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Cushing coolly sailed up to the log barrier, examined it, then spun the wheel and headed across the river in order to get speed enough to drive the launch up over the logs. He came surging back in a hail of musket fire that tore off the sole of his left shoe and ripped out the back of his uniform. The boat breasted the logs and hung suspended, just 10 ft. from the muzzle of one of the ironclad's 8-in. guns. Carefully, Cushing lowered the torpedo into position and gently pulled the 25-ft. line that released...
Playing the part in broad style, Virginia's Democratic Governor Thomas B. Stanley dolled himself up in a plumed Elizabethan helmet, brandished a replica of an ancient musket, appeared ready to defend the ramparts against all attackers. Actually, he was merely lending his gubernatorial presence to ceremonies opening a historical festival in the 350-year-old settlement of Jamestown...
...mistake. The color sergeant loudly announced that he would kill the general if he so much as touched the colors. Another enlisted man shouldered forward, shouted: "Here, you damned son of a bitch, get out of here or you're a dead man." Someone fired a musket. Someone else jabbed a bayonet into Gilbert's horse and it galloped off into the darkness. The general's staff followed. Observes Author Bruce Catton dryly: "It took a certain knack to handle western volunteers, and not all regulars...
...history of the club and the longbow and the musket teaches that the ICBM will probably not be the "ultimate" weapon in the sense that no defense can ever be developed against it. But there will doubtless be a period of years, perhaps decades, when the ICBM stands as the supreme, unstoppable weapon. Should the missile standoff burst upon a world unprepared to think about the new meanings, the ICBM could cause explosive political tensions that might even trigger the missile itself. What is important, then, is for the U.S. to approach the age of the ICBM with some hard...
...triumph, the door was flung wide. Shrouded in white djellaba and hood, El Glaoui shucked off his pointed slippers and advanced. The imperial chamberlain put a firm hand on El Glaoui's neck, sent him to the floor. The once-powerful pasha, who boasted that his 300,000 musket-toting Berber tribesmen made "cowards tremble and gave hope to the weak," groveled across the floor to kiss the feet of the Sultan...