Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smart Mrs. Patterson stalled for time, tipped off the Press that General Butler had appealed to Secretary of the Navy Adams to create a diplomatic incident. Minister Bellegarde, flustered, protested that he had been misunderstood, misreported. He explained that he had not meant to deny the existence of the fort but merely to state that he had never seen or heard of it because all of its "ill-equipped"' native defenders were killed and a strict news censorship prevailed at the time...
...profusion of conflicting histories of the capture of Fort Riviere broke out over the country. One Marine veteran described a hot tight with Cacos inside the fortress. Against this was set testimony before a Senate Committee in 1925 that Major Butler and his men had slaughtered the unarmed defenders in cold blood. New York's Governor Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the time, entered the dispute to say that of course there was a Fort Riviere because he had visited it in 1917. A Marine colonel asserted there had been a fortress, but that he had blown...
Such was the new line of historical reasoning put forth last week by George Fort Milton, editor of the Chattanooga News, upon the discovery of 20,000 letters to and from the great-lunged, short-legged Illinois Senator. Under the dusty eaves of an old barn at Greensboro. N. C., was found this treasure of historical correspondence. It belonged to Robert Dick Douglas, the "Little Giant's" grandson who turned it over to Editor Milton for use in connection with the latter's forth coming Douglas biography.* Declared Mr. Milton...
...Fort Sumter was fired at April...
...Royal Party will arrive at the north entrance to Fort Myer military reservation. A troop of cavalry will be waiting for the Royal Party to act as an escort on the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery...