Word: fortress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Police searched the Dane house. It was a residential fortress. Its arsenal contained two machine guns, numerous rifles, automatics, tear gas bombs, bottles of nitroglycerin. A trapdoor under a rug led to a hidden room with an emergency exit. In a closet were found bonds worth $319,850, part of which were identified as loot from a recent Jefferson, Wis., bank robbery. Questioning "Mrs. Dane," officers learned that Dane was none other than Fred Burke, alias Thomas Brook, alias "Cornbread" Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, deadliest of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's Chicago gangsters...
Ceremonies were simple. Across the Rhine from Coblenz the French tricolor that had floated over the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein for the past eleven years was hauled down while a band played the Marseillaise, then carefully packed for shipment to the Hôtel des Invalides, French war museum. To a rattling quickstep, troops tramped off to the station...
...window trying to shoot the priest just before the explosion shattered all remaining windows in the neighborhood, blew men's hats off and buried the cellhouse in a heavy pall of smoke. A company of militia charged in, expecting to find a great breach in the convicts' fortress. But the masonry had held. The militia had to retreat and wait for a 75-millimeter field piece, an armored tank. When these weapons arrived, the cellhouse was stormed again. But this time there came no answering fire. Inside, five dead bodies on the blood-sopped floor told...
...Malta lies 60 miles south of the southern tip of Sicily. Plumped directly in the path of trans-Mediterranean shipping, it still remains the fortress it was when ruled by the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem...
Eleven years ago today I was riding at the head of a squadron of Indian Cavalry past the ruins of an old Crusaders' fortress at Latron. The regiment was on its way to participate in what was probably the greatest mounted action in history, to drive the Turks out of Palestine...