Inniskilling
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In less than a year, he signed up for another regiment, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - but here too, his lies brought about his downfall.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2017
The Inniskilling Dragoons and Fusiliers both fought in the battle and helped to turn the tide of European history as the Duke of Wellington beat Napoleon.
From BBC • May 30, 2015
She had come with her classmates to see for the first time, the grave of her great-grandmother's husband, Pte Speers, of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who was killed on 16 May 1915, aged 31.
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2013
Six hundred young Inniskilling Fusiliers, in jungle-green uniforms and black berets, marched into Nairobi last week with orders to screen every African in the city.
From Time Magazine Archive
The soldier was an Inniskilling Dragoon, and the officer in command had been recently wounded at Waterloo, where his corps did good service against the French Cuirassiers.
From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Darwin, Charles
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