Word: affrays
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Subsequently, the dwelling-place became the head-quarters for General Israel Putnam, the Commissary officer of the Revolutionary army. Putnam and his adjutants were quartered here until the battle of Bunker Hill, in which all of them participated. After the Boston affray, the American troops and General Putnam retired from Cambridge, leaving the Hicks house to remain open for civilian occupants the rest of its days...
...third, counted for the most part after long zigzag sprints down the ice. Passing fell into disuse as it became evident that any individual might break away on his own account. Wetmore, Holbrook, and F. R. G. Giddens '29 shone most brilliantly in the latter part of the affray...
...hullabaloo. Fighting with chairs, clubs, bottles, 300 Nationlist opponents of General Smuts drove his supporters to the wall and captured the platform, where they sang and danced to the sound of the tearing of British flags used to decorate the hall. Many bleeding faces bore evidence of the affray...
Next day, in a four-hour affray at Telpaneca, 140 guerrillasš under General Salgado, armed with machine guns and high explosive bombs, attacked a garrison of 20 marines and 20 of the Guardia Nacional. One marine was killed and one mortally wounded; but upon the field of battle the rash guerrillas left 20 dead, carted off 50 wounded, retired into their strongholds...
Yang. One General Yang Sen, a little sloe-eyed commander, 45, nominally subordinate to Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu (see above), caused the affray by seizing the British river freight boats Wan-tung and Wanhsien. General Yang alleged that the Wanliu, another British freighter owned by the same company as those seized had previously upset two sampans filled with his soldiers. Despite the protests of the local British consul General Yang placed 300 soldiers on the captured freighters who promptly locked the white officers and passengers in their cabins, fed them but sparingly...