Word: jeb
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Other Confederate officers ("Jeb" Stuart, D. H. Hill, Jubal Early) had shown gallantry and what Freeman calls "the feel of action." In 1861-62, "Old Blue Light" Jackson alone showed generalship...
Above the snapping signal flags in the swirling tank battles in Libya hovered the ghostly tradition of Allenby, Jeb Stuart and all the great cavalrymen back to Genghis Khan. But in the clanking, barking tanks rode the spirits of the hard-eyed, dusty men of the U.S. Armored Force. For most of the tanks carrying the British regimental crests out into battle were U.S.-made...
...great-grandfather was famed, hotheaded Confederate Cavalryman Jeb Stuart. Her initial E stands for Elizabeth; she dropped the name to spite her twice-divorced mother. With 20 Ib. less, Stuart might be called a Scarlett O'Hara type. She traveled in Europe and Mexico, attended two private schools, knows the Greenwich Village nightclubs, drives two big cars furiously and admits she has turned down ten marriage proposals. Once she gave a house party that lasted six weeks. Boss of a 1,200-acre estate, Axton Lodge, Stuart lives alone with an old colored mammy and an adopted brother...
General Wavell did not invent this technique. Field Marshal The Viscount Allenby, his preceptor, used it. The fiery Confederate cavalry general, James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart, lost his life using it in the skirmish at Yellow Tavern on May 11, 1864. The Germans use it in Blitzkrieg...
Errol Flynn plays Jeb Stuart, a Virginia cavalry captain, and besides Olivia de Havilland there are Alan Hale and Ronald Reagan to watch. Max Steiner has written a good score with lots of low rumbling notes that are really scary...