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I love to see a batalion of these flying across the indoor courtyard/pool area at Convergence!
On Vox: Dragonfly drewan 2007
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An entire batalion of rightwing operatives also spent eight years making up dirt, including allegations of murder and drug running.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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An entire batalion of rightwing operatives also spent eight years making up dirt, including allegations of murder and drug running.
Hullabaloo 2007
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Cotton said the standard of the Koeberg batalion was encouraging.
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France, with the three batalions of the Duke of Athol, the batalion of the
The Waverley 1877
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Ah! is it possible you are her ---- I should have thought Francis Mordaunt more capable of commanding a batalion than of bowing herself under the yoke of marriage.
Majoor Frans. English James [Translator] Akeroyd 1849
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Mi-Lord le Comte de Nairne, Brigadier, who, being proscribed, is now in France, with the three batalions of the Duke of Athol, the batalion of the Duke of Perth, and some other troups under his command, in order to support Cluny, and to bring off the artilirie.
Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801
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Mi-Lord le Comte de Nairne, Brigadier, who, being proscribed, is now in France, with the three batalions of the Duke of Athol, the batalion of the Duke of Perth, and some other troups under his command, in order to support Cluny, and to bring off the artilirie.
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Comte de Nairne, Brigadier, who, being proscribed, is now in France, with the three batalions of the Duke of Athol, the batalion of the Duke of Perth, and some other troups under his command, in order to support
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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Brigadier, who, being proscribed, is now in France, with the three batalions of the Duke of Athol, the batalion of the Duke of Perth, and some other troups under his command, in order to support Cluny, and to bring off the artilirie.
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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