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A tabard was a short garment with sleeves, worn by knights of the Tudor era. The tabard had the knight's coat of arms blazoned on the sleeves as well as on the front and back.
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Tabun is a nerve gas used in chemical warfare. It is a colourless to brown odourless liquid causing nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea followed by muscular twitches and convulsions.
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In fortifications a talus is the inclination of the face of a work (a slope in simple terms).
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The talwar or tulwar is a type of Oriental sword used in India by the Sikhs and Pathans and in Persia. The talwar is essentially a horseman's weapon, being a curved sabre well adapted for a sweeping, cutting stroke.
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In fortifications a tambour is a work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It was arranged like a stockade.
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The Tanaka memorandum was a memorandum written in 1927 by Baron Gi-ishi Tanaka, the Japanese prime minister and foreign minister, which advocated the conquest of Manchuria and Mongolia as a prelude to Japanese domination over the whole of China. The memorandum also predicted that the operation would result in armed conflict between Japan and Russia. The memorandum was intercepted by Soviet agents working in the Chinese postal service, and a second copy was stolen from the safe of the Japanese police chief in Seoul by Soviet agent Ano. A copy of the memorandum was later leaked by the INO to the American press to give the impression that it had been obtained by the Americans rather than the Soviets.
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The Tangier Regiment was a British army unit raised in 1661, later named the Queen's by Charles II in honour of his consort, Catherine of Braganza. In 1751 it became the 2nd (the Queen's Royal) Regiment Of Foot. It later became the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment.
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The Tanto is a design of fighting knife consisting of a single-edged blade with a chisel tip. The single edge has a slight curve to it, the back of the blade is straight and the full thickness of the blade is maintained almost to the tip. This design was developed in the Far East for penetrating metal body armour, and the penetrating power of the design is legendary - easily passing through a steel car door.
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A targe was a light shield or buckler.
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A tasset was a piece of armour which hung from the corselet to offer protection to the thighs.
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A tattoo is a beat of a drum, or a sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp.
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The Taurus PT92 is a fixed sight version of the Taurus PT99AF
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The Mauser (it was formerly developed by Optik-Elektronic of Austria, but they were taken over by Mauser) teleranger sight is a specially compact laser rangefinder which can be attached to most types of optical or electro- optical sights to provide an instant and accurate range check (to within five meters at ranges between 70 and 2000 meters).
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The Templars were a military order founded in 1119 at the time of the Crusades by Hugues de Payen and Godfrey de Saint Adhemar, with seven other knights. They took vows of chastity, poverty and obedience and the undertaking to protect pilgrims to the holy places from attacks by the Saracens.
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In fortifications, a tenaille is an outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions.
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In fortifications a tenaillon is a work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
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The Terrapin was a British amphibious armoured truck of the Second World War, first used at Antwerp in 1944. The Terrapin was manned by a crew of two and had a top speed of 24 kmh and a range of 240 km.
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In fortifications, the terreplein was the top platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannons were formerly placed.
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The testudo was a Roman military formation employed especially in siege operations. The formation consisted of the soldiers holding their shields above their heads in an overlapping arrangement thereby forming a firm and unbroken covering. Thus protected the attacking party could approach the defenders until close enough to engage.
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A tete-de-pont is a term used in warfare to describe a defensive position around a bridge defending the bridge from enemy attacks. A tete-de-pont was originally a work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river, with longer range weapons and aircraft the means of defence changed, and with it the term.
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Tetranitromethyaniline (tetryl) is a high-explosive prepared by the substitution of four nitro groups in the molecule of methyl or dimethyaniline. Tetranitromethyaniline is more powerful than trinitrotoluene or trinitophenol.
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The Order Of Teutonic Knights was an order similar to the Templars and Knights of St John but restricted to Germans. It was founded at Acre in 1190 originally to tend wounded crusaders, it soon took up aggressive warfare against the heathen. The order was suppressed in Germany by Napoleon in 1809, but was still in existence in Austria in the 1920s caring for those wounded at war.
