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Word: thiebault (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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...chocolaty skin, soft negroid eyes, feminine hands. But he could raise four army muskets by inserting his fingers into the muzzles. In one Austrian battle he defended a bridge so fiercely that thereafter he was called "Horatius Codes of the Tyrol." Said admiring General Thiebault: "He is the only colored man whom I have forgiven his skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dumas Returns | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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