Word: corsican
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...Britain's war with Napoleon was brewing in 1803, the martial spirit swept the lyrical circles of Britain's Lake District. Poet William Wordsworth bought himself a red coat, drilled with the Ambleside Volunteers. Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote patriotic sonnets and coined a deathless phrase: "The Corsican upstart...
...chilly night last February a French submarine from Algiers sneaked through the Mediterranean, surfaced in Corsica's Ajaccio harbor long enough to let Captain Colonna d'Istria, young scion of an old Corsican family, slip ashore...
...labored to arouse his indolent countrymen. It was not hard to do: 2,503 years of bloody history had engendered in them a hatred for foreigners, a natural bent for vendettas and guerrilla fighting in the blood-red rocks, the snow-capped peaks. D'Istria armed the Corsicans with 10,000 submachine guns (dropped by parachute, hauled in by submarine). He fired them with the memory and the zeal of the greatest Corsican of them all-Napoleon Bonaparte...
...relationships improved daily. During Giraud's visit, one gay, demonstrative crowd greeted him with cheers of "Vive Giraud!" Giraud silenced them, cried: "There are two generals at the head of the French National Committee, General de Gaulle and myself. Now, with me-'Vive De Gaulle!'" The Corsican crowd cheered...
Then the fun begins. Whenever anything drastic happens to Mario, his twin brother automatically feels it. Mario gets pinked by a saber thrust in a Parisian duel and Lucien, leagues away in a Corsican forest, also bears the pain. Mario falls in love with the heroine (Ruth Warrick), and Lucien writhes on his Corsican couch...