Word: pakenham
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...Such light," Laborite Lord Pakenham† told Britain's House of Lords last month during a debate on atomic energy, "as has been thrown on dark places has shown them to be even darker than was supposed." The benighted areas referred to were the minds of Russians...
...came he jumped at the chance to take another crack at the English. But the Government passed him over for other commanders; for a while he had to be content with mopping up the Creeks. At New Orleans his chance came. In two fierce battles he repulsed Pakenham's superior force, saved New Orleans, and became overnight the national hero. When the Government wanted a man to invade Florida (a Spanish possession) without actually declaring war, Jackson was their first choice. Thinking this his last chore, he did it. When the cession of Florida was arranged, Jackson was made...
...Congress appropriated $25,000 for a monument to mark the spot where General Andrew Jackson with his 4,000 raw recruits lay behind cotton bales as Sir Edward Michael Pakenham's 5,000 British veterans made their dawn attack on Jan. 8, 1815. Twice the redcoats charged. Twice they withered under U. S. fire, twice were driven back. Pakenham himself was killed. Jackson lost 13 men, the British...
From India came a strange tale last week, a new Mowgli* story, a Romulus and Remus anecdote, with the genders changed. Bishop Pakenham Walsh of Calcutta, back in London from a visit to the mission of the Rev. Jal Singh at Midnapur, Bengal, told the tale and vouched for its truth. Some months ago the Rev. Jal Singh was told, by the wide-eyed inhabitants of an isolated village in his parish, to avoid a certain path into the hills. It was, they assured him, haunted by demons. Strong in his faith, and armed against wild beasts...