Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arab General Strike now in its twenty-first week. Abruptly 15,000 British troops, already drawn up in mock battle array for war games in Sussex, were piled aboard trains, rushed to Aldershot where overseas war equipment was issued to them, and shown to transports for Palestine. One battalion each of the King's Coldstream and Scots Guards was left in Britain but the rest of the First Division was headed for Palestine by ' week...
...Bakunin battalion made up entirely of dockworkers from Barcelona, broke into Huesca at nine in the morning, but was checked for four hours by 26 machine-guns installed on a church roof and belfry, which vomited livid death into the front ranks of the Popular Frontists as they entered the main square. Shortly after noon two Anarchists, Amadeo Salvan and Fernández Ubarri, loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri...
...much more startling, though it exploded in the headlines with a far louder pop, was the final pre-convention volley fired at the Democratic army by its embittered Lost Battalion. Ever since he proclaimed to the Liberty League and the nation last January that he might "take a walk" at Philadelphia, observers have been waiting for Al Smith to take his first step. He waited until the day before the convention began and then, with Joseph B. Ely, James A. Reed, Bainbridge Colby and onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan for co-signers, released an open telegram...
...wandering, disorganized French Colonials to follow him up the hill. Few minutes later Lieutenant Parker and his men had effectively silenced the German guns, captured 40 prisoners. Next day, when a bad foot wound left him unable to stand, he crawled on hands & knees at the head of his battalion, brought aid to a battalion under enfilade fire. There he stayed, refusing to be evacuated until the lines were consolidated...
...carried dispatches through a region infested with Indians; Sergeant Alvin York who killed 25 Germans, with six men captured 132 more; Brig. General Charles E. Kilbourne who mended a telegraph wire under fire in the Spanish-American War; Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, praised by General Pershing as the "greatest soldier of the A.E.F.," who killed 16 men, battered two to death with a pick and captured three machine-gun nests, all in one afternoon; Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the Merrimac to block Santiago harbor in 1898; Major General...