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The 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards was a British cavalry regiment formed in 1685 by James II. During the Second World War the regiment found fame in the North African campaign. The KDGs had a front line role as one of the Eighth Army's leading reconnaissance regiments.
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The Alamo was a mission fortress in San Antonio, Texas, USA. It was the besieged during the Texan war of independence from Mexico from 23 February to 6 March 1836 by Santa Anna and 4,000 Mexicans. They killed the garrison of 183 Texans who included Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie.
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In 1881 the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders and the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders were amalgamated to form The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's). After the amalgamation the battalions of the regiment served in: South Africa (Zululand), the Boer War, India and the Far East The Regiment had twenty-six battalions in the Great War and nine in the Second World War.
Since the Indian Mutiny members of the regiment have earned a further nine Victoria Crosses. Following the Second World War the 1st Battalion has served in Palestine, Korea, Guyana, Berlin, Suez, Cyprus, Malaya and Singapore, Borneo, Aden, Germany, Falkland Islands, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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The Cameron Highlanders were a highland regiment raised by Alan Cameron in 1793. The regiment greatly distinguished itself during the Peninsular War by routing the Imperial Guard at Fuentes d'Onoro.
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The Centipedes was a nickname of the 100th Regiment of Foot.
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The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) was a British cavalry regiment formed in 1685 by James II. During the Second World War the regiment found fame in the North African campaign fighting Rommel in Crusader tanks. At Gazala, the Bays were in continuous tank action for 19 days which is said to be a record for an armoured regiment.
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The Queen's Own Hussars was a British cavalry regiment formed from the amalgamation in 1958 of the 3rd The King's Own Hussars with the 7th Queen's Own Hussars.
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The Queen's Royal Hussars is the senior Light Cavalry regiment in the British Army it was formed in 1993 from the amalgamation between The Queen's Own Hussars and The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars.
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The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars was a British cavalry regiment formed from the amalgamation in 1958 of 4th Queen's Own Hussars with the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars.
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The Royal Anglian Regiment is a British infantry regiment of the ten counties of East Anglia and the East Midlands. It was formed in 1964 from the regiments of the East Anglian Brigade, which themselves had been formed through a series of amalgamations of former county regiments between 1958 and 1960. Thus the regiment traces its history back to 1685 with direct descendancy from: The Royal Norfolk Regiment, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, The Suffolk Regiment, including The Cambridgeshire Regiment, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, The Essex Regiment, The Northamptonshire Regiment.
The regiment was the first large regiment of infantry to be formed in the British Army and comprises two regular battalions, the 1st (nicknamed the Vikings) and the 2nd (the Poachers) and two Territorial Army battalions, the 6th and 7th (the Tigers). The regiment maintains strong links with the counties from which the former regiments recruited and most of its soldiers and officers come from this area. These links, of which the regiment is enormously proud, are illustrated by their enjoying the freedom of 33 cities and towns in the region and close affiliations with many local cadet forces and schools.
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The Royal Dragoons were a British cavalry regiment raised by King Charles II in 1661 to form part of the garrison of Tangier. They became Dragoons on their return to England in 1683, the term Dragoon being derived from the ' dragon', a musket suitable for mounted infantry. The Regiment then served in the War of Spanish Succession, the War of Austrian Succession and in the Spanish Peninsula before performing with distinction at the Battle of Waterloo where the Regiment captured the Colour, surmounted by an eagle, of the French 105th Infantry Regiment. The latter half of the 19th century saw them in action in the Crimea, the Boer War and in India before deploying to Flanders in 1914. The Regiment fought at Ypres, Loos, Hohenzollern and the Hindenburg Line in 1917. The inter-war years saw
the Royal Dragoons stationed in Egypt, India and Palestine. They deployed to the Western Desert in 1941 seeing distinguished service at El Alamein. Operation Overlord in 1944 saw the Regiment in Normandy from where they liberated Copenhagen in 1945. The Regiment spent the post-war years in Egypt, Germany, Aden and Malaya before amalgamation in 1969.
