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A sapper, also called pioneer or combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties such as bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, demolitions, field defences and general construction, as well as road and airfield construction and repair. They are also trained to serve as infantry personnel in defensive and offensive operations. A sapper's tasks are devoted to tasks involving facilitating movement of allied forces and impeding those of enemies.
The term "sapper" is used in the British Army, Polish Army, Commonwealth nations and U.S. military.
A sapper, in the sense first used by the Assyrian Army in the early 7th Century BC[citation needed], was one who excavated trenches under defensive fire to advance a besieging army's position in relation to the works of an attacked fortification, which was referred to as sapping the enemy fortifications.
Saps were excavated by brigades of trained sappers or instructed troops. When an army was defending a fortress with cannon, they had an obvious height and therefore range advantage over the attacker's guns. The attacking army's artillery had to be brought forward, under fire, so as to facilitate effective counter-battery fire.
Actors: Mark Strong (actor), James Payton (actor), Danny Huston (actor), João Costa Menezes (actor), Robert Pugh (actor), Max von Sydow (actor), Ned Dennehy (actor), Ray Donn (actor), Lasco Atkins (actor), Russell Crowe (actor), Lee Nicholas Harris (actor), Gerard McSorley (actor), William Hurt (actor), Cate Blanchett (actress), Eileen Atkins (actress),
Plot: Birth of a legend. Following King Richard's death in France, archer Robin Longstride, along with Will Scarlett, Alan-a-Dale and Little John, returns to England. They encounter the dying Robert of Locksley, whose party was ambushed by treacherous Godfrey, who hopes to facilitate a French invasion of England. Robin promises the dying knight he will return his sword to his father Walter in Nottingham. Here Walter encourages him to impersonate the dead man to prevent his land being confiscated by the crown, and he finds himself with Marian, a ready-made wife. Hoping to stir baronial opposition to weak King John and allow an easy French take-over, Godfrey worms his way into the king's service as Earl Marshal of England and brutally invades towns under the pretext of collecting Royal taxes. Can Robin navigate the politics of barons, royals, traitors, and the French?
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Plot: Birth of a legend. Following King Richard's death in France, archer Robin Longstride, along with Will Scarlett, Alan-a-Dale and Little John, returns to England. They encounter the dying Robert of Locksley, whose party was ambushed by treacherous Godfrey, who hopes to facilitate a French invasion of England. Robin promises the dying knight he will return his sword to his father Walter in Nottingham. Here Walter encourages him to impersonate the dead man to prevent his land being confiscated by the crown, and he finds himself with Marian, a ready-made wife. Hoping to stir baronial opposition to weak King John and allow an easy French take-over, Godfrey worms his way into the king's service as Earl Marshal of England and brutally invades towns under the pretext of collecting Royal taxes. Can Robin navigate the politics of barons, royals, traitors, and the French?
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Plot: Birth of a legend. Following King Richard's death in France, archer Robin Longstride, along with Will Scarlett, Alan-a-Dale and Little John, returns to England. They encounter the dying Robert of Locksley, whose party was ambushed by treacherous Godfrey, who hopes to facilitate a French invasion of England. Robin promises the dying knight he will return his sword to his father Walter in Nottingham. Here Walter encourages him to impersonate the dead man to prevent his land being confiscated by the crown, and he finds himself with Marian, a ready-made wife. Hoping to stir baronial opposition to weak King John and allow an easy French take-over, Godfrey worms his way into the king's service as Earl Marshal of England and brutally invades towns under the pretext of collecting Royal taxes. Can Robin navigate the politics of barons, royals, traitors, and the French?
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Plot: Celebrates the 225th anniversary re-enactment of America's momentous 1781 Revolutionary War victory at Yorktown, Virginia. The four-day commemorative event was held October 19-22, 2006, with many of the events staged on the original field. Four different battle re-enactments feature re-enactors from around the world portraying Continental Soldiers, American Militia and Riflemen, German Hessians, British Regulars, the French Army in America as well as cavalry, artillery, camps, 18th century women and sutlers. Cameras are "embedded" with these soldiers on the field of battle and in their camps, carrying the viewer on this journey to final victory in the American Revolution. For the first time in 225 years, and within days of the actual anniversary of the formal British surrender, nearly 2,000 re-enactors met on the original, hollowed "Surrender Field" to commemorate the British defeat to the allied American and French forces led by General George Washington. Never since 1781 had this event been re-staged so authentically.
