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This documentary-styled drama is based on the dishonorable discharge of 167 black infantrymen in 1906 on the orders of President Theodore Roosevelt...
...certain for the terrified captives. Then suddenly, in what in a different age would have been called the act of a deus ex machina, three Israeli C-130 Hercules transports, guns flaring, appeared in the dark sky over the airport. Soon they touched down, disgorging about 100 paratroopers and infantrymen and powerful armored personnel carriers...
Loyalist crowds cheered General Howe when he came ashore, and his red-coated infantrymen soon found friends for themselves. A British officer commented cheerfully, "The fair nymphs of this isle are in wonderful tribulation ... A girl cannot step into the bushes to pluck a rose without running the most imminent risk of being ravished." Staten Island's 400 militiamen, who had been called up by Washington to defend the island, grounded their muskets and obligingly swore allegiance to the Crown. That oath was administered by New York's newly returned Royal Governor William Tryon, who had to spend...
...British first began searching for mercenary forces to put down the American Rebellion, they turned not to the German princelings of Hesse and Brunswick but to mighty Empress Catherine II of Russia. They even made a formal offer of £1 per man for 20,000 of her infantrymen, to set sail this spring. Catherine rejected the plan as "undignified." Besides, said she, "I am just beginning to enjoy peace...
...cold mountain passes across the border, Syrian infantrymen were bundled up in winter-issue overcoats. As I drove nearer to Beirut, the army seemed to be everywhere. Several damaged tanks-three bearing scars of rocket hits-were on flat-bed trailer trucks heading back toward the border; Red Crescent ambulances raced by with wounded in the back. Scores of Russian T-62 tanks and artillery were dug in on ridges. Every so often the troops would turn up their transistor radios, and the sounds of popular Arabic songs brought smiles to tough expressions. The litter of empty shell casings stacked...