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U.S. Reports Big Victory South of Baghdad By Sean Maguire SOUTHERN IRAQ (Reuters) - U.S. troops on Tuesday reported killing hundreds of Iraqi soldiers south of Baghdad without losing a man, as signs emerged of a possible uprising against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in the southern city of Basra. In what appeared to be the biggest ground engagement since the war began last Thursday, a U.S. military official said 150 to 300 Iraqi forces were believed killed when they attacked the U.S. Seventh Cavalry near the town of Najaf, about 100 miles south of Baghdad. "Apparently...

<p>CNN correspondent Walter Rodgers has been traveling with the 7th Cavalry's 3rd Squadron. He spoke with CNN anchor Carol Costello about Sunday's battle.</p> <p>COSTELLO: What happened in the incident with the 7th Cavalry?</p> <p>RODGERS: The 7th Cavalry was moving up the road, approached the outskirts of a city, an Iraqi city in south-central Iraq. They began to take some small arms fire. We're not sure how substantial the fire was because the Bradley armored fighting vehicles were far in advance of us. The commander decided to stop the column, put it on the side of the road.</p>

<p>CNN saying troops are making good time, ignoring smaller towns in the run to Baghdad ..</p>

For Embedded Correspondents, the Small Picture Is Big News Walt Rodgers, the veteran CNN correspondent traveling with the Army's 7th Cavalry, is so deeply embedded that he got to ride around the desert in an Abrams tank."Being inside the beast isn't so bad," he said yesterday by satellite phone from Iraq. "We're getting unbelievable access. I don't believe I've ever had such access over 36 years of reporting."The Pentagon's decision to dispatch more than 500 journalists with U.S. forces has produced a wealth of riveting television pictures and a grunt's-eye view of the war, along with occasional moments of silliness.Viewers...

Garry OwenDownload Midi File John Renfro Davis Information Lyrics Garry Owen was the unofficial marching song of the Seventh Cavalry. Gen. Custer reportedly heard the song among his Irish troop and liked it. The tune was then played so often the 7th became tied to it. The tune is first documented as Auld Bessy in 1788. It was later (1800) in the opera Harlequin Amulet (the Majic of Mona). About that time it was attributed to "Jackson of Cork" by a book of Country Dances by William Campbell. It also appeared in part two (1802) of Nathaniel Gow's four...

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