Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were no signs that Kesselring proposed to retreat. With an estimated 27 divisions, aided by some of the toughest terrain in Europe, he continues a formidable opponent. The spring in Italy might well...
More trouble for the Japs developed elsewhere. Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan's American-trained Chinese troops burst into Lashio, were in position to cut the Japs' routes of retreat...
Thus for the immediate future the attackers faced the prospect of crossing a bridgeless river. The deep, swift-running Rhine was 380 yards wide at Cologne, 450 at Duisburg. Months ago Eisenhower had said that for the Germans to retreat across a bridgeless Rhine would be almost a "naval operation." It would be no less so for the Allies to advance across it. Time would be needed to bring up huge quantities of assault boats, pontoons, bridging materials - not to mention the artillery necessary to cover a crossing in real force. In the midst of ebullient talk about crossing immediately...
...Osmin Aguirre battered his way to power with the help of Lend-Lease arms. Hope rose again when all the nations of the Hemisphere (except dictator-ruled Nicaragua and Honduras) refused to recognize him. Chilled, he moderated his severity, staged Castaneda's election. Seemingly, he was forced to retreat toward democracy...
British columns were winding deeper into Burma, strangling Japanese retreat lines, coiling around strong points. They worked their way down the coast of the Bay of Bengal, snaked along the Irrawaddy River, reached out for the gleaming pagodas of Mandalay...