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  Indian III Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The British Indian III Corps was the primary ground formation that took part in the campaign in Malaya in 1942.
III Corps was formed in mid-1941 when the increase in tension in the Far East necessitated the dispatch of large reinforcements to the area to deter Japan.
III Corps, and the rest of the mobile land forces were pushed back to Singapore itself by February 1942.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_III_Corps   (444 words)

  
 III Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of military corps — List of military corps by number
A number of countries have Third, or III, Corps:
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that may otherwise share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/III_Corps   (84 words)

  
 Washita-Chapter Three
These Indians doubtless expect to relax their war efforts about December, when the grass will fail them, but that is the very time we propose to begin in earnest, and I hope that by the time the new grass comes a very small reservation will suffice for what is left." (p.
The commissioner of Indians affairs, is in receipt of letters from the Government officers in the west, which gives rise to apprehensions of serious troubles on the plains.
The Indian expedition thus become of vital interest, and upon its success or failure depends the safety of the people on the frontier, the progress of the railroad west, and the future policy of dealing with the Indians.
www.dickshovel.com /was3.html   (10401 words)

  
 Weapons and Tactics
The corps headquarters staff included an inspector general of artillery and engineers with their own staff; a senior staff officer to look after supplies; two staff officers to look after operations representing the Administrative Headquarters; officers to control bread supply, meat and foraging; a surgeon general and a director of mail services.
The corps was a self-contained organisation of two or more divisions with its own artillery and cavalry, it was fast moving, it advanced behind a reconnaissance screen of light cavalry followed by swarms of skirmishers of light infantry sharp shooters who penetrated the enemy’s weak points.
I, II, III and IV Corps were ordered to cross the Danube between Ingolstadt and Donauworth and to advance to Munich and Augsburg to cut the Austrian line of communications and to prevent the Russians joining the Austrians.
www.defencejournal.com /2001/apr/weapons.htm   (6680 words)

  
 COFEPOW - The Armed Forces - The 2nd Battalion - The Loyal Regiment
The III Indian Corps (Lieutenant-General Sir L.M. Heath), which was composed of two Indian Infantry Divisions and an independent Brigade, was given the task of defending the Thailand frontier and, if possible, forestalling any invasion from that quarter.
The 44th Indian Infantry Brigade on the southern flank of the assault landing were not engaged, but the coast battery at Pasir Laba at the western extremity of Singapore Island was so heavily shelled that it had to be abandoned.
Some Indian Sappers and Miners in position behind the cross-roads mistook the retiring Malays for Japanese, and for the next half hour B Company found themselves under fire from the Indian troops in the rear, and from the enemy in front and on the left flank.
www.cofepow.org.uk /pages/armedforces_loyal_regiment.htm   (15770 words)

  
 Curriculum Guide - The Corps as Community
When Lewis and Clark enlisted the members of the Corps of Discovery, they were, in a sense, creating a community.
The Corps of Discovery differed from most communities in that it did not stay in one place.
This Building Block activity may easily be adapted to the study of American Indian communities encountered by the Corps of Discovery.
www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/Education/TheCorpsAsCommunity/TheCorpsActivity.htm   (575 words)

  
 Lewisburg DCA - DCP Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It was my first drum corps show too, and it was quite an experience.
Corps called the Southern Knights or something, but I don't think that they were around for very long.
By the way, Pete W. was also a member of that corps as well as a couple of guys marching with the Yankee Rebs and at least one drunk Indian contra named Doc...
www.drumcorpsplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=30828   (764 words)

  
 Strategic Insights -- The First World War Mesopotamian Campaigns: Military Lessons on Iraqi Ground Warfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Sixth “Indian” Expeditionary Division was composed of the 16th, 17th and 18th Infantry Regiments.
Indian silver rupees and banknotes were brought in and an exchange rate established.
One of the most memorable aspects of civil affairs was the introduction of the Indian Rupee and creation of market economies as a means of engaging the population in the pursuit of sustaining British forces in Iraq.
www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/2005/Jun/aboul-eneinJun05.asp   (6666 words)

