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...This book tells the story of the American war of Independence from the side of the British. The old flag mentioned in the title is the flag of England. This is a book for young readers, but - as a good book should be - everybody can enjoy it. (Summary by Stav Nisser)...

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...s a souvenir for Sixth US Army's decommissioning in 1995, "Born of War ... Dedicated to Peace" details the unit's history from World War II until its flag was furled. Author Sharon E. Cathcart (writing under her previous by-line of Sharon E. Everett-Roles) and military historian Lt. Col. Edward J. Erickson composed the text; the layout was designed by Michael Murphy and hi...

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...CTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 3 CURRENT TRAINING PROGRAMS . . . . . . . 61 Requirements for Realistic Training . . . . . . .62 Red Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 Naval Strike Warfare Center . . . . . . . . . . . .71 National Training Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Twehtynine Palms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 ...

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...This was the weekly poem for Flag Day 2006. It tells the largely-apocryphal but nonetheless inspiring story of one old woman’s act of patriotism during a Confederate advance in the civil war. (summary by LauraFox)...

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...eld-grade rank. This special designation allows the Air Force to focus education and assignment opportunities on those officers most likely to attain flag rank and senior joint billets. Subsequent recommendations are designed to provide additional leadership development opportunities for officers after they attain flag rank. These initiatives emphasize the focus we must pl...

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...n’t apologize, Lord Lambeth; some Americans are al- ways apologizing; you must have noticed that. We have the reputation of always boasting and braggi... ...boasting and bragging and wav- ing the American flag; but I must say that what strikes me is that we are perpetually making excuses and trying to smoo...

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...e her, welcome her, all that is ours! Warble, O bugle, and trumpet, blare! Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers! Flames, on the windy headland f...

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...ale, unshaven faces tanned about the eyes, the discoloured regimentals and the tattered flags, filled him with a sense of weariness, pity, and wonder;... ...hey were wise, great, cunning, and cruel; they were a picked race of the Spanish; their flags led in war; the king called them his cousin; the people,... ...d into the crevice, drew forth one after another, encrusted with the earth of ages, the flagons, candlesticks, and patens of the hermitage of Franchar...

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...st drunken braggadocio at such a stage, and might have lost us a valuable prize; but I thought it no part of mine to reason, and I ran up the black fl...

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...1 REVIEW OF LITERATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 2 METHODOLOGY: RED FLAG . . . . . . . . . . .13 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3 RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 4 STRATEG...

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...Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He won several victories, including the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, during which he was killed. These are the letters that he wr...

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...Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He won several victories, including the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, during which he was killed. These are the letters that he wr...

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...e Venetian empire after being falsely denounced by anonymous accusers via the infamous Lion's Mouth at the Doge's palace. Enlisting under the Turkish flag, Lanciotto repudiates both his nationality and his religion: only to be challenged by Fransesca herself the night before the final assault to repent his apostasy, to forgive his accusers, and to save the Venetian garriso...

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... self-vivisection, and its pulsating dis- sepiments’ adorned with emphatic flag labels. Confronted they were, and there was no getting away from it. H... ... most home-like and comfortable quality, and it was made gayer by abundant flags. Along the road a quantity of peas- ant folk, in big pair-wheeled car... ...ng gestures. Then,the car hit the roof of the gatehouse smartly, snapped a flag staff, played a tune upon some telegraph wires, and sent a broken wire... ...ert Dervish was hanging, an appeal for consideration, an ineffectual white flag. He was now very distinctly aware that the world below him, so far fro... ... of languages. Official-looking per- sons had signalled to him by means of flag flapping and arm waving. On the whole a guttural variant of English pr... ... spent in war material to the making of men. Instead of which they waggled flags at him until he was fourteen, incited him to cheer, and then turned h... ...ven’t realised. You’ve just caught us by a neck. You’re on the blessed old flagship with the Prince. You won’t miss any- thing. Whatever’s on, you bet... ... said the young man, taking pains to be explicit, “is an airship. It’s the flagship of Prince Karl Albert. This is the German air-fleet, and it is goi... ...- ers, under a black eagle with widespread wings and the Ger- man Imperial flags; he was, as it were, enthroned, and it 81 H G Wells struck Bert grea...

