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File: a single column of soldiers. Fire in the hole; Flanking maneuver: to attack an enemy or an enemy unit from the side, or to maneuver to do so. Forlorn hope: a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the leading part in a military operation, such as an assault on a defended position, where the risk of casualties is high. [3]
Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians): Perseverance; 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group: Audacia et fortitudo (Latin for "strength and courage") The Royal Canadian Dragoons: Audax et celer (Latin for "bold and swift") The Royal Canadian Regiment: Pro patria (Latin for "for country") 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group: Allons-y (French for ...
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [27]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
514th Artillery Group - Protect and Provide [2] 528th Artillery Group - Monstrans Viam (Pointing the Way) [2] 548th Artillery Group - Reliable and Relentlessness [2] 552nd Artillery Group - Mission and Teamwork [2] 557th Artillery Group - Nihil Obstat (Nothing Stands in Our Way) [2] 558th Artillery Group - Honor Guides Our Power [2]
Army Talk: A Familiar Dictionary of Soldier Speech. Princeton University Press. ASIN B00725XTA4. Dickson, Paul (2014). 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.
Frontgemeinschaft – front-line comradeship or community; group of front-line combat soldiers. Frontkämpfer – front line soldier; Frontschwein – (slang) "front pig" soldier serving long at the front, often used as an ironic accolade for a soldier with the will to fight. Compare with Etappenschwein.
The basic unit of the post-classical army was the company, a band of soldiers assigned (or raised) by a vassal lord on behalf of his lord (in later times the king himself). The vassal lord in command of the company was a commissioned officer with the rank of captain. Captain was derived from the Late Latin word capitaneus (meaning "head man" or ...
The High Medieval period also saw the expansion of mercenary forces, unbound to any medieval lord. Routiers , such as Brabançons and Aragones , were supplemented in the later Middle Ages by Swiss pikeman, the German Landsknecht , and the Italian Condottiere - to provide the three best-known examples of these bands of fighting men.