approved to attend every age appropriate event, that is, until one of the parents complained. Girls fight for right to join local Boy Scouts troop Skip ...

  9. Cavalry scout - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalry_scout

    Cavalry Scouts gather information on the enemy by dismounted and/or mounted reconnaissance patrols. Cavalry Scouts engage the enemy with anti-armor weapons and scout vehicles in the field, track and report enemy movement and activities, and will direct the employment of various weapon systems onto the enemy.