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Old soldiers in the civil rights struggle were also buried.
They began to talk as two old soldiers, recalling the battle.
"I just wanted all those old soldiers to go ahead and die," she told me.
Like any group of old soldiers, they joke, swap stories and keep each others' spirits up.
They stayed in a cottage at the Old Soldiers' Home, a quiet spot in Northeast Washington.
Mr Stewart felt no kinship with bushy-bearded old soldiers there who asked about legalising medical marijuana (as Mr O'Rourke advocates).
RFA, an American news outlet, reported that during the protest in Zhenjiang some taxi drivers ferried old soldiers around free of charge.
Several times, the government has faced the embarrassing sight of grizzled old soldiers marching the streets in anger rather than solemn remembrance.
But the story of Milwaukee's old soldiers' home, and the veterans theater next door, shows that it will be far from simple.
Renovating the old soldiers home would have cost nearly twice that, he said, adding, that knocking it down would also cost millions.
Unlike old soldiers, he refuses to fade away, but that has plunged his oil- and gas-rich North African state into crisis.
Their namesake was actually an old soldiers' home on the road that housed Georgia's aging Confederate veterans long after the Civil War ended.
Literary biographers—writers who devote their lives to other writers' lives—are a confraternity of old soldiers who like to trade battle stories.
"If we old soldiers hadn't gone to fight against Vietnam, how could things have gone smoothly for our country?" he said by telephone.
Stalwart and humble old soldiers like Jack Chapman are the reason, on this Veterans Day, we should make the Korean War the Remembered War.
You see firsthand young and old soldiers who have given their lives in one way or another, and still pay a price, physically or emotionally.
Now back on an island that looks like a bomb has hit, these old soldiers will face another battle, this time on the home front.
If old soldiers don't die and just fade away, then media companies are pretty much the opposite: they die, and they die in spectacular, political fashion.
In a large, low room where old soldiers once cradled pints of beer, young Lithuanians learn the language and culture of the country their parents left.
One of the last movie roles Doris signed on for was the female lead in "Old Soldiers" ... which is still securing its last bit of financing before it starts production.
While many of China's old soldiers have settled happily into civvies, a large number—particularly from cohorts demobilised in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s—complain that the government has let them down.
Since then, he and Dr Bailes have been collecting the brains of former athletes, and also of old soldiers who have been exposed to explosions, to try to understand who gets CTE, and why.
STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan — The old soldiers spilled out of buses into a square, fired up by a desire to fight, and to die if necessary, in a new war with an old enemy: the Azerbaijanis.
"When we old soldiers were young and went to the front line, we were answering the call of the country and the party to fight Vietnam," said Zheng Huizu, a veteran from eastern China.
When I was fucking about doing a temporary admin job because I "wanted to live in London," a lot of 21-year-old soldiers were already a few ranks up the ladder they wanted to climb.
Only 5,000 old soldiers remained on the island, together with the Corsican insurgents.
Many of the old soldiers' homes in the United States were constructed in high Victorian style, like the New Hampshire Soldiers' Home in Tilton, New Hampshire. An old soldiers' home is a military veterans' retirement home, nursing home, or hospital, or sometimes even an institution for the care of the widows and orphans of a nation's soldiers, sailors, and marines, etc.
He lived out his days in the Los Angeles Old Soldiers' Home as a resident employee, taking a clerical position in the records office.
He was on the cover of Time on 11 December 1939. Both are buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, near the Old Soldiers' Home, in Northeastern Washington, DC.
Inchiquin was thus absent from the fatal Battle of Rathmines, fought on 2 August 1649, after which most of his old soldiers joined the parliamentarians under Jones.
The Old Soldiers finished 68–72, 6th in the 1906 Western Association. The moniker reference is likely to Leavenworth being home to the Wadsworth Old Soldiers home. Leavenworth played in the 1907 Western Association as the Leavenworth Convicts. The moniker was reference to Leavenworth being home of the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, which opened in 1903. The 1907 Leavenworth Convicts finished 29–108, 8th in the Western Association, 71 games out of first place.
"Talking Old Soldiers" is a song by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin. It is the ninth track (fourth track on side two) of his third studio album, Tumbleweed Connection.
Tucker died on March 16, 1940 at her home in Washington, D. C. She was buried on the grounds of the Old Soldiers and Sailors Home in the Logan family crypt.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej and other members of the royal family made regular visits as a sign of their support for the old soldiers who had fought against their own country for Thailand.
Evenden wrote the story of how the MOTH organisation was created in his book Old soldiers never die (Durban, 1952). He was also the author of Like a little candle (Durban, 1959).
Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum The memorial was first unveiled on 29 June 1957. The memorial park was expanded and reopened in 2014.Salmon, Andrew. “Why Old Soldiers Love Korea”, Forbes (May 7, 2014).
With the assistance of men from the old soldiers' home, the spies are rounded up and brought before the laboring men of the mine before they can do any damage and the Edwards family, who had been visiting the Lee's, are saved. Davy believes that he is in love with the Edwards' daughter Flora (MacDonald), although she is several years older than him. Randall sees the bravery of Davy and the veterans of the old soldiers' home and, ashamed of himself, enlists.
Seattle Daily Times, April 17, 1910, page 1. Umbrella Man stricken with apoplexy. Cartoon original very ill. The Times also ran a story on his life in the Old Soldiers' Home in Los Angeles.
In 1905, in failing health, Maledon entered an "Old Soldiers Home" in Humboldt, Tennessee. Maledon died in 1911, just shy of his 81st birthday, of natural causes. He is buried in the Johnson City Cemetery.
In response to losing part of its property to the south for the Washington Hospital Center, the Soldiers' home began closing its southern gates from 1953 to 1955.The Old Soldiers’ Home Park Rd Gate … Closed Since 1955.
Minnehaha Falls hotel, Minneapolis (Later part of the Minnesota Soldiers Home) ~ Stereoscopic View, date unknown The Minnesota Soldiers' Home, later known as the Minnesota Veterans Home in Minneapolis, is an old soldiers' home near Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Officials in PBS announced that Burns' documentary would include additional content incorporating the Hispanic contributions to the war effort as result of public pressure.de Moraes, Lisa. Ken Burns and the Old Soldiers Who Wouldn't Fade Away. Washington Post, July 12, 2007.
A few characters from the A Real American Hero TV series appeared in the pilot to tie the two series together. While the onscreen title was "Old Heroes Never Die", the packaging gave the title as "Old Soldiers Never Die".
Then some old soldiers got through to me on the phone. They were really angry and upset, I didn’t know what to say. I don’t respond to nature; I can’t go out to a field and do an oil painting.
In 1361 while he was on his way to a burial service of one of his old soldiers, he was assassinated.Şikari history (in Old Turkish) His tomb is in Konya, next to the tomb of the mother of Mevlana (Rumi).
Curtin, Jeremiah. Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1890. pp. 356-369. Czech author Jan Werich wrote a literary treatment of the legend, named Tři veteráni ("Three old soldiers"), in his book Fimfárum.
Later after the closure of Parihaka he worked as a translator and interpreter in Whanganui and then set up a business in Hawera teaching the Māori language. He never married. He corresponded with old soldiers about the Taranaki War and died in 1918.
He invited his nephew to sing at the old soldiers' reunion in Hunt City. The boy performed a rendition of the folk ballad "Barbara Allen" and impressed both his uncle and the audience.Burl Ives (1948). Wayfaring Stranger. New York: Whittlesey House, pp. 15–20.
Andy Kubert started his comics career as a letterer at DC Comics in 1980. His first credited artwork for the company was the story "Old Soldiers Never Die" in Sgt. Rock #393 (Oct. 1984). He later drew Adam Strange and the Batman versus Predator intercompany crossover.
However, Flick had a strong performance offensively. Using his father's lathe, Flick crafted his own baseball bat, which he used to hit for a .438 batting average. The next year, Flick played for the Dayton Old Soldiers, also in the Interstate League, as their regular left fielder.
After that, he moved into an Old soldiers' home in Erie, where he died two years later. The number of paintings lost in the fire (if any) is unknown, but only thirteen paintings are definitely known to be his. Six of those are painted on bed ticking.
The Economist later suggested that this exceptional result was due to a backlash against Schröder's government in Berlin."The Economist: Old soldiers march into the unknown". The CSU's popularity declined in subsequent years. Stoiber stepped down from the posts of Minister-President and CSU chairman in September 2007.
Cheltenham station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania. Located at Old Soldiers Road and Hasbrook Avenue, it serves the Fox Chase Line. The station has a 17-space parking lot.SEPTA webpage for Cheltenham In FY 2013, Cheltenham station had a weekday average of 267 boardings and 392 alightings.
In 1887, the Sawtelle Veterans Home was constructed to care for disabled veterans, and housed more than a thousand homeless veterans. Other such old soldiers' homes were built throughout the United States, such as the one in New York. These homes became the predecessors of the Veteran Affairs' medical facilities.
The building in 2010 The Oregon State Soldier's Home Hospital, now known as the Umpqua Arts Center,History of Our Building is a former old soldiers' home in Roseburg, Oregon.VA Roseburg Healthcare System, Roseburg, Oregon: VARHS Roseburg Campus on the Historic Register The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch is a historic old soldiers' home located in Marion, Indiana. The hospital, along with Marion National Cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 as a national historic district. Note: This includes , site map, site map, and Accompanying photographs.
