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...came time to meet the payroll. The Mad Cossack even bamboozled his social director out of a wardrobe, so that Hart was reduced to appearing in the dining hall dressed in the camp theater's flyblown, sweat-stained costumes, impersonating Robert E. Lee or Davy Crockett or Napoleon, telling jokes while his stomach curdled with rage and embarrassment...
...unique figure on Capitol Hill. The Federalist demise began in 1800 with John Adams' defeat; in 1804, only seven Senators and 25 out of 140 Representatives belonged to the party. Quincy soon became the leader of this ineffectual minority, which sought reconciliation with Great Britain against the menace of Napoleon...
...shoreside activities, Historian Morison is sometimes nearly as lubberly as was Paul Jones himself, e.g., he is positively precious in describing Jones's squalid love life, once wonders romantically about a Jones bastard: "Did the little fellow die in infancy? Or did he grow up and fight Napoleon under the English flag, or what?" But Samuel Eliot Morison has no peer in writing of war at sea, and nowhere is he finer than in his description of the meeting on Sept. 23, 1779 of Bonhomme Richard and H.M.S. Serapis...
...Napoleon's Russian campaign doomed his domination. Nixon's Russian campaign boomed his nomination...
...Elephants, published in 1955, Britain's Sir Gavin de Beer casts his vote for the Col de la Traversette, but analyzes 30 different books that have proposed no fewer than twelve different Alpine passes for Hannibal's crossing. The most popular ones: Mont Genevre, Mont Cenis (Napoleon's theory), and the treacherous Col Clapier. Last week a pint-sized re-creation of Hannibal's horde wound its way through the French Alps toward Clapier pass, bent on proving that Hannibal could have used that pass, elephants...