Source: Ol' Buffalo Mormon Battalion Page, Copyright © 2001, 2021 by Blaine S Nay, Cedar City, Utah, USA

In July 1846, under the authority of U.S. Army Captain James Allen and with the encouragement of Mormon leader Brigham Young, the Mormon Battalion was mustered in at Council Bluffs, Iowa Territory. The battalion was the direct result of Brigham Young's correspondence on 26 January 1846 to Jesse C. Little, presiding elder over the New England and Middle States Mission. Young instructed Little to meet with national leaders in Washington, D.C., and to seek aid for the migrating Latter-day Saints, the majority of whom were then in the Iowa Territory. In response to Young's letter, Little journeyed to Washington, arriving on 21 May 1846, just eight days after Congress had declared war on Mexico.

Little met with President James K. Polk on 5 June 1846 and urged him to aid migrating Mormon pioneers by employing them to fortify and defend the West. The president offered to aid the pioneers by permitting them to raise a battalion of five hundred men, who were to join Colonel Stephen W. Kearny, Commander of the Army of the West, and fight for the United States in the Mexican War. Little accepted this offer.

Colonel Kearny designated Captain James Allen, later promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, to raise five companies of volunteer soldiers from the able-bodied men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five in the Mormon encampments in Iowa. On 26 June 1846 Allen arrived at the encampment of Mt. Pisgah. He was treated with suspicion as many believed that the raising of a battalion was a plot to bring trouble to the migrating Saints.

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How To Setup SSH equivalence

If you have multiple hosts with the same user on them you can setup ssh equivalence so you can ssh from one host to another without a password.  This is also help for scp commands.

First you will need to create an ssh-key, make sure you run this as the regular user and not root

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa 

The keys just generated is placed in the users home directory

~/.ssh/id_rsa

~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Then you will use the bash script ssh-copy-id.sh to copy the key you just created to a remote host you would like to login to without a password.

$ ./ssh-copy-id.sh user@host

When you run the ssh-copy-id.sh you will be prompted to login to the remote host with your user.

That is it, now when you ssh user@host you will not need to enter a password.

If you need a copy of the ssh-copy-id.sh script, here are the contents which can also be found here on git

Craig Larman - Valtech
Victor R. Basili - University ofMaryland

Although many view iterative and incremental development as a modern practice, its application dates as far back as the mid-1950s. Prominent software-engineering thought leaders from each succeeding decade supported IID practices, and many large projects used them successfully.