Riflemen Poems - Poems about Riflemen

...They tumble deceptively onto the fissured asphalt, plaster cracked years flake away where no eye watches. Hollow houses, their boards rotted by the chew and gnaw of tireless winds, old-time b......

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...I am a child of war, misery, anger and suffering. I grew up with sadness, uncertainty and anxiety. I took refuge in solitude to avoid human bestiality and its hypocrisy. My distress illuminated......

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...In you the Dogs of War unleashed again an Expeditionary Force by sea, and in the ground in years fourscore and ten lie bones of Empire and Admiralty. How in muddy trench riflemen joining ......

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......Through the woodlands the riflemen did steam, reinforcing General Greene’s second line, the British pressed on, still on the attack, but they had quite the devil of a time. Marching through ......

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...General Cornwallis of Great Britain faced a problem that he couldn’t resolve, he’d won at Camden, they’d captured Charlestown, but still the southern colonies wouldn’t fall. Instead he faced a ......

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...By Robert J (Bob) Moore © 2016 I am a British soldier, been a soldier all my life and back home in England, I left 2 kids and a wife now I’m outside Sebastapol, with Cardigans Brigade waiting t......

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...Firecracker - a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise. Firethe Southern sergeant shouts to the boys behind him In unison......

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...REMEMBER RUBEN Sons of peasants Insolent and craving For Grandeur, nay for Moneys Trampling to death, Proud, oh! Too proud To see death beside Just waiting the Hour. Sons of Offi......

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