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...tremendous was the momentum of the Red drive that at any moment the retreat could become a rout. By all rules of war and logic the Red Army needed time to rest, replenish supplies, restore communications. But it might well have reserves of hidden strength enabling it to press its attack without a respite...
...earliest and shortest land-sea battles on record was a naval rout and cavalry triumph. In 1818 José Antonio Páez, a crack horseman and guerrilla leader under Simon Bolivar, sent 50 of his llaneros against a flotilla of Spanish gunboats anchored in the middle of the Apure river in Venezuela. Waving spears and howling like Oriental dervishes, they swam their barebacked white horses through the swift, brown waters. Astonished Spaniards fired a few random shots and then jumped overboard in panic. Páez took every boat, without losing...
...hawking editions of Noticias Graficas, which headlined: "REVOLUTION SUCCESSFUL." Fanning out in columns, the troops approached the great Plaza de Mayo, and its government buildings. Here there was a 45-minute machine-gun battle with sailors in front of the School for Navy Mechanics and a brisk skirmish to rout Manuel A. Fresco, notorious pro-Axis nationalist, out of a barricaded building...
...peace without victory. Said he, in a passage which was also an iron preachment to his Allies : "What sort of peace can be in question with the imperialist Fascists who have flooded Europe with blood and covered her with gallows? Is it not clear that only the complete rout of the Hitlerite armies and the unconditional surrender of Hitlerite Germany can bring Europe to peace? Is it not because they feel the approach of the coming catastrophe that the Fascists talk of peace...
...Hello, Frisco, Hello" has first billing, but the biggest attraction at the Met happens to be a war picture what am a war picture--"Desert Victory." Another one of those superlative British films, "Desert Victory" records the rout of Rommel by Montgomery's hardy Eighth Army over the 1300 miles of sandy hell that separates El Alamein from Tripoli. Unlike the typical Hollywood war film, "Desert Victory" shows battle to be neither ridiculously pretty nor ostentatiously heroic--but rather a bewildering melange of noise, confusion and quiet tragedy...