Word: gallieni
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Meanwhile, a mile away, the Gallieni Hotel, where most of the Armistice Commission staff were living, was mobbed...
...jeep crashed through the Gallieni's doors, the commission's members, along with two Communist Viet Minh liaison officers, retreated to the roof, blocking the stairs with beds and desks. The rioters assaulted the barricade, but fell back before police-thrown tear bombs...
Bombardment at Headquarters. For two days and one night the battle sputtered and flamed along the Boulevard Gallieni, a one-mile thoroughfare between Saigon's European quarter-which was ringed off from the shouting by the big French-colonial army-and the cluttered Chinese suburb of Cholon. The nub of the action was a cream-colored Vietnamese headquarters, defended by 100 Nationalists beneath a darkening pall of smoke. From there, TIME Correspondent John Mecklin reported...
...price," Zhukov answered in the Biblically inspired words of Russia's famed 13th century hero Alexander Nevsky: "Whosoever comes against us with the sword shall perish by the sword. Such is the law of the Russian land, and such it will always be." Following the tactics of General Gallieni, who defended Paris against the Germans in 1914, Zhukov requisitioned every automotive vehicle he could find in Moscow, including the Kremlin limousines, and put a scratch army of volunteers on the Moscow-Mozhaisk road. He brought the Siberian army across on the trans-Siberian railroad and deployed them in five...
...week, Diem rushed outside to check the mortar damage and comfort the wounded. Brushing aside the general's ultimatum, Diem called up Vietnamese army reinforcements to relieve a couple of hardpressed Vietnamese garrisons near by. Thundering to the scene in trucks, the reinforcements were ambushed along the Boulevard Gallieni by well-placed Binh Xuyen machine gunners, but the Vietnamese government troops piled out, unlimbered a 37-mm. fieldpiece, battered point-blank at the Binh Xuyen, and then charged...