Word: horseman
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...scouts mapped the German fire points : 200 in the first line, more in the rear. Other units made ready to cross the Sivash (also called the Putrid Sea), the stagnant, shallow western corner of the Azov Sea. Then the commander, rotund General Feodor Tolbukhin, expert horseman and veteran of Stalingrad, waited...
...House, delegates of 44 nations penned their signatures to documents creating the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration. Then, with a staff of 200 experts, they moved to Atlantic City, elected America's Herbert H. Lehman their director-general, settled down to plan their vast campaign against the Third Horseman-starvation...
...misrule under a senile, corrupt bureaucracy brought the ancient tension between the Chinese ruling minority and the Moslem Turko peasantry to the breaking point. From Kansu, the terminal province of the Great Wall, ferocious Tungan cavalrymen entered Sinkiang in 1931 under the leadership of a 26-year-old horseman-Ma Chung-ying. To his banners rallied Turko peasants and Tungan (Chinese Moslem) rebels. Burning, looting, raping, they all but annihilated the Chinese population in the south mountains...
...earliest and shortest land-sea battles on record was a naval rout and cavalry triumph. In 1818 José Antonio Páez, a crack horseman and guerrilla leader under Simon Bolivar, sent 50 of his llaneros against a flotilla of Spanish gunboats anchored in the middle of the Apure river in Venezuela. Waving spears and howling like Oriental dervishes, they swam their barebacked white horses through the swift, brown waters. Astonished Spaniards fired a few random shots and then jumped overboard in panic. Páez took every boat, without losing...
...Horseman, pass...