  
 53:1200(101)CU - - Phoenix Area Indian Health Service, Sacaton Service Unit, Hu Hu Kam Memorial Hospital, Sacaton, AZ ...
Under a 638 contract an Indian tribe exercises control over a facility, such as a hospital, clinic, or school, for a period of 3 years.
Indian tribes and the entities they set up are not establishments "in the executive branch" within the meaning of 5 U.S.C. §§ 104-05; they are sovereign entities apart from the executive branch.
For the purpose of operating these programs with employees on special purpose IPA assignments, an Indian tribe is considered a "local government." 5 U.S.C. § 3371(2)(C).
www.flra.gov /decisions/v53/53-101-4.html   (6533 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Alexander Cobbe
Posted thus to the Indian Staff Corps Cobbe saw active service during the campaigns of Chitral (1895), Nyasaland (1898-99), the Fourth Ashanti War (1900) and in Somaliland (1902).
With III (Indian) Corps Cobbe saw a run of success at Kut-al-Amara in February 1917, along with the capture of Baghdad the following month.
Playing a notable role in the British successes at Samarrah in April and at Ramadi in September 1917, Cobbe also defeated a Turk force at Sharqat in October 1918 (the final action on the Mesopotamian Front) before peacefully capturing Mosul in November 1918.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/cobbe.htm   (300 words)

  
 Sakakawea
Sakakawea was a Shoshone Indian girl, captured by a war party of Hidatsa Indians, who were at that time living in threeearthlodge villages on the Knife River in what is now North Dakota.
Sakakawea was a Shoshone Indian girl, captured by a war party of Hidatsa or Minnetarees who were at that time living in three earthlodge villages on the Knife River in North Dakota.
The newly awakened interest in this state on the spelling of the Indian name of the Bird Woman has doubtless arisen from the recent effort of the Woman's Federation of Clubs of the state to have erected at Bismarck a bronze statue of Sakakawea.
www.state.nd.us /hist/sakakawea.htm   (1982 words)

  
 III Corps - TheBestLinks.com - Disambig, Indian III Corps, List of military corps by number, List of military corps, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
III Corps - TheBestLinks.com - Disambig, Indian III Corps, List of military corps by number, List of military corps,...
III Corps, Corps, Disambig, Indian III Corps, List of military corps by number...
This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
www.thebestlinks.com /III_Corps.html   (141 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir William Marshall
A series of divisional commands followed - 42nd, 29th and 53rd - before he was posted to Salonika with 27th Division, and then with III (Indian) Corps on the Mesopotamian Front.
It was while commanding III Corps that Marshall successfully participated in the capture of Kut-al-Amara in February 1917, and subsequently in the capture of Baghdad the following month.
With Sir Frederick Maude's death as Commander-in-Chief from cholera (most probably from contaminated milk), the hugely popular commander was replaced by the careful and meticulous Marshall, appointed by Sir William Robertson at the War Office in London, the latter determined to scale back operations in Mesopotamia.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/marshall_william.htm   (271 words)

  
 Eau Claire Corps Memories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Drum corps is more like college sports than any pro-league sport (who can create parity thru franchise controls whereas college programs are truly independant entities free to invest as much or little as they wish).
I left for the Marine Corps and when i came home on leave prior to reporting to US Marine Detachment Drum Corps in Memphis, TN for interview and tryout, I was with the Boys in Stanley for a parade and there was the girls still marching.
Think, to have a vaste field from all the corps to listen to and have it dispalyed on your radio who and what year you are hearing.
mjallen.tripod.com /cgi-bin/guestbook.html   (17221 words)

