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Soldier - in red gear
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grenadier
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Grenadier is an English cultivar of domesticated apple mainly used for cooking. It originated in the mid 19th century in Buckinghamshire . It was first recorded in 1862 in Maidstone, Kent , exhibited by Charles Turner of Slough, Berkshire , and then commercially ...
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Grenadier \Gren`a*dier"\, n. [F. grenadier. See Grenade .] (Mil.) Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. ...
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On the morning of the 26th of September, 1777, Lord Cornwallis entered Philadelphia at the head of two English and two Hessian battalions of grenadiers, and proceeded to fortify the town.
Lord Cornwallis, hearing the firing at Philadelphia, immediately ordered three battalions of grenadiers to start.
Esch and Hotten Sonntag had volunteered, both for the Air Force, but later on, just like me who kept hesitating whether to go into the Navy or not, they were sent to the Panzer Grenadiers, a kind of high-class infantry.
Its trove of fish included a number of rattails or grenadiers, with big, heavily armored heads and large eyes.
The Russians rallied but a squadron of horse grenadiers came up to reinforce me, and thus enabled me to hold ground against the reserves of the Russian Guard.
Behind them were grenadiers and one tripod-mounted heavy projectile weapon, and then Captain Santol and his senior sergeant behind them.
He would let the dug-in grenadiers absorb the first blows of the T-34S, have them slow the Soviet charge with anti-tank fire, perhaps some of the more intrepid soldiers might hop out of their foxholes and board a few Red tanks with magnetic mines and grenades.
He liked the power of his denial, of holding back and watching the Soviet tanks close in on the grenadiers, he relished the uneven clash of raw men below against the charging machines and knew the entire panzer company strained for his command to enter the fight.
The Red soldiers of the 309th Rifle Division held their ground against the charge of metal but by 1000 hours the tanks sliced through them and the German grenadiers followed, falling into the defense works, cauterizing them in close-quarters fighting.
Two thousand black jots appeared around the arrays of German tanks, their panzer grenadiers advancing alongside their armor, the classic Blitzkrieg tactic, unbeatable.
Hunkering among the tanks and milling battalions of panzer grenadiers were three more Tigers, repaired at Luchki and put back into the field this evening.
Twenty T-34S stood ruined on the steppe behind them, most killed by German tanks, a few blown up by grenadiers in close fighting.
The panzer grenadiers greeted the Red tanks with anti-tank fire that knocked out a quarter of the first echelon in the initial minute of the charge.
Grenadier Company hard against the Teso San Miguel and acting as a hinge.
General Pianell has under him the gallant Prince Amadeus, who has entirely recovered from his chest wound, and of whom the brigade of Lombardian grenadiers is as proud as ever.