Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down a smoke screen and left Admiralty Harbor, on the Atlantic side of Gibraltar. Scarcely had she moved from the British-protected waters before her crew saw rockets flare from a housetop on the Rock. No one needed to tell them what those flares meant: they were signals from Rebel watchers notifying Rebel warships patrolling the Straits of Gibraltar that the Jose Luis Diez, having waited for weeks to make her getaway, was trying a second time to run the blockade to a Loyalist port...
Instead of prudently turning back the Loyalist destroyer rounded Europa Point, Gibraltar's southernmost tip. As she did so a Rebel cruiser hove into sight from the African shore. Six more Rebel warships, cruisers, destroyers, minelayers soon joined the chase. Guns from the 10,000-ton cruiser Carnarias, pride of the Rebel fleet, boomed. Batteries from Ceuta. in Rebel-held Spanish Morocco, some 15 miles across the Straits, bellowed. The destroyer, outclassed, nonetheless elected to fight. A shell struck the Jose Luis Diez's forecastle, killed four men. One of her own guns exploded and killed more...
...citizen who had the most to do with getting them home was an adventuresome San Francisco capitalist named Frederick B. Thompson, brother of Novelist Kathleen Norris. In his remarkable past he has played around with such varied characters as Jack London and Mexico's Rebel Pancho Villa. He had long since retired with a comfortable fortune and stomach ulcers when, in 1937, his young son David and his young nephew Jimmy Benét (son of Poet William Rose Benét) went to fight in Spain. Word that David had been wounded took Frederick Thompson posthaste to Madrid...
...WATSON: AGRARIAN REBEL - C. Vann Woodward-Macmillan...
...Cambridge Greene meets the two men who most influence him: Coppinger, Puritan conspirator, rebel and mystic; and Sidley, wealthy, adventure-loving rake...