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The term "gentleman ranker" suggests that the soldier was born into wealth and privilege, but disgraced himself and so has enlisted as a common soldier (or one of the other ranks) serving apart from the society that now scorns him.
Old Man at the Bridge" is a short story by American writer Ernest Hemingway, written in 1938 and first published in Ken magazine [1] (Vol. 1 No. 4., May 19th, 1938) [2] with which he was involved. [3] It was then collected in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). [1]
Communist states have, on several occasions, abolished the use of ranks (e.g., the Soviet Red Army 1918–1935, [9] the Chinese People's Liberation Army 1965–1988, [10] and the Albanian People's Army 1966–1991 [11]), but they have had to re-establish them after encountering operational difficulties in command and control.
Notes (1) Opinion is divided about the size of an ala turma, between 30 and 32 men. A turma numbered 30 in the Republican cavalry and in the cohors equitata of the Principate auxilia. Against this is a statement by Arrian that an ala was 512 strong. [65] This would make an ala turma 32 men strong. (2) tribunus militum in original citizen ...
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Alcibiades first rose to prominence when he began advocating aggressive Athenian action after the signing of the Peace of Nicias.That treaty, an uneasy truce between Sparta and Athens signed midway through the Peloponnesian War, came at the end of seven years of fighting during which neither side had gained a decisive advantage.
Etruscan funerary urn crowned with the sculpture of a woman and a front-panel relief showing two warriors fighting, polychrome terracotta, c. 150 BC. The mainstay of the Roman republic's war machine was the manipular legion, a heavy infantry unit suitable for close-quarter engagements on more or less any terrain, which was probably adopted sometime during the Samnite Wars (343–290 BC). [2]
The Imjin War (Korean: 임진왜란; Hanja: 壬辰倭亂) was a series of two Japanese invasions of Korea: an initial invasion in 1592 also individually called "Imjin War", a brief truce in 1596, and a second invasion in 1597 called the Chŏngyu War (정유재란; 丁酉再亂).