Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops had been fighting inside Cherbourg for 26 hours. But on the city's perimeter were Maginot-type forts, begun by Vauban in the 17th Century, improved by Napoleon in 1808, perfected by Todt in the 1940s, which still blazed with bitter resistance. Spectacled Major General Manton S. Eddy, commander of the 9th Division, stood with one of his regimental commanders on a hillside near Octeville, on the southwest approaches to the port...
Died. Frederick William, Lewis, Baron Essendon, 74, the "Napoleon of British shipping," longtime chairman of Furness-Withy & Co., Ltd. (Furness Lines); in London...
Spearheaded by French colonials, Allied forces landed on the historic island of Elba, between Corsica and Italy, methodically cleaned up this small (19 by 6½ miles) German outpost on their flank. By nightfall of the first day, the Tricolor floated over the villa that Napoleon left for the Hundred Days and Waterloo. This week isolated pockets of Nazi resistance were being mopped up in the hills...
...Vichy radio bleated: "The capture of Rome would bring no new element in the conduct of the war except the prestige.. . . The German High Command has stated on many previous occasions that it would accept battle only north of Rome at a place chosen by it. . . .' Napoleon Bonaparte, who knew the weaknesses of divided command as well as anyone in history, once said: Give me allies to fight against. Though Teuton militarists admire Napoleon very much, there was no comfort in his dictum for the Germans who faced Alexander. In Italy, Alexander was certainly commanding allies...
...immediate purposes of France and of most Frenchmen in France, that fact makes nonsense of all the questions about De Gaulle. Is he a democrat? A Fascist? A megalomania with an appetite for personal power, whatever the label? A natural born, latter-day First Consul-a Fourth Napoleon? Tough old Rightist Republicans like Louis Marin, newly arrived in London after a close call with the Gestapo, throw back their heads and roar when apprehensive Britons ask if France is ready to accept dictatorship (meaning De Gaulle's) after four years of Nazi rule...