The Village of Bath is in the Town of Bath and is northwest of Elmira, New York and is west of Tyrone, New York. Bath is the location of the Bath VA Medical Center (former old soldiers' home), Bath National Cemetery, and the Steuben County Fair, the oldest continuous fair in the United States.
He also wanted to solve the Army's recruiting shortage by limiting service in the Army to seven years. He increased soldiers' wages from 1 shilling to 1s. 6d. if they re-enlisted after the seven years, and to 2 shillings if they re-enlisted after fourteen years. He also introduced pensions for old soldiers.
His parents were immigrants from Japan. They settled in Mexico in the 1930s. Originally Kasuga and his family lived in Cerritos, San Luis Potosí. He stated that in 1942, when he was seven years old, soldiers came to his house and told his family they had to leave for Mexico City in 72 hours.
Their numbers were no means sufficient for the task at hand.IF-180 Seabourne Report, p. 5 They consisted of people who at one time, either in civilian or military life, had received radio training or who were fluent in foreign languages. Among them were old soldiers, former seamen, professional travellers, adventurers and political refugees.
Latham Leslie-Moore was born in Paddington, London, United Kingdom in 1893, died in 1980 and was buried in the Old Soldiers' Cemetery in Nanyuki, Kenya. During World War I, he served as a second lieutenant and then lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. Moore purchased the physical property of the sultanate in 1924.
Georgia Flagger with large flag on 20 foot pole at Alpharetta Old Soldiers' Parade, Alpharetta, Georgia, August 4, 2018. Flaggers are one of the several neo-Confederate groups active in the Southern United States. Flaggers usually operate at the state level. Their primary purpose is to make the Confederate battle flag as visible as possible.
He sold his farm in 1902 and worked in the Grand Junction Post Office until retiring in 1919. After retiring they moved to southern California attempting to improve his wife's health. He and his wife, Hettie, lived in an old soldiers' home until they died and were buried side by side at the Los Angeles National Cemetery.
Following his retirement, Rundle and his family moved to southern California in the hopes that the climate would be beneficial to his wife's health. He and his wife, Hettie, lived in an old soldiers' home; Rundle died there in 1924, at age 81, and Hettie in 1931. They were buried side by side at the Los Angeles National Cemetery.
In 2007, however, outbreaks in the city was almost unstoppable. The fever outbreaks originally occurred only in Annan District, where the first case was reported in June. The health department failed to control the spread of the fever, and all six districts ended up having confirmed cases. There were also an outbreak in an old soldiers' home.
However, in 1898, Bates started the season with the Interstate League's Dayton Old Soldiers and posted a winning record of 23–18."Frank Bates Minor League Statistics & History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved September 6, 2011. He then joined the major league Cleveland Spiders and went 2–1 with a 3.10 earned run average in four late-season starts.
Together with Myron Hunt (1868–1952), John B. Parkinson (1861–1935), and Sumner Hunt (1865–1938), he designed the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena, California in 1903-1904, which was destroyed by a fire in 1914.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Hotel Maryland Alongside George Wyman (1860–1939), he designed the Old Soldiers' Home in Sawtelle, Los Angeles.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Old Soldiers' Home, Sawtelle, Los Angeles Together with Sumner Hunt and Abraham Wesley Eager (1864–1930), he designed the private residence of William G. Kerckhoff located at 1325 West Adams Boulevard, Exposition Park, Los Angeles in 1908 and 1909.Pacific Coast Architecture Database: William G. Kerckhoff House'Residence for W.G. Kerckhoff, Los Angeles', Architect and Engineer of California, 77, 07/1908 It is now home to the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California.
The Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Los Angeles was deeded to the federal government in 1888 to build the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. A series of Victorian dormitories were built in the 1890s, and Wadsworth Chapel was built in 1900 to provide a place of worship for the residents of the old soldiers’ home.
278 with one home run, six triples and 28 doubles. This was also the year when he was moved to shortstop full-time, where he played the rest of his professional career. He put up similar numbers for the Dayton Old Soldiers in 1901, including a career-high 14 triples, before being acquired by the Brooklyn Superbas toward the end of the season.
A Tennessee Historical Marker located on West Elk Avenue in front of the S.P. Carter Mansion in downtown Elizabethton commemorates his life and naval career. The Veterans' Monument in downtown Elizabethton was originally constructed and dedicated in 1912 to "the memory of the old soldiers of Carter County since the days of the Revolution."Merritt, Frank. Later history of Carter County, 1865-1980.
They were the opening act at a free concert in London's Hyde Park on 3 July 1971, which also featured Humble Pie and Grand Funk Railroad. In 1972 the band toured the United States. Their second album, Tracks, received some critical acclaim. But internal tensions in the band resulted in a breakup before the group's third release, Old Soldiers Never Die, in 1973.
It was also known colloquially as the Old Soldiers Home. Between 1867 and 1929, the Home expanded to ten branches and one sanatorium.National Park Service History The Board of Managers were empowered to establish the Home at such locations as they deemed appropriate and to establish those programs that they determined necessary. The Home was a unique creation of the Congress.
As described in a film magazine, when the American Civil War veterans staying at an old soldiers' home in a small town hear that young men are not volunteering for military service, they attempt to enlist but are rejected, much to the amusement of some idle young rich men. This includes Randall Lee (Dearholt), whose father Thomas Lee (Burton) owns large mining interests such as the local Top Copper mine. Davy Glidden (Pickford), a boy scout whose father Adjutant Glidden (Geldart) is in charge of the old soldiers' home, wants to serve but is too young to join the army. While on a secret investigation, Davy overhears two German spies, Carl Bender (Farley) and Frank Schmale (Hastings), planning to cripple the Lee mine and take a large amount of its product back to their native land.
In 1905, the Missouri Valley League reformed as the Western Association. The Leavenworth Orioles joined fellow members Guthrie Senators, Joplin Miners, Oklahoma City Mets, Sedalia Gold Bugs, Springfield Highlanders, Topeka White Sox and Wichita Jobbers in the 1905 Western Association. The 1905 Leavenworth Orioles finished 75–59 (3rd) in the Western Association. Leavenworth continued play in the 1906 Western Association as the Leavenworth Old Soldiers.
Tennyson wrote the poem inside only a few minutes after reading an account of the battle in The Times, according to his grandson Sir Charles Tennyson. It immediately became hugely popular, and even reached the troops in the Crimea, where it was distributed in pamphlet form. Nearly 36 years later, Kipling wrote "The Last of the Light Brigade" (1890), commemorating a visit by the last 20 survivors to Tennyson (then aged 80) to reproach him gently for not writing a sequel about the way in which England was treating its old soldiers. Some sources treat the poem as an account of a real event, but other commentators class the destitute old soldiers as allegorical, with the visit invented by Kipling to draw attention to the poverty in which the real survivors were living, in the same way that he evoked Tommy Atkins in "The Absent-Minded Beggar" (1899).
The monument was proposed in 1815 by William Sanford of Nynehead Court, and he started a public subscription to pay for it. Within months £1450 had been raised and a design competition was held. The winning entry envisaged a pillar with three cottages at the base to house old soldiers as caretakers. It was designed by Thomas Lee and the foundation stone was laid by Lord Somerville in 1817.
That school evolved into the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. The Western Branch National Military Home ("old soldiers' home"), now called the Veterans Medical Center, or Dwight D. Eisenhower Medical Center Historic District was established in 1885 as part of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers system. The soldier home is closely associated with the nearby cemetery that became the Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery in 1973.
Lady Jaye is the only female Joe to appear in the direct to video cartoon "Old Soldiers Never Die" which was the only cartoon appearance of Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles (which was also produced by Sunbow Productions, the same company that produced the original Real American Hero cartoon). Lady Jaye, along with Doc and Hawk were part of the team that rescued Sgt. Savage from cryogenic storage.
Happy Sam Sawyer appears in the X-Men episode "Old Soldiers," voiced by Lorne Kennedy. Corporal "Happy Sam" Sawyer appears in the Agent Carter episode "The Iron Ceiling" portrayed by Leonard Roberts. This version is an African-American. Corporal Sawyer is among the soldiers that assist Peggy Carter, Jack Thompson, and Dum Dum Dugan into raiding a Russian military complex that was going to sell stolen weapons to Leviathan.
This had been changed in response to criticism in the Daily Star original article, but the newspaper published another piece focussing on a perceived inflammatory retort by Amiga Power editor Stuart Campbell: "Old soldiers? I wish them all dead." The article featured further quotes from the British Legion. The magazine apologised for including the comment although Campbell himself felt he was "entitled to an opinion" regardless of its insensitivity.
"The Last of the Light Brigade" is a poem written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling echoing – thirty-six years after the event – Alfred Tennyson's famous poem The Charge of the Light Brigade. Employing synecdoche, Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War, as exemplified by the cavalry men of the light brigade who charged at the Battle of Balaclava. It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to reproach him gently for not writing a sequel about the way in which England was treating its old soldiers. Some sources treat the poem as an account of a real event, but other commentators class the destitute old soldiers as allegorical, with the visit invented by Kipling to draw attention to the poverty in which the real survivors were living, in the same way that he evoked Tommy Atkins in "The Absent Minded Beggar".
