Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Royal Fusiliers and the Black Watch pushed into the city.

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It concluded 49 minutes later so members could watch the defence secretary announce a reprieve for the threatened Queen's Dragoon Guards.

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The government even wants to ban some raw-material exports, hoping to dragoon mining companies into building smelters and exporting higher-value goods.

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He wore his belt gun which was a big long dragoon pistol, the cap-and-ball kind that was old-fashioned even at that time.

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The 2013 list included a disproportionate set of vowel-laden words including buncombe, cerulean, dragoon, fantods, chelonian, mawkish, natter, persiflage, troglodyte and winkle.

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'Firing Line' brings together the history of The Royal Welsh regiment and the 1st The Queens Dragoon Guards - also known as the Welsh Cavalry.

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Members of the Old Scouts Rugby Club and Bold Dragoon Cricket Club, who share the ground, said a similar leak flooded the pitches in March 2011.

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One of the first to highlight his role in saving the Queen's Dragoon Guards was the leader of the Conservatives in the Welsh assembly, Andrew RT Davies.

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The British forces also launched a missile strike that destroyed the Baath headquarters in Basra, said Richard Gaisford, an ITN reporter embedded with the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.

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You can see the details of the announcement here - around six hundred soldiers will see their jobs disappear as a battalion of the Royal Welsh is scrapped, twice as many as were threatened in the Queen's Dragoon Guards.

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