brigadier

[Mark Mandel]

Parallel to "trooper" 'member of a troop'?

m a m

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> "Member of a brigade":
>
>  _2003_ Mark Bergin *Warfare in the 16th-19th Centuries*  (Brighton:
> Salariya) 35: Out of the 607 brigadiers who rode out in the Charge of the
> Light Brigade, only 198 returned.
>
> It's for kids but so what.
> JL
>

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