First edition (publ. Baen Books) Cover art by David Mattingly Old Soldiers (2005) is a sequel novel to the short story "With Your Shield" by David Weber, published in the anthology Bolo!, edited by the same writer. It details the future of the two survivors of that battle as they try to keep alive a remnant of humanity, deliberately separated off and sent far away from the war that is consuming both sides completely.
In 1957, writer Liang Xin came to Hainan from Guangzhou to experience life. In Hainan, he met the old soldiers of the famous Red Detachment of Women. He completed the first draft of the movie literary script "Qiongdao Heroine" (琼岛英雄花) in June 1958, and published it in "Shanghai Literature" in 1959. According to regulations, the movie scripts created by military writers must first be submitted to the August First Film Studio.
Otherwise, we question the sincerity of their convictions.” McCain acknowledges it, “I have—although certainly not in recent years—lost my temper and said intemperate things….I feel passionately about issues, and the day that passion goes away is the day I will go down to the old soldiers' home and find my rocking chair.” while also saying that the stories have been exaggerated. “I am very happy to be a passionate man….
At one point, Charles attempted to lead his eight battalions of Hungarian grenadiers into action, to the dismay of the old soldiers. Fürstenberg reportedly said that while he lived, he would not leave this post (at the head of the grenadiers) and the Archduke should not dismount and fight. Münch, p. 330. As Fürstenberg led the Hungarian grenadiers into the battle, he was cut down by a canister and case shot employed by the French.
The route turns northeast here to follow East River Road. It heads through a small residential neighborhood to the New York State Veterans' Home at Oxford, a large old soldiers' home located adjacent to both the eastern bank of the Chenango River and the NYSW rail line. State maintenance of NY 220 ends just east of the driveway to the home, at which point the road continues onward toward Norwich as CR 32.
There were old soldiers who were not pleased by the fame and honors Hendershot enjoyed. One of them was the Seventh Michigan's former drum major, Wilbur F. Dickerson of Grand Rapids, Michigan. In a letter to the encampment's organizers, Dickerson pronounced Hendershot a fake, and asked them to remove him from his place of honor. In other letters Dickerson asked members of the Seventh Michigan to help him spearhead an attack to discredit Hendershot.
Frank Atwell Cross (January 20, 1873 – November 2, 1932) was an American Major League baseball player in 1901. Nicknamed "Mickey", he played for the Cleveland Blues for one game on May 20. His brothers, Joe Cross, Amos and Lave, also played in the Major Leagues. A week after his lone major league appearance, he requested his release and rejoined the minor league Dayton Old Soldiers, where he had an opportunity to play every day.
Todd 3465 is a battle-hardened veteran and the best soldier of the original 1996 infants. Colonel Mekum, the leader of the original project, introduces a new group of genetically engineered soldiers, designed with superior physical attributes and a complete lack of emotion except unparalleled aggression. Captain Church, the commander of Todd's unit, insists on testing the abilities of the new soldiers against those of his proven older ones. The new soldiers outperform the old soldiers in every way.
The Memorial to the Women of the Confederacy is located at 328 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard, on the site of an old soldiers' home for veterans of the military forces of the Confederate States. The Park was created in 1934 by an act of the Assembly of Virginia.UDC Handbook (1st ed.), 1959, pp. 67-69. It was built between 1955 and 1957, and is a one-story, three part, marble-clad building in a stripped classical style.
The Tuskegee Veterans Administration Medical Center began in 1923 as an old soldiers' home in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was originally called the Tuskegee Home, part of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers system."National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers", National Archives, (accessed 6 April 2010). The home-hospital, eventually 27 buildings, was developed next to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute campus (now Tuskegee University) on , with 300 acres of the property donated by the Institute.
Dancers take the stage, a singing contest is held, and old soldiers reminisce. At the corner of the bar is an artist drowning himself in drink, who acts as the film’s narrator (and Uchida’s alter ego) in this gently humorous film. The journal Cinema Scope said that, “Resembling a poetic-realist version of Casablanca (1942), the film is a naturalistic tour de force.” The Outsiders (Mori to Mizuumi no Matsuri) (1958) was one of Uchida’s most socially conscious films.
Park View is a neighborhood in central Washington, D.C., immediately north of Howard University. The name of the neighborhood comes from its views east over the campus of the Old Soldiers' Home. At the time Park View was developed, and well into the 1960s, the Home's grounds were open to the public as a park. Those grounds were a designed urban landscape, including pedestrian paths and ponds, modeled along the principles of New York City's Central Park.
The Leeds family consists of two adult children, their two young brothers, their parents, and Grandpa Summerill, a feisty retired soldier visiting from the old soldiers' home. Hearing a commotion outside, most of them go to the windows and witness gangster "Maxey" Campo murdering two men. Campo enters the house, assaults Grandpa for confronting him, threatens the family with harm if they talk, and flees by the back exit. District Attorney Whitlock wants to make an example of Campo.
The Marquis of Granby is a public house at 2 Rathbone Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1. The pub is named after John Manners, Marquess of Granby. He is popularly supposed to have more pubs named after him than any other person - due, it is said, to his practice of setting up old soldiers of his regiment as publicans when they were too old to serve any longer. The poet and playwright T. S. Eliot is associated with the pub.
The old soldiers were discharged, so each legion would have 6,000 soldiers. The soldiers who had been granted leave by the previous consul to curry favour were recalled. The recruitment for the fleet was 1,000 Roman freedmen and 500 Italians and 500 Sicilians.Livy, The History of Rome 43.11.6, 12.3-4, 9.1 When the snow covered the mountains of Thessaly, thus protecting Macedon from Roman attacks, Perseus decided to attack the Illyrians, who had granted free passage to the Romans.
Instead, he was placed at the head of a brigade of his own old soldiers, with orders to stop the march of the artillery train. On 23 April 1645, Cromwell started from Watlington, north-westward. At dawn on the 24th, he routed a detachment of Royalist horse at Islip. On the same day, though he had no guns and only a few firearms in the whole force, he terrified the governor of Bletchingdon House into surrender.
In 1614 Thomas Coningsby converted what had originally been the conventual buildings of the Blackfriars Monastery and the preceptory of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem to a hospital for old soldiers and serving men. The hospital consisted of 12 cottages on the site, a chapel, a refectory and offices. The chapel was restored in 1868. Coningsby made rules that required a chaplain to preach a sermon and march the pensioners to Hereford Cathedral every Sunday.
At the age of 63 he married Florence Sherwood and lived to an old age. In 1903 he published a memoir of his time with the James-Younger gang, "Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself, The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and Their Comrades, Including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerrillas, By One Who Rode With Them: A True But Terrible Tale of Outlawry." He died in the Old Soldiers Home at Higginsville Missouri on July 9, 1929.
Watch on the Rhine is a military science fiction novel by John Ringo and Tom Kratman, the seventh entry in Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata series. The novel focuses on the invasion of Europe by the alien Posleen, with an emphasis on Germany. Part of the technology brought to humans by the Galactics is the ability to rejuvenate old soldiers, so that countries can draw on their combat experiences. In Germany, this leads to the controversial decision to reactivate the Waffen-SS.
After the season, Rapps joined the Sedalia Goldbugs on a month- long tour of Oklahoma where they played local amateur and semi-pro teams. The Leavenworth Old Soldiers (formerly the Orioles) and the Joplin Miners, both of the Western Association, offered contracts to Rapps for the 1906 season. He chose Leavenworth, but he was late reporting to the team because he was recovering from a broken jaw. Rapps got a $27 bonus () for hitting a home run in May 1906.
Patrick was captain of a company of Chester County men who served in the French and Indian War. At the time of the Revolution, Patrick was serving on Anthony Wayne's first Chester County Committee of Safety. The Assembly sent a Captain's Commission to him, and, although an older man, being 55 at the time, Patrick accepted it, called together his old soldiers, and the entire company of fifty-six men enlisted. His company was known as the Chester County Minute Men of 1775.
Banister was known for his kindness to the poor, especially to old soldiers, and for his extensive professional reading. He lived in Silver Street (Antidotarie), and was buried in the church of St. Olave in that street, since destroyed, with the record of his death, in the great fire. He had a long epitaph in English verse, which bears sufficient resemblance to some poems of Clowes to make it likely that it was written for Banister's tomb by his old friend.
After the end of the American Civil War in Missouri, veterans of the Confederate States Army faced hard times. Confederate veterans, some of whom had difficulty accessing medical treatment and who had been disenfranchised from voting, met throughout the state periodically after the war. At one such meeting in Higginsville in 1889, the idea of creating an old soldiers' home to care for aging Confederate veterans was dicussed. In 1891, in the Higginsville vicinity were purchased to establish the old soldier's home.
Change came rapidly during and after the American Civil War. First, Fort Slemmer and Fort Bunker Hill were constructed as defenses against the Confederate Army, and later the Old soldiers' home was constructed to the northwest. The population of the city itself increased with the expansion of the federal government, and the former Brooks family estate became a housing tract named "Brookland." Growth continued throughout the 1870s when the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened its Western Branch Line in the developing Brookland neighborhood.
