Word: montelimar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks of bickering over the invasion of Costa Rica from Nicaragua; it also symbolized the eclipse of the Caribbean Legion. In Nicaragua, Dictator "Tacho" Somoza celebrated the occasion by knocking off work on his sugar refinery (the country's largest) now abuilding on his Pacific coast barony at Montelimar...
Nicaragua's Dictator-President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza dined with his family at Montelimar, his big Pacific Coast finca (plantation...
...into any substantial trouble. Behind them the main Allied force turned to fan westward toward the Rhone valley, where the supply lines were better. In the south it seized Aries, Tarascon, and Avignon on the lower Rhone and crossed the river. Farther north it moved toward German garrisons at Montelimar, Valence and Lyons. By then the German escape route was a hopeless grid of Allied regulars and French irregulars...
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