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    Rearguard (redirect from Rear Guard)
    "the guard which is behind", originating with the medieval custom of dividing an army into three battles or wards; Van, Main (or Middle) and Rear. The...
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  • The Rear Guard is a 1976 pilot episode for an American adaptation of the British situation comedy Dad's Army. The pilot was aired on Tuesday, 10 August...
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    services, rear admiral (lower half) replaced the rank of commodore in 1985. U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. PHS, U.S. NOAA rank insignia of a rear admiral...
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    Stanley's party pushed further into the interior in search of Emin. The rear guard was left behind because Stanley had brought far too much equipment for...
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    list of active duty rear admirals (two-star rear admiral, abbreviated RADM) serving in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, United States Public...
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  • (Ethiopian Navy) Rear admiral (Republic of Fiji Navy) Rear admiral (Gambian Navy) Rear admiral (Ghana Navy) Rear admiral (Guyana Coast Guard) Rear admiral (Indian...
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    (PDF). U.S. Coast Guard. "Rear Admiral James E. Rendon" (PDF). U.S. Coast Guard. "Rear Admiral William G. Kelly". U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Moser, Erica...
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  • Rear Guard is a horizontally scrolling shooter written for Atari 8-bit computers and published in December 1981 by Adventure International. Neil Larimer...
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    took refuge in Castel Sant'Angelo after the Swiss Guard were annihilated in a delaying rear guard action; he remained there until a ransom was paid to...
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    December 2, 1899, in northern Luzon in the Philippines. A 60-man Filipino rear guard commanded by Brigadier General Gregorio del Pilar succumbed to more than...
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    escorts, and two honour guard platoons guarding the colour from the rear also armed. Unlike in other countries the colour guard company wears either full...
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    for which he was posthumously awarded the VC: This Officer during a rear-guard action, near Lambrecht Fontein, on the 18th of May, 1901, seeing Corporal...
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  • protecting the rear of a larger military formation, especially when retreating from a pursuing enemy force. It may also refer to: Rear Guard (video game)...
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    Napoleon Bonaparte and an Austrian rear guard led by Karl Philipp Sebottendorf at Lodi, Lombardy. The rear guard was defeated, but the main body of Johann...
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    camps vulnerable. However, when Muslim victory seemed near, the Muslim rear guard who were tasked to defend a hill to protect against a possible encirclement...
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    Napoleon himself, served as a rear guard after the failure of the attack of the Middle Guard on the British center. The Old Guard cavalry was involved in the...
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    British forces, under General Simon Fraser, caught up with the American rear guard of the forces retreating after the withdrawal from Fort Ticonderoga. It...
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    Prussians, which resulted in the separate Battle of Wavre with the Prussian rear-guard on 18–19 June and prevented that French force from participating at Waterloo...
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    weather and the uncommitted Russian reserves who formed an effective rear-guard precluded a major pursuit. Three days after the battle, the Allies surrounded...
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    the almirante (rear guard) for the Spanish fleet. It would trail behind the other ships in the flotilla to prevent an attack from the rear. Much of the...
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