It was incredible that two regiments of the best troops in England should have been utterly routed by so contemptible a foe.

To the French the reputation of General Braddock and of the Forty-Fourth and Forty-Eighth regiments of the line was well known and commanded the greatest respect.

This latter front extended for eighteen and a half miles and was held by troops known as "Regiments July First."

" The safe retirement of the Tagliamento was due to the unexampled heroism of large bodies of Italians, of such spirit as the Alpine troops on Monte Nero, who refused to surrender, and the regiments of Bersaglieri at Monte Maggiore, the members of which perished to the last man rather than yield ground.

Following through the gaps made by the tanks, English, Scottish, and Irish regiments swept over the enemy's outposts and stormed the first defensive system of the Hindenburg line on the whole front.

English rifle regiments and light infantry captured La Vacquerie and the formidable defense on the spur known as Welsh ridge.

In the forest of Villers-Cotterets on the German right flank, he had quietly massed large forces, including some of the best French regiments, together with the foreign legion, Moroccan and other crack troops, and many Americans.

ON DEAD MAN'S HILL "Once when two of our regiments came over a hill and saw the valley that lay before them being terrifically shelled by the cannon and assailed by hail from the machine guns, the whole column was seen to pause and a look of worry came over the faces of these men that for just an instant was pitiful.

Later they return to take their places in the regiments.

"I count easily five regiments together, but further to the right a sixth one evidently wards off a flank attack on the part of the French colonial troops.

At Rouves, a Government clerk refused to tell a Bavarian officer the numbers of the French regiments in the neighbourhood.

At Nimy, with the butt-ends of their rifles, they drove in front of them 500 men, women and children towards the English, who in consequence dared not fire; and in this way the 84th and 85th Schleswig Regiments were able to continue their heroic march as far as Maubeuge.

Regiments of steam shovels attack the banks, exhibiting a grotesque appearance of animal intelligence in their behavior.

There are, my lords, two methods of increasing our forces; the first is, that of raising new regiments; the other, of adding new men to those which already subsist.

By raising new regiments, my lords, we shall only gratify the minister with the distribution of new commissions, and the establishment of new dependents; we shall enlarge the influence of the court, and increase the charge of the nation, which is already loaded with too many taxes to support any unnecessary expense.

Whether the burdens under which the people are now toiling were all imposed by necessity, I will not inquire, but I think, my lords, we may readily determine, that whatever is not necessary is cruel and oppressive, and that, therefore, since the expense of raising new regiments appears, at least, not to be necessary, it ought to be opposed; and how can it be opposed more properly or effectually than by the noble duke's resolution?

His lordship has observed, that the objections which are now made to the method of raising new regiments, were not produced last year upon a like occasion.

Fernando Stevens with over one hundred men reached Philadelphia, where he found two regiments of regulars marching to Washington.

He was a veteran, fresh from the Spanish peninsula, and was delighted to find under his control some of the best of Wellington's regiments.

A part of the black regiments were bought in Africa as recruits, and were not transported in slave-ships, and, never under West India masters: but it was only a small part compared with the whole number in the three cases.

I think I can safely promise you a commission in one of the new provincial regiments, about to be raised.

The militia regiments, however, could not be got within range of the Spanish bullets, and all the stories about the heroism of volunteers are untrue.

The Egyptian infantry was divided into regiments, and Wilkinson tells us that they were named according to the arms they bore,as "bowmen, spearmen, swordsmen, clubmen, slingers."

These regiments were divided into battalions and companies, commanded by their captains.

The indomitable courage of the Romans, trained under severest discipline and directed by means of an organization divided and subdivided and officered almost as perfectly as our modern corps and divisions and brigades and regiments and companies and squads, marched over and subdued the world.