Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small dark hours, troops in battle kit swarmed into rain-soaked Rio. By morning the city was in Lett's hands. Segments of the navy and air force first declared for Luz, but backed down the next day without firing a shot. Luz himself fled aboard a navy cruiser. The Chamber of Deputies declared Luz "unable to serve" (on the technical ground that he was at sea), duly named as his successor Senate President Nereu Ramos, next in line according to the Constitution. One of Ramos' first official acts was to reappoint Lott as War Minister. The following...
...captain on the bridge of Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht Hohenzollern had ambitions to match those of his master: both wanted to bust the bully-bold British Navy. In World War I Hamburg-born Erich Raeder, promoted to chief of staff in the Kaiser's brand-new cruiser squadrons, had a brief taste of glory in the battles of Doggerbank and Jutland (in which the British were powerfully mauled), but at war's end the barnacled fleet had to scuttle itself to avoid capture. Returning from Versailles. Raeder said: "Just wait 25 years...
...eternal flame" that burned in memory of Eva Perón on an outside wall of the Congress building was snuffed out. A navy cruiser was sent to Uruguay to bring back 450 anti-Peronista exiles. Universities, whose staffs Perón loaded with subservient hacks, were de-Peronized as fast as possible. The new President, a churchgoing Roman Catholic, restored to the calendar five religious holidays canceled...
...hours by inner-circle generals guarding their vested interests in the Perón regime. But this time rebel leaders showed spectacular dime-novel pluck and luck. While Generals Lonardi and Videla Balaguer were holding Córdoba, Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas daringly boarded the navy's flagship cruiser, locked the Peronista fleet commander in his cabin, invited the navy to join the rebellion. "I am not going to deceive anybody," messaged Rojas. "We are going to make a revolution, and they may kill us all. Anybody who does not want to sail with us may go ashore...
...sample of naval power was enough for the loyalist generals still holding out in Buenos Aires. Peron and his top followers bugged out to foreign embassies, leaving in charge an interim junta made up of 14 not-so-Peronista generals. Next day members of the junta boarded a rebel cruiser in the Plate, agreed to surrender their authority to a government headed by General Lonardi. Before handing over the capital of Argentina to the rebels, the short-lived junta happily carried out a final operation: disarming the red-armband fascist bullyboys of Perón's Alianza Popular Nacionalista...