And there they all, the creatures of the day, the former Irish army men who served in Lebanon and the Congo, the pensioneers, and fellows with but occasional jobs.
Within seconds a small army of men in spotless white jellabiya robes arrived, whisking me and my bags to a one-story villa split into two guest rooms.
When he died he was a major in the army and commanding men several years older than himself.
She is Khaleesi now of a horseless army of unmanned men whose brutal training has left them only part human.
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The average age in the city is 34, and young women from all over Kazakhstan flock here looking for husbands because of the army of single men working in its numerous ministries.
In AD1537 it was these stories of El Dorado that drew the Spanish conquistador Jimenez de Quesada and his army of 800 men away from their mission to find an overland route to Peru and up into the Andean homeland of the Muisca for the first time.
In 1557, the French army lost over 14, 000 men when they tried to block a Spanish army under Count Egmont at the Battle of Saint Quentin in the Spanish-French Wars.
The ranks were filled with men like Army Private Joe Seccato.
He had called for 125, 000 volunteers to supplement the tiny peacetime army of 28, 000 men.
The driver of a motorcycle he was riding on said they had been attacked by half-a-dozen armed men in Indonesian army uniforms.
But much of his army was made up of men from Darfur, men who might be reluctant to fight their own kin, so he decided to use the Arab tribesmen too.
Moreover, since the army was 2, 000 men under strength when that was supposedly around 104, 000, in mid-2005, it is only a little lighter now that the authorised complement is just under 102, 000.
The 400 Talmud students whom Ben-Gurion exempted from army service have grown to 110, 000 able-bodied haredi men who have served neither in the regular army nor in the reserves.
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The army has about 400, 000 men and takes the lion's share of government spending.
The East India Company controlled a standing army of some 200, 000 men, more than most European states.
This large army (currently 180, 000 men for a population of 7.5 million) is designed solely to defend Switzerland.
The next day, angry at his mistake, Confederate Commander John Bell Hood hurled 20, 000 men at the Union army, by then entrenched in nearby Franklin.
"Eight armed men is a mini army, " said Mr. Read, who estimated that the entire team involved in organizing and working as lookouts was about 20 people.
On Monday, thousands of the ultra-Orthodox community members gathered on the streets of Jerusalem to protest against the calls to draft their young men into the Israeli Army.
Lawyers for all three men said that official Army statements -- including West's -- appeared to pre-judge the cases, and made it difficult for their clients to receive a fair trial.
Pre-publication leaks tried to cast Mr Brown as the champion of defence: he would fund fully two new aircraft carriers, as well as the Typhoon fighter and the Joint Strike Fighter, all the while maintaining the army at about 100, 000 men and remaining committed to the war in Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, fighting started again in 1998 and most of the demobilised men went back to the army.
After leaving the compound Friday night, the two men then found a Pakistani army scout who led them to a nearby army base.
Surely, you might think, the Congolese army - totalling some 150, 000 men - could easily crush a mutiny involving no more than a few hundred soldiers.
Another shows young Israeli women and men on the day of their army enlistment.
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Young men here told CNN that Congolese army soldiers had attempted to forcibly recruit them.
It saw a force of British and French troops rout the Russian army, which lost about 6, 000 men.
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Some have brought military men on board, hoping for army backing.
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