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The soundtrack album was released on July 7, 1998 by DreamWorks Records; with the exception of the final track, the album is a combination of hip-hop/rap, modern rock, classic metal and alternative grunge.
The refused flank is held by smallest force necessary to hold out against the enemy's attack while concentrating the main battle force against the enemies' center or other flank Separation of insurgents – A counterinsurgency strategy should first seek to separate the enemy from the population, then deny the enemy reentry, and finally execute ...
Pitched battle; Pocket: see "salient". Pyrrhic victory: a victory paid for so dearly that it potentially could lead to a later defeat ("a battle won, a war lost"). Raid; Rank: a single line of soldiers. Reconnaissance; Reconnoitre: to go to an area (reconnoitering) to find out information of the exact location of an enemy force.
John William Grout. John William Grout was born to Jonathan and Mary Jane Grout on July 25, 1843, at Worcester, Massachusetts.He attended the military academy there. [1]He served as a 2nd lieutenant of Company D, 15th Massachusetts Infantry [2] and was killed at the age of eighteen in the Battle of Ball’s Bluff on October 21, 1861. [1]
However, music has been employed in battle for centuries, sometimes to intimidate the enemy and other times to encourage combatants, or to assist in organization and timing of actions in warfare. Depending on the culture, a variety of percussion and musical instruments have been used, such as drums , fifes , bugles , trumpets or other horns ...
Battle is a loanword from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning "exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing", from Late Latin (taken from Germanic) battuere "beat", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri.
The Battle of Muddy Flat, also called the Battle of Nicheng (泥城之戰) by the Chinese, was a small land/naval battle on the borders of the Shanghai Concession areas of what would later become the Shanghai International Settlement between a British, American, and Small Swords Society alliance and units of the Qing Imperial forces with a fleet of mercenary pirate allies on April 3–4, 1854. [1]
A bugle call is a short tune, originating as a military signal announcing scheduled and certain non-scheduled events on a military installation, battlefield, or ship. . Historically, bugles, drums, and other loud musical instruments were used for clear communication in the noise and confusion of a batt