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The Royal Horse Guards were a British cavalry regiment raised by Oliver Cromwell prior to the second invasion of Scotland, but the parliamentary officers were replaced by royalists in 1660, and in 1690 were nicknamed the Oxford Blues on acount of their blue facings. The Regiment then saw almost continuous service in Flanders, the Boyne, the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War during which the Regiment was commanded by the celebrated Marquis of Granby.
The Regiment went on to see service during the Peninsular Campaign, fighting at the decisive Battle of Vittoria in 1813, and as part of the Household Cavalry Brigade at Waterloo. The Regiment was especially favoured by King George IV and, with the appointment of the Duke of Wellington as its Colonel, was elevated to the status of Household Cavalry in 1820. The Royal Horse Guards served with the Household Cavalry Regiment in Egypt in 1882, the Sudan and South Africa. Like the Life Guards, the Blues saw action in the majority of major actions in France and Flanders during The Great War. Likewise the Second World War
saw the Regiment divided between the 1st and 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment in Palestine, Syria and the invasion of Normandy as reconnaissance troops for the Guards Armoured Brigade.
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The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was formed by order of Her Majesty the Queen on St. George's Day, 23rd April, 1968 by the union of the four regiments of the Fusilier Brigade: The Fifth Foot, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, The Sixth Foot, The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, The Royal Fusiliers (The City of London Regiment), and the Twentieth Foot, The Royal Lancashire Fusiliers. There is no distinction between the regular battalions of the regiment as each shares an equal inheritance from the four former regiments, and each draws Fusiliers from the four regimental areas of England - Northumberland, Warwickshire, London and Lancashire. Currently, the regiment boasts two regular battalions (1st and 2nd) and two territorial battalions (5th and 6th) which are located in Coventry and Alnwick, Northumberland.
The regimental emblem is St. George with the Garter, all within a laurel wreath and surrounded by St. Edward's crown. The regimental flag is the red cross of St. George on a white field, with the regimental emblem in the centre of the cross. The regimental motto, inherited from The Royal Warwickshire Regiment and The Royal Fusiliers is that of the Royal Garter - Honi soit qui mal y pense - 'Evil be to he who evil thinks.' The regimental cap badge consists of the symbol of St. George and the dragon within a laurel wreath ensigned with the crown. The St. George and the dragon is inherited from The Royal Fusiliers and the laurel wreath from The Lancashire Fusiliers.
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Theoben are an English manufacturer of air rifles.
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Thermite is a mixture of aluminium and iron oxide or some other metal oxide which on combustion produces a very high temperature, around 3000 degrees Celsius. It is used as a filling for incendiary bombs.
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The Thirtieth Alabama Infantry Regiment was organised at Talladega April 16, 1862, and reported for duty at once to Chattanooga. Sent further into east Tennessee, it was brigaded under General Reynolds of Tennessee, and then under General Stevenson. The regiment skirmished at Tazewell and Cumberland Gap, and moved into Kentucky, but was not engaged. On the return to Tennessee, the Thirtieth was brigaded with the Twentieth, Twenty-third, Thirty-first, and Forty-sixth Alabama, under General Tracy of Madison, and in December was sent to Vicksburg with the other portions of Stevenson's division. In the spring the regiment fought with few casualties at Port Gibson, but was bathed in blood at Baker's Creek, where it lost 229 men killed, wounded, and missing - half of its number - and had four ensigns killed, and its colours rent by 63 balls and 16 shell fragments. Pent up in Vicksburg, the Thirtieth suffered severely in casualties during the siege, and was captured with the fortress. Paroled, the regiment recruited at Dempolis, and proceeded, with other portions of the brigade - now under General Pettus of Dallas - to the main army near Chattanooga. The regiment was engaged without loss at Mission Ridge, and wintered at Dalton. At Rocky-face the Thirtieth suffered severely, and lightly at Resaca. From there to Atlanta its tattered colours floated at the front of the fire-tried Army of Tennessee, the regiment losing heavily at New Hope, Atlanta, and Jonesboro. Proceeding into Tennessee, the Thirtieth was cut up at Nashville, but was part of the rear guard back to Duck River. Transferred to North Carolina, the regiment fought at Kinston and Bentonville, suffering severely in casualties. With the army the Thirtieth surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina, about 100 men being present for duty.
