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During the Napoleonic Wars the British captured a French senior officer named Charles Sandré, sent him to Dartmoor Prison. While his comrades marched and countermarched across Europe, he could see them all in his mind's eye, every rank, every regiment, from drummer boy to Bonaparte. To refresh his memory there were 47,000 other French prisoners in Britain. He began to make a complete set of 16-in. toy models of what...
...which was later forced by the I. C. C. to turn it over to the Kansas City Southern) the last Gould railroad disappeared from the map. Meantime he had led a quiet, model life -played polo in his youth, joined Troop A of New York's socialite 71st regiment, risen from private to captain, become an ardent marksman. (During the War. although already in military retirement, he volunteered, became a supply sergeant, later a major in the Ordnance Department.) He married Sarah Cantine Shrady, daughter of a doctor, had two children, Edwin Jr. (killed in a hunting accident...
...history of Britain's part in the World War is complete without a chapter on Horatio Bottomley. He was worth a regiment of recruiting sergeants in the early days of the War. He breakfasted with David Lloyd George regularly at Downing Street, reviewed the Grand Fleet from Admiral Lord Beatty's flagship, earned the title of Britain's Unofficial Prime Minister. Nervous over the introduction of conscription, the Asquith Cabinet demanded just one thing: the support of Horatio Bottomley...
...other a long line of common citizens waited humbly to pay their income taxes.∙ A feature by Reporter Earl Sparling blatantly exaggerated the House of Morgan's "control" of everything John Doe eats, drinks and uses. Ruth Finney was permitted to shrill: "They [Morgan & Co.] can regiment something like $53,000,00,.000 to do their bidding." Another story bitterly inventoried the Morgan expenditures on yachts, model farms, grouse shoots, British charities for the non-tax-payment years...
...Heimwehr battalions into Vienna. Opposite the balcony of Schonbrunn Palace where stood Chancellor Dollfuss, the battalions smartly executed "Eyes! Right!" The eyes went back to "Front!" slowly because little Dollfuss faced them in the black cap, black trousers and green grey tunic of an officer in the Imperial Jager Regiment. Since 1918 no Austrian official had worn that uniform...