Greek soldiers
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Anabasis
Rank-and-file Greeks, including freemen, slaves, market-goers, and troops under commanders' discipline.
and about two hundred of the soldiers also followed along, with the intention of going to market.
But when they had got past the danger and could go off to serve under another commander, many would desert him;
In the midst of dangers, therefore, the troops were ready to obey him implicitly and would choose no other to command them;
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Rank-and-file soldiers of England and Scotland whose modest estates exempt them from the harsher confiscation qualifications.
This proposition to stand as to the English, and as to the Scots likewise, if the Parliament of Scotland or their Commissioners shall think fit.
That the persons and estates of all common soldiers and others of the kingdom of England, who in lands or goods be not worth £200 sterling, and the persons and estates of all common soldiers and others of the kingdom of Scotland, who in his lands or goods be not worth £100 sterling, be at liberty and discharged.
2nd Branch. That the 1st of May last is now the day limited for the persons to come in, that are comprised within the former qualification.