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6 unusual facts about auxiliaries


Auxiliaries

The Auxiliary Legion was a British military force sent to Spain to support the Liberals and Queen Isabella II of Spain against the Carlists in the First Carlist War.

Bernard Kilkeary

The remaining twenty years he spent in the Auxiliarys, his last corps being the Mid Ulster Artillery, of which he was the Paymaster Sergeant.

British Colonial Auxiliary Forces

This is a list of auxiliary regiments or units formed by the British in individual colonies of the British Empire.

HMAS Durraween

On 29 July 1940, Durraween was requisitioned by the RAN for use as an auxiliary.

MSA Carole-S

Carole-S was operated commercially as a fishing boat until she was chartered under the RAN's Craft of Opportunity Program for use as an auxiliary.

United States Coast Guard Auxiliary

The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary (USCG Aux) is the uniformed volunteer component of the United States Coast Guard ("USCG").


1740 in Great Britain

26 June - War of Jenkins' EarSiege of Fort Mose: A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free black militia and Indian auxiliaries storms Britain's strategically crucial position of Fort Mose, Florida.

Agrammatism

Later on, Harold Goodglass defined the term as the omission of connective words, auxiliaries and inflectional morphemes, all of these generating a speech production with extremely rudimentary grammar.

Armoricians

The Armoricians were one of the peoples listed as serving as auxiliaries to the Roman army at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains by Jordanes.

Auguste Ricord

An agent of Henri Lafont, a member of the Carlingue (French auxiliaries of the Gestapo), under the Vichy regime, he used part of the funds stolen by the Carlingue during the war to create drug laboratories near Marseille.

Auxiliary Division

Auxiliaries figure prominently in historical films like Michael Collins, The Last September, and The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

In his memoirs, the commandant of the Clare IRA, Michael Brennan, describes how the Auxiliaries nearly captured him three nights in a row.

Avella

It dates (according to Mommsen) from a period shortly after the Second Punic War, and is not only curious on account of details concerning the municipal magistrates, but is one of the most important auxiliaries we possess for a study of the Oscan language.

Battle of Sidi Bou Othman

Mangin's column was composed of six companies of Senegalese tirailleurs, two companies of Algerian tirrailleurs, two companies of colonial infantry, a goum of Moroccan auxiliaries, two cavalry squadrons and a mountain artillery battery.

Canadian Pacific Railway Lake and River Service

Over time, CPR became a railroad company with widely organized water transportation auxiliaries including the Canadian Pacific Railway Upper Lake Service, the Trans-Pacific service, the British Columbia Coast Steamships, the British Columbia Lake and River Service, the Trans-Atlantic service, and the Ferry service.

Canadian Pacific Railway Upper Lake Service

Over time, CPR became a railroad company with widely organized water transportation auxiliaries including the CPR Upper Lake Service, the trans-Pacific service, the British Columbia Coast Steamships, the British Columbia Lake and River Service, the trans-Atlantic service, and the Ferry service.

Dental auxiliary

Dental technicians are dental auxiliaries who fabricate dental appliances: removable protheses including dentures and orthodontic retainers, and fixed restorative work such as crown and bridges for the dental operator to insert.

Edward Dorins

The Dorins's house was raided by Auxiliaries in February 1921 and he was beaten up and thrown into the Liffey at the Grattan Bridge.

English auxiliaries and contractions

The verb ought is sometimes excluded from the class of auxiliaries (specifically the modal auxiliaries) on the grounds that, unlike the principal modals, it requires the to-infinitive rather than the bare infinitive.

For details about the verbs classed as modal auxiliaries, see English modal verbs.

Hieracon

Here, in Roman times, was quartered the cohors prima of the Lusitanian auxiliaries.

Infinitive

This applies to the modal verbs (can, must, etc.), as well as certain related auxiliaries such as the had of had better and the used of used to.

International Association of Rebekah Assemblies

In 1907 the Apostolic Delegate to the United States, the Mt. Rev. Diomede Falconio, in reply to a query from the Rev. Novatus Benzing , OFM, of Phoenix, Arizona, determined that the Daughters of Rebekah, as well as the female auxiliaries of other condemned secret societies, fell under the same category of condemnation.

Kilmichael Ambush

The Auxiliaries' first lorry was persuaded to slow down by the sight of Barry placing himself on the road in front of a concealed Command Post (with three riflemen), wearing an IRA officer's tunic given to him by Paddy O'Brien.

Royal Fleet Auxiliary

All Royal Fleet Auxiliaries are built and maintained to Lloyd's Register and Department for Transport standards.

Shall and will

More details of the usage of should, would and other related auxiliaries can be found in the article on English modal verbs.

The Burning of Cork

Three days after the fire, on 15 December, two lorry-loads of Auxiliaries were travelling from Dunmanway to Cork for the funeral of Spencer Chapman, their comrade killed at Dillon's Cross.


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