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The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting him in his afterlife. The figures, dating from approximately the late 200s BCE, [1] were discovered in 1974 by local ...
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army ( ARSA ), [13] [14] [15] formerly known as Harakah al-Yaqin ( Arabic: حركة اليقين, lit. 'faith movement'), [16] [17] [18] is a Rohingya insurgent group active in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. According to a December 2016 report by the International Crisis Group, it is led by Ataullah abu Ammar ...
The 6th Panzer Army ( German: 6. Panzerarmee) was a formation of the German Army, formed in the autumn of 1944. The 6th Panzer Army was first used as an offensive force during the Battle of the Bulge, in which it operated as the northernmost element of the German offensive. The army was subsequently transferred to Hungary in early 1945 and used ...
The Canadian Army ( French: Armée canadienne) is the command responsible for the operational readiness of the conventional ground forces of the Canadian Armed Forces. It maintains regular forces units at bases across Canada, and is also responsible for the Army Reserve, the largest component of the Primary Reserve.
GEN William Hood Simpson. The Ninth Army was a field army of the United States Army, most recently garrisoned at Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy. It was the United States Army Service Component Command of United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM or AFRICOM). Activated just eight weeks before the June 1944 Normandy landings, the Ninth Army was one ...
From the 1880s, the structure of the army has evolved with changing defence needs and financial constraints. New Zealand deployed a division jointly with Australia at the beginning of the First World War, eventually despatching personnel to fill out a full division. Five divisions (three attenuated at home in NZ, the 1st, 4th, and 5th) were ...
Signal Regiment. Part of. 36 Canadian Brigade Group. Garrison/HQ. Halifax and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Abbreviation. 36 Sig Regt. 36 Signal Regiment [1] [2] is Reserve [3] unit of the Canadian Army, assigned to 36 Canadian Brigade Group. [4] It was created on 1 April 2012 after several years of planning.
Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. Coordinates: 40°47′26″N 91°14′41″W. The Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAAP), located in Des Moines County in southeastern Iowa, near the city of Burlington, produces and delivers component assembly, and medium- and large-caliber ammunition items for the United States Department of Defense using modern ...