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A thumb stall was a buckskin cushion formerly worn on the thumb, and used to close the vent of a cannon while it was sponged, or loaded.
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The Marconi Mark 24 (Tigerfish) torpedo has an acoustic seeker in the nose. The torpedo is wire-guided and both the submarine and torpedo are fitted with wire dispensers. Data is downloaded from the submarine weapon control station to the torpedo's onboard computer. The torpedo is armed with a 134 kg PBXN 105 warhead from BAe Royal Ordnance Division. As the torpedo reaches the closest distance to the target, a magnetic proximity fuse and an impact fuse detonates the warhead. The speed of the torpedo is 25 knots in passive mode and 35 to 50 knots in active seeker mode. The range of Tigerfish is within 14 to 40 kilometres.
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Originally tiraileurs were an independent body of marksmen in the French army that were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, and sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term later came to be applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
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The tomahawk is a type of hatchet and hammer (the word tomahawk is Cree for hammer) used by North American Indians of the Algonquian tribes in war and in hunting. They were used not just in hand-to-hand combat, but were also thrown some distance so as to strike with the sharp edge of the blade. Original Indian tomahawks had a stone or horn blade fitted into a holed club and resembled European stone-age implements, but steel bladed tomahawks were supplied by the government and traders.
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Tonite was a series of explosives prepared by the Cotton Powder Company. The tonite explosives were distinct in all containing barium nitrate as the oxidiser. Many of the tonite explosives included guncotton in their ingredients. One particular form of tonite detonated with a very loud noise and was used in the heads of sound signal rockets.
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The Tonton Macoute were (are?) a private army of death squads on Haiti initially organised by the president, Francois Duvalier, president of Haiti they continued to terrorise the population under his successor J C Duvalier. It is alleged that the organisation continued to operate after Duvalier' s exile to France.
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A torment was an ancient military machine used for hurling stones.
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In fortifications a tower bastion was a bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath it, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works.
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Tracer is a type of ammunition containing a small flare in the base of the projectile which is ignited by the primer, thus enabling the operator of a weapon to trace the projectile's flight.
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In military terminology, the term trail describes the carrying of a firearm with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
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A train-band or train band was a company of citizen soldiers organised in London and elsewhere during the 17th century. They were first constituted in the reign on James I partly on the old fyrd system, and partly on a voluntary basis. They took a prominent part in the English Civil War on the Parliamentary side, and in consequence were abolished by Charles II after the Restoration.
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In fortifications a traverse was a work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along an exposed passage, or line of work.
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In fortifications, the tread was the top of the banquette, on which soldiers stood to fire over the parapet.
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A trench is a form of fortification employed by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown up out of the ditch and used to protect troops from the enemy's fire.
Fire trenches were so sited and arranged that the troops occupying them could fire upon the enemy.
Support trenches were farther to the rear, and provided cover for troops who were sufficiently close to the front line to be able to reinforce it during a hostile attack, sometimes being arranged so that the occupants could bring rifle fire to bear on the enemy over the front line trenches.
Communication trenches provided a road along which troops could pass between the fire and support trenches and positions further to the rear without being exposed to fire. It was usually necessary for these to pursue a zig-zag course to protect them from enfilade fire.
If sufficient time was available, trenches were dug deep enough to accommodate a man standing. The parapet was never constructed to withstand a direct hit from a high explosive shell, the effect of which was minimised by dividing the trench into sections by means of traverses, or making it serpentine or zig-zag in plan according to local conditions.
Dug-outs were provided at intervals along the trenches to provide shelter during heavy bombardments and for use as dressing stations for the wounded, kitchens, etc. In wet ground it was frequently necessary to provide revetments to prevent the trench sides giving way, or even to use trenches built with sandbags above ground.
During the Great War concrete was employed to a large extent in the construction of the more permanent trenches, and special steel plates provided with loopholes were used for the parapets.
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In fortifications a trench cavalier is an elevation constructed (by the besieged) of gabions, fascines, earth, and the like, about half way up the glacis, in order to discover and enfilade the covered way.
