Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles of improved roads, railroads and canals; their irrigation projects brought 13 million more acres under cultivation. But the French were not wanted back. Frenchmen had made a lot of money out of Indo-China. and their administrators were often disliked. They had been discredited by the easy Japanese conquest. Like most South Asians, the Indo-Chinese simply wanted their independence. French General Jacques Leclerc had to fight to clear nationalist guerrillas from the capital, Saigon...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition (TIME...
...Conquest of Everest" reveals the same careful planning that spelled success for the fourth major assault on the world's highest peak. The fill in shots which space out the more exciting, on-the-spot scenes in this feature-length presentation are well filmed and valuable in detailing the long, work that went into the ascent...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition (TIME...
...Conquest of Everest, by Sir John Hunt. An engrossing account of the great climb by the commander of the expedi tion (TIME...