Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would be treated as equals by friends or enemies but steadfastly did his duty. In February he took command of the regiment at Readville, on the 2d of May he was married, on the 28th he started for the front. On the 19th of July following an assault on Fort Wagner was ordered, and the lead was offered by Gen. Strong to Col. Shaw, who eagerly accepted it. The assault was made about sundown and succeeded for a short time, but the resistance was gallant and it was beaten back. Col. Shaw, two of his officers, and some...
...parade, in cruelly and without provocation beating and wounding a woman and several students in the crowd in Park Square. The policemen had been told of the possibility of a rush and were evidently anxious that none should take place. But at the time when they made the assault the students were gathered together without any intention or serious thought of rushing, and were merely cheering while waiting for Cambridge cars...
...lack of cooperation from Washington, and unwisely dividing his army, found his line of communication broken by Forrest's brilliant raid, and was forced to retreat. Sherman was waiting for Grant in the swamps before Haines's Bluff, and not knowing the strength of the position tried to assault it. The assault failed, and the second part of the plan proved impracticable...
...many years there have been complaints in regard to the existing methods of distributing scholarships by the authorities of the college. This distribution of scholarships is a matter of extreme difficulty, and any hammer-and-tongs assault on the present method would be unjustified; yet there are certain considerations, perhaps more obvious to the undergraduate than to the Faculty, which we wish to press on their attention...
Beethoven's Overture "Coriolanus." which opened the eighth Symphony Concert last night in Saunders Theatre, has been identified by Wagner with the scene "between Coriolanus, his mother and his wife on the battlefield before the gates of his native city, when the chieftain yielded to femine entreaties, refused to assault the place and thereupon suffered death at the hands of the Volcian, Attius, his associate in the enterprise." The overture is very impressive, beginning with the huge C given by the strings with all their might, followed by a short, sharp chord from the entire orchestra, and developing with great...