Word: hessians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Casadesus made an annual U.S. tour, and in 1940 brought Gaby and their two sons for a holiday. When the Nazis invaded France, the family decided to stay, and subleased* the oldest (preRevolutionary) stone house in Princeton, N.J., complete with Hessian ghost...
...rolling Hessian hills, 40 miles southwest of Kassel, tankmen of the U.S. 3rd Armored Division (First Army) ran into a furious battle last week. Germans leveled antiaircraft guns, fought for the little town of Bromskirchen as if it were Berchtesgaden itself. Finally the Americans silenced the guns and learned why that pin point on the map had been so important to the Germans : aboard flatcars on a railroad siding were a dozen new V-2 rockets. They were taken intact...
...Around the case of a Hessian wolf-boy, French Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau wove his romantic theories on the virtues of "natural" man, thus helped to set off the American and French Revolutions. Thereafter stories of wild children became suspect as radical political propaganda...
Still standing is David Dove's Germantown house. In the belfry of Germantown School's main building still hangs the original school bell; above it still swings a weather vane with three bullet marks from Hessian muskets. But 177 years have softened the memory of old Schoolmaster Dove, and last week Germantown Academy proudly unveiled a newly acquired portrait of its scheming, irascible, sarcastic founder...