Word: mapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...1800s. According to one version of the story, Don Miguel's pack train of 50 mules and 100 men was attacked and massacred by a band of Apaches, who reburied the treasure to please the thunder god. But one man escaped the ambush, sold a map of the mine to two gringos...
...single week of explosive violence, three Latin American nations clamped on martial law or states of siege (see map...
...fight them. West Pointer Tachito has a 4,000-man army, with Garands. Thompson submachine guns, .30-cal. machine guns, a few mortars. For Central America his air force is impressive: 20-odd P-51s. Tracking his troops on an Esso map last week, Tachito disdainfully dismissed the revolt as a "flop.'' For his part, Luis put Nicaragua under a state of siege and pressured the Organization of American States into a reluctant, long-distance study of the uprising...
...still deadly dangerous, with 60 divisions, including his crack Panzers, to defend Western Europe. Adolf Hitler correctly divined Normandy as the probable Allied Schwerpunkt, concentrated his armored reserves behind seven infantry divisions in the target area and, closer to Germany, maintained strength in the Pas de Calais area (see map). Hitler's most mobile general, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, well knew that Allied air superiority (5,000 fighters on the channel front to a mere 119 for the battered Luftwaffe) would rule out any battle of maneuver. Rommel strengthened the coast defenses and prepared to fight...
...Algerian mountains penetrable only by mule trains, the village of Beni Ouagag was once the home of 3,000 Moslems. Then the Algerian war began. The F.L.N. turned Beni Ouagag into a base camp. In retaliation, the French one day in 1957 bombed the little town off the map...