Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brest-Litovsk, the great Nazi fortress in Poland east of Warsaw, was almost encircled at week's end, and Red artillery was pulverizing its garrison. Joseph Stalin & Co. would no doubt find a saturnine pleasure in dictating peace terms at Brest-Litovsk. It was there, on March 3, 1918, that the Kaiser's men, "sword in hand," laid down their harsh peace terms to the representatives of Trotsky and Lenin...
...Vilna, not only to keep open the exit gate from the Baltic areas, but as a shield for East Prussia. They held out longer there under attack than anywhere else in this offensive-but only for five days. Even after the city was completely surrounded, the Germans reinforced their garrison by dropping paratroopers...
...noon next day a captain turned up at the hacienda with half the Pasto garrison. He slipped the President a gun, confided that he was about to release him. The soldiers thought the captain was simply taking over the prisoners. After lunch everybody set out again...
...glared at them in silent reproach. The Red armies had overrun Minsk four days before, and were now rolling on far to the west, but the 70 Germans did not know that. They thought Minsk was still held by the Wehrmucht. When they started into the city, the Russian garrison mowed them down to the last...
Piecemeal Surrender. Amid formality as stiff as an inspection on West Point's plains, Collins asked Schlieben to surrender the entire Cherbourg garrison. The answer was a quick, emphatic "Nein...