common soldier

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• His letters are generally easy reading, and are filled with great detail about the life of the common soldier.
• He was a common soldier in Company E of the 25th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, finishing the war as a corporal.
• Now, fully half of Napoleon's marshals had started their careers as common soldiers.
• Historians have for years analyzed the social aspects of the Civil War and the common soldiers who fought it.
• This encouragement must be particularly addressed to the common soldiers by a priest appointed, and, the Jews say, anointed, for that purpose, whom they call the anointed of the war, a very proper title for our anointed Redeemer, the captain of our salvation: This priest, in God's name, was to animate the people; and who so fit to do that as he whose office it was as priest to pray for them? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
• The brave warriors smiled upon their king as he removed his commander's helmet and donned one of a common soldier who had fallen in battle.
• A general of an army may be of more consequence to the welfare of a nation than a thousand common soldiers; so one idea like that of evolution may be worth a full ten thousand like the fact that "our neighbor's cat kittened yesterday. How to Study and Teaching How to Study
• Whilst the chamade was beating, Colonel Cotton, sent by General Wills, rode up the street, and alighted at the sign of the Mitre: the firing meantime had not ceased from several of the houses: the common soldiers were ignorant of the real state of the case, and believed that General Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
• His account of his experiences as a common soldier are riveting, and they magnificently capture the monotony of endless drilling, guard duty, and camp chores that consumed most of his days.
• But now, "he wagged his head again," these are cutch-sahibs, not pakka-sahibs - and the English common soldiers are no better. Fiancée