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...Korea with the 1st Marine Division. One night just a month later, Corpsman Hammond found himself in a hell on earth-bleeding from wounds and pinned down by murderous mortar and artillery fire with other men of a Marine platoon which was attempting to assault an enemy outpost far in advance of the main line of battle...
...watercolors of military life in the U.S. were Fording the River at Bull Run, a sylvan scene of a Union convoy along a quiet road, and an exciting pictorial account, called Pickets Surprised at Peck's House, of a pistol-range fight between Union cavalry and a Confederate outpost in Virginia during the winter...
...known such general instability and discontent. And never had Mary herself sunk so low in her own esteem. Her handsome husband, after perfunctorily doing his duty in the hope of providing England with a Catholic heir, walked out on her when she proved barren. Calais, England's proud outpost in France, fell to the French. Ill and miserable, she found that her last days were to be her worst, for it was on her deathbed that the Privy Council forced her to name as her successor the detested Protestant Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn...
World-circling Vice President Richard Nixon roared into Hong Kong with an escort of twelve Royal Air Force Vampire jets. Hong Kong roared back with a 19-gun salute. Later, in a police outpost only 200 yards from the Hong Kong-Red China border, the Vice President spotted a Communist flag flapping above the village of Sha Tau Kok. Nixon wanted to cross over to the village for a quick look-see, but his guides discouraged...
When their ammunition was exhausted and their outpost surrounded by Communist soldiers, the Americans "played dead" at Skinner's order. The pretense succeeded...