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n. (plural of deserter English)
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Deserters is an album by British folk music group Oysterband, released in 1992.
Deserters is a Canadian drama film, released in 1983. Written and directed by Jack Darcus, the film stars Alan Scarfe as Ulysses Hawley, a United States Army officer who is in Canada undercover to arrest Vietnam War draft dodgers. The film's cast also includes Barbara March, Jon Bryden and Dermot Hennelly.
The film garnered six Genie Award nominations at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984, for Best Actor (Scarfe), Best Actress (March), Best Director (Darcus), Best Screenplay (Darcus), Best Editing (Darcus, Bill Roxborough, Doris Dyck and Ingrid Rosen) and Best Original Score ( Michael Conway Baker).
Usage examples of "deserters".
There had been talk there of a haven for soldiers, an army of deserters who were defying the French and the English, but Sharpe had dismissed the stories.
For a year now, perhaps a few months longer, there had been an organized band of deserters, calling themselves an army, living in the mountains of southern Galicia.
They lived in territory that was unimportant to the French Marshals or to Wellington, they subsisted by terrorizing the countryside, taking what they wanted, and their numbers grew as deserters from every army in the Peninsula heard of their existence.
And he promptly sends his British deserters to attack a village called Adrados where they murder a small Spanish garrison and go on to make themselves free with all the ladies.
They had conceived a bitter hatred for the deserters and Sharpe suspected that hatred was caused partly by envy.
All were trained soldiers and his one hope, that appeared more slender as the cold day wore on into night, was that soon the deserters would be hopeless with drink.
The deserters and their women were screaming and shouting, pushing and scrambling, going into the courtyard of the cloister.
A dozen of the deserters were wounded, three would never recover, and he must find a place for them.
Sharpe laughed again, attracting a curious glance from a Rifleman who herded the deserters to their naked, cold prison.
He had escaped, over to the Castle, and Sharpe wondered whether the deserters would still be there in the morning, or would they, knowing the game was up, flee in the dawn?
The sensible thing, Sharpe thought, was for the deserters to run again, to flee eastwards or northwards, but they had stayed.
The deserters who had stayed in the village fled with their women and children as Kinney's Light Company went in from the north.
There had to be a doorway into it and Sharpe was moving, yelling, and the Fusiliers changed direction and Sharpe led them with his sword and the deserters backed off because they had not expected this and the sword swept at them.
They killed, as they had been trained to kill, and it took time before individual soldiers saw that some of the deserters were surrendering, and then the attackers began defending the unarmed prisoners against the fury of other men who still hunted with dripping blades.
The band of deserters at the Gateway of God had not been over brotherly.