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Sir Harry Smith was a Norfolk surgeon's son who joined the Rifle Brigade in 1805 and served through a host of campaigns thereafter, including Spain, New Orleans, Waterloo, assorted Indian and South African wars.
Five Best War Memoirs Max Hastings 2011
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Smith was in many respects an absurd figure, but he created a great romantic legend by falling in love with a 14-year-old Spanish girl named Juana, whose duenna threw herself and her young charge on the Rifle Brigade's mercy amid the ruins of sacked Badajoz in 1812.
Five Best War Memoirs Max Hastings 2011
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Rifle Brigade - seriously. short mini-sereis or continuing adventures, this would be balls to the wall awesome.
Ephemera 2009 (8) - The Mostly TV Edition Rogers 2009
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He means the Rifle Brigade, sister regiment of the 60th, which served as the forlorn hope at Calais.
Churchill and His Myths Wheatcroft, Geoffrey 2008
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Even the goofier stuff Ennis does like The Pro, Rifle Brigade, and Fury ALL have vestiges of "heart."
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He was trying to juggle Dredd and Rifle Brigade and cope with his house falling down around him.
28 Days of 2000 AD #18.1: Garth Ennis Pt. 2 DAVID BISHOP 2007
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I believe an episode Rifle Brigade shipped late too.
28 Days of 2000 AD #18.1: Garth Ennis Pt. 2 DAVID BISHOP 2007
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We reassured ourselves by the fact that the 1st Battalion of the Grenadiers and a battalion of the Rifle Brigade occupied the line of the zeriba 100 yards away and immediately above us.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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I am sure now it must have been the Rifle Brigade out for a route march.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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We reassured ourselves by the fact that the 1st Battalion of the Grenadiers and a battalion of the Rifle Brigade occupied the line of the zeriba 100 yards away and immediately above us.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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