Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oriental. He had, moreover, a competent grasp of military strategy; he was incorruptible, brave and patriotic; his followers were proud to be called Wu mi ("infatuated with Wu"). He liked strong wine, singing and gold plate. His serious faults were his confidence that he was a greater general than Napoleon and his poor judgment of men. Wu at one time had all North China in his pocket. His ally, the "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, betrayed and ruined him. Time and again Wu, sickened by China's chaos, has retired to a mountain monastery in Tibet to polish...
...caracul hat. Some 20,000 members of the eleven Cossack tribes are now exiles, scattered throughout the world. Best known Cossack among non-Cossacks today is the distinguished War commander, General Peter Nikolaevitch Krasnov, blood-curdling author of such best sellers as From Double Eagle to Red Flag* and Napoleon and the Cossacks...
...dropped that name, which it has never liked, to become again Germany's Heer. To cap the day, Kriegsminister von Blomberg performed a little ceremony. He went out to the Invaliden Cemetery, laid wreaths on the graves of two significant heroes of Prussia's wars against Napoleon Bonaparte: General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, who introduced universal compulsory military training into Prussia, and General Hermann von Boyen, who beat French restrictions on the size of the Prussian Army by training successive batches of reserves for short periods...
...wedding day was warm and clear. Before the Storkyrka, where all the Kings descending from Napoleon's Marshal Bernadotte have been crowned, stood Sweden's famed Grenadiers of the Guard in the original deerskin uniforms, jack boots, silver breastplates and cocked hats first presented by Russia's Catherine the Great...
Last night Harvard's Little Napoleon was summoned to a private dining room in the Hotel Continental, were a group of his friends, both faculty members and students, were gathered at the festive board to tender a gesture of appreciation and friendship. After the dinner a handsome pipe was presented to the guest of honor...