Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Sailors Reviewed at Fortress Monroe...
After the war game, the naval "rookies" went to Hampton Roads, and were reviewed at Fortress Monroe. At Tangier Sound selected gun crews engaged in target practice with three and five inch guns, while others practiced firing one-pounders from small boats...
...Union tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. Mr. Reed, with characteristic aggressiveness, made nine attempts to get to the front, although he was once sentenced to death, and was later forced to spend much of his time in jail, finally being sentenced to remain two years in a French fortress. Sentence was fortunately suspended, and Mr. Reed proceeded to Berlin by way of Switzerland. Through a fortunate chain of circumstances, he was able to witness a battle from the firing line, of which he will tell in his lecture...
...death. The sentence was changed and the prisoners were started to Tours on foot, spending each night in jail. The trip would have required thirty-five days, but after seven days, it was decided to take them by train. They were sentenced to two years in a French fortress. Later the sentence was suspended and they were set free with the instructions written on their pass-ports that they should be shot at once if caught within the firing line. On his next attempt, Reed left his pass-port behind, but was soon intercepted and sent back to Paris. Reed...
...posts at either end of the bridge. The attributes in the composition of the War group are a Roman corselet, from an original in one of the museums in Europe decorated with martial objects in low relief; a sword and helmet, shields, Roman faces, spears, etc., and a miniature fortress, with an American eagle, grasping a thunderbolt in his talons, surmounting the whole. The Peace design is composed of appropriate objects, such as books, an ink well and instruments of scientific study...