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  2. Defensive fighting position - Wikipedia

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    A foxhole is one type of defensive strategic position. It is a "small pit used for cover, usually for one or two personnel, and so constructed that the occupants can effectively fire from it". [1] It is known more commonly within United States Army slang as a "fighting position" or as a "ranger grave".

  3. Foxhole (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Foxhole is a cooperative sandbox massively-multiplayer action-strategy video game developed and published by Canadian video game company Siege Camp, who are based in Toronto, Ontario. The game uses Unreal Engine 4 , utilizing an axonometric projection perspective, much like that of a conventional real-time strategy video game with a top-down view .

  4. There are no atheists in foxholes - Wikipedia

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    "There are no atheists in foxholes" is an aphorism used to suggest that times of extreme stress or fear can prompt belief in a higher power. [1] In the context of actual warfare, such a sudden change in belief has been called a foxhole conversion.

  5. Foxhole - Wikipedia

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    The Empty Foxhole, a 1967 album by the American jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman "The Magic Foxhole", a 1944 unpublished short story by J.D. Salinger; Foxhole in Cairo, a 1960 British war film; Foxhole, a 2021 American war film; Foxhole, a sandbox massively multiplayer online game; Foxhole radio, a radio built by G.I.s during World War II

  6. Penal colony - Wikipedia

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    Inscribed stone honouring an Irish prisoner in the Australian penal colony of Botany Bay. A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory.

  7. Skirmisher - Wikipedia

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    The character of Natty Bumppo in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans was notably called La Longue Carabine by the French because of his skill with the long rifle, which was common among the Colonials.

  8. Illaloes - Wikipedia

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    Illaloes, nicknamed the Tally-hoes during its inception, were a Rayid military arm of the King's African Rifles and Somaliland Camel Corps during the Scramble for Africa period of colonial history. However, subsequent to this period, they were employed as wardens and security custodians in British Military Administration in Ogaden and Haud , in ...

  9. 442nd Infantry Regiment (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The 442nd Infantry Regiment (Japanese: 第442歩兵連隊) was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment including the 100th Infantry Battalion is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history, [4] and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.