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Settled in 1630, the Common was a "rough frontier camp" which extended as far as Linnaean St. and covered Harvard Square. It was the scene of garrison maneuvers and town elections. One year, Cambridge fell victim to its first political stalemate when the chairman of the election assembly, believing that his man could not win, refused to open the meeting. A man sitting in one of the traditional elms suddenly yelled out that those present should open the show; they did. This was the first exhibition of free, popular government in Cambridge...
...hold Hoa Binh against Communist counterattacks, General Raoul Salan, De Lattre's successor in Indo-China, increased the French garrison to 23,000 men, sent his shoestring air force to strafe Red convoys. But the Reds were too strong: using Russian antiaircraft guns, they shot down ten French planes in seven days' fighting. Viet Minh raiders slipped through the French defenses, infiltrated the delta...
...during the Peninsular War, and later through a modest role at Waterloo and a quiet five years on garrison in the isles of Greece, Private William Wheeler of the 51st Regiment wrote long letters to his family back in Somerset. Such tales they told, and with such a wit and ardor, that the family kept and read them for a Sunday treat during more than a century after the old soldier's death (he contracted leprosy in Greece). In 1949 the letters came by chance to the eye of a British publisher, were printed, and promptly acclaimed...
Bravely with Honor. A force of 1,500 British troops, supported by tanks, armored cars and field guns, rolled out against 1,000 Egyptian policemen in garrison. For six hours the tanks and machine guns pounded the four-story barracks building while the Egyptians, armed only with rifles, fought back with fanatic gallantry. "I don't think any of us," said one British reporter, "will ever forget the Egyptian police officer who walked out of the headquarters, both hands red with blood, demanding ambulances for his wounded." A British officer told him that ambulances would be permitted in only...
...restraining ties were loosening. British engineers, protected by a paratroop brigade and tanks, bulldozed an evacuated Egyptian hamlet off the ' map to build a road between the garrison and its water filtering plant. Commanding General Sir George Erskine decreed: "All routes in and out of Suez are closed . . . I will not accept armed [Egyptian] police anywhere near my troops...