Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said tribes besieged the Spanish Garrison at Tifaruin. Two relief columns, comprising in all 22,000 men, were despatched from Melilla. On arrival at Tifaruin the Spanish commanders found the Moroccan tribes holding fortified positions around the garrison. The two columns separated, one made a surprise attack from the rear, the other attacked from the front. After bloody fighting the Moors fled. The garrison had been relieved in the nick of time; their water supply had given...
There are many naval officers at the institute, among them Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, K.C.M.G., Commander of the Asiatic Squadron. Admiral Strauss was commander of the force which laid a barrage of over 56,000 mines across the North Sea in the Spring of 1918. Later he had the task of removing them. He agreed in substance with Professor Blakeslee and added a few remarks...
...James Corrigan, Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Doubleday, Mrs. C. Temple Emmet, Miss Margaret Emmet, Miss Hester Emmet, Mrs. Arthur Glasgow and Miss Margery Glasgow, Mr. and Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, Judge and Mrs. Robert S. Lovett, Mr. and Mrs. Junius Morgan, Mr. Wade Chance, Mrs. Ira H. Ogden, Rear Admiral and Mrs. W. E. Reynolds, Miss Phillipa Wendel, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Franklin...
Before he retired he was made Rear Admiral, and one of his last commissions was to take the North Atlantic Cruiser Squadron to France to bring back the body of John Paul Jones...
Died. Charles Dwight Sigsbee, Rear Admiral, U. S. N., retired, 78, in Manhattan, of heart failure...