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• A letter from Marion himself, to Col. P. Horry, thus details the event On the 20th inst. I attacked a guard of the 63d and Prince of Wales' Regiment, with a number of Tories, at the Great Savannah, near Nelson's Ferry; killed and took twenty-two regulars, and two Tories prisoners, and retook one hundred and fifty Continentals of the Maryland line, one wagon and a drum; one captain and a subaltern were also captured. —  The Life of Francis Marion
• About John French the subaltern, as about John French the midshipman, history is silent. —  Sir John French
• Now, there has been an enormous amount of ink spilled on the question of why the Latin American subaltern studies group split up -- no doubt more ink thank the group itself spilled while it existed. —  Posthegemony
• He recommended that a subaltern, a Second Lieutenant whom nobody would miss much if he fell, should be sent up the tree. —  Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918
• Now the subaltern was one of the many of us civilians who have a burning ambition not only to achieve perfection always, but also to maintain on all occasions a superlatively military bearing. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916

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