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  • "The different drum beats would signal retreat or charge, or right-flank; all the different rudiments had different meanings, and so the drums were the communication out on the field," says Jones.

    155-Year-Old Drum Company Marches On 2010

  • "The different drum beats would signal retreat or charge, or right-flank; all the different rudiments had different meanings, and so the drums were the communication out on the field," says Jones.

    155-Year-Old Drum Company Marches On 2010

  • "The different drum beats would signal retreat or charge, or right-flank; all the different rudiments had different meanings, and so the drums were the communication out on the field," says Jones.

    155-Year-Old Drum Company Marches On 2010

  • He also reached out to the party's right-flank and its leaders like the late Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson who he once derided.

    McCain Clinches GOP Nomination 2008

  • Unlike the Damascus Declaration that I did not like, and which dealt with matters from the right-flank of the regime, and which contained language of the Syrian Muslim Brothers, and which avoided the crucial issues of foreign policy, a group of Syrian intellectuals just issued the Homs or Hums--not Hummus before Lebanonese nationalists get too excited Declaration.

    Wednesday, November 30, 2005 As'ad 2005

  • Beyond him as right-flank element was Corse's brigade.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • On his left he placed a regiment, and no more than a regiment, of Munford's troopers, to maintain contact with William P. Roberts's weak cavalry brigade, which in turn tenuously connected Pickett with the Confederate right-flank trenches held by Dick Anderson.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Beyond him as right-flank element was Corse's brigade.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • On his left he placed a regiment, and no more than a regiment, of Munford's troopers, to maintain contact with William P. Roberts's weak cavalry brigade, which in turn tenuously connected Pickett with the Confederate right-flank trenches held by Dick Anderson.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • You will advance northwest from the Weser, cutting off the forces on the right-flank of the advancing troops and preparing the way for a decisive attack into the Ruhr Valley.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

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