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The Trench Knife was a military fighting knife used during the Great War. It comprised a 6.5 inch dagger-shaped blade attached to a heavy brass handle incorporating a knuckle-duster and with a pointed spike for smashing into an adversary's skull.
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Trench warfare is a method of conducting hostilities which was very greatly developed during the Great War, but examples of which had previously occurred both in South Africa and Manchuria. In Manchuria both armies resorted freely to 'digging in' tactics, and in South Africa the Boers evolved a new kind of trench usually cut in a hill-side, in which a man standing upright or nearly upright could obtain protection from any but directly overhead. In the Great War a prolonged period of trench warfare ensued after the retreat of the Germans from the Marne to the Aisne, and lasted at one point or another of the line until the eve of the Allies' victorious advance.
On both sides the trenches became semi-permanent habitations, and considerable care was expended upon their construction. The German trenches were, as a rule, better constructed than the British which, especially during the winter of 1914-15, and particularly in the northern sections of the line, were often many inches deep in water. By degrees improvements were effected, until a fair degree of comfort was reached; but nowhere in the British front was the trench system comparable with that on the German side in the Somme region, and throughout the Hindenburg Line.
The protracted occupation of trenches on this elaborate scale produced a special kind of trench warfare, ranging from long distance pounding with heavy artillery to the interchange of shells from trench mortars, discharges of bombs and grenades, mining, and finally trench-raiding. A trench being almost immune from ordinary artillery fire, high-explosive shells were employed for wrecking purposes, and also as a means of destroying before an attack the wire entanglements with which lines of trenches wore commonly protected. Considerable annoyance, too, was caused to the occupants of trenches by projectiles of the primitive form known as common shell, and more familiarly as 'rum jars', which were cast, from small mortars and frequently did much material damage. Grenades were thrown both by hand and from a special rifle, and bombs filled with the high explosive T.N.T. were in frequent use, especially for clearing dug-outs.
Mining and counter-mining constituted another accompaniment of trench warfare, the most important operation of this kind being the 19 great explosions which preceded the capture of the Messines Ridge on June the 7th, 1917. Finally, a system of trench-raids was adopted by the British infantry, small parties of whom made swift and sudden incursions into the enemy trenches by night, generally killing or wounding a good many Germans, and frequently returning with useful information. Daylight trench-raids were also adopted, but less frequently. The British ministry of munitions had a special trench warfare department.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, many British generals assumed that trench warfare would be the norm once more as it had been some twenty years previously. However, the advent of the tank, which the British had invented during the Great War but which had not been properly utilised, but which the Germans had realised the full potential of which, rendered trench warfare obsolete and allowed a swift German victory in most of Europe.
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In 1861 Captain Charles Wilkes of the United States Federal war Steamer San Jacinto boarded the British steam-packet Trent on her way from Havana to St Thomas, and carried off two Confederate envoys then on their way to Europe. The envoys were imprisoned, but the British government demanded their surrender, a demand which was complied with on January 1st 1862.
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Operation Trest (Trust) was the codename for a fictious monarchist underground movement, the Monarchist Association of Central Russia, first invented by Artuzov of the OGPU in 1921 and used as the basis for a six- year deception to trick anti-Bolshevik campaigners back to Russia where they could be imprisoned or executed. The operation succeeded in luring many enemies of the Revolution back to Russia, including trapping the British spy Sidney Reilly who was arrested, interrogated and shot.
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The triangle was a kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were formerly bound when undergoing corporal punishment.
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A trident is a three headed spear, looking rather like an oversized fork.
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A trigger is the portion of the small-arm mechanism actuated by the forefinger to fire the piece. In rifles and shotguns the trigger is a lever placed beneath the lock and usually protected by a small hoop of metal called the trigger guard. The lever of a hammer-fired weapon is in direct contact with the hammer when the piece is cocked, and releases the hammer upon pressure. In rifles the trigger actuates another lever called the sear which releases the striker when the trigger is pressed.
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Troop is a military designation for a cavalry organisation equivalent to a platoon.
