Word: sebastopol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military outpost at Chukoti, Geoffrey and the girl (Olivia de Havilland) who loves his brother are the only members of the garrison who survive cold-blooded massacre. To avenge the slaughter at Chukoti becomes the sole purpose of Vickers' 27th Lancers. Its chance comes at the siege of Sebastopol where Surat Khan, now allied with Russia, is holding the heights of Balaklava opposite the Lancers, stationed in the valley. When Headquarters gives him the orders for his regiment to retreat, Geoffrey rewrites them as a command to attack. The brigade moves forward, under withering fire, to simultaneous vindication...
...bigwigs in Soviet America of tomorrow TIME gladly presents onetime Newsstand Buyer Edwards. Since July cargoes of Soviet wheat from Sebastopol, coal and coal tar from Nicolaiev, and oil from Batum have been regularly arriving at Massaua and Mogadishu, Italian war bases in Africa. Much Soviet oil is also being sold to Italy direct, as Communists paradoxically fuel the Fascist fleet...
...both times successfully. Meanwhile a legend had grown up around him. He was considered variously as a Mephistopheles, a weakling, a fool, and an iron man. Now, in 1870 the time had arrived to test the legend. Prepared "to the last gaiter button," the famous French army, victors of Sebastopol and Solforino, awaited the coming of the Prussians...
...years passed before Willie Douglas' poem was discovered by Lady (John) Scott, who married into Sir Walter's clan and spent half her time riding over the countryside looking for antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized by the British soldiers at Sebastopol. She edited the poem thoroughly, made the second stanza read: Her brow is like the snowdrift, Her neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on. . . . Willie Douglas' version: She's backit like the peacock, She's briestit...
...mainland on a yachting cruise with his father. They passed Mull. On a headland jutting into the water were a few tumbled walls-all that remained of his ancestors' castle. Later young Fitzroy joined the army, got a commission from the Duke of Wellington, fought the Russians at Sebastopol. He served in Canada for three years, and as a good Maclean he was always careful with his money...