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Another theory postulates that the student group responsible for publishing The Rebel humor magazine designed the Colonel, as this group–known as the "Rebel Club"–was founded in 1937 shortly after the University adopted the "Rebels" nickname and featured on the magazine's masthead an illustration of the Colonel was identical to the one ...
"Black or White" was released as single in November 1975, preceding the release of Timeless Flight by three months. Despite the band's UK chart success earlier in 1975 with the number-one single "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" and its top 20 follow-up "Mr. Raffles (Man, It Was Mean)", "Black or White" failed to enter the UK Singles Chart.
Ole Miss cheerleaders (including Colonel Reb) performing as the halftime entertainment during a Houston Rockets game. In 1980, Ty Cobb, along with fellow cheerleaders Sam Martin, John White, and Jeff Hubbard (as Ole Miss Rebels mascot Colonel Reb) began performing ball handling skits and acrobatics which incorporated a mini-trampoline during the time-outs and half-time of Ole Miss basketball ...
A 1781 illustration of Continental Army soldiers during the Yorktown campaign, including a black infantryman (on the far left) from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, one of the regiments in the Continental Army with the largest number of black patriot soldiers. An estimated four percent of the Continental Army were black.
Lieutenant Colonel James Abercrombie †, while leading the retreat at the Battle of Bunker Hill, he was fatally injured in the thigh from being shot by a rebel. Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe , he was a captain who traveled across the Northeast to look for American spies.
The white officers would then organize noncommissioned field officers among the ranks of the black soldiers to fill the positions of sergeants. However, Lieutenant Colonel L. Henry Carpenter soon realized that his newly formed black troops were illiterate. Therefore, Carpenter petitioned command to place white noncommissioned officers in charge ...
James Smith was the subject of the 1937 book The First Rebel by Neil H. Swanson. [11] He was portrayed by John Wayne in the 1939 movie Allegheny Uprising , [ 12 ] which was based on the book. A segment in the 2006 PBS miniseries The War that Made America shows a dramatization of Smith running the Native American gauntlet, following his capture ...
George Ronald Christmas (born March 11, 1940) [1] is a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general. Christmas was awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart for valor in 1968, during the Vietnam War. He served on active duty in the Marine Corps for 34 years, retiring in 1996. [2]