Word: chargers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imperial Welcome. With the tip of his nose brown with iodine but unbandaged, Signer Mussolini landed at Tripoli amid a salute of 19 guns, an honor previously reserved for princes of the blood. Mounted on a charger, he reviewed for over an hour a military procession in which walked and rode native warriors in every sort of brilliant and picturesque attire together with every device for military transport, from Arabian dromedaries to Italian tanks...
...final burst of speed. Mr. Dawes jumps out and rushes up that long marble flight of steps in a frantic attempt to save the honor of his country. A voice halls him from below: "Hey, come back here, you owe me sixty-five cents!" Sheridan had his foam-flecked charger. Paul Revere his prancing make but for over and ever Dawes will be known by his Yellow...
Most people believe that it was Horthy that crushed the Bolsheviki. This is not so for when, in 1919, he entered Budapest on his white charger at the head of the 'National Army, the Bolsheviki had already fallen under the coup de grace delivered by the Rumanian Army. But, none the less, Horthy has consented to take the credit...
...been held, being declared of sound mind. The release was ordered by Judge Llavallol following an appeal in which my father stated that he had been unjustifiably detained in the asylum at my instance." George V, King of England: "At Aldershot, I left the parade grounds on my charger after reviewing the troops. The horse became frightened at the cheering crowds. He bucked and nearly collided with a horse ridden by the aged Duke of Connaught alongside the Queen's carriage, and I was forced to abandon the procession and to turn him back and ride him home along...
...Lloyd George being returned to power, Mr. Wicks said that at present Mr. Lloyd George is remaining quiet, but if ever occasion demands a figure to champion an ideal, Lloyd George is the man, for there is no man in England who appears to better advantage "riding a white charger and championing a cause...