After the bombardment of Alexandria on 11 July, the city was occupied by a mixed force of sailors and marines. The Egyptians withdrew to Kafr El Dawwar, where they began the construction of an entrenched camp which would block the route to Cairo. ‘Urabi demanded that one-sixth of the male population of every province should be sent to Kafr El Dawwar. All old soldiers of every description were called upon to serve again, and horses and provisions were everywhere requisitioned for the army.
Six days after Martin read the letter on the House floor, Truman dismissed MacArthur. Despite the unintended outcome, Martin and MacArthur remained friends. Martin invited the general to deliver what became known popularly as the "Old Soldiers Never Die" speech before a joint meeting of Congress following his dismissal. In 1952, Martin urged MacArthur to seek the Republican presidential nomination. MacArthur, however, favored U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, who lost the nomination to Willkie in 1940, to Dewey in 1948, and to Eisenhower in 1952.
Kosie Marais and his family were members of the South African Party. Under the leadership of Adolph Malan (Sailor), he was part of old soldiers who formed on 30 June 1951, in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Torch Commando to pressure the government to stop the racial policy. The United Party ask him to stand for election in George, Western Cape, South Africa in 1948 against P.W. Botha (the later president of South Africa) of the National Party. The National Party won (retained) the ward.
The Mountain Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was an old soldiers' home opened in 1904 in Mountain Home, Johnson City, Tennessee. Its site has since been taken over by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and is home to the Mountain Home National Cemetery and the James H. Quillen VA Center. Also known as the Mountain Home, its campus was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2011, as a well-preserved example of an early 20th-century veterans care facility.
MacArthur addressed a joint session of Congress where he delivered his famous "Old Soldiers Never Die" speech, in which he declared: In response, the Pentagon issued a press release noting that "the action taken by the President in relieving General MacArthur was based upon the unanimous recommendations of the President's principal civilian and military advisers including the Joint Chiefs of Staff." Afterwards, MacArthur flew to New York City where he received the largest ticker-tape parade in history up to that time. He also visited Chicago and Milwaukee, where he addressed large rallies.
Site map The Wisconsin Veterans' Home, in King Wisconsin, is an old soldiers' home in Waupaca County, Wisconsin on the scenic Chain O' Lakes, Wisconsin. The American Civil War saw significant advances in battlefield medicine. The lower mortality rate of injured soldiers led to the sentiment that the United States should provide care for its surviving injured veterans. The city of Waupaca purchased the land and buildings of the defunct Greenwood Park Hotel and donated the grounds to the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) for the site of a veterans' home.
Hence brick construction or reinforced brick- built, low level juàncūn properties had been comparatively derelict, especially within inner urban area. Generally speaking, juàncūn from ten to hundreds of units tend to segregate themselves from the rest of the society. Although it tightened the relationship within the village, it had unavoidably prevented mingling and communications between the tenants and the rest of the communities outside. Dependents' Villages is a unique cultural landscape that may soon pass into oblivion, as old soldiers pass away and urban renewal and redevelopment takes place.
First Confederate Soldiers' Home (built 1890) Second Confederate Soldiers' Home (built 1902) The first Atlanta Confederate Soldiers' Home (also called the Old Soldiers' Home) was built in 1890 with the support of Henry W. Grady at a cost of $45,000. Grady proposed the idea first in 1889, and began to raise funds through "subscriptions"."Confederate Soldiers' Home", New York Times, December 13, 1900 Due to lack of funds the home did not open until 1900. It stood at 410 E. United Avenue on the south edge of the Ormewood Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
The Leavenworth Post accused Rapps of purposefully playing under his ability, writing, "It is too bad that Rapps cannot reach the conclusion that in order to reach the top he must play ball at all time and cast off that sulking disposition which shows itself occasionally." His last game with Leavenworth was on July 26, 1906. The Old Soldiers sold Rapps to the Wichita Jobbers, who also played in the Western Association. Statistics during the 1906 season were incomplete, but he had at least 122 hits, 19 of which were doubles.
Patterson then moved to Dayton, Ohio, in 1802 and continued his military service as a quartermaster during the War of 1812. Patterson's farm, Rubicon, was located two miles south of Dayton where he and his wife Elizabeth (Lindsay) raised eight children. Their land is currently part of the University of Dayton and stretched from there west to the Old soldiers' home (presently the Dayton VA Medical Center). One of Patterson's grandchildren, John H. Patterson, became a prominent Dayton citizen and founded the National Cash Register Company (now NCR Corporation) in 1884.
Tanner became a member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) shortly after it formed. The organization was a fraternal association for military veterans who had served in Union armies during the Civil War. His fame as a disabled veteran and witness to the Lincoln assassination made him popular among GAR members, and in 1876 they elected him Commander of the New York state organization. Many attempts had been made in the previous decade to create an old soldiers' home in the state, but none of these efforts bore any fruit.
Bratz was the first doll to challenge Barbie's dominance, reaching forty percent of the market in 2006. Plastic action figures, often representing superheroes, are particularly popular among boys.Louie, Elaine (31 May 1990) Old Soldiers Never Die, The New York Times Fashion dolls and action figures are often part of a media franchise that may include films, TV, video games and other related merchandise. Bobblehead dolls are collectible plastic dolls with heads connected to the body by a spring or hook in such a way that the head bobbles.
Along with this prize, Watson was also awarded £25,000. The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl, Watson's most recent book, was released in October 2019. This is the story of the First World War's longest siege, and of the opening of the brutal tragedy which befell East-Central Europe during the twentieth century. It follows a ragtag Habsburg garrison of old soldiers desperately defending Central Europe from Russian invasion, and recounts the vicious fighting, starvation and anti- Semitic ethnic cleansing which began in the region already in 1914.
The large cemetery contains thousands of graves, many of early settlers of Hudson County, including some remains relocated from the graveyard at Old Bergen Church, and from the many Scots immigrants to Kearny. There are also over 500 American Civil War veteran gravesites, including those of Drummer Boy Willie McGee and Medal of Honor recipient James McIntosh. The town was once site the Home for Disabled Soldiers, an old soldiers' home closed in 1932. The company also owned a plot in North Arlington, across Belleville Turnpike from its main grounds.
Less than four months later, in May 1897, he was released by the Indianapolis ball club. In June 1897, the Kansas City Journal indicated Hogan had moved on to the Dayton (Ohio) Old Soldiers, a team affiliated with the Class B Interstate League, where he was "playing a sensational center field". In October of the same year, Sporting Life speculated Hogan would remain with Dayton during the upcoming 1898 season. "Marty Hogan's contract with Dayton is such that he cannot be reserved, as are the rest of the players", the article stated.
Before the Battle of Leipzig in October, Napoleon reproached him with not being the Augereau of Castiglione; to which he replied, "Give me back the old soldiers of Italy, and I will show you that I am." Yet, he led the IX Corps at Leipzig with skill and brought off his command in good order. In 1814, Augereau was given command of the army of Lyon, and his slackness exposed him to the charge of having come to an understanding with the Allies. Thereafter, he served the restored Bourbon King Louis XVIII of France.
The Confederate Memorial State Historic Site is a state-owned property occupying approximately near Higginsville, Missouri. From 1891 to 1950, the site was used as an old soldiers' home for veterans of the Confederate States Army after the American Civil War. The Missouri state government then took over operation of the site after the last veteran died in 1950, using it as a state park. In 1981, a cottage, a chapel, and the Confederate cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Confederate Chapel, Cemetery and Cottage.
These smaller units could be deployed individually or brought together to form what were sometimes called "Spanish squares." Tercio-type units were also used by other European powers, especially the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Empire. The care that was taken to maintain a high number of viejos soldados ("old soldiers" or veterans) in the units, and their professional training, together with the particular personality imprinted on them by the hidalgos of the lower nobility that commanded them, made the tercios the best infantry in Europe for over a century.
They met often at the house of Confederate sympathizer Maggie Branson at 16 North Eutaw Street in Baltimore. He also met with several well-known Confederate sympathizers at The Parker House in Boston. The Old Soldiers Home, where Booth planned to kidnap Lincoln In October, Booth made an unexplained trip to Montreal, which was a center of clandestine Confederate activity. He spent ten days in the city, staying for a time at St. Lawrence Hall, a rendezvous for the Confederate Secret Service, and meeting several Confederate agents there.
He ignored the question of slavery in the District of Columbia and in the territories, both under the jurisdiction of the federal government. The general had pledged that his door would always be open to his old soldiers, but others came as well, and he hosted an unending series of guests. This was especially difficult for him on Sundays, when Anna Harrison forbade political discussion. The economy continued to be poor in 1840, a fact that the Whigs never ceased to press, arguing that Van Buren had done little, and that Harrison's inauguration was needed to put a stop to the hard times.
Closing words of MacArthur's final address to a joint meeting of Congress Joint meetings are sometimes called to hear addresses by generals, admirals, or other military leaders. Perhaps the most notable example is Douglas MacArthur's farewell address to Congress. In concluding the speech he recalled an old army song which contained the line "old soldiers never die; they just fade away". He then said, "And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye".
