Word: soldiers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...source material had never been consulted." The job grew under his hand, when finished will fill four fat volumes. But Biographer Freeman turned up no startling new facts. "There were no 'secrets' and no scandals to be exposed or explained." Lee's reputation as a soldier and a gentleman will not be tarnished by his latest biographer. Author Freeman's first two volumes take Lee from his birth as a Virginia aristocrat through the battle of Chancellorsville- which marked "Lee's high noon." Son of "Light-Horse Harry" Lee and son-in-law to George...
...Pender! That is the way you young men always do. You allow these people to get away. I tell you what to do, but you don't do it!" Author Freeman's half-length portrait shows a kindly but aloof gentleman, a believe-it-or-not Christian Soldier. But some of the soldiers he commanded were more human if less humane. One Confederate private, rummaging the battleground during a truce after Fredericksburg, was reprimanded by a Federal officer for salvaging a rifle; the officer said that was against the rules. Said the butternut veteran: "Never mind...
...showed that his words are not to be taken lightly. As a preparatory gesture fortnight ago, all Italian divisional commanders were assembled for a conference. Last week the War Minister announced a new plan for universal military service under the slogan: "The functions of a citizen and of a soldier are indivisible in the Fascist State...
...French military service. This gave la Patrie immeasurably better trained young men to shoulder her rifles and fire her 753 when the War broke. In those days M. Barthou was one of the first middle-aged statesmen to be hailed as "The Savior of France"- and to lose his soldier...
...Hopeful that a binding knot of sentiment was tied between the Reichswehr and himself recently when every officer and soldier was made to swear personal loyalty to him, Realmleader Hitler sought to tug this knot tighter last week by announcing that he will exercise his powers of pardon exclusively in favor of members of the Reichswehr...