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The Imatronic LS45 is a British eye-safe laser projector for firearms which projects an intense red spot of light on to the target, the spot being 24 cm in diameter at a range of 100 meters and the beam can operate over a range of 500 meters.
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The Immortals were formerly an infantry regiment of some 10,000 hand-picked men which constituted a bodyguard for the kings of Persia.
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The Imperial Guard was an army force created by Napoleon from the guard of the convention, the directory, and the consulate when he became emperor in 1804. It consisted at first of 9775 men, but was afterwards enlarged. It was subdivided in 1809 into the old and the young guard. It was dissolved by Louis XVIII in 1815, revived by Napoleon III in 1854 and surrendered with Metz to the Germans in 1870 after which it was abolished by the government.
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Indian file is a method of marching whereby the troops follow one-nehind the other, each stepping in the footsteps of the man in front, and the last man obliterating the footsteps. The method was used by American Indians to disguise both the route taken and the number of soldiers in the column.
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In fortifications, the interior crest is the highest line of the parapet.
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In fortifications the interior side is the term applied to the line drawn from the centre of one bastion to that of the next, or the line curtain produced to the two oblique radii in front.
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The International Brigade was a body of volunteers raised by foreign Communist parties to fight on the side of the Republic during the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939.
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The Internationale is a revolutionary song composed by Eugene Pottier in 1871 and adopted first by French, and then other socialists.
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The Irish Guards are a British infantry regiment. They were formed in 1900 by Command of Queen Victoria, to commemorate the bravery of the Irish troops who fought in South Africa, the
Irish Guards played a very full part in both the Great War and the Second World War and in many parts of the world since 1945.
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The Iron Cross was a medal awarded for valour in the German armed forces. It was instituted in Prussia in 1813 by Frederick William III and consists of a cross patee of iron, edged with silver.
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The Italian halberd or bill was an infantry weapon consisting of an arched blade elongated into a point, with a sickle-shaped hook at the foot of the blade, fixed to a pole. The Italian halberd thus had three functions: 1) thrusting with the pointed blade. 2) Cutting with the blade. 3) The hook was used for slicing the tendons of mounts used by attacking cavalry.
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