Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Than the late Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, assassinated on the steps of his London home by two Sinn Feiners on July 22, 1922, there has rarely been a soldier whose sarcasm has been so biting, whose criticism so penetrative, whose mind so outspoken, whose ego so self-exalted...
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener: "His ridiculous and preposterous army of 25 corps is the laughing stock of every soldier in Europe," adding that it took the Germans 40 years to make an army of 25 corps...
...Warren's order for the immediate resumption of work goes in the teeth of German protests against monuments of this type. Only recently the Berlin Government made unofficial representations against a War memorial at Dinant, Belgium, depicting a German soldier holding above his head a baby speared on a bayonet. Nevertheless, Mr. Warren said that his action in regard to the Louvain Library reflected the sentiments of most of the population of Louvain...
Then the volley of six rifles speaking as one sounded as the officer let his sword fall as the signal to fire. General Quijano dropped to the ground, his body convulsing. On orders from the officer, a soldier approached the quivering form and put the muzzle of his rifle against the general's head, pulled the trigger. Thus died General Quijano, brave to the last...
Feng Yu-hsiang, onetime "Chinese Christian Soldier," whose military affiliations, as always, are uncertain, but who has two armies, one to the north-west and one to the south-west of Peking, and for the nonce is backing the Nationalist or Southern cause...