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  • My family connections are wholly with the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in Territorial Battalions of which two of my Great-Uncles served from 1908-1918 and in a regular battalion of which my father served from 1943 to 1947.

    Archive 2007-09-16 2007

  • My family connections are wholly with the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in Territorial Battalions of which two of my Great-Uncles served from 1908-1918 and in a regular battalion of which my father served from 1943 to 1947.

    Breaking The Link 2007

  • While Mark was in New York, he was urged by Frank Fuller, whom he had known as Territorial Governor of

    Mark Twain Archibald Henderson 1920

  • The elements are differently mingled in the south, in what we may call the Territorial belt and in the group of States on the Pacific coast.

    Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays 1892

  • They resolved that they would not in any way, shape or manner, recognize the legality of this so-called Territorial Legislature, nor the machinery it should call into being for the government of the Territory.

    Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler Butler, Pardee, 1816-1888 1889

  • What are called Territorial governments, to distinguish them from the State governments, are only provisional governments, and can touch private rights and interests no further than is necessary to preserve order and prepare the way for the organization and installation of a regular

    The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny Orestes Augustus Brownson 1839

  • And it's easier to do that in music than it is martially, music teachers aren't as, shall we say, "Territorial" as Kung Fu teachers.

    Guitarzan ... Steve Perry 2006

  • a new seed company, a tiny business called Territorial Seed, unique in that, rather than trying to tout its wares all over the country, it would only sell to people living west of the Cascade Mountains.

    Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon

  • The French 'Territorial' is of course a different type to ours, being in the nature of the last reserve, elderly men not used as 'storm' or 'shock' troops.

    Q.6.a and Other places Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 Francis Buckley 1915

  • “Josh’s letters” were brief comic sketches that Sam had been occasionally writing since April, without pay, for a little newspaper in Virginia City called the Territorial Enterprise.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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