Caine 607 is wounded and uses painkillers and performance enhancing stimulants to attack Todd in vicious hand-to-hand combat, but he is ultimately defeated by Todd's experience and clever tactics rather than mere physical prowess. Todd confronts Mekum over the radio, declaring his new soldiers obsolete. Panicking, Mekum orders Todd's old squad to set up and activate a portable nuclear device powerful enough to destroy the planet before commanding the ship to lift off and leave the squad behind. When Captain Church objects to the abandonment of the old soldiers, Mekum shoots him in cold blood.
The old soldiers carry on their normal lives peacefully now, but still retain their Chinese identity; the main language spoken remains Yunnanese. Among their local-born descendants, some have adopted a Thai identity and no longer identify with their Chinese ancestry. As of 2007, General Lue Ye-tien, aged 90 and Tuan's former right-hand man, is the leader of the group, after taking over the leadership on Tuan's death in 1980. The crop substitution programs successfully encouraged the cultivation of tea, coffee, corn, and fruit trees, replacing the opium poppies that had previously been grown.
Aikman was the first judge in Kansas to hold that the Old Soldiers Preference Law (a state law giving preferential hiring treatment to former soldiers in public jobs) was constitutional, with the Kansas State Supreme Court later affirming. In 1906, Aikman presided over the murder case of Lewis Bloomfield, and sentenced him to life imprisonment. In total, he presided over 12 murder trials, some of national notoriety, and was only reversed upon appeal once (his original decision was later sustained by the State Supreme Court). Aikman was frequently paid compliment by the Kansas Supreme Court for his competence and knowledge of the law.
Roger Bloom (portrayed by Henry Winkler) is an FBI agent who first appeared in the episode "Jack of all Trades". He reappears in the episode "Greatest Hits" where we are informed that he was forced to leave the agency due to the events in "Jack of all Trades". "Greatest Hits" has Bloom working with Charlie using his undocumented knowledge from past relevant cases to help solve the crime, and helping him to finish is FBI career on a positive note. The last episode Roger appears in is "Old Soldiers" that covers another FBI case he worked on - the case of D. B. Cooper.
On March 7, 1889, the Pope issued the encyclical Magni Nobis, granting the university its charter and establishing its mission as the instruction of Catholicism and human nature together at the graduate level. By developing new leaders and new knowledge, the university was intended to strengthen and enrich Catholicism in the United States. The university was incorporated in 1887 on of land next to the Old Soldiers Home. President Grover Cleveland was in attendance for the laying of the cornerstone of Divinity Hall, now known as Caldwell Hall, on May 24, 1888, as were members of Congress and the U.S. Cabinet.
In April 1896, Anna's work was exhibited three times, and Veerhoff Galleries in Washington, D.C., presented five of her paintings in a solo show. In October 1896 Anna and Willard Holbrook were married in Washington with a large reception at Quarters Number 1, General Stanley's residence at the Old Soldiers’ Home. In December, Anna moved with Willard to his post at Fort Grant, Arizona. In 1897, Anna exhibited The Spinning Wheel at the Society of Washington Artists, Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C.; this is the last known exhibition of Anna's work during her lifetime, although she continued to paint.
So Raja thought that this old friend might help him mediate with the British government. Raja offered to give up the struggle provided he was pardoned and his treasure and house restored. The Colonel and Raja being old soldiers hated needless bloodshed and so he forwarded Raja's request to Commissioners, who thought they were bitterly opposed to Raja's independent style, agreed to the Colonel's suggestion as there was a risk that Raja might ally with Tipu. So Northern Superintendent ordered the restoration of the Raja's house [but not treasure], and the Raja's pardon was confirmed by the Bombay and Supreme Governments.
Several different minor league ballclubs have been based in the town of Danville, Illinois, fielding teams in 38 seasons between 1888 and 1982 under various monikers. The Danville Suns (1982), Danville Dodgers (1975–1976), Danville Warriors (1970–1974), Danville Dans (1951–1954), Danville Dodgers (1946–1950), Danville Veterans (1922–1932), Danville Speakers (1908, 1910–1914), Danville Old Soldiers (1906), Danville Champions (1900) and Danville Browns (1888, 1889) were the minor league teams. Danville teams played at Soldiers Home Park (1922–1932) and Danville Stadium (1946–1982). In 1989, the Danville Dans of the collegiate summer league began play in the Prospect League.
This was because they could smell old blood, which no one other than nurses could smell. If this event is true, then the only explanation that could explain what happened was that the blood of the old soldiers appeared on the battlefield, and for this to happen, their “ghosts” would have to be around somewhere. There are many other reports of similar events like this, but, to be sure, one would have to visit Gettysburg themselves, and decide, whether they believe in ghosts or not. In the Reynolds woods, near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a normal couple was on a stroll through the woods.
More citizens were drafted for military service. To meet the demand for services after World War II, and later the Korean and Vietnam wars, the former branches of the National Home were expanded and adapted to serve veterans. To ensure high-quality development and training for personnel, in the postwar years the Veterans Administration and its hospital officials worked to establish medical residency programs at veterans hospitals, accredited through collaboration with local and regional universities. During its life, the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was also known "officially" as the National Military Home and colloquially as the Old Soldiers Home.
The Frankish military establishment incorporated many of the pre-existing Roman institutions in Gaul, especially during and after the conquests of Clovis I in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. Frankish military strategy revolved around the holding and taking of fortified centres () and in general these centres were held by garrisons of or , who were former Roman mercenaries of Germanic origin. Throughout Gaul, the descendants of Roman soldiers continued to wear their uniforms and perform their ceremonial duties. Immediately beneath the Frankish king in the military hierarchy were the , his sworn followers, who were generally 'old soldiers' in service away from court.
Murat is frequently mentioned in Baring's memoirs.. He subsequently commanded the during the Battle of Verdun in 1916, where his conduct earned him the Croix de Guerre with three citations. After the war he was elected député for the Lot in the 1919 French legislative election of 16 November in Labastide-Murat.See also :fr:Liste des députés du Lot#XIIe législature (1919-1924) He was aligned with the National Bloc coalition, symbolised by the blue-grey uniforms (:fr:Bleu Horizon) worn by the 'poilus' in the war. The coalition represented the conservative old soldiers and their desire to "make Germany pay".
Although the Chinese had their own reasons to enter the war, mentioned above, the view that the Soviets had used them as proxies was shared by the Western bloc. MacArthur was a notable exception, dissenting from this prevailing view in his "Old Soldiers Never Die" speech. China had to use a Soviet loan, which had been originally intended to rebuild their destroyed economy, to pay for Soviet arms. From official Chinese sources, PVA Korean War casualty figures break down as follows: 114,084 killed in action; 380,000 total wounded in action; 70,000 died of wounds or sickness; and 25,621 missing.
Brownlow asked to appear before the Veterans Board for five minutes to present his proposal. He told the Board members of the thousands of men in the South and particularly in the First District of Tennessee that risked their lives and fortunes supporting the Union. Brownlow stated that the federal government had recently approved a large sum of money for the establishment of a prison at Atlanta so that southern prisoners would not suffer the rigors of the cold and unfamiliar northern climate. Brownlow concluded his argument with the point that the old soldiers were certainly entitled to as much consideration as were convicts.
One of his earliest successes was in performing William J. Scanlan's song "My Nellie's Blue Eyes", which was soon parodied by Charles Coborn as "Two Lovely Black Eyes". Costello performed in pantomimes, but increasingly specialised in black humour, such as "At Trinity Church I Met My Doom" and "His Funeral's Tomorrow", and sentimental and patriotic ballads such as the stirring "Comrades", a story of friendship between two old soldiers written by Felix McGlennon, which became Costello's signature song. He continued to have a lengthy career in pantomime, and in the 1920s toured with his own variety company. He recorded a medley of his most famous songs in 1933.
The historian Jacques Gernet stresses that these servants and favorites hosted by rich families represented the more fortunate members of the lower class. Other laborers and workers such as water-carriers, navvies, peddlers, physiognomists, and soothsayers "lived for the most part from hand to mouth." The entertainment business in the covered bazaars in the marketplace and at the entrances of bridges also provided a lowly means of occupation for storytellers, puppeteers, jugglers, acrobats, tightrope walkers, exhibitors of wild animals, and old soldiers who flaunted their strength by lifting heavy beams, iron weights, and stones for show. These people found the best and most competitive work during annual festivals.Gernet, 94–95.
In 1865 Abraham Lincoln approved a "National Asylum" to care for volunteer Union soldiers who had been wounded during the Civil War. The Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established in 1866, as an Old soldiers' home in the then Northwestern region of United States.LOC−HABS: History and description of Ward Memorial Hall The Wisconsin Soldiers’ Home Society transferred the money and property already acquired by that group to the federal effort for the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, renamed the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in 1873. The Eastern Branch was opened in 1866 at a former resort in Togus, Maine.
Others argue that the Royal Proclamation imposed a fiduciary duty of care on the Crown. George Washington was given of wild land in the Ohio region for his services in the French and Indian War. In 1770, Washington took the lead in securing the rights of him and his old soldiers in the French War, advancing money to pay expenses on behalf of the common cause and using his influence in the proper quarters. In August 1770, it was decided that Washington should personally make a trip to the western region, where he located tracts for himself and military comrades and eventually was granted letters patent for tracts of land there.
