Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Back in the days when the scarlet coated forces of the Crown were warring with the Colonists, it happened that one evening General Putnam at the Battery (New York) was obliged to join General Washington on Harlem Heights. Failure to meet this obligation might have meant annihilation of the rebel army. Unfortunately the British were encamped at Kip's Bay, half way up the island, and it was necessary to distract their attention while Putnam made his march that evening. A certain Mrs. Murray undertook the task, gave a party, and kept all the enemy generals so drunk that Putnam...
Fortune apparently has begun to frown on the rebel chieftain Abd-el-Krim. A fortnight ago TIME, Aug. 24) the Spaniards and the French drove back his western front. Last week the French drove back his southern front. All through the Taza sector the Riffs were driven back and the French in three days claimed the recovery of all the territory Abd-el-Krim had taken in three months...
...order that you may know what made me desist from reading your newsmagazine, let me tell you that in your issue of May 18, 1925, Page 2, in telling something about the Philippines, my country, you have incurred in inaccuracies. Such despective statements as "The old rebel Aguinaldo" and "the professional politicians such as Quezon, Osmena, Roxas" are not the news a Filipino...
...become a republic. Dr. Sun did not get what he wanted out of the revolution; he formed a separate republic in the south and kept up the spirit of revolt against successive administrations in Peking. It was this attitude that earned for him the soubriquet of "the perpetual rebel...
Died. Dr. Sun Yatsen, 58, "the perpetual rebel" of China; in Peking, of cancer (see FOREIGN NEWS...