Word: musketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the complications, women have served, in some manner, with the U.S. armed forces from the earliest days of the Republic. Molly Pitcher, who was said to have snatched up and continued firing her disabled husband's musket during the Battle of Monmouth, was a legendary heroine of the Revolution. Some 350,000 of the 16 million armed forces mobilized during World War II were women. They served as airplane mechanics, pilots ferrying bombers, parachute riggers and gunnery instructors, as well as in the more "traditional" roles of nursing and administration. In 1948, however, the Women's Armed...
Coolly poised to repel the attack, the British forces moved forward, Hessian grenadiers in fearsome mitred helmets, the Scottish Black Watch regiment resplendent in tartan kilts. Almost as one, the Continentals opened with a fusillade of musket and rifle fire. The British responded with a volley of their own. The smoke cleared. A Red Cross truck lumbered across the field to pick up the fallen, all of them victims of heat exhaustion...
...matter. The 20th century participants acted as if the battle were genuine. When, at a climactic moment, George Washington's Life Guard marched relentlessly through sulfurous musket and cannon smoke, patriotic shivers shook the spectators. Woman camp followers cheered on their men and hissed at the enemy. Colonial soldiers taunted: "The King's a queen." Indeed, spirits run so high at these mock fights-marking all the important Revolutionary War engagements, starting in 1974-that individual soldiers are not given ramrods. The reason: an overexcited fighter might forget to extract a ramrod from his musket before firing, sending...
Heidelberger, 60, proprietor of a 40-acre spread called the Musket Ranch and Trading Post, began collecting used tires before World War II. He sold his original hoard for a penny a pound in the wartime rush to find desperately needed rubber supplies. The war ended, but Heidelberger's passion for tires did not. Today, after more than 30 years of relentless collecting, he figures he has between 8 million and 12 million. His tires cover ten acres, rise to a 40-ft. peak and are a local landmark...
...helluva welcome," mused Roots Author Alex Haley from his perch on the Gambian presidential yacht. "You couldn't have staged that if you wanted to." Haley, 55, was delighted by the tumult of drums, whistles, musket shots, and whirling dancers dressed in leaves-all a salute to him and his brothers George, a lawyer, and Julius, an architect, on their return "home" to the Gambian village of Juffure. There Alex handed the traditional gift of kola nuts to the eldest member of the Kinte family, a distant relative. If all goes according to plan, many other root seekers will...