Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--American forces have seized the initiative on Guadalcanal and are forcing the Japs into retreat, the Navy reported today after revealing that U.S. submarines pounding away at enemy supply lines have sunk seven Jap ships and damaged three others--including a converted aircraft carrier...
Nevertheless, both OPA and WPB were careful to package their sense-making proposal in elaborate wrappings. In no circumstance would there be a retreat from an official 12? price for copper, which many companies contended from the beginning was too low to bring out total production...
Johnston should have been studying maps. When McClellan's Union army began to loom in the despondent winter of 1862 and Johnston decided to retreat from Manassas on Richmond, he shocked Davis by "declaring himself ignorant of the topography of the country in his rear." What shocked Johnston was to find that the secretly planned retreat was known all over Richmond. After that he drove Davis wild by keeping military secrets from...
...Dependable General, or if possible several of them, would enable Lee to carry out his careful and tactful plans. One man who had everyone's confidence was James ("Old Pete") Longstreet. In the retreat on the James peninsula, Longstreet had capably fought a rear-guard action for Johnston, complacently reporting: "My part in the battle was comparatively simple and easy, that of placing the troops in proper positions at proper times." It was a rare achievement...
Jackson's gentle domestic manners, his low voice, soft blue eyes and intellectual forehead, his delight in theological discussion, all masked the most furious fighter of the Confederacy. If retreat was necessary, he prayed that "a kind Providence may enable us to inflict a terrible wound." An officer who rode with him noted: "In advance, his trains were left far behind. In retreat, he would fight for a wheelbarrow." He marched and starved his men, if necessary, without mercy...