Word: flanks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diem and his fellow leaders across anti-Communist Asia-from Korea to the Philippines-a U.S. capitulation to Peking, either by dramatic act or slow erosion, would be a catastrophe. To the U.S.'s Asian flank in the cold war, it would be a mortal blow...
Specifically, Nimitz swung his three carriers-Enterprise, Hornet, Yorktown- around to the northeast of Midway to take the Japanese by surprise from the flank. "You will be governed by the principle of calculated risk," Nimitz told his task force commanders, Rear Admirals Raymond A. Spruance and Frank Jack Fletcher, who well knew that the three carriers were about all that stood between the Japanese and California. Not far away, gliding serenely through a fog bank amid their great escort, the Japanese carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu prepared for their strike...
...Monty teamed up last week to lose the second Battle of Gettysburg to some Robert E. Lee partisans, but General Eisenhower then attempted a flank movement at his press conference by saying he thought Lee was one of his four favorite Americans, despite all the nasty things he'd said about how Lee fought the battle...
...Edward Pickett, who led the charge at Gettysburg), Jackson served as an artillery officer under Winfield Scott on the epic march from Vera Cruz to the heights of Chapultepec. It was wily General Scott who taught him the military secret on which all his future success was based: scout, flank and pursue. He early showed another trait-a stubborn insistence on perfection-that was invaluable on the battlefield and infuriating off it. His career in the U.S. Army came to a clouded end because of a rancorous quarrel over a finicky point of military etiquette. As professor at Virginia Military...
...Fremont and Shields) in separate actions on succeeding days. When McClellan was strangling Richmond with his siege lines, Jackson broke through a Federal entrapment, raced down the valley to throw Washington into a panic, and then seemingly vanished from the earth-to appear days later on McClellan's flank outside Richmond. With fewer than 20,000 men, Jackson had in effect paralyzed 175,000 enemy troops...