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    A nineteenth-century dictionary says, under "Train": train-band, i.e. train'd band, a band of trained men, Cowper, John Gilpin, st. I, and used by Dryden...
    8 KB (1,031 words) - 14:48, 1 July 2024
  • the Lewes Trained Band under Herbert Morley, MP for Lewes. Although Ford's force outnumbered the trained bandsmen four-to-one, most of his men were raw...
    40 KB (5,169 words) - 12:05, 14 June 2024
  • cautioned that the conversion rule was based on measurements on well-trained men aged 21 to 51 only, and may not be reliable when applied to other sub-groups...
    32 KB (3,390 words) - 23:36, 9 August 2024
  • of the Ordnungspolizei (order police) nor the Wehrmacht, but military-trained men at the disposal of the Führer. In time of war, the SS-VT were to be placed...
    18 KB (2,255 words) - 17:49, 18 April 2024
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    Freddie Roach (category American boxing trainers)
    the trainer of two-time women's world champion Lucia Rijker. He has also trained former light welterweight champion Amir Khan. Roach was trained by his...
    32 KB (1,312 words) - 23:46, 4 August 2024
  • Scotland. However, in practice many of the men sent were untrained substitutes, and there were not enough trained men to provide non-commissioned officers....
    19 KB (2,498 words) - 14:15, 3 July 2024
  • it was black and olive-drab. To distinguish soldiers trained in the States from those later trained in Vietnam, a large "V" was added beneath the word "Recondo"...
    16 KB (1,969 words) - 02:16, 20 August 2024
  • was impractical to train and equip every able-bodied man, so after 1572 the practice was to select a proportion of men for the Trained Bands, who were mustered...
    18 KB (2,339 words) - 21:08, 12 July 2024
  • clearly impractical to train and equip every able-bodied man. After 1572 the practice was to select a proportion of men for the Trained Bands (TBs), who were...
    21 KB (2,679 words) - 22:27, 3 March 2024
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    fully trained and equipped according to Western standards with a reserve. In 1903 an imperial edict expanded it to 36 divisions of 12,500 men each, or...
    59 KB (8,186 words) - 19:00, 7 May 2024
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    total of fewer than 70,000 men, while after mobilization the numbers rose to over 220,000. Moreover, the army still had a trained reserve, which, following...
    124 KB (16,177 words) - 19:46, 10 September 2024
  • mustering of the trained bands in April, when the Lord Lieutenant of Kent reported 10,866 able-bodied men, of whom 2953 were trained. The trained bands were...
    31 KB (3,745 words) - 20:06, 11 July 2024
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    Unit. This approach ensures that the Commando Force retains its highly trained men all through their career with the IAF. The first batch of Officers for...
    26 KB (2,343 words) - 14:10, 19 August 2024
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    craft vehicle personnel boat crews were also trained at Little Creek. In a few months, the trained men who were to land fighting forces from Africa to...
    10 KB (1,287 words) - 14:48, 30 August 2024
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    Trainband (redirect from Train-band)
    A nineteenth-century dictionary says, under "Train": train-band, i.e. train'd band, a band of trained men, Cowper, John Gilpin, st. I, and used by Dryden...
    6 KB (698 words) - 21:04, 1 July 2024
  • the available men for the Trained Bands (TBs), who were mustered for regular training. In that year Devonshire mustered 9224 'able men', including tin-miners...
    32 KB (4,013 words) - 01:03, 14 August 2024
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    invasion of Japan's Home islands by Allied forces. Six thousand men were planned to be trained and equipped with diving equipment for the role. They would...
    6 KB (750 words) - 11:59, 12 September 2024
  • was impractical to train and equip every able-bodied man, so after 1572 the practice was to select a proportion of men for the Trained Bands (TBs), who...
    73 KB (9,676 words) - 08:32, 18 July 2024
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    misinformation. ChatGPT is built on OpenAI's proprietary series of generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) models and is fine-tuned for conversational applications...
    195 KB (16,805 words) - 15:44, 11 September 2024
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    Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. (category American boxing trainers)
    self-published writing, athletics, and Christianity on a full-time basis. He trained men in hand-to-hand combat in both World Wars, was a fellow of the American...
    13 KB (1,328 words) - 21:24, 7 September 2024
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