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...harshly. Charlotte Forten, a winsome Philadelphia Negro girl, left behind a diary that tells of her budding romance with a blue-blooded Boston abolitionist, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, on the romantic Sea Islands off the South Carolina coast. She was schooling newly liberated slaves; he was leading a Negro regiment. But the colonel suddenly developed a mysterious injury, left for the North, and never tried to reach Charlotte again. Wilson dryly notes: "We can imagine his attitude toward Charlotte: sympathetic, approving, instructive, very sure of his benevolence. This had all been a beautiful experience...
...Private Regiment. The area was chosen with special care: the grasslands at the foot of Ouarsenis mountains, 100 miles west of Algiers. It is a region inhabited by some 30,000 Berber tribesmen who are ruled by their French-appointed bachaga (chief), Said Boualem, 55, a tall, gaunt landowner with the commanding face of a Sioux warrior. Boualem is an ex-major of the French army and was repeatedly decorated for gallantry in the Italian campaign of World War II. Best of all, he was a comrade-in-arms and old friend of ex-Colonel Jean Gardes, a top aide...
...Infantry Regiment, stationed in Buenos Aires' suburbs, to storm the palace. First came a scout, a second lieutenant in steel-helmeted battle dress, who kicked open a back-door service entrance-startling a dozing plainclothes cop and a reporter...
Jones's title refers to the war as it was fought by "amateur soldiers" of a Welsh regiment-"how glad we thought we were to step outside its brackets at the end of '18." In the regiment is Private John Ball, who goes off to France, endures six rainy months in the trenches, then finds combat ended for him with a bullet in the thigh...
After Philip left, the protests flared into a general strike. When panicky police met some 10,000 demonstrators with tear gas and bullets, Georgetown blacks set fire to Indian-owned shops. Finally 150 troops of the Royal Hampshire Regiment drove off the rioters at bayonet point. But the fires destroyed almost 20% of the city...