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...shabby five-room cottage at Longwood, on a bleak plateau on the island, the tragi-comedy of Napoleon's exile worked itself out. He adjusted himself to it more readily than anyone else. He romped with the children, teased the pretty, high-spirited 14-year-old Betsy Balcolme, a St. Helena heiress who played tricks on him, pulled his hair, once almost killed him with one of her pranks. Making a great fuss over his rights, Napoleon outsmarted his jailers almost from habit, played on the sympathies of Europe, started such rumors that presently a large body of troops...
Baragwanath's two biggest adventures were finding some Inca treasure and buying a salted mine that cost his employers, American Mining & Smelting Co., $30,000. The Inca treasure turned up while he was hunting for coal on the Andean plateau east of Port of Salaverry, Peru. He saw some natives wading in a lake during a snowstorm, investigated, found they were taking out gold and silver ornaments. He jumped in with them and got 75 pieces, which he gave to the American Museum of Natural History...
That evening socialites and Union troops were swarming back to Washington in a panic. For five hours the battle had rolled back & forth across the valley and shallow, twisting Bull Run. Falling back with his Georgia brigade, General Barnard Bee had glanced up at Henry House plateau where an obscure Virginia officer named Thomas Jonathan Jackson was holding his ground against Union assaults, created an immortal nickname by crying "Look at Jackson! There he stands like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!" In mid-afternoon a fresh contingent of Joe Johnston's troops trotted up, charged with "Stonewall...
Tourists taking the new road face a long, slow climb from the Rio Grande to the great plateau which fills the centre of Mexico. First real town is famed old Monterrey, scene in 1846 of one of the greatest battles of the U. S.-Mexican War, now the centre of Mexican industry. At Ciudad Victoria the tropics really begin...
Dutchess County farmers, watching from the plateau on the East side of the river, saw Navy jump off to a quick start, then yield the lead to California. Urchins in rowboats at the two-mile mark saw Navy and California battling for the lead with Columbia third. The yacht flotilla at the finish shrieked wildly as the first shell slid across the line. It was Washington's- whose smart Coxswain Bob Moch had timed a long sprint perfectly through the last mile-with California a length and a half behind, Navy third, and a boatload of Columbia sophomores fourth...