Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal...
...naval operations off Newfoundland in winter are difficult at best. But from the island, long-range submarines and cruising ships can keep an eye on Greenland, 950 miles away, and patrol the sea lanes from Europe to Montreal, Boston and New York City...
...just been brought to my notice by letters from daughters in England that you published in TIME, Oct. 7 an article wherein you stated that in Montreal I had referred to the child refugees from England as "riffraff." You also made some sarcastic remarks about my giving some of my so-called "blue blood" to the British Red Cross, but that latter statement is unimportant and you have every right to sneer at me if you so wish to do for giving what was so very much demanded in New York through the radio. But I must...
...last century, Grandmother Jane Nason Tibbets used to take six-year-old Grandson Kenneth Roberts on her knee, tell him bedtime stories about Indian massacres-burning villages, murdered and mutilated men; women and little children trudging through the deep snow and the dark forests to Montreal while their captors, with scalps dangling and dripping at their belts, knocked on the head anybody who felt tired...
...soldier's reminiscences, written in 1814. Young Roger Lamb met a recruiting officer in a public house and, several drinks later, found himself sworn in for a long stretch of barrack-room life. In 1776 he was shipped overseas to the rebellious New World. There he defended Montreal from Benedict Arnold's militia, lived with the Indians of the Six Nations to learn wilderness warfare, marched with Burgoyne to recapture Crown Point and Ticonderoga, surrendered honorably to General Gates at Saratoga...