Word: solferino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hill. As the red-bloomered French Zouaves charged smartly up the slope, the barefooted Indians mowed them down with 1812 muskets. Then machete-waving cavalrymen, led by a young Mixtec Indian named Porfirio Diaz, rushed in from the flanks, and the veterans of Sevastopol and Solferino knew that they were beaten. Leaving 1,000 dead, Lorencez began his retreat toward the Gulf...
...York Times had one authentic foreign correspondent and he worked abroad only part of the time. He was Henry Raymond, one of the paper's co-founders (the other: Businessman George Jones). A dispatch that Correspondent Raymond wrote from Italy, an eyewitness account of the Battle of Solferino in the Austrian-Franco-Sardinian war, took 13 days to reach the U.S. by boat. Last week, the Times foreign staff included 34 men and two women† scattered on the globe's continents and seas. They send well over 300,000 words a month to the Times by radio...