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  • Somewhere up the jungle-shrouded slope bagpipes were playing Boinas Azules Cruzan la Frontera, Second Tercio code for “No quarter.”

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • The first time I ever really saw the Legion was when the Second Infantry Tercio paraded down Via Hispanica.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Naturally, the Tercio newsletter, Hippolyta, has articles on just that in almost every issue.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Naturally, the Tercio newsletter, Hippolyta, has articles on just that in almost every issue.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Somewhere up the jungle-shrouded slope bagpipes were playing Boinas Azules Cruzan la Frontera, Second Tercio code for “No quarter.”

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Then the pipes started, loud and shrill, and the first rank of the Second Tercio appeared, marching through the smoke and the explosions…as if marching into a fight.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • The first time I ever really saw the Legion was when the Second Infantry Tercio paraded down Via Hispanica.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Then the pipes started, loud and shrill, and the first rank of the Second Tercio appeared, marching through the smoke and the explosions…as if marching into a fight.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Tercio de culebrina 14 to 22 18-pounder third-culverin.

    Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy

  • Tercio: as he that by vigour or force flyeth to the spiritually: sic albinus dicitur alias binas habens, that is to wit, hope and faith, therewith this holy saint was replenished.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

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