Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States Infantry. A man of fine appearance and of pronounced patriotism, Gabriel Rains was at heart a scientist, and was more interested in explosives than in field command. In 1840, while campaigning against the Seminole Indians, he first had experimented with booby-traps. On the retreat from Yorktown he had planted several of these in the way of the Federals and thereby had delayed somewhat the pursuit. He was gratified, but some of his superiors were convinced that these 'land torpedoes' were not 'a proper or effective method of war.' Rains consequently was forbidden...
...proclaimed-freedom to arm. A year after the new Wehrmacht was born, on March 7, 1936, a thin column of field-grey troops followed a blaring band across the Rhine to reoccupy the territories under French guard since Versailles. The officers carried in their pockets sealed orders to retreat if France resisted. France did not resist. In the Quai d'Orsay and in Whitehall the policy of appeasement was born...
...lifted; Russian troops had captured the pivotal, fortified city of Schlüsselburg, some 25 miles to the east, where the Germans based their inland line around the great Baltic port. From the Baltic to the dark and bloody ground of the Caucasus, the German Wehrmacht was in retreat...
...baths and oil rubs (although for the first 17 days he took no water). Toward the end, as he began to lose consciousness, he received small quantities of glucose in his drinking water. Most of the 61 days he spent as a free man at Gandhi's retreat near Wardha, where he has been a children's teacher and has ground grain each night for the members' bread...
...When the great day of battle comes remember your training and remember above all that speed and violence of attack are the sure road to success, and you must succeed-for to retreat is as cowardly as it is fatal. Indeed, once landed, retreat is impossible. Americans do not surrender...