In 1897, Armour began his managerial career at age 27 as player- manager for the Dayton Old Soldiers in the Interstate League. He also became the principal owner of the Dayton baseball club. In mid-August 1897, Armour had led Dayton to 14 wins in 17 games, and the Dayton correspondent to the Sporting Life wrote that it was "one of the best teams that ever represented Dayton" and that Armour was "getting very good work out of the boys, who are all satisfied with his management." Armour continued to manage the Dayton club, renamed the Veterans in 1899 and 1900, for five years from 1897 to 1901.
He was known as "Bilbo the Builder" because of his authorization of a state highway system, as well as lime-crushing plants, new dormitories at the Old Soldiers' Home, a tuberculosis hospital and his work on eradication of the South American tick. In 1916 he pushed through a law eliminating public hangings. The Haynes Report, a call to national action in response to race riots throughout the summer of 1919, pointed to Bilbo as exemplifying the collective failure of the states to stop or even prosecute thousands of lawless executions over several decades. Before the burning at the stake of John Hartfield in Ellisville, Miss.
Bink's parents are notified of various sightings of him in the city and Gilbertine deduces that he has been following Baby's Day Out, and will most likely head for the Old Soldiers' Home next. They find him there, but on the way home, he begins to call out "Boo-Boo" toward the criminals' flat; the FBI forces them to return Bink's book and then arrest them. Back at home, he is put to bed by his parents, who discuss having his picture taken by a normal photographer in the morning while, unbeknownst to them, he wakes up and gets ready to read another book titled Baby's Trip to China.
The Lason Batch refers to a September 5, 1987 mass poisoning attack against Philippine Constabulary forces on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines which caused the deaths of almost an entire platoon of soldiers and hospitalization of well over a hundred troops. The incident involved 18-19 year old soldiers running along roads near their camp on the outskirts of Zamboanga City where they had been newly stationed following completion of basic training. While jogging these troops were offered free ice water in small plastic bags by seeming civilians, but soon the majority of the 225 soldiers on the run fell ill. Over that Saturday and the following day 19 died and 140 were hospitalized.
He returned to acting, making his London acting début, in 1869, achieving much greater success than in his early attempts, as Sir Simon Simple in his comedy Not Such a Fool as He Looks.Stedman, Jane W. "General Utility: Victorian Author-Actors from Knowles to Pinero", Educational Theatre Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, October 1972, pp. 289–301, The Johns Hopkins University Press He followed this with successful outings as Fitzaltamont in The Prompter's Box: A Story of the Footlights and the Fireside (1870), The Prompter's Box (1870, revived in 1875 and often thereafter, and later renamed The Crushed Tragedian), Captain Craven in Daisy Farm (1871) and Lionel Leveret in Old Soldiers (1873).
Tania Pariona grew up in times convulsed by the terrorism of Shining Path in the city of Huamanga, but in her childhood she often went to her hometown of Cayara to help her grandparents. When she was four years old, soldiers of the Peruvian army killed 39 people in Cayara, after Shining Path killed four soldiers.2.27. LAS EJECUCIONES EXTRAJUDICIALES Y ENCUBRIMIENTO EN CAYARA (1988) At 10 she met the Red Ñuqanchik, an organization of Quechua teenagers from Ayacucho linked to the indigenous association Chirapaq. She also collaborated in the National Movement of Organized Working Children and Adolescents of Peru (MNNATSOP) and represented it in October 2002 before the Childhood Commission of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
In the period 1785–1787 opponents of Stadtholder William V, Prince of Orange, the Patriots, had launched the Patriot revolt which only with difficulty had been suppressed after Prussian and British intervention in 1787, after which the leaders of the Patriots fled to France. William's main concern therefore was the preservation of the House of Orange and the authoritarian Stadtholderate regime. Opposing the Allies, the armies of the French Republic were in a state of disruption; old soldiers of the Ancien Régime fought side by side with raw volunteers, urged on by revolutionary fervour from the Représentant en mission. Many of the old officer class had emigrated, leaving the cavalry in particular in chaotic condition.
Its medical purpose was to provide long-term care for the 300,000 African-American veterans in the segregated South from World War I; such care was often denied or neglected at other veterans' hospitals and old soldiers' homes. Medical care of veterans after the war was one of a number of issues complicated by race; the government was struggling to get veterans employed, to develop programs for those who were disabled, as well as to treat those needing medical treatment. Having served their country, veterans wanted the federal government to intercede as they tried to re-enter society. In 1930 three agencies were combined as the Veterans Administration, and the hospital center was put under its authority.
The army during peacetime was deliberately kept small and the recruitment methods would only change once the Cardwell reforms were implemented in the 1870s. The Crimean War nevertheless highlighted several defects and weaknesses in the Army's organisation. Although in theory, 70,000 soldiers were stationed in Britain, it was found that this number included several units in transit from distant outposts of the Empire, and some underdeveloped recruits and many old soldiers whose constitution had been ruined by harsh climate and disease and who were no longer capable of serving in the field. As a result, the provision of an expeditionary force of only 25,000 in the Crimea stripped Britain of almost every trained soldier.
However, Song didn't completely reform the system, and as such, their army had limited combat effectiveness. The Dynasty's army were more active in the Han Dynasty, and started turning into mediocrity in the Tang Dynasty, as the system for recruiting military services in the Song Dynasty was just a revision of that in the Han Dynasty. These soldiers were not needed for battles, only for miscellaneous tasks in local regions, doing whatever the local governments have ordered. It stands to reason that the first thing to be done after the founding of the Song Dynasty was to demobilize troops and dismiss old soldiers, but the Song Dynasty only ever did the first part.
In South Africa, for example, the Memorable Order of Tin Hats had by the late 1920s developed a ceremony whereby the toast of "Fallen Comrades" was observed not only in silence but darkness, all except for the "Light of Remembrance", with the ceremony ending with the Order's anthem "Old Soldiers Never Die". In Britain, beginning in 1939, the two-minute silence was moved to the Sunday nearest to 11 November in order not to interfere with wartime production should 11 November fall on a weekday. This became Remembrance Sunday. After the end of World War II, most member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, followed the earlier example of Canada and adopted the name Remembrance Day.
The National Tribune (official title) was a post- Civil War newspaper based in Washington, D.C. published by the National Tribune Publishing Co. "A Monthly Journal devoted to the interests of the Soldiers and Sailors of the late war, and all Pensioners of the United States" was the caption under the paper's title. The National Tribune served generally as the organ of the Grand Army of the Republic, (G.A.R.) and as a forum for old soldiers to share their reminiscences. The National Tribune Publishing Co. also printed historical publications, from pamphlets to hard-bound books, and ephemera empathizing on articles, stories and histories of heroes and political figures, as well as Union and Confederate soldiers and armies.
See also TIME: "Army & Navy and Civilian Defense: Old Soldiers", May 18, 1942, accessed September 14, 2010 At times he was blunt: "I think any man who talks against the interests of his own country ought to be arrested and put in jail, not excepting senators and colonels." Everyone knew that the colonel in question was Charles Lindbergh.Lee, 1985, 109 In the late 1940s he called for toughness in dealing with the Soviet Union and did not hesitate to recommend using the atomic bomb in a first strike: "If they can't find anyone else to push the button, I will."Lee, 1985, 125 He questioned the failure of United Nations forces to use the atomic bomb in Korea.
When General Schneider became minister of war in 1839, he placed Cerfberr at the head of his bureau. Cerfberr, promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, took his seat in the Chamber of Deputies 9 July 1842, as representative from Wissembourg, having received 86 out of a total of 161 votes against 71 cast for Renouard de Bussières, the incumbent deputy. He supported the government, devoting himself chiefly to military questions; thus he succeeded in having the fund for the relief of old soldiers increased by 150,000 francs. Cerfberr, now a colonel, was reelected to the Chamber of Deputies 1 August 1846, having received 119 out of a total of 218 votes against 95 cast for Renouard de Bussières.
Over the course of the site's use as an old soldiers' home, about 1,600 people from all but one state of the former Confederacy resided at the site. A chapel located on the park grounds was moved in 1913, as the aging veterans were having difficulty walking to the chapel for religious services; the chapel's basement was also used for the production of hard cider. (includes 12 photographs from 1980) In 1925, Missouri designated of the home as a memorial to Confederate soldiers. It remained in operation until 1950, when the last Confederate veteran in the state died, after which the state government purchased the site to operate as a state park.
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (also known as War Games, Old Soldiers Never) is a 1970 American drama-comedy film feature film directed by Hy Averback, produced by Fred Engel, and starring Brian Keith, Don Ameche, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Suzanne Pleshette, Ivan Dixon, and Pamela Britton. The plot is a mixture of comic and dramatic elements and concerns the reactions of a number of World War II veterans to the contemporary US Army. The title is derived from an American antiwar slogan from the hippie subculture during the Vietnam War era, popularized by Charlotte E. Keyes in her 1966 article for McCall's magazine titled "Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came".Allan, Kenneth. (2006).
