What Does N. B. Mean?

[UnderTheRadar]

I have another question. In Army Life in a Black Regiment, page 236, is a side note by the author.
Then General Saxton, as anxious to keep us as was the regiment to go, played his last card in small-pox, telegraphing to department Headquarters that we had it dangerously in the regiment. (N. B. All varioloid, light at that, and besides, we always have it.)

What does N. B. mean?

 

[The Ninth Ohio]

"Nota bene", i.e., note well, or please pay close attention to…

 

[UnderTheRadar]

I need to study grammar more...hard to believe I made A's in English...

Thank you. I usually research things I don't know, but the Internet is still a new thing to me.

 

[BillO]

Glad I read this before posting. I saw the question and thought Nathan Bedford.

 

[scooter748driver]

Glad I read this before posting. I saw the question and thought Nathan Bedford.

me too!

 

[JerryD]

I need to study grammar more...hard to believe I made A's in English...

Thank you. I usually research things I don't know, but the Internet is still a new thing to me.

Lawyers tend to use that when reviewing documents when they want to highlight what they think is the crux of an issue.

 

[DixieRifles]

Im still pondering "varioloid".

 

[UnderTheRadar]

Im still pondering "varioloid".

That is a small pox reoccurrence when someone has had it or the vaccination. Slight case.

 

[USS ALASKA]

I wish ya'll would quit teaching me Latin. This is like the 4th or 5th time on this board. I ain't very gooder at 'merican...

Geez,
USS ALASKA

 

[Old Soldier]

Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (Scots Guards motto)
But then we have got mottos from all over like 14 Squadron RAF which is " أنا أفرد جناحي وأفي بوعدي " and written so on the scroll underneath (Arabic - 'I spread my wings and keep my promise')*

*adopted because they were first employed in Sinai and Palestine until the end of WW1. On being re-formed in 1920 they were used for combat and aerial policing of the Middle East. and Eastern Mediterranean, returning to Britain in 1944.

 

[UnderTheRadar]

Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (Scots Guards motto)
But then we have got mottos from all over like 14 Squadron RAF which is " أنا أفرد جناحي وأفي بوعدي " and written so on the scroll underneath (Arabic - 'I spread my wings and keep my promise')*
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*adopted because they were first employed in Sinai and Palestine until the end of WW1. On being re-formed in 1920 they were used for combat and aerial policing of the Middle East. and Eastern Mediterranean, returning to Britain in 1944.

Were you in the Scots Guard?

 

[Biscoitos]

N.B. can also be used for "note below" as in P.S.

 

[Old Soldier]

Were you in the Scots Guard?

REME attached 2nd Bn Scots Guards.

 

[7thWisconsin]

And I always thought it stood for <<notez bien.>>

 

[UnderTheRadar]

REME attached 2nd Bn Scots Guards.

I had a surgeon, who is Scottish, that served in the Fusiliers (I can't remember which ones). When I say Scottish, he transplanted to WV. He took real good care of me and didn't charge me for quite a few visits. I had a rare cancer and I let him study me. Great guy, but he didn't seem to like my humor. I started to say "He was a hoot, mahn" but I was afraid you might not like it either.
I don't know much about the Scotch Guard but I hear they are a top military unit with a proud history.

 

[UnderTheRadar]

And I always thought it stood for <<notez bien.>>

That almost looks French

 

[Old Soldier]

I had a surgeon, who is Scottish, that served in the Fusiliers (I can't remember which ones). When I say Scottish, he transplanted to WV. He took real good care of me and didn't charge me for quite a few visits. I had a rare cancer and I let him study me. Great guy, but he didn't seem to like my humor. I started to say "He was a hoot, mahn" but I was afraid you might not like it either.
I don't know much about the Scotch Guard but I hear they are a top military unit with a proud history.

Serving with 2SG was the best posting I had. A great regiment with a long history. The guards regiments are now down to one battalion each. Unlike many regiments, anyone attached from another corps, like REME, was considered part of the regiment. A number did not like the idea as the Guards are very 'to the book' and have their own way of doing things by tradition. I loved it.

Fusiliers. The Scots Guards were originally the Scots Fusilier Guards when first formed but dropped the 'fusilier'* in 1877. There was also the Royal Scots Fusiliers (21st Foot), but there were 8 other Fusilier regments and a Scottish doctor could have served with any of them.

*fusilier - an old 17th Century term from a French word referring to a flintlock musket - fusil - used by regiments guarding artillery. It could also be applied to 'grenadiers' who could not be armed with matchlocks due to the need to throw lighted grenades - hence the 'flaming grenade' on all fusilier regimental badges. In the early 18th Century, the 'grenadiers' became part of every infantry regiment and were the 'assault company' - the biggest, toughest guys - and the 'fusiliers' became infantry regiments.

 

[7thWisconsin]

Serving with 2SG was the best posting I had. A great regiment with a long history. The guards regiments are now down to one battalion each. Unlike many regiments, anyone attached from another corps, like REME, was considered part of the regiment. A number did not like the idea as the Guards are very 'to the book' and have their own way of doing things by tradition. I loved it.

Fusiliers. The Scots Guards were originally the Scots Fusilier Guards when first formed but dropped the 'fusilier'* in 1877. There was also the Royal Scots Fusiliers (21st Foot), but there were 8 other Fusilier regments and a Scottish doctor could have served with any of them.

*fusilier - an old 17th Century term from a French word referring to a flintlock musket - fusil - used by regiments guarding artillery. It could also be applied to 'grenadiers' who could not be armed with matchlocks due to the need to throw lighted grenades - hence the 'flaming grenade' on all fusilier regimental badges. In the early 18th Century, the 'grenadiers' became part of every infantry regiment and were the 'assault company' - the biggest, toughest guys - and the 'fusiliers' became infantry regiments.

¨Fusil¨ is still the word for rifle or musket in Spanish and French. If you google fusil de chasse you´ll end up looking at pictures of shotguns.

 

[Old Soldier]

¨Fusil¨ is still the word for rifle or musket in Spanish and French. If you google fusil de chasse you´ll end up looking at pictures of shotguns.

True. I have just finished restoring a rather battered Fusil Gras mle 1874 - a Gras rifle.

 

[DixieRifles]

I wish ya'll would quit teaching me Latin.

Et Tu, Alaska?