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Army recruits 'beaten as they slept' By Fiona Govan (Filed: 18/04/2005) An inquiry has been launched into claims that Army recruits suffered a regime of vicious beatings and bullying at a Scottish barracks. Several soldiers in the Royal Highland Fusiliers have complained that they were subjected to unprovoked attacks, known as "bleaching", by colleagues as they slept. The assaults are alleged to have taken place over two years at the regiment's Fort George barracks, near Inverness, and while the soldiers were serving in Cyprus. One cadet claims that he attempted suicide after receiving 10 "bleachings" and another claims that was...

THE OLUSTEE CAMPAIGN — FORMIDABLE FEDERAL MOVEMENT—DESIGN TO ESTABLISH A NEW STATE GOVERNMENT—CONCENTRATION OF CONFEDERATE FORCES —CRUSHING DEFEAT OF THE ENEMY — OPERATIONS FOLLOWING THE BATTLE. IN the winter of 1863-64 Florida was an inviting field to Federal aggression. The few Confederate troops left in the State were scattered over the vast extent of territory they gallantly sought to defend, and it appeared that a strong body of Federal soldiers could with little opposition advance into the center of the heart of the State, expel the regularly constituted authorities from the capital, and organize a quasi-State government which should recognize...