Word: naval
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...Signal. Chief political victim was goateed little General Nguyen Khanh, who during seven months in power had striven vainly to unite his people in the antiguerrilla struggle. When the U.S. last month hit North Viet Nam in retaliation for the naval attack in the Gulf of Tonkin, Khanh used the situation to impose martial law, hoping to strengthen his regime. Then two weeks ago, he tried further to consolidate his position and persuaded his Military Revolutionary Council, the country's nominal ruling body, to promote him from Premier to President and grant him virtually absolute powers. Khanh acted with...
...Cypriot port of Famagusta and its 335 unarmed replacements would land, if permitted, while an equal number of unarmed outgoing troops, under United Nations escort, would board the Amiassa and sail home. If the replacements were not allowed to land, said Ankara, a Turkish army would invade Cyprus under naval escort and air cover and occupy as much of the island as was necessary to protect its detachment and the local Turkish Cypriots...
...suitably arch: "Oh, come a little closer to me!" "I say, I say, it seems you've had too much and can't stand up!" Japanese casualness about sex convinced Perry that they were "a lewd people." When the shogun's commissioners complained that a U.S. naval officer had left some religious books in one of the temples, Perry responded by protesting against "the obscene books which the Japanese had given the sailors." But after a desperate effort on both sides to understand each other, this first encounter between two great nations of the Pacific ended amicably...
...called the Battle of the Chesapeake, of Chesapeake Bay, of Lynnhaven Bay, of Cape Henry, and of the Capes of Virginia." To this day not many Americans have heard of it. Yet the Battle of the Virginia Capes, as it is officially called by the U.S. Office of Naval History, was one of the decisive engagements in the history of warfare. It determined the outcome of the American Revolution...
Hide & Seek. Rodney had misjudged both the skill and the intentions of an adversary who had just reached the Indies: Francois Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Louis XVI's "lieutenant general of the naval army" (equivalent to rear admiral). De Grasse, who stood 6 ft. 2 in. and looked 6 ft. 6 in. on days of battle, had prepared for his finest hour by getting captured by the British when he was 25. From Washington, Lafayette and Rochambeau went a stream of messages to De Grasse, urging him to assert Franco-American naval supremacy somewhere along the coast. Washington...