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Topic: List of Regiment of the Indian Army


  
  Encyclopedia: Indian Army
The Indian Army (भारतीय सेना Hindi: Bhartiya Sena) is the land force of the Military of India and has the prime responsibility of conducting land-based warfare.
The highest rank in the Indian Army is Field Marshal, but it is a largely ceremonial rank and appointments are made by the President of India, on the advice of the Union Cabinet of Ministers, only in exceptional circumstances.
The Indian Army is large enough to devote several corps to the strike role.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Indian-Army   (824 words)

  
 Facts about topic: (Indian Army)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Indian Army is the army of the Republic of India (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947).
The highest rank in the Indian Army is the Field Marshal (An officer holding the highest rank in the army), who is only appointed by the Prime Minister (The person who holds the position of head of state in England) in case of a war.
Upon independence in 1947, the British Indian Army was split, with most units going to India, and the rest going to Pakistan (A Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/I/In/Indian_Army.htm   (2149 words)

  
 OFFICERS - Online Information article about OFFICERS
Elsewhere, where the regiment and not the battalion is the executive unit, the lieutenant-colonel sometimes acts as second in command, sometimes commands one of the battalions.
Indian army a subaltern is automatically promoted captain on completing 9 years' commissioned service, and a captain similarly promoted major after 18.
Royal Army Medical Corps.—On completion of the course of instruction at the Royal Army Medical College, lieutenants on probation proceed to the R.A.M.C. School of Instruction at Aldershot for a two months' course in the technical duties of the corps, and at the end of the course are examined in the subjects taught.
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 Veterans for Peace | Korea Peace Campaign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The author is a U.S. Army veteran and the Chair of the Korea Committee of the Veterans For Peace.
The letter said that the administration and personnel section (G-1), the intelligence section (G-2), the provost marshall, and the Counter-Intelligence Corps of the Eighth Army staff were represented at the meeting along with the American embassy, the ROK Home and Social Affairs ministries, and the director of the National Police.
Muccio's letter listed the meeting's decisions, and the first read: 'Leaflet drops will be made north of U.S. lines warning the people not to proceed south, that they risk being fired upon if they do so.
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 Civil War Forms 1861-1865
One page of the descriptive book will be appropriated to the list of officers; two to the non-commissioned officers; two to the register of men transferred; four to the register of men discharged; two to the register of deaths; four to register of deserters - the rest to the company description list.
Seriously, the forms are a good insight into the workings of the United States army, and are again excellent for garrison impressions and scenarios.
There is a story of a Continental Army capturing a British blotter book during the New York campaign, and checking troop strength by holding a mirror to the paper, thus deciphering the information written.
www.sullivanpress.com /Civil_war.htm   (5206 words)

  
 New Releases - Updates and Additions of New York Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
From the colonial era armies, to the fabulous resorts of the Gilded Age, and on to its modern history, the natural world and those who people it are brought-to-life on the pages of this Oneida Lake book.
Subtitled: The Civil War Letters of Edmund A. Wilcox New York 91st Regiment Company C. These are the 17 surviving letters of a semi-literate 19 year old Highland, Ulster County, youth, whose descriptions of hand-to-hand combat and the horrors of war are balanced with the minutia of the everyday life of a soldier.
From the British army's attempt to capture Philadelphia in 1777, through the horrible winter at Valley Forge, ending in the rebirth of the Continental Army and the battle of Monmouth, this book allows the reader to experience the events as they happened, in the encampments, on the marches, and on the battlefield.
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Below is a list of each shipping option, explaining the typical time it will take to arrive to you and the approximate cost.
After submitting your list you will receive an estimate in store credit that can be spent like cash on the website.
When only one condition is listed, then the box and contents are in the same condition.
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 Lost in Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
As per the agreement, SAARC member countries India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will bring down their customs duties to 0-5 per cent by 2013 while the Least developed members Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal and Bhutan will do it by 2018.
Paris-based organisation Reporters Without Borders has frequently criticised restrictions on the media in China, and says Chinese journalists are routinely forbidden from mentioning many sensitive subjects.
In its 2005 world press freedom index, China came 159th out of the 167 countries listed.
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 bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Cosmas, Graham A., An Army for Empire : The United States Army in the Spanish American War.
Emerson, William K., Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and Uniforms (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996).
U.S. Army Quartermaster Department, Regulations and Decisions pertaining to the Uniform of the Army of the United States, Second Edition, 20 June 1898, (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1898).
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 Timeline 1879-1882
Part Cherokee Indian, Rogers once told a Boston audience, "My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat." Rogers got his show business start in 1902 doing rope tricks in a Wild West show.
He moved on to vaudeville and, by 1916, he was the wisecracking star of Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies." As a newspaper columnist and book author, Rogers poked fun at important people and events, and he was equally successful as a motion picture actor.
He was the youngest general in the U.S. Army in WW I. In World War II he was the commander of all U.S. Army forces in the South Pacific; in Korea he commanded all United Nations forces.
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