A further part of the reforms was the reorganisation of the regimental system, linking "territorial" (line) regiments in paired regimental depots with a territory based recruiting area for simplified recruitment and training.
Many of the men joined the highland regiments in the first world war and never returned.
Behind them marched the 53rd and three other regiments in its brigade.
Birney ultimately raised seven black regiments in Maryland and led them into battle.
Or like C. Aubrey Smith, the actor who used to command Gurkha regiments in movies about India.
He had no problems gaining the support of certain army regiments in Venezuela during his early coup days.
They refilled their cartridge boxes and formed a line of battle with soldiers from two other regiments in the afternoon.
The paratroopers, having trained to fight uniformed regiments in open combat, found themselves in an amorphous grind of guard duty, police work, and civil governance.
The parade featured high school marching bands, Irish groups, politicians, NYPD regiments in full dress and even a trio of sanitation workers.
From unpromising material he set about molding one of the toughest regiments in the British Army, self-sufficient enough to survive in the notorious leech-ridden jungle.
These officers, scrambling to bring order to Mosul, Fallujah, and Baghdad, had been trained and equipped to fight against numbered, mechanized regiments in open-maneuver warfare.
