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Also all the slang, the “square-bashing” drilling exercises, and the boring meals and the uniforms, though Maddie’s group didn’t get issued proper uniforms at first.

After some square-bashing, they lower their barrels and charge, bellowing “kill, kill, kill!”

As a child and adolescent, Frederick suffered at the hands of his father Frederick William I, a bad-tempered, gouty despot nicknamed the “Soldier King” because of his fondness for square-bashing.