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...t bloody,” said Josephine. “Wouldn’t I love it! I’d go in front with a red flag.” “It would be rather fun,” said Tanny. “Wouldn’t it!” cried Josephine... ...was a large stone house with its green shut- ters all closed. But from the flagpole under the eaves, over the central window of the uppermost floor—th... ...w of the uppermost floor—the house was four storeys high—waved the Italian flag in the melancholy damp air. Aaron looked at it—the red, white and gree... ... town seemed depressed and empty. It was a na- tional holiday. The Italian flag was hanging from almost ev- ery housefront. It was about three o’clock... ...alcony. It was a sort of procession, or march of men, here and there a red flag fluttering from a man’s fist. There had been a big meeting, and this w... ...houting, becoming vicious. Over the shop-door hung a tricolour, a national flag. The shop was closed, but the men began to knock at the door. They wer... ... Some wore red cotton neck-ties. They lifted their faces to the na- tional flag, and as they shouted and gesticulated Aaron could see their strong tee... ... a little pool, the thick wedge of the procession beyond, flecked with red flags. A window opened above the shop, and a frowsty-looking man, yellow-pa... ...ooking man, yellow-pale, was quickly and nervously hauling in the national flag. There were shouts of derision and mockery— a great overtone of acrid ...

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...eality than a very young child. It has these dreams that we express by the flags of nationali- 16 War and the Future ties and by strange loyalties an... ...is war of Glory or the “Empire on which the sun never sets” or “the meteor flag of England” or of King and Country or any of those fine old headline t... ...nd glories of soldiering, the bright uniforms, the feathers and spurs, the flags, the march-past, the disciplined massed advance, the charge; all thes... ... him, in which many people did inelegant and irrational things. They waved flags—nasty little flags. This child of the ages, this last fruit of the gi... ...uritan have shown that men can fight better for a Divine Idea than for any flag or monarch in the world. It seems to me that illusions fade and effigi...

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...nd roared. Just then a noise was heard outside. Steps sounded on the metal flags. The locks were turned, the door opened, and the steward appeared. Be... ...of use to us. After leaving these charming islands protected by the French flag, from the 4th to the 11th of December the Nautilus sailed over about 2... ...water, incessantly ploughed by vessels of every nation, shel- tered by the flags of every nation, and which terminates in those two terrible points so... ...es to the east, a large steam vessel could be discerned on the horizon. No flag fluttered from its mast, and I could not discover its na- tionality. S... ...unnels. Her closely-furled sails were stopped to her yards. She hoisted no flag at her mizzen- peak. The distance prevented us from distinguishing the... ...ine!” And on the fore part of the platform Captain Nemo un- furled a black flag, similar to the one he had placed at the South Pole. At that moment a ... ... Captain Nemo had not left it. He was stand- ing at the fore part near his flag, which a slight breeze displayed above his head. He did not take his e...

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...onating futility, the cheering, the anxieties, the songs and the waving of flags, the wrongs of generous Buller and the glorious heroism of De Wet—who... ...mperor enhanced by heraldic black wings and a large sword—had insulted our flag. That was the message of the New Paper, and the monster towered over m... ...pitting upon my faultless country’s colors. Somebody had hoisted a British flag on the right bank of some tropical river I had never heard of before, ... ...ghters of secure people, by marrying insecurity or by wild extravagance or flagrant vice, would sink into the life of anxiety and insufficiency which ... ...like cities building to the sound of music, and great ships, all hung with flags and wine bespattered, gliding down through cheering multitudes to the...

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...itable to a duke. So now she is Corporal General of the Seventh Cavalry, and Flag Lieutenant of the Ninth Dragoons, with the privilege (decreed by the... ...st excellent, her Excellency Catherine, Corporal General Seventh Cavalry and Flag Lieutenant Ninth Dragoons, U.S.A., — on whom be peace!” “Amen. Did ... ...obody has been on my back since but the Corporal General Seventh Cavalry and Flag Lieutenant of the Ninth Dragoons, U.S.A., — on whom be peace!” “Ame... ...olors is a very solemn ceremony, and everybody must stand uncovered when the flag goes by, the comman dant and all; and once I was there, and ignoran... ...roop the colors and I stand solemn, like the children, and I salute when the flag goes by. Of course when she goes to her fort her sentries sing out ‘... ... now… . [The Assembly ] … Then the bands thundered in, with “Rally round the flag, boys, rally once again!” Next, she blew another call (“to the Stand...