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Trophy-money was money collected in the English counties for providing horses and ammunition for the militia under an Act of 1662.
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A trou-de-loup or traphole was a pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle.
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A truncheon is a short thick staff, or a club. They are usually carried by Policemen.
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Tube alloys was the codename of Britain's development of its first atomic bomb. The then British prime minister, Attlee, never allowed discussion of the project in cabinet, not trusting his ministers, and kept the cost of the project - 100 million pounds - secret from the British Public. Ironically, a secretary at the British Non-Ferrous Metals research Association - Melita Norwood - was a Soviet spy and kept the USSR fully informed with plans and details. The Russians knew more about Britain's first atomic bomb than most of the British government.
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The tuck was a long-bladed, narrow sword developed during the 15th century as a sword capable of penetrating between the individual armour plates or rings of chain-mail. The blade was very long and narrow, and three or four edged.
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In armour, tuilles were the guard plates appended to the tasses, usually by straps, which hung down and covered the upper part of the thigh. They were first introduced during the reign of Henry V.
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A trumbrel was a cart or carriage with two wheels, which formerly accompanied troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.
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A turnpike was a beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage.
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The Twenty-fifth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was organised at Camp Salomon, La Crosse, Wisconsin, and mustered into the service of the United States on the 14th of September 1862. On the 19th the regiment proceeded to St Paul as a part of the force to be used in suppressing the Indian uprising there. The command was detached and assigned to various posts in that state. In the latter part of November the Twenty-fifth was relieved and was compelled to make a march of upwards of three hundred miles to Winona, MN, and finally reached Camp e Randall, Wisconsin, on December the 18th. On May the 9th, as a part of the Seventeenth Corps, Army of the Tennessee, it took its place in line of battle at Resaca. From that time it was a part of the army, following General Sherman in the Atlanta, Savannah and the Carolina Campaigns. Like other forces with Sherman the regiment was almost constantly on the march and in frequent contact with the enemy during the Atlanta Campaign, took part in many engagements, among which were; Resaca, May 15, 1864; The advance on Dallas, May 18 to 25; battles of Dallas, New Hope Church and Pumpkin Vine Creek, May 25 to June 5; Assault on Kennesaw Mountain, June 2; Atlanta, July 21-22; Jonesborough, September 1; Lovejoy Station, Sept. 2-4, 1864.
Accompanying the army of the Tennessee, the Twenty-fifth left Atlanta on the 15th of November on the 'March to the Sea.' Participated in the siege of Savannah December 10 to 21, 1864. On the 13th of January, 1865, the Twenty-fifth commenced the march through the Carolinas, participating in various minor engagements and in the battle of Bentonville March 19-20, 1865, and was actively engaged until the surrender of Johnston on April 26, 1865. The regiment took part in the Grand Review at Washington, D.C., May 24, went into camp at that city, where the regiment remained until June 7, when it was mustered out of service and returning to Madison, Wisconsin, was disbanded June 11, 1865.
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The Type 1 Hand Grenade is a Chinese copy of the Soviet F1 hand grenade. It is a fragmentation grenade containing 55 grams of TNT, providing an effective radius of 15 meters. The Type 1 Hand Grenade is fitted with a 3 to 4 second delay fuse.
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The Type 42 Hand Grenade is a Chinese copy of the Soviet RG-42 hand grenade. It is a fragmentation grenade containing 110 grams of TNT, providing an effective radius of 15 meters. The Type 42 Hand Grenade is fitted with a 3 to 4 second delay fuse.
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The Type 59 Hand Grenade is a Chinese hand grenade. It is a fragmentation grenade containing 110 grams of TNT, providing an effective radius of 20 meters. The Type 59 Hand Grenade is fitted with a 3 to 4 second delay fuse.
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The Bofors Underwater Systems Type 613 torpedo is a heavy weight anti- surface ship torpedo. It has wire guidance and passive homing, delivering a warhead of 240 kg. The launch of the torpedo is by swim-out discharge: the speed is 40 knots and the range, 20 kilometres. Type 613 torpedoes are currently used by all the Swedish Navy's submarines.
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