Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Charles Pelot Summerall Jr., Lieutenant U. S. A., son of Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, recently appointed Chief of Staff (TIME, Oct. 4); to Julia Potter Reeder; at Fortress Monroe...
Meanwhile Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer arrived on board his flagship the armored cruiser Rochester, anchored off the Nicaraguan fortress of Bragmans Bluff, on the eastern coast, awaited orders from Washington...
...What U. S. fortress is deemed as impregnable as Gibraltar...
...wear picturesque crimson and blue waistcoats, and still speaks a Celtic dialect. His emotionalism is bound up with the sea-to the north of his peninsula, he looks out on the gilded bronze statue of St. Michael standing 165 ft. above the waves on the Gothic spire of the fortress-abbey Mont St. Michel; to the south in the harbor of St. Nazaire, he now sees an American doughboy, sword in hand, eagerly poised atop the back of an eagle with graceful, outspread wings...
...Lawson's contention is sound, one wonders why the Monitor did not capture the Merrimac, and why the Monitor herself fled to shoal water and to the protection of Fortress Monroe when the Merrimac twice came down the river and offered fight...