What is "reveille"

Reveille \Re*veil"le\, n. [F. r['e]veil, fr. r['e]veiller to awake; pref. re- re- + pref. es- (L. ex) + veiller to awake, watch, L. vigilare to watch. The English form was prob. taken by mistake from the French imper. r['e]veillez,2d pers. pl. See Vigil.] (Mil.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. ``Sound a reveille.''
--Dryden.

For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille.
--Sir W. Scott.

1640s, from French réveillez-vous "awaken!" imperative plural of réveiller "to awaken, to wake up," from Middle French re- "again" (see re-) + eveiller "to rouse," from Vulgar Latin *exvigilare, from Latin ex- "out" + vigilare "be awake, keep watch" (see vigil).

n. (context military English) The sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers.

1. n. (military) signal to wake up [syn: wake-up signal]

2. a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise

"Reveille" (US: ; UK: ) is a bugle call, trumpet call or pipes call most often associated with the military and prisons; it is chiefly used to wake military personnel and prisoners at sunrise. The name comes from (or ), the French word for "wake up".

British Army Cavalry and Royal Horse Artillery regiments sound a call different from the infantry version shown below, known as " The Rouse" but often misnamed "Reveille", while the Scottish Regiments of the British Army sound a pipes call of the same name.

Reveille is the official mascot of Texas A&M University. Students adopted the first Reveille, a mixed-breed dog, in 1931. The cadets raised $100 during World War II to make Reveille a general, as part of a fundraiser for the K-9 Corps. Reveille is the highest-ranking member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets.

Eight years after the first Reveille died, a graduate of the university donated a Shetland Sheepdog to be the second official Aggie mascot, Reveille II. The third Reveille was the first to be a purebred Rough Collie; all subsequent mascots have belonged to this breed. Reveille IV, V, VI, and VII died in 1989, 1999, 2003, and 2013, respectively. Reveille VIII served from August 2008 until her retirement in 2015. The current mascot, Reveille IX, assumed her role as mascot on May 9, 2015 during the Corps of Cadets Final Review. All Reveilles to date have been female.

When they die, the Reveilles are buried in a special cemetery located outside the north end of Kyle Field. The bodies are laid facing the south end zone and the scoreboard. After the addition to Kyle Field was built at the north end, blocking the view of the scoreboard, a small scoreboard was placed outside the stadium, named the Reveille Scoreboard, so the tradition could live on.

Reveille is the fourth album by the band Deerhoof, released in 2002. The line-up of the band at the time was Satomi Matsuzaki, John Dieterich and Greg Saunier, with Chris Cooper contributing extra guitar work on one of the tracks. Satomi Matsuzaki also created the album's cover art. It was jointly released on the record labels 5 Rue Christine and Kill Rock Stars.

Reveille is a rap metal band from Harvard, Chelmsford, and Shirley, Massachusetts, United States.

Reveille can refer to:

• Reveille, the bugle call
• Reveille (dog), the Texas A&M mascot

Reveille, also known as the Brick House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. The house consists of three sections. The main 2 1/2-story house dates to about 1806; the 1 1/2-story west wing dates to 1839; and a rear kitchen wing was added to the west wing in 1920. The house is an example of an early 19th-century Federal style country residence. In 1950 the property and house were acquired by the Reveille United Methodist Church.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Reveille was a popular British weekly tabloid newspaper founded by Reg Hipwell during the Second World War and the post-war years.

Launched on 25 May 1940, it was originally the official newspaper of the Ex-Services' Allied Association. It was bought by the Mirror Group in 1947, after which it was printed and published by IPC Newspapers Ltd.

In the 1950s it increased its light-entertainment pages and would often run features on the Royalty.

During the 1960s and 1970s it became known as Reveille Magazine and would publish large double-page pop posters and also feature tasteful glamour models.

Author Rosemary Timperley wrote a great many articles for Reveille under her own name and pseudonyms.

In March 1973 it was renamed New Reveille, the title being reverted to Reveille in March 1975. By the end of 1975 Reveille had shrunk from its previous 40 page size and had dropped the short story feature, becoming more concerned with television, movies, and celebrities.

Its last issue appeared on 17 August 1979 and in September 1979 it merged with Tit-Bits magazine.

Reveille is a 1924 British silent drama film directed by George Pearson. It follows some British soldiers during and after the First World War, though Pearson wrote in a January 1924 letter to his cast and crew:

There is no story, as such. I hate the well-made Story with its Exposition, Denouement, Crisis, etc., as material for my elusive Screen. I confess I cannot write one.

As of August 2010, the film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's " 75 Most Wanted" lost films, though at least some sequences survive in private hands.

Reveille was a group within the British Conservative Party designed to pressure the party into a policy of imperialism and social reform.

The origins of the group lay in the frustration of some Conservatives with what they perceived as the Party's negative defence of the status quo under the leadership of Arthur Balfour in response to the Liberal government's People's Budget. On 30 August 1910 the Conservative MP Henry Page Croft published an article in The Morning Post headed “Reveille”. He said that a "sleeping sickness" had permeated the ranks of the party, that the prospect of a Canadian trade agreement with America was dangerous for British trade and industry and that what was needed was Imperial Preference.

Soon afterwards, fellow Conservatives asked Croft to organise a campaign throughout the country. Consequently, a considerable fund was raised and Conservative Associations in the major cities organised mass meetings for Reveille members. Soon there were 100 peers and MPs in the Reveille and there was a dinner held at Princes restaurant, Piccadilly, where Croft and Lord Willoughby de Broke spoke. Present were Acland Hood, the Conservative Chief Whip, and Percival Hughes, the Conservative Chief Agent. Willoughby de Broke outlined Reveille's programme:

(1) Defence.—Maintenance of the supremacy of the Navy and an adequate Army. The naval programme to be completed, if necessary, by a naval loan.
(2) Trade Reform.—A scientific tariff to be framed for the defence of British industries against unfair foreign competition, coupled with a scheme of industrial insurance.
(3) Empire Union.—Imperial Preference for the establishment of trade partnership throughout the Empire to be immediately initiated.
(4) Land Reform.—Small ownership for which facilities may be granted to working men to purchase land on easy terms, with the assistance of Government credit.
(5) Poor Law Reform to meet modern conditions.