| When they hit, a blast of light and heat and a rolling shockwave splintered all the siege engines and sent the legionnaires scrambling for cover. |
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| His legionnaires marched in full battle array, incorporated an advance guard, and maintained tactical integrity on the move. |
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| During the Shaba rebellion in the 1970s the US organised a military airlift and France parachuted in legionnaires to crush Mobutu's enemies. |
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| When I asked why, he said that it made the legionnaires fight among themselves, so he wasn't allowed to sell it to them any more. |
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| German special forces troops have adopted it, as have foreign legionnaires, Spanish riot police and Italian anti-terrorism units. |
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| Roman legionnaires, for example, were not radically different in their equipment from the soldiers of Assyria a millennium before. |
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| Instantly, the legionnaires in the room leapt to his defence, blades glittering in the light. |
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| The name annuity dates back to Roman legionnaires who were paid an annual pension when they retired from the army. |
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| If the legionnaires don't have the good eats, then how can they perform anything but abysmally for their lictors? |
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| I had it made for me, like all the other legionnaires, so it fits perfectly, even after all these years. |
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| In 1890 French foreign legionnaires massacred the amazonian army of Dahomey, one of west Africa's great kingdoms. |
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| I treasure the notion that the first Romans to settle in England were legionnaires who completed their service and got land in and around Colchester. |
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| The Roman Empire had a standing army of 400,000 well-trained legionnaires. |
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| In three days of fighting as murderous as any of the legionnaires had seen at Stalingrad, the last trenches were overrun. |
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| There actually is quite the rounded out selection of units to make as well, ranging from infantry to spearman to archers to legionnaires to praetorians and beyond. |
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| Turning men on the lam, and some learned ones, into legionnaires has never been easy. |
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| Saito served in the French Foreign Legion for 21 years, but legionnaires said they could not help to free him because he was not a French citizen. |
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| When on campaign the Roman legions used pack animals to transport the ten-man tents used by the legionnaires and spare missiles for the archers, slingers, and catapults. |
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| Alongside the ghost cruise and the many ghost walks, tours of the cellar have started at the Treasurer's House, where Harry Martindale famously saw the Roman legionnaires. |
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| In one of his famous cartoons, he shows soldiers of the French Foreign Legion marching endlessly through a desert expanse with two legionnaires in the foreground. |
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| Three French legionnaires were walking through the desert under a baking sun. |
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| Intervention by proper armies with orders to shoot to kill can work: British troops helped save Sierra Leone, and the French legionnaires in Côte d'Ivoire have reduced the carnage there. |
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| In order to support the efforts of legionnaires, a remembrance monument committee was set up in 1984 with representatives of the Hull branch and the City of Hull. |
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| We have volunteers or sons and daughters of the legionnaires who are still with us trying to preserve these edifices that stand as a testament to them. |
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| If a group of legionella bacteria is released from the biofilm and the water in which it houses is sprayed and inhaled by people with impaired immune defence it can cause the much feared legionnaires disease. |
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| Public Health England then tested six pools and the legionella bacterium, linked to legionnaires, was in four. |
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| In 15, after a quick raid on the Chatti, invaded the lands of the Marsi in 14 AD with 12,000 legionnaires, 26 cohorts of auxiliaries and eight cavalry squadrons. |
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| The bacteria causes both the mild Pontiac fever and the more serious Legionnaires Disease. |
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| Legionnaires disease is usually contracted by inhaling water mist from baths, showers and cooling towers or air conditioning systems contaminated with the bacteria. |
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| A common feature of the Atlas landscape is the kasbah, a traditional fortified settlement that evokes images of Berber tribes and Foreign Legionnaires. |
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| You can forget the romantic Beau Geste image of Legionnaires marching through the desert, a blistering sun on their back. |
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| The fair drew thousands of visitors and the number of suspected Legionnaires cases being reported is still rising. |
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| The patient with Legionnaires was transferred to the CTC from another hospital and was diagnosed during routine tests last week. |
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| With this new relationship, we can continue to offer career support to the millions of Legionnaires who have served our country. |
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| There is no evidence to suggest yet that the man in Wales has Legionnaires. |
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| A WOMAN is recovering after being struck down by the deadly Legionnaires Disease, it has emerged. |
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| Dr McCormick said medical teams were trying to identify other unidentified cases of Legionnaires to establish the true scale of the Edinburgh outbreak. |
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| I trust this is the beginning of decisive action to limit the power and arrogance of Saddam Hussein,'' Dole told his audience of about 3,200 Legionnaires. |
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