Word: artilleria
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Abruptly in the middle of the night the guns of San Salvador's Fort La Artilleria began blazing away at the handsome colonnaded Presidential Palace. Officers of Fort El Sapote on the other side of the city, unaware of the revolution, tumbled out of bed to return the fire, but soon a messenger broke through with the big news. Then El Sapote too blazed away at the Palace. Policemen with their pay in their pockets bravely tried to defend the chief of state, as did a few loyal troops. Whether it was true or not, a rumor circulated that...
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