"The army regiment that had arrested both of us stands guard at the legislative assembly building," she said.
Aberdeen was the home of the Gordon Highlanders, known as the Gay Gordons, a regiment that performed traditional Scottish dances.
The mass murder was in retaliation for a partisan attack on a regiment that killed 10 police officers.
The veterans group takes its name and much pride from the storied black 369th United States Infantry regiment that fought alongside the French in World War I.
Britons who would struggle to name a single regiment that fought the decisive battles of that conflict can instantly identify the gentle amateurs of the Home Guard.
The 335 victims were shot in reprisal for the partisan attack a day earlier in March 1944 on a police regiment that killed 33 policemen.
The British PRT in Lashkargar, for example, will be supported by a beefed-up British battalion, probably of the Royal Anglian regiment, that also will train Afghan troops.
Sitting in the dark motel room, I got a sentimental yearning again — for something that might break with the predictable regiment that followed a Sobering National Tragedy.
On April 29, a Union patrol crossed the river and learned from a slave that the Confederate cavalry regiment that normally patrolled the area was gone.
That such compassion could come from the former commander of the Rough Riders, the cavalry regiment that helped end the Spanish-American War and, by extension, set the American empire running, only emphasizes our current failure of empathy.
The flagship Medusa carried almost 400 people, including settlers, scientists, the new governor of Senegal and a burned-out army regiment that had previously fought for and defended Napoleon.
