Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newly discovered fortress of Homolka, which has stood unknown and untenanted for some 4,000 years upon its isolated hill above the Bohemian plain in Central Europe, has lately been repopulated for a time by a group of American archaeologists, the members of the Central European Exedition of the Peabody Museum of Harvard and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. The director of the expedition is Dr. V. J. Fewkes of the University of Pennsylvania, and the assistant director is R. W. Ehrich '30, of Harvard. The other members of the staff last season were H. L. Movius...
...General Pershing got permission from Generalissimo Foch to use his new army against this bulge. Early on the misty morning of Sept. 12 began the St. Mihiel battle, with the ist Army fighting under U. S. command for the first time. Though the salient was virtually a field fortress, U. S. troops, with an 8-to-i preponderance of manpower, stormed it resolutely, in four days blotted it out. Secretary Baker was a happy spectator of the battle. On a 25-mile front the U. S. had captured 16,000 prisoners, lost 7,000 men. Only drawback: the Germans, forewarned...
...General Butler, then a major, led a Marine detachment to Fort Riviere, an old French stronghold on a high hill 20 mi. south of Cape Haitien. It was held by rebellious "Cacos" (native banditti). Major Butler was the third man to enter the fortress through a breach in the fort's thick wall...
...profusion of conflicting histories of the capture of Fort Riviere broke out over the country. One Marine veteran described a hot tight with Cacos inside the fortress. Against this was set testimony before a Senate Committee in 1925 that Major Butler and his men had slaughtered the unarmed defenders in cold blood. New York's Governor Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the time, entered the dispute to say that of course there was a Fort Riviere because he had visited it in 1917. A Marine colonel asserted there had been a fortress, but that he had blown...
...most outstanding European archaeological discoveries of recent years, a four thousand year-old fortress, was unearthed at Holmolka, Bohemia, by a group of American archaeologists, members of the Central European Expedition of the Peabody Museum of Harvard and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, according to an announcement made by University Hall yesterday...