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Plot: A beauty contest turns into a hostage situation, when the Miss Galaxy competition is taken over by a gang, demanding a ransom of diamonds. Sharon, a kick-boxing actress, is the host of the show, and the thorn in the terrorists side.
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Plot: McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even harder when they start investigating the serial killings of local prostitutes. Their prime suspect is high ranking U.S. Army officer which brings their lives in danger.
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Plot: Today Lady Louise Lendale is 80 years old and she tells her long time admirer, British poet Sir Percy, all about her eventful life. In the beginning, she was a young laundress working in "Le Mouton Bleu", a renowned Paris whorehouse. There, she met Armand, both a charming man and a bomb-throwing anarchist, and it wasn't long before she became his mistress. One day while Armand was away in Switzeland, working for a revolutionary movement aiming to murder a Russian prince, Louise met the second man in her life,, a British Lord she soon called Dicky. The latter offered to marry her. In exchange, he would save Armand from the police's grip. She accepted on the condition she could still see Armand...
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Keywords: bank, barbed-wire, bomb, bream, bureaucracy, burgundy, buried-treasure, customs, diplomacy, double-decker-busThe life of sapper is very dangerous
One step you burst
Inaccurate action will lead to demise
You haven’t got any right to appeal
Do you see
I bring you my existence
Don’t move or breathe
Obtain what you need
All what I require is just to cut the wire
Imagine how many people you can save
Assume this situation
Concentrate only on counsels
There’s a high voltage
But be yourself
You feel sad
Because your soul is empty
Stop worrying
We are all exhausted
Let me find the answer
I use my keen eyesight
Everyone disturbs me
We don’t wanna die
Anybody else can understand a bomb’s message?
My hacking skills are not good
Let’s carry on playing with strategies
People don’t fetch the truth
As I disdain falsehood
You snare my ruse
We must go
This egg is impossible to defuse
My nous perceives
Somewhat force to shove off
I can save my workmate
Only she wants to stay
We waste our season
No, there is the main theme
Perhaps, I neutralize the clock
I espy, it’s fatuously
Chorus
She was the best sapper
I ever knew
The life before her eyes
You think you can watch such a thing
Only on your TV screens
The wet lips whispered
`Not your fault`
It was my fatal flaw
The crowd saw her dying
I was nearly to bawl
She was the best sapper
I ever knew
The life before her eyes
You think you can watch such a thing
Only on your TV screens
The wet lips whispered
`Not your fault`
It was my decisive flaw
Now I can approve
She was the best sapper
I ever knew ***
The strange thing that I’m not crying
I flee and hear the blast
Feeling the last sigh
She daresaid her life came to the end
One cold tear streamed on my cheek
It gripes me to hear her blubber
That miscount hunts my thought
Hardly I am able to doss with composure
The stab engulfed dreadful plight
I feel ill at ease
And understand my mistake
It’s better me
To render that mechanism
We sustained a reverse
What could I change?
It was too late
I’d like to swap our places
All curses for those
Who made the explosive
I gave up working
And can’t lull my conscious
Her parents suppose
I shirk my duty
Behaving like devil's advocate
It’s absolutely heresy
I’m tired of vile glances
Jesus, forgive me
Stress cripples my spirit
My weird is not a severe critic
They got positive assurance
I’m alone is to blame
Don’t mind listening to advice
Chorus
I reject to be preached at
No deacon
Never teach me to be correct
May I read the psalm?
You can overturn a verdict
In the womb of time
You will realize
That I’m right
Thou thumb my idea down
Hiding like mouse from owl
Add fuel to the flame
I disappoint in my own
Safe and sound my psyche writhes
I go underground
And become a recluse
My eyes smart to see the light
No power on earth can make me like before
Because such is the world
They are too proud to seize
Our tide is rushing forward
I shan`t accept the challenge
Nobody lends me a hand
I’m avid like misanthrope
Evil audits my tactic
Clutter strikes at the double
It opines I climb down
Consent with awe to elide
You will excel
But bereave everything thou have
I smelt a rat
Having a grumble during the trouble
My misgiving couldn’t predict it
We grasp a day after the fair