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Aug 1, 2010 ... In 1994, Cable #9 marked the first time Cable met Omega Red in battle. The two had a skirmish in which Omega Red got the jump on a partially�...	Soon after some of the our guard came in reporting that they had a skirmish with them. Soon followed 100 ... on their way to Concord, where they arrived early this day. On their march they had a Skirmish with some Country People at Lexington.... " Diary of John Rowe, 200 cavalry men the guard. Such a skedadling as�... Early in the week they had a skirmish with a regiment in Patterson?s Creek Valley on its way to re occupy Petersburg, but with no important result; 1 man killed�... Near Abbeville they had a skirmish with the enemy without serious results to the Regiment. Reached Oxford only to find that the enemy had fallen back still�...

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Aug 1, 2010 ... In 1994, Cable #9 marked the first time Cable met Omega Red in battle. The two had a skirmish in which Omega Red got the jump on a partially�...

Soon after some of the our guard came in reporting that they had a skirmish with them. Soon followed 100
... on their way to Concord, where they arrived early this day. On their march they had a Skirmish with some Country People at Lexington.... " Diary of John Rowe,
200 cavalry men
the guard. Such a skedadling as�...
Early in the week they had a skirmish with a regiment in Patterson?s Creek Valley on its way to re
occupy Petersburg, but with no important result; 1 man killed�...
Near Abbeville they had a skirmish with the enemy without serious results to the Regiment. Reached Oxford only to find that the enemy had fallen back still�...