Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truce, treat for peace. Trustingly Osceola advanced with several chiefs and 198 tribespeople. All threw down their guns. When the parley was well started, General Jesup's soldiers leaped from the bushes, captured the Indians without a struggle. Osceola was imprisoned in Charleston. S. C.'s Fort Moultrie where he died after three months, officially of "a quinsy." General Jesup spent the rest of his life trying to justify his black treachery...
...gossips imagined. He was investigating with the concentration of his student days the organization plans of foreign armies. Nor did his conventional forays into Washington society (he much prefers less formal fun) give proper perspective to the long evenings spent at his office and home across the Potomac at Fort Myer, digesting and arranging the material he had gathered. Result of these studies was his ''Four-Army Plan" of mobilization and command...
Last week the Greek Government sealed up seven Venizelos houses, including the great Athens mansion-fort with its $5,000,000 (reputed) library, preparatory to confiscating them. As Mussolini turned a cold shoulder to all Greek attempts to extradite the person of the rebel leader, old Venizelos prepared to end his days in exile with his second wife* and the two sons of his first wife, a beautiful Cretan girl dead these 40 years. He smiled sourly when he heard that his opponent. General Kondylis. who was once his ally and fellow-conspirator, had said, "When conditions become normal...
From the old fort above Portsmouth dockyard a gun boomed out last week, and the Union Jack broke from the halyards of Admiral Nelson's famed old wooden flagship, the Victory. In the courtyard before the barracks honor guards of bluejackets and Royal Marines snapped to present arms as nine high officers, walking stiffly in the epaulets and cocked hats of their full dress uniforms, entered the building to hold an exciting court martial...
...have the honor to inform you that you have been selected for appointment as a cadet of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and you are, therefore, authorized by the Secretary of War to present yourself before a board of officers at Fort Sheridan, Ill. on the fifth day of March, before 9 o'clock a. m., for mental and physical examination...