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...sentence on a Communist collaborator, a wealthy merchant who donated money to the Reds. The collaborator's relatives asked Metaxas to intervene. Soon thereafter the King commuted the death penalty to five years. Outraged, Papagos let the King know that the palace ought not to undermine his court-martial, asked for Metaxas' dismissal. The King, as proud and sensitive a man as Papagos, refused. U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy rushed into the breach, got the King to send Metaxas off for a vacation...
...when certain legislators petitioned the UN Korean Commission to remove all American military forces from the nation, Rhee summarily imprisoned them. From the comparative safety of the United States, critics of Rhee have been concerned over the absence of basic freedoms in Korea, but Rhee justifies his "martial law" an necessary with the battle line so near...
...second-in-command, but the commander in chief never warmed to his quirky personality. It was Washington who stormed up to Lee at the battle of Monmouth, accused him of making an unnecessary, disorderly, and shameful retreat.† and made the charge substantially stick in a court-martial. Thirty months after the Adams accolade, Lee was suspended from the army and later died in disgrace...
...appeal to Congress, pamphlets and duels, Lee vainly sought to vindicate his honor after the court-martial. Unhinged by his wrongs, he told friends that Washington planned to have him assassinated. "Great God!" he wrote his sister in 1781, the year before he died, "what a dupe and a victim have I been to the talismanic name of liberty!" But his last delirious words were a fighter's still: "Stand by me, my brave grenadiers...
Lincoln's appointment of General Fremont to command the Department of the West was most popular ... On Aug. 30, 1861, Fremont, without consulting the President, issued an astonishing, unauthorized order. It declared martial law throughout Missouri, ordered the confiscation of the property of the rebels [and] freed all slaves...