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  • Subalterns would number twenty lieutenants and ten ensigns.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Subalterns would number twenty lieutenants and ten ensigns.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Subalterns would number twenty lieutenants and ten ensigns.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Subalterns would number twenty lieutenants and ten ensigns.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Paul Barclay was kind enough to lead me to a copy of his fascinating article Cultural Brokerage and Interethnic Marriage in Colonial Taiwan: Japanese Subalterns and Their Aborigine Wives, 1895–1930 The Journal of Asian Studies 64, no.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • Subalterns in those days were an intolerant tribe; they used to think that if a man got drunk or would not allow other people to have a drink, he ought to be kicked.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • Subalterns in those days were an intolerant tribe; they used to think that if a man got drunk or would not allow other people to have a drink, he ought to be kicked.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • Subalterns in those days were an intolerant tribe; they used to think that if a man got drunk or would not allow other people to have a drink, he ought to be kicked.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • He passed out of the room into the courtyard and found Forrest, Leroy, and a group of Subalterns sitting beneath one of the cypress trees.

    Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

  • He passed out of the room into the courtyard and found Forrest, Leroy, and a group of Subalterns sitting beneath one of the cypress trees.

    Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

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