Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clear. In Rye, England, the town fathers failed to appoint a successor to the late Chummy Barton, last official Watcher for Napoleon's cross-Channel invasion of England...
...Sign from Heaven." The seed of Nazi ideology, says Heiden, was planted in 1864 by a French lawyer who wrote a satire on the dictatorship of Napoleon III. This book was rewritten by the anti-Semitic Russian secret police so that it appeared to be an outline of the methods by which the Jews hoped to conquer the world. Entitled The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, it eventually fell into the hands of a youthful, anti-Semitic "intellectual" named Alfred Rosenberg. He called it "a sign from heaven" and took it to Germany in 1918. Its program...
...Napoleon's observation that a soldier will walk through hell to get a ribbon for his tunic did not mean that a given amount of hell invariably produced a given ribbon. To fighting men before and since, the inequities of medal awards have always been a sore subject. The current issue of the official Marine Corps Gazette gives Marine Captain Richard G. Hubler a chance to dig the old subject up again for World...
That episode was only one spasm in the tunnel's long history. It was originally suggested by Napoleon, in 1802, to Charles James Fox. For nearly three-quarters of a century it remained merely an idea. In 1867 a French engineer, Thomé de Gamond, exhibited the first practical drawings. In 1881 what became the still existent Channel Tunnel Company Ltd. was launched. Queen Victoria, who got seasick on the Channel crossing, gave it her blessing. Bores were started from Shakespeare Cliff on the English side of the stormy passage, and Sangatte, near Calais, on the French...
...took Europe 19 years to learn how to fight Napoleon. ... It took the Marines just three days to learn how to storm an atoll fortress and dig the Japs out. . . . We've got the toughest and smartest fighting men in this world. But as long as the war lasts some of them somewhere will be getting killed. We have got to acknowledge that or else we might as well stay home...