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  2. Knights Templar - Wikipedia

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    Therefore the three main ranks were eventually known as knight brothers, sergeant brothers, and chaplain brothers. Knights and chaplains were referred to as brothers by 1140, but sergeants were not full members of the Order at first, and this did not change until the 1160s. [97] The knights were the most visible division of the order.

  3. Heavy cavalry - Wikipedia

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    The emperor Manuel I Komnenos, for example, re-equipped his elite cavalry in the style of western knights. It is difficult to determine when exactly the cataphract saw his final day in battle. After all, both cataphracts and knights fulfilled a similar role on the medieval battlefield, and the armoured knight survived well into the modern age.

  4. List of duels - Wikipedia

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    Woodpecker vs Buzz Buzzard in several episodes, but the most known duels were in the episodes: Buccaneer Woodpecker in the Golden Age of Piracy (he wins the duel by detonating a powder keg with the powder leaking from the barrel, killing Buzzard instantly and earning the reward for eliminating him, as Buzzard was a dangerous and feared pirate).

  5. List of mercenaries - Wikipedia

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    American scout and adventurer who served with the British South Africa Company and the British Army in colonial Africa. Lee Christmas: 1863–1924 1897–1923 Honduras: American engineer who fought with rebel groups in Central America during the early 20th century. Initially employed as a railroad engineer in Honduras, he was kidnapped by ...

  6. List of Knights Templar - Wikipedia

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    (In the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, some authors and chroniclers of the history of the Portuguese Templar Order and its continuer, the Order of Christ, possibly based on original medieval source material in Braga and Tomar, cite the Portuguese Pedro Arnaldo da Rocha, of Burgundian and French parentage, as having been one of the founding ...

  7. History of the Knights Templar - Wikipedia

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    The Knights Templar were an elite fighting force of their day, highly trained, well-equipped, and highly motivated; one of the tenets of their religious order was that they were forbidden from retreating in battle, unless outnumbered three to one, and even then only by order of their commander, or if the Templar flag went down.

  8. Nathan Bedford Forrest - Wikipedia

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    Nathan Bedford Forrest Boyhood Home, Chapel Hill, Tennessee (2021). Nathan Bedford Forrest was born July 13, 1821 to Miriam (Beck) and William Forrest, a poor settler family living in a secluded frontier cabin near the hamlet of Chapel Hill, Tennessee (then part of Bedford County, but now in Marshall County).

  9. Golden age of fraternalism - Wikipedia

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    The George Washington Masonic National Memorial is an example of one of the monumental buildings sponsored by the Freemasons during the "Golden Age of Fraternalism.". The earliest fraternal societies, the Freemasons and the Odd Fellows, had their roots in 18th century America.