Word: roadless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...therefore given a slight edge in numbers and equipment, also outwitted the Blues. First Red move was to slam partly motorized infantry and cavalry into the only two eastward passes -over the massif formed by the famous volcano Popocatepetl and by Ixtacihuatl, "the Sleeping Woman"-through almost roadless, thoroughly inaccessible country...
Into the craggy, roadless fastnesses of the Pindus Mountains the Italians were reported to have sent tanks and other mechanized equipment. The Greeks used horse cavalry, played hide & seek with the invaders in territory their troopers knew like the backs of their hands. The Italians, they reported, were mousetrapped and divided into small units, became easy prey of Greek mountain infantry...