Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junior varsity basketball team will play a strong Fort Devens five tonight in the I.A.B...
Died. Major General Robert Alexis McClure, 59, U.S. Army (ret.), who organized SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Branch in 1944, shelled and bombed Germans with 3.5 billion pamphlets, broadcast front-line surrender appeals from loudspeaker-equipped tanks; of a coronary thrombosis: in Fort Huachuca, Ariz...
...team will play its next game on Tuesday night against Fort Devens...
...President Hill, Dr. Jared Sparks, William M. Evarts (who represented Yale College), George Bancroft, Dr. Bellows, Dr. Willard Parker, Joseph H. Choate, J.L. Sibley (Librarian of Cambridge), Rev. E.E. Hale, and Young Lawrence (hero of Fort Fisher), made speeches of great interest and variety, and an original poem by Dr. O.W. Holmes was read...
...most controversial incidents in Colorado's robust past was the Massacre at Sand Creek in 1864, when the U.S. cavalry efficiently wiped out up to 800 unsuspecting Cheyenne men, women and children. The Cheyennes under Chief Black Kettle had camped at Sand Creek, near Fort Lyon, Colo., under a friendly officer's promise of protection. But the regional cavalry commander, Colonel J.M. Chivington, was a man dedicated to eradicating Indians, and his order to the troops was "Kill all, little and big." Chivington's raiders took no prisoners and carried 100 Indian scalps back to show...