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...marines did fight in the halls of Montezuma- and on the shores of Tripoli, but not as impressively as the Marines' Hymn implies. Eight marines helped 150 Greeks and Arabs capture the fortress city of Tripoli from the Barbary pirates in 1804. In the battle for the castle at Chapultepec in 1847, fewer than 200 of Winfield Scott's 7,200 troops were marines. The actual heroes of Chapultepec, moreover, were the Mexican boy cadets, Los Niños Heroes, who, with a small number of regular troops, forced the gringos to retreat three times in 24 hours...
President-elect Kennedy seemed to promise to make the Treasury a fortress of moderation when, fortnight ago, he plucked Wall Street Republican C. Doug las Dillon out of the Eisenhower State Department for his Treasury Secretary...
Working in Jordan near the early Israeli capital of Shechem, the group used pottery fragments found in the ruins of a fortress to date the revolution led by Abimelech at about 1150 B.C. A team of 22 scholars participated in the excavation, the largest American archaeological project ever attempted in the Holy Land...
...months the Turkish army regime has labored like so many busy Hollywood stagehands. They were preparing a vast public trial of the civilians they ousted from power, President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes. Last week, on the fortress island of Yassiada in the Sea of Marmara, in a converted basketball court where Turkish recruits once sweated and exercised, the show began...
There is, for instance, this recollection of a Russian officer who helped sack an aoul, or mountain fortress, in 1832: "By the light of the burning thatch we saw a man standing in the doorway of the saklia [hut]. This man, who was very tall and powerfully built, stood quite still, as if giving us time to take aim. Then, suddenly, with the spring of a wild beast, he leapt clean over the heads of the very line of soldiers about to fire on him. and landing behind them, whirling his sword in his left hand, he cut down three...