The area has a culture rich in originating the bluegrass music tradition, and each year boasts the Fulton County Homecoming event that allows local and visiting artists to gather and perform on the town square. Mammoth Spring State Park hosts an annual Old Soldiers Reunion, which originated as a way to celebrate the reunification of the Confederacy with the Union following the Civil War. Now, the Reunion is a fair-like event that offers entertaining Civil War Re- enactments, rides, games, traditional bluegrass and other varieties of music entertainment for a three- or four-day period annually. During the annual Fulton County Fair, there is a public area behind the Salem City Park which hosts rodeos, tractor pulls, livestock shows, concerts, rides and games.
People are always surprised at the diversity of the housing stock. The community is home to many Protestant churches, no less than 12 actually, with the oldest being the Trinity Oxford Church which traces its beginnings in the community back to 1698, when the area was part of Oxford Township. Church records confirm the issue of when the community was named; they record the Lawndale name as far back as the late 19th century. The area is served by two Catholic parishes and one Catholic School: St. William's Parish at Rising Sun and Devereaux Ave. and Presentation BVM Parish at Martins Mill/Old Soldiers Road and Hasbrook Ave in nearby Cheltenham Township with a combined Catholic Population of about 9,000 people, or 3,000 families.
Martin was born on April 1, 1903, in Braddock, Pennsylvania, to Philip Martin (1877-1954) and Emma Fredrica S. Herman Martin (1877-1962). Named after her paternal grandmother, Cecilia Barber Martin of Cornwall, England, her birth name was Cecilia Barber Martin. Philip Martin was a munitions expert who worked in Pittsburgh during Martin's childhood and who moved the family to Washington, D.C., during World War I in order to take a position as supervising engineer in the Old Soldiers' Home. Emma Martin was a Christian Scientist who was chaplain for the Columbia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and sometime president of the Capitol Hill History Club. Martin had two sisters, Lydia (1900-1983) and Lillian (1908-2002), and a brother, Philip, Jr. (1916-1974).
He re-organized and trained his forces, named by the Emperor as the Army of Antwerp, by instilling discipline in old soldiers too long at the depots and teaching raw conscripts their trade. Everywhere he instilled a fighting spirit, making an army out of a mob, and thus he rapidly brought the defenses of Antwerp to a high order of readiness.Barton, Plunkett (1921). pp. 237–40 With Antwerp bristling with cannon and numerous defenders, and with the Army of Antwerp whipped into fighting shape, the British, vexed by poor leadership and with half the army immobilized with fever thanks to the insalubrious islands upon which they were quartered, realized that it was no longer possible to close the Scheldt, or take Antwerp, and withdrew their forces.
Major-General Sir J. G. Dartnell The Natal legislature established the Natal Mounted Police in 1874 following an rebellion by Chief Langalibalele.Colonel W. T. Clarke, 'Natal Mounted Police' - The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 1 July 1931 However, the Natal legislature were slow to appropriate funds for the organization. The first commandant was Major John George Dartnell (1838-1913) formerly of the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot while the first enrolled trooper was Edward Babington of Londonderry in 1874.Natal Mounted Police and Natal Police /Nominal roll - The Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal Dartnell later described his recruits as the: > ...flotsam and jetsam of the colony, and a very rough lot they proved to be, > being principally old soldiers and sailors, transport riders, and social > failures from home, etc.
Meanwhile, from Valdez's carracks another 200 men and arms had offloaded, so that "from daylight there could be on land 400 men, illustrious people, and old soldiers, who surely was fearful; and its order and force exemplified grande soldiers." The Spanish forces expanded into the plain of Vale, while the defenders gathered in the high ground near a spring and manor owned by the farmer Bartolomeu Lourenço, his wife Brianda Pereira (a nobleman's daughter), and their children. Brianda was the object of Spanish attention, and the family home was the first conquest of the battle: her husband was gravely wounded along with one of his sons during the defence, but nonetheless arrested by the advancing Spanish, as she escaped. The family home was sacked, destroyed, and the wheat store was ransacked.
McGlennon was born in Glasgow, the son of an Irish shoemaker. He settled in Manchester, and by about 1880 was established there as a printer of penny song books. He emigrated to the United States in the mid-1880s, and began writing vaudeville songs, some of which, such as "His Funeral's Tomorrow", "Comrades" - a patriotic song about the friendship of two old soldiers written with George Horncastle, published in 1887 and popularised by Tom Costello - and "And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back" (written with Monroe Rosenfeld, 1894, and popularised by Seymour Hicks), also became successful in British music halls. Although McGlennon wrote both words and music of some of his songs, he also worked with other lyricists, including Tom Browne, George Bruce, W. A. Archbold and Edgar Bateman.
Official 1940 DVA organised pilgrimages (arranged by Harold Robinson MBE) continued every year until 1988 (when he died in office) then became locally organised by branches until the 60th anniversary in 2000 when the association was disbanded centrally in light of an aging and decreasing membership. Some local branches maintained contact between members until time took its toll. At its height, the 1940 Dunkirk Veterans Association had over 165,000 members worldwide, with over 100 branches in the UK, 20+ branches across the USA and Canada, 25+ branches across Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia, 12 branches across South Africa, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia at the time they were created) Kenya, Tanzania, branches in Gibraltar, Malta, Brazil and Argentina. Harold Robinson fostered links between veterans associations in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, promoting peace and comradeship between old soldiers.
146 met some fellow plotters regularly at an inn in Stratford-le-Bow, and by the summer of 1721 had succeeded in recruiting some soldiers at Romford and Leytonstone. He then travelled to Rome, where he met the Pretender to reveal the details of a plot. Layer stated that he represented a large number of influential Jacobites, who proposed to recruit old soldiers to seize the Tower of London, the Bank of England, the Royal Mint, and other government buildings in Westminster and the City of London, to capture the Hanoverian royal family, and to kill other key men. English Tories were to summon their men, secure their counties, and march on London, while volunteers from the Irish Brigade of the French Army were to land in England to join them.
Yale University - Retrieved 2013-11-02 For the first time women tax payers were allowed to vote (Article 199). An annual poll tax of one dollar was levied on every male between the ages of twenty-one and sixty to be used for public school maintenance (article 231). Parish road districts were created (Article 291) and taxes were authorized to include, an annual road maintenance poll tax of not more than one dollar for each able- bodied male (eighteen to fifty-five years old) authorized, with compulsory road service to be waved on those that paid the tax, and an annual road tax from twenty-five cents to one dollar for each vehicle, including bicycles, was levied. The state would support the old soldiers home (Article 302) known as Camp Nichols.
As the 1864 presidential election drew near, the Confederacy's prospects for victory were ebbing, and the tide of war increasingly favored the North. The likelihood of Lincoln's re-election filled Booth with rage towards the President, whom Booth blamed for the war and all of the South's troubles. Booth had promised his mother at the outbreak of war that he would not enlist as a soldier, but he increasingly chafed at not fighting for the South, writing in a letter to her, "I have begun to deem myself a coward and to despise my own existence." He began to formulate plans to kidnap Lincoln from his summer residence at the Old Soldiers Home, from the White House, and to smuggle him across the Potomac River and into Richmond, Virginia.
" The pastor of the church during this phase of its growth was the Rev. A. S. Williams."New Camp Curtin Memorial Church to Be Social Center: Gymnasium, Clubrooms, Etc., to Be Open to All Young Men and Women of West End Regardless of Affiliation; Big Campaign for $38,000 Starts Tomorrow; Patriotic Service in the Morning with Old Soldiers as Guests of Honor." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Telegraph, April 17, 1915, p. 6. Editors of the Harrisburg Telegraph wrote in April 1915 that the new church would "mark for all time the noted encampment, the location of which has been well nigh lost in the rapid growth of the town that has swept out over the open fields above Maclay street, where formerly was the tented military city, and has transformed them into populous, closely- built residence districts.""Camp Curtin Memorial.
Originally he intended to recruit men from Great Britain but he was ordered to recruit local men, with the first enrolled being trooper Edward Babington of Londonderry in 1874.Natal Mounted Police and Natal Police /Nominal roll - The Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal Dartnell would later claim his recruits were the: > ...flotsam and jetsam of the colony, and a very rough lot they proved to be, > being principally old soldiers and sailors, transport riders, and social > failures from home, etc. They were, however, a very fine, hardy lot of men, > ready to go anywhere and do anything, and very willing and cheerful if a > little troublesome in town; but in the country, away from temptation, they > were excellent men who grumbled occasionally, of course, but were more > inclined to laugh at and make like of discomfort and hardship.
The Times singled out for praise the songs "Nina", about a South American beauty who hates Latin American dancing and falls in love with a sailor with a wooden leg; "I Wonder What Happened to Him?", in which army officers reminisce about colleagues in India; "The Burchells of Battersea Rise", about suburban life; and "That is the End of the News". In the last, Grenfell was "the insanely cheerful schoolgirl greeting each fresh family misfortune with an ecstatic grin".The Times, 23 August 1945, p. 6 The Manchester Guardian also praised Coward's song "Matelot", sung by Graham Payn; the title song, "Sigh No More", sung by Ritchard; "Old Soldiers Never Die" sung by Cliff Gordon; "Willy", in which troupes of good and bad angels strive vigorously for the direction of a small boy’s future life; and a Blithe Spirit ballet.
