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Relatively few entered ELAS, but the 'professionalisation' of women's role in ELAS gave it a veneer of added legitimacy, which attracted middle-class girls like Titika Panayiotidou, second-lieutenant of the 13thRegiment of ELAS.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Titika, former ELAS second-lieutenant, also thought of Bouboulina as her chief role model.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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My friend -- the honor graduate of his Marine Corps OCS class -- ended up having a friend pin on his second-lieutenant bars in the beer-stained confines of their fraternity house.
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The company was commanded by Captain Robert Anderson; Henry B. Judd was the senior first-lieutenant, and I was the junior first-lieutenant, and George B. Ayres the second-lieutenant.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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I can see, in memory, a beautiful young city-bred lady, who had married a poor second-lieutenant, and followed him to his post on the plains, whose quarters were in a "dug-out" ten feet by about fifteen, seven feet high, with a dirt roof; four feet of the walls were the natural earth, the other three of sod, with holes for windows and corn-sacks for curtains.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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I chanced to notice a young and rosy-cheeked second-lieutenant, innocent of the ways of this rude world, and I knew he was doomed.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 Various
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On the first of September, 1785, he received the papers appointing him second-lieutenant in the artillery regiment, named La Fère (or "the sword"), and was ordered to report at the garrison at Valence.
The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French Eugenie Foa
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In due season I was appointed and commissioned second-lieutenant, Third
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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The master, at hearing these words, instantly ran to the gangway, that he might jump into the boat; but the intrepid second-lieutenant, who had been full as attentive and alert as himself, suddenly stopped him -- "It is my turn, now," cried young Nelson; "if I come back, too, it will be your's."
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison
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He graduated at West Point on the 30th of June, 1837, and was at once assigned to the Second artillery, as second-lieutenant.
Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens
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