Word: overran
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...August von Mackensen when he overran Serbia...
MOSCOW--German tank and infantry charges broke up against staunch Red Army barricades in the streets of Stalingrad yesterday, but Axis forces striking down the Black Sea coast of the north-west Cancasus overran two inhabited localities, a Soviet communique said today...
...however, Lord Curzon's lovely dream was rudely shattered. The Bolsheviks overran large chunks of northern Persia. Along the shores of the Caspian the British, assisted by the Persian Cossack Brigade, vainly tried to stop them. Those of the old Tsarist officers who were not killed, fled; the brigade started to fall apart...
...Asia Minor into a fighting unit, laid the foundations of the Empire which was called Ottoman after him. The hoofs of the fast-moving Osmanli cavalry first sounded on the European shores of the Dardanelles in 1354. In 1453, under Mohammed the Conqueror, the Osmanlis took Constantinople and overran the Bal kans. Selim the Grim (1512-20) took Syria and Egypt. Suleiman the Magnifi cent (1520-66) conquered Persia and Hungary, got as far as the gates of Vienna before retiring to consolidate his conquests...
...went to war with England, narrowly missed war with the U. S. A coalition of most of the old, moribund, and (by Revolutionary standards) decaying nations of Europe was required to stop the French Revolution. Before that time, the revolutionary armies in the name of the new order overran the Low Countries, invaded Egypt, threatened to invade England. Its fifth columns operated even in the U. S. (Citizens Genet and his Jeffersonian friends...