  
 PHILIP KEARNY- Original Member of the Aztec Club of 1847
For some months thereafter, Kearny was stationed at the cavalry barracks at Carlisle, PA but was soon recalled to Washington to serve on the staff of General Winfield Scott.
In early 1851 he went to California and was engaged in the campaign against the Rogue River Indians.
A few days later, during the indecisive engagement of Chantilly, on September 1, 1862, Kearny inadvertently rode into the Confederate lines and was killed instantly by a rifle ball as he wheeled and spurred off.
www.aztecclub.com /bios/kearny.htm   (828 words)

  
 1968: The Definitive Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In II Corps, Navy Lieutenant William L. Vandiver maintained the headquarters of his naval gunfire liaison team at Nha Trang with five shore fire control parties under his control.
Elsewhere in Vietnam during Tet, in II Corps, naval gunfire contributed to the defeat of the VC attacks against the cities.
Further south in the II Corps sector at Phan Thiet on 3 February, the naval gunfire liaison spot team there attached to the U.S. Army's 3d Battalion, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division directed defensive fires from the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans (DD 754) into the city against the attacking 840th VC Battalion.
ehistory.osu.edu /vietnam/books/1968/0640.cfm   (690 words)

  
 Aksum - Chs. 6-10. by Dr. Stuart Munro-Hay.
In addition, there must have been a corps of administrators, clerks, assessors and collectors of taxes, regulators of trade and market business such as weights and measures, and so forth, both at Aksum and other towns; but we know nothing about them as yet.
The Indian material consisted of a hoard of Kushana gold coins of kings Vima Kadphises II, Kaniska, Huviska, and Vasudeva I found at the monastery of Dabra Damo, and dated to around 220AD, while the most dramatic find of Roman gold consisted of coins and jewellery of the time of the Antonines found at Matara.
There is always a triangular ribbon, representing perhaps the ends of a fillet holding the headcloth in position, or the ends of the cloth itself after it was knotted into place, shown falling at the rear behind the king's neck.
users.vnet.net /alight/aksum/mhak3.html   (20390 words)

  
 12 January 1942   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Shortly afterwards, General Wavell visited the III Indian Corps, whose main supply base was at Kuala Lumpur, and ordered its withdrawal to Johore for rest and re-organization.
The British defenders in Malaya and Singapore comprised two Indian divisions in northern Malaya and the 8th Australian Division in the south, together with the Singapore fortress and mobile formations.
In the I Corps area, a Japanese detachment moves by boat and seizes undefended Grande Island in Manila Bay.
homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1942/01/12.htm   (1322 words)

  
 Headwaters Resource, Conservation and Development Area, Inc. - with Economic Development Resources for Southwest Montana
Its basic goal is to improve the economic and social well-being of the region through conservation, development, and proper use of natural and human resources.
The explorers, together with Shoshone Indian, Sacagawea, recognized the “Three Forks” as an “essential point in the geography of this western part of the Continent.”
The Corps of Discovery explored portions of southwestern Montana as they traveled up the Jefferson and Beaverhead Rivers and over Lemhi Pass into Idaho.
www.headwatersrcd.org   (503 words)

  
 Cutting the Federal Budget to Prevent U.S. Bankruptcy: Part III - Cutting Out HUD, NASA and Other Losers by Jim Grichar
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is a half-baked mixture of political slush funds under the cover of welfare.
For fy 2005, HUD’s proposed outlays are $38.9 billion, of which $22.2 billion is for public and Indian housing, $3.7 billion for payments to public housing authorities for services, $3.6 billion for payments to public housing authorities for managing public housing, $5.6 billion for other community development projects, and $3–4 billion more for other projects.
The Bush Administration actually proposes cuts of over $7 billion in the HUD budget over the current year, in which $46.2 billion will be spent.
www.lewrockwell.com /grichar/grichar37.html   (1650 words)

  
 George's Newton Blog
I was very impressed with the shows from the Div II corps.
I enjoyed the division III corps too, but the polish and musicality of the larger corps was a lot of fun to watch & hear.
But on the Indian Creek trail, there are places where the path goes under a bridge, and several of those places were totally muddy.
www.newted.net /users/georgeb1962/blogger.html   (3745 words)