He also completed scenography, and painted in France and Austria. Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 253. In 1863, he exhibited Interior with Animals in Naples. He moved to Rome in 1865, and displayed Dog and Cat in a Stall and Cow in a Stall at the Mostre degli Amatori e Cultori. In 1870 at the Promotrice of Naples, he displayed Remembrance of Fontainebleau and Colosseum at Sunrise in Autumn. He exhibited at the Roman Exhibitions till 1902, including The Widow (1875); The Girl (1878); A Mother Plays With her Child (1879); The Prayer, La preghiera, Catechism in the Countryside (1881, province of Salerno); The Winter, New and Old Soldiers; and Le gioie della famiglia (1885). He exhibited often at the Neapolitan Promotrice (1871, 1873, 1874, 1879).
Also in 199 BC, the people of the city of Gades (Cadiz) in Hispania asked that no prefect should be sent to their town and this was granted (in 206 BC, the Romans had concluded a treaty with Gades in which it was agreed that a Roman centurion was to act as Roman prefect in the town). In 198 BC, the number of Roman praetors was increased from four to six because it was decided to create two new provinces: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior. The two capitals were Tarraco (Tarragona) and Curdoba (Córdoba). They were to be headed by praetors and the praetors for 197 BC, Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus and Marcus Helvius, were sent to Hispania Citerior and Ulterior respectively. They were given 8,000 Latin infantry and 400 cavalry each to replace the old soldiers, who were sent back home.
The new commanders of MO and local leaders of the communist party sent reports against Kuraś to the regional UB office in Kraków (Voivode Office of Public Security in Kraków, WUBP) and as a result he was ordered to report to the Kraków office of the UB. On his way there he was warned by friendly contacts that he was going to be arrested. An alternative version of the story reports that Kuraś himself opened the letters he was charged with delivering to the Kraków WUBP among which he found his own arrest warrant. As a result, after a three-month period as a nominal director of regional UB, on April 11, 1945, Józef Kuraś once again went "to the mountains" and together with some of his old soldiers created the partisan unit "Błyskawica" (Lightning bolt).
At the time of the register listing, the chapel was assessed to be in good condition, while the cottage was given a lower condition rating of fair. The cottage was still located in its original site, while the chapel had been moved twice: once in 1913 and once in 1978 when it was returned to its original site after a concrete basement had been built there. In the 2000s, a Confederate flag officially flown at the site was removed when the state government declared that only the United States flag and the flag of Missouri could be flown on state parks; the Confederate flag was displayed, not flown, while the site was used as an old soldiers' home. While many Confederate monuments and memorials have been removed in recent years, there has been very little pressure to remove or rename the site.
J C Dunn, a medical officer with the 2nd Battalion who had also served in the 1899-1902 Boer War, published The War the Infantry Knew in 1931. A collection of letters and diary entries from over 50 individuals, it is considered a classic by military historians for its treatment of daily life and death in the trenches. Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves was first published in 1929 and has never been out of print; in one anecdote, he records the Regimental Goat Major being charged with 'prostituting the Royal Goat' in return for a stud fee. Graves also edited Old Soldiers Never Die, published in 1933; a rare example of the war seen by an ordinary soldier, it was written by Frank Richards, a pre-war regular recalled in 1914, who served on the Western Front until the end of the war.
Subsequently, under Li Zongmin's recommendation, Niu, who was the military governor of Wuchang Circuit (武昌, headquartered in modern Wuhan, Hubei) at that point, was recalled to be chancellor in 830, and it was said that Li Zongmin and Niu worked together to eject Li Deyu's allies out of Chang'an; even Pei was sent out of Chang'an to serve as the military governor of Shannan East Circuit (山南東道, headquartered in modern Xiangfan, Hubei).Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 244. Later in 830, Li Deyu was moved from Yicheng to Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu, Sichuan), which had recently suffered from a Nanzhao incursion in 829 and was said to be weak in its defenses. Upon Li Deyu's arrival in Xichuan, he consulted with many old soldiers and officers of Xichuan to quickly familiarize himself with the fronts with Nanzhao and Tufan.
Coughlin played for several minor league teams, beginning the season with the Syracuse/Utica Stars, with which he played from April 25 to June 30, the Binghamton Bingos from July 20 to August 20, and the Rochester Flour Cities from August 21 to September 16, all of the Eastern League (EL) From 1893 until into the 1897 season, he continued in EL, playing for the Springfield Ponies/Maroons. Later in 1897, he switched over to the Borckton Shoemakers of the NEL, and pitched in five games and had a 1–3 win–loss record in 39 innings pitched. He completed the season with the Wilkes-Barre Coal Barons of EL. There is no record of him playing professional baseball following the 1897 season. Coughlin was a veteran of the Spanish–American War, died at the age of 83 on March 20, 1951, while living in the Old Soldiers Home in Chelsea, Massachusetts; he is interred at St. Patrick Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts.
The Waterloo Medal was also the first campaign medal awarded to the next-of-kin of men killed in action. At the time the medal was granted, when such things were not at all the norm, it was very popular with its recipients, though veterans of the Peninsular War may have felt aggrieved that those present only at Waterloo – many of them raw recruits – should receive such a public acknowledgement of their achievements. Meanwhile those who had undergone the labours and privations of the whole war, had had no recognition of their services beyond the thirteen votes of thanks awarded to them in Parliament. There was no doubt some truth in this discontent on the part of the old soldiers; at the same time British military pride had hitherto rebelled against the practice common in Continental armies, of conferring medals and distinctions on every man, or every regiment, who had simply done their duty in their respective services.
Original routing of NY 220 in Oxford The New York State Woman's Relief Corps Home (now the New York State Veterans' Home at Oxford), an old soldiers' home dedicated to the care of soldiers and their immediate families, nurses employed by the United States Army, and widows and mothers of soldiers, was constructed on a plot of land east of the village of Oxford and opened April 19, 1897. In 1916, the New York State Legislature created Route 8-a, an unsigned legislative route connecting the home to Route 8 (now NY 12) in Oxford by way of pre-existing highways. That year, the state of New York began a project to improve the highway. In all, the improvements cost just over $26,150 (equivalent to $ in ). The improved roadway was accepted into the state highway system on March 20, 1919. Route 8-a left Route 8 in the center of Oxford and crossed the Chenango River on Main Street.
The Battle of Manlian Pass took place between Romans under Q. Fulvius Flaccus and Celtiberi in 181 BC. Fulvius had arrived as praetor assigned to the province of Hispania Ulterior in 180, and continued as proconsul for the following two years. The fullest account of the battle is given by Livy (40.39-40): > As his successor was somewhat late in reaching Spain, Fulvius Flaccus led > out his army from winter quarters and began to devastate the more distant > parts of Celtiberia, where the inhabitants had not come in to surrender. By > this action he irritated the natives more than he intimidated them, and > secretly collecting a force they beset the Manlian Pass, through which they > were tolerably certain that the Romans would march. Gracchus had instructed > his colleague, L. Postumius Albinus, who was on his way to Further Spain, to > inform Q. Fulvius that he was to bring his army to Tarraco, where he > intended to disband the old soldiers, incorporate the reinforcements into > the various corps and reorganise the whole army.
The architect made a plan of the house in 1888, and the works started, but the foreman who was leading the construction, faced problems with the making of the difficult roofing of the house. So István Görgey, asked his brother, Artúr, to lead the construction, and the old general finished with success this task, so he and István's second wife and three daughters could move there. In this new house the circle of friends and admirers around Görgei became greater and greater, including two prime ministers: István and Kálmán Tisza, writers and poets like Pál Gyulai, Andor Kozma, Emil Ábrányi or Kálmán Mikszáth, journalists like Sándor Pethő, who in 1930 will write the biography of the general, artists like Philip de László, Mór Than, who earlier in 1849, working in his camp, painted many of Görgei's battles (Isaszeg, Tápióbicske, Komárom), actors and actresses like Mari Jászai, but also great medics, like Sándor Korányi or Lajos Markusovszky who also treated him when he was ill. Besides of the important people also Görgei's old soldiers visited him frequently.
Before his death in 1137, her husband, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, was working on a history, which was supposed to record the events before and during the reign of Alexios I. His death left the history unfinished after recording the events of the reign of Emperor Nikephoros Botaneiates. Ruth Macrides argues that while Bryennios' writing may have been a source of inspiration for the Alexiad, it is incorrect to suggest that the Alexiad was Bryennios' work edited by Anna (as Howard-Johnston has argued on tenuous grounds). In what is considered to be a sort-of statement on how she gathered her sources for the Alexiad, Anna wrote, "My material ... has been gathered from insignificant writings, absolutely devoid of literary pretensions, and from old soldiers who were serving in the army at the time that my father seized the Roman sceptre ... I based the truth of my history on them by examining their narratives and comparing them with what I had written, and what they told me with what I had often heard, from my father in particular and from my uncles … From all these materials the whole fabric of my history – my true history – has been woven".Komnene 2009. Book XIV, section 7, p. 422.

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