Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...army to Swindon, footsore & weary. No luring damsels could entice the younger men away for a frolic; no Labor hosts could tempt the elders to a reception. Instead, the army lay on its back and practised the songs that it would sing passing through London. One, called the "Rebel Song," went...
Mexico continued her orgy of rebel executions. Some faced the firing squad bravely, some even joked. General Fernando Reyes himself commanded his executioners, personally issuing the order that brought forth the stream of bullets that killed...
...Fatherland and now editor of The Progressive, testified as had many another, that the British were fouling the minds of U. S. school children. He did not mention Superintendent McAndrew at all. After him went a Chicago school teacher, Rosalie Didier, to exclaim: "To read that Washington was a rebel was to me a desecration and to learn that the Boston Tea Party was vandalism made me feel that Schlesinger* should be filling a cell in a Federal prison." This last week's continuation of legal irrelevancies and digressions at last made some restive Chicago citizens rebuke the city...
...evil fortune stayed skulking behind the great curtains of the woods until after Gentleman Johnny had forced the Rebel army to evacuate Fort Ticonderoga. After that came the first skirmish at Saratoga, in which Burgoyne won a few downy feathers for his hat; then trouble ran towards him with a war whoop. Due largely to the idiotic incompetence of Lord George Germain, who was sending orders from England, Burgoyne lost the battle of Saratoga. In this, one of the world's fifteen decisive battles, the rocket of British victory broke and splintered down in a bright shower of speeches, excuses...
...following day General Alfonso de la Huerta, brother of General Adolfo de la Huerta, was captured, tried and shot. "Here is another rebel general," read the placard that was affixed to his body as it was exhibited publicly in Nogales, Sonora...