1.   VOLUNTEER Gurkhas proved there is no such thing as a bridge too far by successfully completing one of the most gruelling tasks undertaken by military engineers in peacetime.

2.   After the Revolutionary War, President George Washington appointed the French military engineer to design a capital city for the new nation.

3.   He even served for a time as military engineer for Caesar Borgia.

4.   In one training exercise that began over the weekend, several companies of military engineers crept carefully down roads that have been strewn with mock mines and booby traps.

5.   Many of the roads in Bosnia are unpaved and narrow, cut out of the hillsides by UN military engineers.

6.   Military engineers must still assess the serviceability of the battle-scarred airfield in Kigali.

7.   Military engineers agree that a pontoon bridge can be erected in a day or two.

8.   Over the past three months, military engineers have built new airfield facilities in Pakistan, complete with air-conditioned tents and basketball courts.

9.   Perhaps the last great wall theorist was Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban, chief military engineer under Louis XIV of France.

10.   The military engineer, who fled the country a year ago, outlined the structure of the current Iraqi nuclear program and named the men in charge.