Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norwegian troops, in the craggy hills along the route, allowed the Germans to advance 25 miles to Gratangen and then struck across the highway at Oesevatten at the Germans' rear, cutting off their retreat...
...Norway's 100 military planes away to secret fields (frozen lakes). Loyal Norse soldiers, as they fell away from the shores of Oslo Fjord, man aged to blow up Selbergross Dam, main source of the capital's light & power. To join the loyal soldiers in their retreat, down from rural hills and valleys came farmers, woodsmen, householders, carrying rifles they had learned to shoot during the brief Army training which every Norseman receives. They were Norway's Minute Men and suddenly...
...Athens, where his father was collecting a band of Italian volunteers to fight in the Greek war against the Turks. It was then that he donned, for the first time, the Garibaldis' traditional red shirt ("because a man in a red shirt can neither hide nor retreat").* General Garibaldi resents being called a soldier of fortune, explains that the only time he ever fought against his convictions was in the Boer War, when he joined a mounted column under Kitchener. At 23 he was leading 3,000 Venezuelan rebels against Dictator Cipriano Castro, held the title of Citizen-Colonel...
...Despite his totalitarianism," Karpovich continued, "Stalin is cautions and sensitive to the feelings of the populace. He has saved himself more than once by a timely retreat...
Although the eastern anchor of the Mannerheim Line still held fast to the Taipale River, the Finns' retreat in the west had brought their western defense line parallel to their whole line of communications. This meant that if the line broke anywhere the rest of the front-line troops would be cut off from their supplies. And so last week the Finns began retreating in the middle of the isthmus, swinging their army back like a door, with Viipuri as the hinge. To the north and west of Viipuri civilians were cleared out of towns and villages, while...