Word: balaclava
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Across the French border, a stocky, handsome Catalonian, his head wound in a woolen balaclava against the biting Pyrenees winds, led a small band through a high mountain pass into Spain. Francisco Sabater had made the trip a hundred times before, and as always, he expected to arrive unannounced. But someone in France had talked, and Spanish policemen from Barcelona to the border-the "state troopers" of the Guardia Civil, city detectives, even village watchmen-were on the alert for him. For 20 years, Sabater had defied capture; for ten years he had ranked as Franco Spain's most...
...left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and Thundered," as gallant Errol Flynn led the revengeful six hundred forward against Indja's infamous Surat Khan, murderer of Chukoti. Ahah, caught you that time; you probably thought the Light Brigade charged the Russians in the fated attack at Balaclava...
...British feel an emotional attachment to gallant defeats and desperate defenses that no mere victory can rival. Thus the Gallipoli campaign of World War I has always ranked high in British hearts, along with the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, the evacuation of Dunkirk and the siege of Tobruk...
...Reason Why, by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Best and most fascinating account to date of the most glorious snafu in military history: the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (TIME...
...Reason Why, by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Best and most fascinating account to date of the most glorious snafu in military history: the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (TIME...