  
 1-153rd Infantry Battalion
The 153rd troops are part of the 39th enhanced Separate Brigade, assigned to the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 7th ID. The 7th ID was reactivated in 1999.
It was assigned to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, III Army Corps, and ordered to Puerto Rico.
The 153rd returned to Camp Shelby, MS March 21, 1944 and was deactivated on June 30th and its soldiers assigned as replacements.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/1-153in.htm   (659 words)

  
 LA NUEVA CUBA
Nadeem offers opens with a strategic assessment and highlights the reorganization of British Indian auxiliary forces in 1904, which left only one Indian Expeditionary Division, dedicated to the protection of Persian Gulf interests.
To the uninitiated these tribal unions could be dismissed but the British having experienced the Indian Sepoy Rebellion and using their long experience in co-opting the Sheikhs along the Persian Gulf coast understood these alliances meant access to land between Basra and Qurna on the way to Baghdad unmolested, conserving British firepower for the Ottomans.
Part of the Official History of the Great War, Volume IV, and based on official documents and compiled at the request of the Government of India under the direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defense.
www.lanuevacuba.com /nuevacuba/notic-05-06-605.htm   (6576 words)

  
 Audition Schedule
The following are the auditions schedules for many of our II/III corps for the 2003 Season.
We try to ensure this is current with up-to-date information; however, we strongly suggest you check the web site or contact the corps directly for the latest audition information and report times.
Their first camp will be 7-8 December 2002 at the Phoenix Christian School, 1751 W. Indian School Road, Phoenix, AZ.
www.angelfire.com /nv2/drumcorpscommunity/audition_schedule.htm   (538 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - Richmond's posts
VII Corps - formed in France in July 1915 and took part in the Battles of the Somme 1916.
Indian Corps - formed in France in Sept 1914 out of the Meerut and Lahore Divisions.
II Indian Corps - Mesopotamia April 1915 when the Indian Expeditionary Force D was increased to two divisions.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=120345   (11151 words)

  
 The Battle of Chancellorsville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Stuart saw action in the Indian campaigns and was wounded as a consequence.
He was promoted to major general and commanded a division in the III Corps of Major General Pope's Army of Virginia.
Hooker took part in Second Bull Run and Antietam, where he was wounded.
www.collectorsnet.com /cwtimes/chancell.htm   (697 words)

  
 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
When the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen was organized pursuant to the act of Congress in 1846, the first companies filled were A, B, C, and D They would not be designated as troops until 1883 and would later make up the core of Tiger Squadron, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment.
Small encounters with the Indians continued through the start of the Civil War, but the Regiment's focus soon turned to fighting Confederate forces, rather than Indians.
By 1 October, all Regimental personnel and equipment were in place in country and attached to the XVIII Airborne Corps and the 24th Infantry Division.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/1-3acr.htm   (2328 words)

  
 anotherday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The only reason I can think of that didn't receive enemy fire is that Charlie thought it was some sort of new technique and wanted to observe it closely before committing themselves.
I remember telling them that they were directly in the middle of Indian country and they set a record for lift off.
One thing that clearly stands out in my mind is that there was a 100,000 man U.S. perimeter around Saigon but the only ones outside of this perimeter besides Charlie was the 4th Company, III Corps Mike Force.
teamhouse.tni.net /anotherday.html   (562 words)

  
 National Health Service Corps
If you select PA as your discipline, you cannot select a specialty.
Dana Green, a certified physician assistant (PA-C) and National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Scholar, arrived in the remote rural community of Van Buren, Maine, and launched a personal crusade to educate underserved populations and their caregivers about diabetes.
Four years and many success stories later, Green is now recognized nationally and locally as a leading researcher on the standards of diabetes care.
nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov /jobs/search_form.cfm   (198 words)

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